Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

Japanese imperial family at garden party

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (back, R) and Empress Masako (back, L) speak to former pro tennis player Kazuko Yoshida (far R) and lighting designer Motoko Ishii (2nd from R) during an autumn imperial garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2023.

E

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Premiere - LA

Omarion, A’mei Kazuko Grandberry and Megaa Omari Grandberry arrive at the World Premiere Of Sony Pictures Animation's 'Spider-Man: Across The Spider Verse' held at the Regency Village Theater on May 30, 2023 in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States. Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM

E

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Premiere - LA

A’mei Kazuko Grandberry, Omarion, Megaa Omari Grandberry , World Premiere Of Sony Pictures Animation's "Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse" at Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, USA on May 30 2023. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

E

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Premiere - LA

A’mei Kazuko Grandberry, Omarion, Megaa Omari Grandberry , World Premiere Of Sony Pictures Animation's "Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse" at Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, USA on May 30 2023. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

E

World Baseball Classic

Japan outfielder Lars Nootbaar's grandfather, Tatsuji Enokida (front row, 3rd from L), and grandmother, Kazuko (front row, 2nd from L), watch the Japan-U.S. World Baseball Classic final on television in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on March 22, 2023.

E

World Baseball Classic

Japan outfielder Lars Nootbaar's grandfather, Tatsuji Enokida (front R), and grandmother, Kazuko (front C), watch the Japan-U.S. World Baseball Classic final on television in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on March 22, 2023.

E

Tour guide shows how to roll 'kombu' in Rausu, Hokkaido

KUSHIRO, Japan - Tour guide Kazuko Hasegawa (L) demonstrates how to roll "kombu" sea tangle for tourists on Aug. 14, 2014, in Rausu Town on the Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan. Tours to learn about "kombu," a specialty of Rausu, started in August before the 10th anniversary next year of Shiretoko's addition to the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites.

E

Ex-envoy's kin unveils hidden WWII classified telegrams

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuko Ichihara (L), a niece of the wife of a late Japanese diplomat, shows the bounded volume of classified diplomatic telegrams from World War II that she found while sorting out belongings of a deceased relative in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2014. The documents secretly kept by Ryuji Takeuchi, Japan's ambassador to the United States after the war, shows that Japan's wartime foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China.

E

Pets cheering up owners' spirits since 2011 disaster

MORIOKA, Japan - Photo taken in December 2013 shows Kazuko Kanno, who lives in a temporary housing with her dog Chako and a cat named Deco, the whereabouts of whose owner remain unknown, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. Deko jumped into the Kannos' car when they were about to run away from a tsunami after a powerful earthquake hit the region in March 2011.

E

Poet To dies at 83

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in April 2003 shows Kazuko To, a prize-winning poet and former leprosy sufferer, who died of acute respiratory failure at a sanatorium in Kagawa Prefecture on Aug. 28, 2013, at age 83. To, who developed leprosy in 1942, was isolated at the sanatorium even from family members and friends at the age of 14. She engaged in poetry writing from her late 20s and her poems written amid discrimination against leprosy sufferers were highly acclaimed.

E

A-bomb victim Sadako's story narrated in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Japan Society educator Kazuko Minamoto narrates the story of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, to children at the Tribute WTC Visitor Center in New York on Aug. 7, 2010, using 1,000 paper cranes.

E

Saito gets record 101st win at national table tennis tournament

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoshi Saito returns the ball to Shusei Tanimoto during their first-round match at the national table tennis championships at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Jan. 14, 2010. Saito picked up his 101st career singles win, setting a Japanese table tennis record by breaking a tie with 100-match female winner Kazuko Ito.

E

Astronaut candidate Onishi makes his last commercial flight

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Takuya Onishi (C), an All Nippon Airways co-pilot who has been selected as an astronaut candidate by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, receives flowers from his colleague at Matsuyama airport in Ehime Prefecture before making his last commercial flight between Tokyo and Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture. The 33-year-old Onish's father Koichi (R), 62, and mother Kazuko, 57, were invited to board the flight to Tokyo's Haneda from Matsuyama, their hometown.

E

Singer Frank Nagai dead at 76

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo taken in June 1984 shows Japanese singer Frank Nagai (R) singing with Japanese songstress Kazuko Matsuo at Tokyo's Nakano Sunplaza. Frank Nagai, known for smash hits such as ''Yurakucho de Aimasho,'' died of pneumonia Oct. 27, people close to him said Nov. 2. He was 76. He partnered with Matsuo in duets for songs such as ''Tokyo Night Club.''

E

Ex-labor ministry bureaucrat Sakurai to be Supreme Court justice

TOKYO, Japan - Former labor ministry bureaucrat Ryuko Sakurai (in file photo) was appointed Supreme Court justice on Sept. 5 to replace Kazuko Yokoo, who has decided to resign two years and seven months ahead of reaching the age limit of 70.

E

Japanese woman teaches at 'terakoya' school in Ivory Coast

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Kazuko Sonoda (L) teaches a student during her music class at a 'terakoya' school in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

E

LDP dissenter Nose gives up running in general election

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party dissenter Kazuko Nose wipes away tears as she announces she will not run in the Sept. 11 general election at a news conference in Hiroshima on Aug. 12. She is the first of the 37 LDP lower house members to give up seeking another term after voting against the postal privatization bills promoted by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

E

Film critic Komori dies at 95

TOKYO, Japan - Popular film critic Kazuko Komori (in file photo taken in 1993) died of respiratory failure at her home in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Jan. 8, her family said on Jan. 9. She was 95. Starting her career as a magazine reporter, Komori became popular after the end of World War II as a frequent film commentator on radio and TV programs. She was known for her characteristic phrases, such as ''more better.''

E

Film critic Komori dies at 95

TOKYO, Japan - Popular film critic Kazuko Komori (in file photo taken in 1993) died of respiratory failure at her home in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Jan. 8, her family said on Jan. 9. She was 95. Starting her career as a magazine reporter, Komori became popular after the end of World War II as a frequent film commentator on radio and TV programs. She was known for her characteristic phrases, such as ''more better.''

E

67-year-old granny Ito wins career No. 100 at nationals

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuko Ito, a 67-year-old grandmother and former world doubles champion, beats a high school player to claim an unprecedented 100th singles victory at the table tennis national championships in Tokyo on Dec. 18. Ito made her first appearance in the national championships in 1954 and won the women's singles title twice. She won world doubles and team titles between the late 1950s and early 1960s.

E

2 bodies found in Fukushima fire, 1 stabbed

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Investigators inspect the gutted two-story house of restaurant worker Kazuko Onoda in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 28, where the charred bodies of two people, one of which had apparently been stabbed, were found. The bodies are possibly those of Onoda, 48, and her mother Suiko, 83, police said.

E

Osaka infant leaves for U.S. to await new heart

NARITA, Japan - Toshiki Hata, a 21-month-old boy from Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, leaves Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 13 with his mother Kazuko and father Nobuyuki. Suffering from a serious heart disorder, he is headed for New York's Columbia University in hopes of undergoing a transplant.

E

Fortune teller Kazuko Hosoki dies at 83

File photo taken in August 2008 shows Japanese fortune teller Kazuko Hosoki. She died in Tokyo on Nov. 8, 2021, at the age of 83.

E

(3)Emperor Hirohito

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Hirohito and his family at the Imperial Palace before World War II. Front row, from left to right: Kazuko Takatsukasa, Emperor Hirohito (posthumously named Emperor Showa), then Crown Prince and now Emperor Akihito and Prince Hitachi. Back row, from left to right: Empress Dowager Nagako (posthumously named Empress Kojun), Takako Shimazu, Kuniko Higashikuni, and Atsuko Ikeda.The photo was taken at the Imperial Palace in October, 1939.(Kyodo)

E

Film critic Komori dies at 95

TOKYO, Japan - Popular film critic Kazuko Komori (in file photo taken in 1993) died of respiratory failure at her home in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Jan. 8, her family said on Jan. 9. She was 95. Starting her career as a magazine reporter, Komori became popular after the end of World War II as a frequent film commentator on radio and TV programs. She was known for her characteristic phrases, such as ''more better.'' (Kyodo)

E

Astronaut candidate Onishi makes his last commercial flight

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Takuya Onishi (C), an All Nippon Airways co-pilot who has been selected as an astronaut candidate by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, receives flowers from his colleague at Matsuyama airport in Ehime Prefecture before making his last commercial flight between Tokyo and Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture. The 33-year-old Onish's father Koichi (R), 62, and mother Kazuko, 57, were invited to board the flight to Tokyo's Haneda from Matsuyama, their hometown. (Kyodo)

E

Lawyer Asai named ambassador to Ghana

TOKYO, Japan - Japan decided May 14 to appoint lawyer Kazuko Asai (L) as ambassador to Ghana, Takekazu Kawamura (C) as ambassador to Iran and Kenro Iino (R) as ambassador to Fiji as part of its efforts to streamline the scandal-hit Foreign Ministry.

E

67-year-old granny Ito wins career No. 100 at nationals

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuko Ito, a 67-year-old grandmother and former world doubles champion, beats a high school player to claim an unprecedented 100th singles victory at the table tennis national championships in Tokyo on Dec. 18. Ito made her first appearance in the national championships in 1954 and won the women's singles title twice. She won world doubles and team titles between the late 1950s and early 1960s. (Kyodo)

E

Departures; Okuribito (2008)

Kazuko Yoshiyuki & Ryoko Hirosue Characters: Tsuyako Yamashita & Mika Kobayashi Film: Departures; Okuribito (JP 2008) Director: Yojiro Takita 23 August 2008 Date: 23 August 2008

E

Empire Of Passion (1978)

Tatsuya Fuji & Kazuko Yoshiyuki Characters: Toyoji & Seki Film: Empire Of Passion; In The Realm Of Passion; Phantom Love; The Ghost Of Love; Ai No Borei (1978) Director: Nagisa Oshima 06 September 1978 Im Reich der Leidenschaft (Ai No Borei / L'Empire de la Passion, JP/FR 1978, Regie: Nagisa Oshima) Szene / Sex und Gewalt, Paar, Mann h

E

Empire Of Passion (1978)

Kazuko Yoshiyuki & Tatsuya Fuji Characters: Seki & Toyoji Film: Empire Of Passion; In The Realm Of Passion; Phantom Love; The Ghost Of Love; Ai No Borei (1978) Director: Nagisa Oshima 06 September 1978 Im Reich der Leidenschaft (Ai No Borei / L'Empire de la Passion, JP/FR 1978, Regie: Nagisa Oshima) Szene / Sex, Umarmung, Licht und Schatten, Schattendramaturgie, nackte K

E

Empire Of Passion (1978)

Tatsuya Fuji & Kazuko Yoshiyuki Characters: Toyoji & Seki Film: Empire Of Passion; In The Realm Of Passion; Phantom Love; The Ghost Of Love; Ai No Borei (1977) Director: Nagisa Oshima 06 September 1978 Im Reich der Leidenschaft (Ai No Borei / L'Empire de la Passion, JP/FR 1978, Regie: Nagisa Oshima) Szene / nackt, Akt, erotisch, schlammverschmiert, oben ohne, Sex, Busen Date: 06 September 1978

E