Matsuzaka boosted to 3rd win, Yankees tumbling

Matsuzaka boosted to 3rd win, Yankees tumbling

NEW YORK, United States - Facing Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui for the first time in the major leagues, Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka got his countryman to fly out twice and walked him once in a game against New York at Yankee Stadium on April 27 where Matsuzaka got his third win by beating the Yankees 11-4 for the second time in a row. Matsui flies out to center in the top inset, walks in the second, and flies out to center in the third.

Japan - The Nijubashi (Double Bridge), Tokyo

Japan - The Nijubashi (Double Bridge), Tokyo

Japan - The Nijubashi (Double Bridge), Tokyo - the main bridge to the Imperial Palace - residence of Emperor Meiji of Japan (1852-1912) and Empress Consort Shoken (Haruko) (1849-1914) - pictured in the two oval inset portraits. Date: 1911

Japanese pre-dreadnought warship of Russo-Japanese War era

Japanese pre-dreadnought warship of Russo-Japanese War era

Inset photograph of a Japanese pre-dreadnought warship of Russo-Japanese War era set on a decorative red world map background with embossed golden lotus flower and another inset photograph of an unknown Japanese building of some scale and age! Date: circa 1905

Russo-Japanese War - Captured Wagons, Office and Train

Russo-Japanese War - Captured Wagons, Office and Train

Russo-Japanese War - Captured Russian baggage wagons, The Head Office of the Military Railways at Dairen (now Dalian, formerly Dalny) and a Railway Train at Liaoyang Station in the Liaoning province of China. Russian Admiral Eugene Alexeyeff was blamed for splitting precious resources shipped 5,000 miles across the single tracked Trans-Siberian Railway and Manchurian Railway between Dalny and Port Arthur (pictured here). The inset photographs are creatively framed as the windows of a railway carriage! Date: circa 1910s

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese charge East Kee-kwan-shan fort

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese charge East Kee-kwan-shan fort

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese charge East Kee-kwan-shan Fort. The surround echoes the melee of battle with a discarded Russian gun and cap amid the smoke Date: 1905

WWI allies and their flags

WWI allies and their flags

The WWI allies and their flags - surrounding an inset portrait of King George V - United in defence of the right! Date: circa 1916

Minatogawa Shrine at Kobe, Japan

Minatogawa Shrine at Kobe, Japan

Beautiful Japanese promotional postcard for the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Shipping Company which ran services between San Francisco, China and Japan. The mian image shows Kusunoki Masashige, a 14th-century samurai who fought for Emperor Go-Daigo, taking leave of his son at Sakurai-no-Eki before heading off to war. The inset image shows the Minatogawa Shrine at Kobe, Japan. Date: 14th century

Emperor Meiji of Japan

Emperor Meiji of Japan

Emperor Meiji of Japan (1852-1912) when a young man, pictured as an inset on the rising sun flag. Possibly published on his death? Outside of Japan he was sometimes called Emperor Mutsuhito (his personal name) Date: circa 1880

THE FRISCO KID

THE FRISCO KID

THE FRISCO KID [US 1979] [L-R] GENE WILDER, Director ROBERT ALDRICH [including inset] Date: 1979

A drawing

A drawing

A drawing of a cinema audience watching a film with an inset illustration from an unidentified spectacle film

DWP-118 Andy’s (Anne Hathaway) outfit features a knee

DWP-118 Andy’s (Anne Hathaway) outfit features a knee

DWP-118 Andy’s outfit features a knee length Calvin Klein olive jersey with buttoned neckline yoke; leather belt with woven links; Giuseppe Zanotti greenish gold high heeled pumps; pewter and gold rectangular Kate Spade handbag; Chanel sunglasses; tan plastic bangles with yellow inset rhinestones; gold necklace and grey teardrop pearl earrings. PHOTOGRAPHS TO BE USED SOLELY FOR ADVERTISING, PROMOTION, PUBLICITY Date: 2006

WALT DISNEY

WALT DISNEY

WALT DISNEY [1901 -1966] Animator, Director, Producer, Studio Executive holds a strip for a zoetrope. Inset: frames from first Mickey Mouse cartoon, 'Steamboat Willie' WALT DISNEY

Facebook page opened for suspected Japanese abductees to N. Korea

Facebook page opened for suspected Japanese abductees to N. Korea

Toshiro Suehisa, shown in this undated photo (far L, inset), leads a group of family members of missing Japanese suspected of having been abducted to North Korea. Suehisa and four others have launched a liaison network on a Facebook page for the exchange of information in their quest for some 880 people listed by police as missing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Once idyllic Fukushima village field now site for tainted waste

Once idyllic Fukushima village field now site for tainted waste

Many bags full of contaminated waste from radiation cleanup work are kept at a temporary storage site in the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture on Jan. 15, 2015, nearly four years after the 2011 nuclear accident. Iitate was a member of the Association of the Most Beautiful Villages in Japan, with its golden rice paddies as shown in the inset photo (L), before the disaster that devastated northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Dismantled train station in tsunami-hit northwestern Japan town

Dismantled train station in tsunami-hit northwestern Japan town

The ruins of what used to be Tomioka Station on East Japan Railway Co.'s Joban Line in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, are pictured on Feb. 5, 2015, after demolition of a tsunami-hit station building. Inset is a photo of the station before the 2011 disaster. The municipal office is to preserve ticket gates and station nameplates as legacy of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Matsuzaka boosted to 3rd win, Yankees tumbling

Matsuzaka boosted to 3rd win, Yankees tumbling

NEW YORK, United States - Facing Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui for the first time in the major leagues, Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka got his countryman to fly out twice and walked him once in a game against New York at Yankee Stadium on April 27 where Matsuzaka got his third win by beating the Yankees 11-4 for the second time in a row. Matsui flies out to center in the top inset, walks in the second, and flies out to center in the third. (Kyodo)