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Japan's first man in space

Toyohiro Akiyama, a reporter for Japanese television broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System, is pictured in a space suit on Nov. 2, 1990. He became the first Japanese to travel into space as a crew member of the Soyuz TM-11 rocket launched a month later from the Baikonur space center in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. D-backs

Pest control company employee Matt Hilton (L) in his beekeeper suit waves to the crowd before throwing the ceremonial first pitch ahead of a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 30, 2024. He received a standing ovation for removing a buzzing bee colony on the top of the protective netting behind home plate at the ballpark that delayed the game's first pitch for about two hours.

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Yoshiki's handprint unveiled at Hollywood special ceremony

LOS ANGELES, United States Kyodo - Japanese musician and film director Yoshiki was honored at a special ceremony in Hollywood to unveil a cement tablet displaying his hand and footprints on Tuesday at the TCL Chinese Theatre's forecourt. Yoshiki is the first Japanese star to join over 300 artists who have received the honor in the nearly 100-year history of the iconic theater. Clad in a black suit, Yoshiki posed and smiled in front of his newly unveiled prints for photographers before greeting his many fans who gathered in attendance. (Kyodo)

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BRITAIN-LONDON-REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

(231113) -- LONDON, Nov. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A poppy decoration on a man's suit is seen in front of the Cenotaph on Whitehall on the occasion of Remembrance Sunday in London, Britain, on Nov. 12, 2023. Remembrance Sunday is an annual commemoration held on the closest Sunday to Armistice Day, Nov. 11, the anniversary of the end of the First World War. (Xinhua/Li Ying)

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Bulletproof suit for Ukrainian servicewomen presented in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 - PR manager at the Ukrainian Armor company Iva Bosakevych speaks during the presentation of the first Ukrainian anatomical women's bulletproof suit at the monument to Princess Olga, Saint Apostle Andrew the First-Called and enlighteners Cyril and Methodius in Mykhailivska Square as part of an event aimed at drawing attention to the issue of reliable protection for female military personnel, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Bulletproof suit for Ukrainian servicewomen presented in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 - PR manager at the Ukrainian Armor company Iva Bosakevych speaks during the presentation of the first Ukrainian anatomical women's bulletproof suit at the monument to Princess Olga, Saint Apostle Andrew the First-Called and enlighteners Cyril and Methodius in Mykhailivska Square as part of an event aimed at drawing attention to the issue of reliable protection for female military personnel, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Bulletproof suit for Ukrainian servicewomen presented in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 - A woman wears the first Ukrainian anatomical women's bulletproof suit at the monument to Princess Olga, Saint Apostle Andrew the First-Called and enlighteners Cyril and Methodius in Mykhailivska Square during an event aimed at drawing attention to the issue of reliable protection for female military personnel, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Bulletproof suit for Ukrainian servicewomen presented in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 - PR manager at the Ukrainian Armor company Iva Bosakevych speaks during the presentation of the first Ukrainian anatomical women's bulletproof suit at the monument to Princess Olga, Saint Apostle Andrew the First-Called and enlighteners Cyril and Methodius in Mykhailivska Square as part of an event aimed at drawing attention to the issue of reliable protection for female military personnel, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Bulletproof suit for Ukrainian servicewomen presented in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 - A woman wears the first Ukrainian anatomical women's bulletproof suit at the monument to Princess Olga, Saint Apostle Andrew the First-Called and enlighteners Cyril and Methodius in Mykhailivska Square during an event aimed at drawing attention to the issue of reliable protection for female military personnel, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Bulletproof suit for Ukrainian servicewomen presented in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 - A woman wears the first Ukrainian anatomical women's bulletproof suit at the monument to Princess Olga, Saint Apostle Andrew the First-Called and enlighteners Cyril and Methodius in Mykhailivska Square during an event aimed at drawing attention to the issue of reliable protection for female military personnel, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Bulletproof suit for Ukrainian servicewomen presented in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 - A woman wears the first Ukrainian anatomical women's bulletproof suit at the monument to Princess Olga, Saint Apostle Andrew the First-Called and enlighteners Cyril and Methodius in Mykhailivska Square during an event aimed at drawing attention to the issue of reliable protection for female military personnel, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Bulletproof suit for Ukrainian servicewomen presented in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 - A woman wears the first Ukrainian anatomical women's bulletproof suit at the monument to Princess Olga, Saint Apostle Andrew the First-Called and enlighteners Cyril and Methodius in Mykhailivska Square during an event aimed at drawing attention to the issue of reliable protection for female military personnel, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Bulletproof suit for Ukrainian servicewomen presented in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 - A woman wears the first Ukrainian anatomical women's bulletproof suit at the monument to Princess Olga, Saint Apostle Andrew the First-Called and enlighteners Cyril and Methodius in Mykhailivska Square during an event aimed at drawing attention to the issue of reliable protection for female military personnel, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Bulletproof suit for Ukrainian servicewomen presented in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 - A woman wears the first Ukrainian anatomical women's bulletproof suit at the monument to Princess Olga, Saint Apostle Andrew the First-Called and enlighteners Cyril and Methodius in Mykhailivska Square during an event aimed at drawing attention to the issue of reliable protection for female military personnel, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Bulletproof suit for Ukrainian servicewomen presented in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 - A woman wears the first Ukrainian anatomical women's bulletproof suit at the monument to Princess Olga, Saint Apostle Andrew the First-Called and enlighteners Cyril and Methodius in Mykhailivska Square during an event aimed at drawing attention to the issue of reliable protection for female military personnel, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Bulletproof suit for Ukrainian servicewomen presented in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 - A woman wears the first Ukrainian anatomical women's bulletproof suit at the monument to Princess Olga, Saint Apostle Andrew the First-Called and enlighteners Cyril and Methodius in Mykhailivska Square during an event aimed at drawing attention to the issue of reliable protection for female military personnel, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Baseball: Pirates vs. Angels

An image of Los Angeles Angels player Shohei Ohtani in a "Top Gun" flight suit is displayed on a scoreboard during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, on July 21, 2023.

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First settlement reached in hepatitis damages suits against state

FUKUOKA, Japan - A total of 29 hepatitis C sufferers suing the state and drugmakers for damages settled suits with the state in Osaka and Fukuoka on Feb. 4, the first such settlement among a series of similar lawsuits filed by about 240 people nationwide since 2002. Photo shows plaintiffs smiling during a news conference the same day after the settlement of their suit at the Fukuoka High Court.

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Tokyo's Setagaya Ward honors 'local hero' Godzilla

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo's Setagaya Ward Mayor Nobuto Hosaka (R) presents an actor in a "Godzilla" suit with a certificate at Toho Studios in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2014, the 60th anniversary of Godzilla's screen debut. Twenty eight of the 30 Godzilla movies including the first were made at the studios in the ward.

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Industry minister Miyazawa visits Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Industry minister Yoichi Miyazawa (R), wearing a protective suit while on his first visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant since assuming his post, inspects the site on Nov. 1, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Robot suit for disabled

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo on Feb. 27, 2013, shows Yoshiyuki Sankai (L), professor at the University of Tsukuba, and a model wearing a robot suit Sankai developed. The suit, designed to help the disabled and elderly in their daily activities, was given a safety certification the same day by a Japanese quality assurance organization, becoming the world's first welfare-purpose robot to be thus certified.

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Otsu bullying case

OTSU, Japan - Naomi Koshi, mayor of Otsu in Shiga Prefecture, speaks with reporters at the city hall on Feb. 5, 2013. The Otsu city government admitted for the first time that there was a causal relationship between bullying and a junior high school boy's suicide in 2011, during a hearing earlier the same day at the Otsu District Court for a 77 million yen damages suit filed by the bereaved family of the schoolboy.

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Fighters clinch pennant

SAPPORO, Japan - Nippon Ham Fighters infielder Sho Nakata (R) and catcher Satoshi Nakajima (27) hug each other as they celebrate the team's pennant victory in Japanese professional baseball's Pacific League at Sapporo Dome in Hokkaido on Oct. 2, 2012. The Fighters claimed their first title in three years without even having to suit up for a game, thanks to the Seibu Lions' 5-3 defeat to the Lotte Marines.

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Fighters clinch pennant

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken at Sapporo Dome in Hokkaido on Oct. 2, 2012, shows the moment when the Nippon Ham Fighters clinched their pennant victory in Japanese professional baseball's Pacific League. The Fighters claimed their first title in three years without even having to suit up for a game, thanks to the Seibu Lions' 5-3 defeat to the Lotte Marines.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali (R bottom, in a black suit), a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, climbs up the stairs into an airplane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Suit against Sea Shepherd

LOS ANGELES, United States - Hajime Ishikawa, a member of the Institute of Cetacean Research, leaves the U.S. district court in Seattle on Feb. 16, 2012, after the first court session of a suit against the U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. A federal judge rejected the Japanese whale research organization's request for an injunction ordering the group based in the state of Washington to stop disrupting Japanese whaling operations.

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New Gundam series unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. and animation creators line up during a promotional event in Tokyo to unveil the story and characters of Mobile Suit Gundam ''AGE,'' the first new series of the popular Japanese sci-fi animation since 2007, on June 13, 2011. The 14th animation series, to be broadcast on TV in Japan from October, features a three-generation family story centering on a technology-savvy boy who develops the AGE combat robot system that can evolve itself through battles, the company said.

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Arizona immigration law demonstrations

PHOENIX, United States - Demonstrators march to protest the planned enforcement of Arizona's new immigration law in Phoenix on July 22, 2010. Hundreds rallied both for and against the law the Obama administration claims is unconstitutional outside a federal court in Phoenix where the first hearing was held in a suit filed by the U.S. government.

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ANA's 'Gundam' plane departs for 30th anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - The first flight of All Nippon Airways Co.'s plane bearing the images of Gundam, the titular robot character from the popular sci-fi animation, leaves Tokyo's Haneda airport on July 16, 2010, for Osaka. ANA will fly the special Boeing 777-300 through next March on routes across Japan under a joint project with toymaker Bandai Co. and others to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of the ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' plastic model kit.

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ANA's 'Gundam' plane departs for 30th anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers board the first flight of All Nippon Airways Co.'s plane bearing the images of Gundam, the titular robot character from the popular sci-fi animation, at Tokyo's Haneda airport on July 16, 2010. ANA will fly the special Boeing 777-300 through next March on routes across Japan under a joint project with toymaker Bandai Co. and others to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of the ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' plastic model kit.

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ANA's 'Gundam' passenger plane to fly over Japan

TOKYO, Japan - All Nippon Airways Co.'s Boeing 777-300 passenger plane with Mobile Suit Gundam, a popular animation robot, drawn on the body is unveiled to the media at Tokyo's Haneda airport on July 16, 2010, before its first flight to Osaka. The ''Gundam'' jet, which was jointly planned with toy maker Bandai Co. to mark the 30th anniversary of sales of Gundam plastic models, will fly over Japan through March next year.

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Top managers ordered to pay for employee's death from overwork

KYOTO, Japan - Satoru Fukiage (L) and his wife Takako, whose son Motoyasu died in 2007 while employed at an outlet of major restaurant chain Nihonkai Shoya, speaks to reporters in Kyoto, on May 25, 2010, after the Kyoto District Court recognized their son as having died of overwork and ordered Nihonkai Shoya and its four top managers to pay them about 78.6 million yen in damages. The court's decision was the first to find the top management of a major business corporation liable to pay damages in a suit involving the death from overwork of an employee.

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Ex-president demands Fujitsu revoke his resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Former Fujitsu Ltd. President Kuniaki Nozoe speaks at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on May 12, 2010. Nozoe said he filed litigation for the second time demanding the electronic equipment maker revoke his resignation after withdrawing the first suit for insufficient preparation.

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Gundam Cafe to open in Tokyo's Akihabara

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's pop idols Yayoi Shikatani (R) and Leilani Gaja clad in uniforms of characters from ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' pose at the ''Gundam Cafe'' in Tokyo's Akihabara district during a press event April 22, 2010. The world's first theme restaurant of the classic sci-fi animation series will open on April 24.

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Saitama suit settled, 1st over law on disability welfare costs

SAITAMA, Japan - One of the plaintiffs (C, front) speaks at a news conference in the city of Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, after settling a lawsuit against the state over a 2006 law requiring users to pay for disability care. The plaintiffs became the first group to settle such a lawsuit after the government agreed in January to scrap the law.

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Court urges compromise settlement in hepatitis damages suit

SAPPORO, Japan - A lawyer holds up a banner in front of the Sapporo District Court in Sapporo on March 12, 2010, after the court urged plaintiffs and the government to reach a compromise settlement in a damages suit involving hepatitis B virus infection caused by the reuse of hypodermic needles in group vaccinations. Among 10 similar suits filed with nine other district courts across Japan, the Sapporo court was the first to urge parties to reach a compromise settlement.

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Kids admire Zaku the combat robot

NAGOYA, Japan - Children take photos of a ''life-sized'' model of the head of Zaku the combat robot from the legendary animated film ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' at Nagoya International Exhibition Hall on July 24. The model was displayed as part of an event titled ''Gundam The First'' to mark 30 years since the TV program featuring a number of distinctive combat robots was aired by Nagoya Broadcasting Network in 1979.

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Hiroshima court orders compensation to A-bomb survivors

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A man supporting plaintiffs over radiation-related illnesses holds up a banner showing victory in their suit in front of the Hiroshima District Court on March 18. The court ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to three people suffering from radiation-related illnesses caused by the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima in what lawyers say is the first such ruling among similar group suits.

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Top court denies right of Chinese individuals to seek war reparation

TOKYO, Japan - Two former Chinese laborers and relatives of three deceased workers walk to the Supreme Court with their supporters on April 27 to hear a court ruling on their damages suit. The top court later ruled that Chinese individuals have no right to demand war reparations from Japan under postwar agreements in its first ruling on the controversial issue.

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Top court denies right of Chinese individuals to seek war reparation

TOKYO, Japan - Two former Chinese laborers and relatives of three deceased workers walk to the Supreme Court with their supporters on April 27 to hear a court ruling on their damages suit. The top court later ruled that Chinese individuals have no right to demand war reparations from Japan under postwar agreements in its first ruling on the controversial issue.

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Bandai to launch new plastic models of 'Gundam' characters

TOKYO, Japan - Bandai Co. said April 8 it will launch a new series of plastic models (in photo) of characters from popular Japanese animation ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' on June 11 to mark the 25th anniversary of the series' first television broadcast. Japan's biggest toymaker said it aims to sell 1.5 million of the plastic models in the first year by mainly targeting customers in their 20s and 30s who would have grown up watching the series.

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(2)Narita airport holds terror drill

NARITA, Japan - a Chiba prefectural policeman in biohazard suit, tries to detect radioactivity during the first terror drill against nuclear, biological and chemical weapons at Narita airport near Tokyo.

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State, drug firms deny responsibility for hepatitis infection

OSAKA, Japan - Three plaintiffs, their lawyers and supporters walk into the Osaka District Court on Dec. 26 to attend the first hearing on a 170 million yen damages suit over hepatitis C they contracted after being treated with tainted unheated blood products. The government and two pharmaceutical companies denied responsibility for causing their disease.

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Court rejects 1st suit against automakers over exhaust

TOKYO, Japan - Two plaintiffs hold banners reading ''We won the suit'' after the Tokyo District Court ordered the central government, the Tokyo metropolitan government, and the state-run Metropolitan Expressway Public Corp. to pay the 99 plaintiffs a combined 79.2 million yen in compensation for causing health problems through motor exhaust gas. The court rejected their damages suit lodged against automobile manufacturers, the first in Japan.

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3 Japanese women left behind in China at end of WWII sue gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Noriko Suzuki (R) speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 7 after filing a suit against the Japanese government demanding 20 million yen each in compensation with two other women, Rumiko Nishida and Takeko Fujii. It is the first time for war-displaced Japanese to sue the state for alleged failure to protect its people during and after the war.

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Chinese seek compensation from Japanese companies in U.S.

BEIJING, China - Plaintiffs in a suit filed in a Los Angeles court demanding compensation from the Mitsui and Mitsubishi group companies talk to reporters Aug. 23 at a hotel in Beijing. A total of nine plaintiffs, five Chinese nationals and four Chinese Americans, are seeking compensation on behalf of all Chinese forced to work in Japanese factories and mines during World War II. The suit is the first time Chinese nationals living in China have sued Japanese companies in connection with the alleged forced labor.

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Wartime laborers to sue M'shi Heavy in S. Korea

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Six South Koreans will file a suit with the Pusan District Court on May 1 demanding Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. of Japan pay some 600 million won (about 60 million yen) in damages for forcing them to labor in Japan during World War II, lawyers supporting wartime compensation suits announce at a news conference April 26. The lawsuit will be the first seeking compensation for Japan's wartime deeds to be filed by Asians in their own country against a Japanese company, according to the lawyers.

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Thai boy sues Japanese man for alleged molestation

TOYOHASHI, Japan - A group of lawyers walk down to the Toyohashi branch of the Nagoya District Court on Dec. 16 to file a lawsuit against a Japanese man on behalf of a 15-year-old Thai boy, who was allegedly molested by the man in a Thai hotel room three years ago. The suit is the first in Japan alleging a Japanese national inflicted sexual abuse on children abroad, the boy's lawyers said.

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Osaka governor loses sexual harassment suit

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Knock Yokoyama is surrounded by reporters in Osaka on Oct. 4 soon after effectively losing a civil lawsuit filed by a 21-year-old university student accusing him of sexual harassment during his campaign for reelection in April. The student, who worked as a campaign volunteer, is seeking 12 million yen as compensation for psychological distress. Yokoyama, 67, lost the case when his lawyer chose not to counter the charges at the first oral proceeding at the Osaka District Court.

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Thousands March in Central Tokyo For LGBT awareness

TOKYO, Japan, -May 7: Thousands of people took part in a parade in Tokyo's Shibuya district Sunday to raise awareness of issues related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, marching on along busy shopping streets led by a float decorated in rainbow colors. About 6,000 participated, including people with disabilities calling for the elimination of discrimination, according to nonprofit organization Tokyo Rainbow Pride that organized the parade. It was the sixth time such a parade was held in Shibuya, the organizer said. In April 2015, Tokyo's Shibuya Ward became the first municipality in the country to recognize same-sex partnerships as equivalent to marriage, passing an ordinance for the issuance of ward certificates to such couples. Several municipalities have since followed suit. A special law enacted in 2004 paved the way in the country for transgender people to change their registered sex under certain conditions. Around 6,000 people had subsequently changed their sex by the end of 2015.