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Eco-friendly plastic organ played at world expo in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 20 Kyodo - Japanese organist Kuniko Sumiyama plays a plastic pipe organ in Osaka Healthcare Pavilion at the World Exposition in Osaka on Aug. 19, 2025. Eight Osaka-based plastic producers developed the eco-friendly organ made from plant-derived materials over three years. (Kyodo)

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Eco-friendly plastic organ played at world expo in Osaka

Japanese organist Kuniko Sumiyama plays a plastic pipe organ in Osaka Healthcare Pavilion at the World Exposition in Osaka on Aug. 19, 2025. Eight Osaka-based plastic producers developed the eco-friendly organ made from plant-derived materials over three years.

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Japan: Two Dead After Fire Breaks Out At Lawmaker’s Home In Tokyo 2

Two bodies were found after a fire broke out at the apartment building of Democratic Party lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi in Tokyo on Wednesday, November 27. The building is located in the Koishikawa neighborhood of Bunkyo Ward. Inoguchi's husband and one of their daughters are still unaccounted for.

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Japan: Two Dead After Fire Breaks Out At Lawmaker’s Home In Tokyo

Two bodies were found after a fire broke out at the apartment building of Democratic Party lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi in Tokyo on Wednesday, November 27. The building is located in the Koishikawa neighborhood of Bunkyo Ward. Inoguchi's husband and one of their daughters are still unaccounted for.

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Fire at Japan lawmaker's home

Photo taken on Nov. 28, 2024 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a condominium building in Tokyo where Japanese lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi lives, after a fire broke out the night before. Two unidentified people found at the scene were later confirmed dead, with the 72-year-old Liberal Democratic Party legislator's husband, the renowned scholar Takashi Inoguchi, and one of the couple's daughters remaining unaccounted for.

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Fire at Japan lawmaker's home

Firefighters investigate on Nov. 28, 2024, at a condominium building in Tokyo where Japanese lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi lives after a fire broke out the night before. Two unidentified people found at the scene were later confirmed dead, with the 72-year-old Liberal Democratic Party legislator's husband, the renowned scholar Takashi Inoguchi, and one of the couple's daughters remaining unaccounted for.

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Fire at Japan lawmaker's home

Photo taken on Nov. 28, 2024 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a condominium building in Tokyo where Japanese lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi lives, after a fire broke out the night before. Two unidentified people found at the scene were later confirmed dead, with the 72-year-old Liberal Democratic Party legislator's husband, the renowned scholar Takashi Inoguchi, and one of the couple's daughters remaining unaccounted for.

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Fire at Japan lawmaker's home

Fire breaks out on Nov. 27, 2024, at a condominium building in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward where Japanese lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi lives. Two unidentified people found at the scene were later confirmed dead, with the 72-year-old Liberal Democratic Party legislator's husband, the renowned scholar Takashi Inoguchi, and one of the couple's daughters remaining unaccounted for.

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Fire at Japan lawmaker's home

Fire breaks out on Nov. 27, 2024, at a condominium building in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward where Japanese lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi lives. Two unidentified people found at the scene were later confirmed dead, with the 72-year-old Liberal Democratic Party legislator's husband, the renowned scholar Takashi Inoguchi, and one of the couple's daughters remaining unaccounted for.

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Fire at Japan lawmaker's home

Fire breaks out on Nov. 27, 2024, at a condominium building in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward where Japanese lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi lives. Two unidentified people found at the scene were later confirmed dead, with the 72-year-old Liberal Democratic Party legislator's husband, the renowned scholar Takashi Inoguchi, and one of the couple's daughters remaining unaccounted for.

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Fire at Japan lawmaker's home

Fire breaks out at a condominium building in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward where Japanese lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi lives on Nov. 27, 2024. Two unidentified people found at the scene were later confirmed dead, with the 72-year-old Liberal Democratic Party legislator's husband, the renowned scholar Takashi Inoguchi, and one of the couple's daughters remaining unaccounted for.

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Symposium on aircraft accident victims' families

Kuniko Miyajima (2nd from L), who leads an association of relatives of the victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash, speaks at a symposium on assistance for aircraft accident victims and their families organized by the International Civil Aviation Organization in Haarlem, the Netherlands, on Nov. 26, 2024. Miyajima, 77, lost her 9-year-old son in the world's worst single-aircraft accident that killed 520 passengers and crew.

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Green Wind's leader to step down

NAGOYA, Japan - Kuniko Tanioka, head of the opposition Green Wind party, holds a press conference in Nagoya on July 22, 2013. Tanioka said she will step down as leader and retire from politics after losing her parliamentary seat in the previous day's House of Councillors election. All of the party's four upper house members lost their Diet seats.

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Upper house election in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo series shows leaders of Japanese political parties campaigning on July 20, 2013, the day before the upper house election. They are (top row, from L) Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the New Komeito party; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who leads the Liberal Democratic Party; Banri Kaieda, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan; (middle row, from L) Japanese Communist Party leader Kazuo Shii; Ichiro Ozawa, leader of the People's Life Party; Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe; (bottom row, from L) Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who doubles as co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party; Kuniko Tanioka, leader of the Green Wind party; and Mizuho Fukushima, leader of the Social Democratic Party.

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32-yr-old promotes peace with "Barefoot Gen"

HIROSHIMA, Japan - In her efforts to convey the tragedy of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima to the younger generation, Kuniko Watanabe is drawing attention to the comic series "Barefoot Gen" (Hadashi no Gen), about a survivor's experience. Photo taken June 19, 2013 in Hiroshima.

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Upper house election in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniko Tanioka, leader of the Green Wind party, makes a stump speech in Tokyo's Asakusa district on July 4, 2013, the day official campaigning started for the July 21 upper house election that will be a key test of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's leadership over the past seven months.

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Party leaders' debate

TOKYO, Japan - Political party chiefs join hands before a debate on their policies in Tokyo on July 3, 2013, ahead of the July 21 House of Councillors election. From left are Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima, People's Life Party leader Ichiro Ozawa, New Komeito party leader Natsuo Yamaguchi, Democratic Party of Japan leader Banri Kaieda, Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe, Japan Restoration Party co-leader Toru Hashimoto, Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe, Japanese Communist Party leader Kazuo Shii and Green Wind party head Kuniko Tanioka.

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Party leaders' debate

TOKYO, Japan - Political party chiefs join hands before a debate on their policies in Tokyo on July 3, 2013, ahead of the July 21 House of Councillors election. From left are Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima, People's Life Party leader Ichiro Ozawa, New Komeito party leader Natsuo Yamaguchi, Democratic Party of Japan leader Banri Kaieda, Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe, Japan Restoration Party co-leader Toru Hashimoto, Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe, Japanese Communist Party leader Kazuo Shii and Green Wind party head Kuniko Tanioka.

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Online debate between party leaders

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniko Tanioka, leader of the opposition Green Wind party, takes part in a debate, broadcast by the Nico Nico Douga live streaming website, in Tokyo's Roppongi area on the night of June 28, 2013, ahead of the July 21 House of Councillors election.

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Bodies of 3 Japanese returned from China

NARITA, Japan - Airport workers bow to containers holding the bodies of three Japanese travelers -- Yoko Ogawa, 62, Kuniko Watanabe, 68, and Shunichiro Yanai, 76 -- at Narita airport, near Tokyo, on Nov. 10, 2012. The bodies of the three, who died in heavy snows during a trekking tour near the Great Wall outside Beijing, were transferred to a funeral hall in Tokyo after arriving at the airport.

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Japanese solar company under Chinese wing

BEIJING, China - Kuniko Misawa, who works for Suntech Power Japan Corp., stands in front of the headquarters of its parent company Suntech Power Holdings Co. in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, in May 2012. China's Suntech Group acquired the forerunner of the Japanese solar company in 2006.

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Shiba Inu becomes police dog

OKAYAMA, Japan - File photo shows Futaba, a 5-year-old female Japanese Shiba Inu dog, being escorted by her trainer Kuniko Kudose in Soja, Okayama Prefecture, in June 2011. The Okayama prefectural police said on July 19, 2011, that Futaba has passed tests to become a police dog, the first time in Japan for a dog of the breed.

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Journalist Yamaji in marriage scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese journalist Toru Yamaji (C), president of Tokyo-based video news provider APF News Inc., speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2010. Yamaji apologized over problems involving marriages with his former wives Miyoko Omomo and Kuniko Asagi, both TV personalities.

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2 years before London Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese two-time Olympic women's marathon medalist Yuko Arimori (L) and Paralympian alpine skiing bronze medalist Kuniko Obinata (R) attend an event marking two years until the opening of the 2012 Olympic Games in London at the British Embassy in Tokyo on July 27, 2010.

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2 years before London Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese two-time Olympic women's marathon medalist Yuko Arimori (L) and Paralympian alpine skiing bronze medalist Kuniko Obinata (R) attend an event marking two years until the opening of the 2012 Olympic Games in London at the British Embassy in Tokyo on July 27, 2010.

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Obinata wins bronze in women's giant slalom sitting

WHISTLER, Canada - Japan's Kuniko Obinata shows off her bronze medal for the women's giant slalom sitting event at the Vancouver Paralympic Winter Games at Whistler Medals Plaza in Whistler, Canada, on March 16, 2010. Obinata won her second medal of the Games.

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Obinata wins bronze in women's giant slalom sitting

WHISTLER, Canada - Japan's Kuniko Obinata celebrates during a flower ceremony after winning the bronze medal in the women's giant slalom sitting event at the Vancouver Paralympic Winter Games in Whistler, Canada, on March 16, 2010. Obinata won her second medal of the Games.

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Obinata wins bronze in women's giant slalom sitting

WHISTLER, Canada - Japan's Kuniko Obinata competes en route to winning the bronze medal in the women's giant slalom sitting event at the Vancouver Paralympic Winter Games at Whistler Creekside in Whistler, Canada, on March 16, 2010. Obinata won her second medal of the Games.

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Japan's Obinata wins bronze in women's sit-slalom

WHISTLER, Canada - Japan's Kuniko Obinata celebrates while wearing her bronze medal from the women's Alpine skiing slalom sitting event during a medal ceremony at the Vancouver Paralympic Winter Games in Whistler, Canada, on March 14, 2010. Obinata won Japan's first medal at the Games.

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Japan's Obinata wins bronze in women's sit-slalom

WHISTLER, Canada - Japan's Kuniko Obinata celebrates winning the bronze medal in the women's Alpine skiing slalom sitting event at a flower ceremony at the Vancouver Paralympic Winter Games in Whistler, Canada, on March 14, 2010. Obinata won Japan's first medal at the Games.

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Japan's Obinata wins bronze in women's sit-slalom

WHISTLER, Canada - Japan's Kuniko Obinata competes in the women's Alpine skiing slalom sitting event at the Vancouver Paralympic Winter Games in Whistler, Canada, on March 14, 2010. Obinata captured the bronze medal, Japan's first medal at the Games.

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Japan's Ozaki elected as judge of International Criminal Court

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows a portrait of Kuniko Ozaki, a former Japanese career diplomat, who was elected on Nov. 18, 2009, to serve as a judge on the International Criminal Court.

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Late writer Mukoda's debut scripts for TV drama series found

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo taken in April 1974 shows late Japanese writer Kuniko Mukoda, whose first scripts for a TV drama series were found recently. The well-known TV screenwriter and novelist who focused on the daily lives of ordinary people died in an aircraft accident in Taiwan in 1981 aged 51.

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Ex-state minister Inoguchi not to run in general election

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniko Inoguchi, former state minister in charge of gender equality, speaks at a press conference at the headquarters of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to which she belongs in Tokyo on Aug. 17. Inoguchi, who became a House of Representatives lawmaker in the previous lower house election in 2004 after being handpicked by then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, announced she has decided not to seek reelection.

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Court orders McDonald's to pay overtime to manager

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Takano (R), manager of a McDonald's outlet in the city of Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecutre, and his wife Kuniko attend a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28 after the Tokyo District Court ordered McDonald's Co. (Japan) Ltd. to pay some 7.5 million yen in overtime and compensation to him. The court acknowledged his claim that while McDonald's had appointed him to a managerial post, he was not given any authority as a manager and therefore should have been paid for overtime.

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'Koizumi's children' face changing political climate

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Sugimura (top right, clockwise), Kuniko Inoguchi, Koichi Yamauchi and Satsuki Katayama, and Yukari Sato (center) are among the so-called ''Koizumi's children'' who won seats in the House of Representatives in the 2005 general election on the coattails of then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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Abe Cabinet gets down to work

TOKYO, Japan - Sanae Takaichi (L), new state minister in charge of declining birthrate issues, takes over her predecessor Kuniko Inoguchi on Sept. 27.

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Paralympic gold medalist Obinata speaks in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniko Obinata, gold medalist in the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy, speaks on the present and future of athletes and the Paralympics at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on April 18.

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'Assassin' Sato now head of LDP chapter in Gifu Pref.

GIFU, Japan - Ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Yukari Sato (far L) participates in a ceremony to open a branch office of the party in Gifu Prefecture on Dec. 4. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi fielded Sato in the September general election as one of his ''assassin'' candidates to defeat LDP rebels. Also taking part were LDP Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe (C) and Kuniko Inoguchi (front, in dark suit), state minister charged with declining birthrate issues.

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Inoguchi named new gender equality minister

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniko Inoguchi, newly appointed as state minister in charge of gender equality, speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's office on Oct. 31.

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New parliamentarians step into lower house after election

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniko Inoguchi, a former Japanese ambassador to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament and a professor at Sophia University, has a parliamentarian's badge pinned on her Sept. 21 as she arrived at the Diet to attend a special session after the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election.

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Koizumi tells new LDP elects not to represent specific interests

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniko Inoguchi, former Japanese ambassador to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament who was elected in the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election, arrives at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 20 to attend a training program launched by the ruling party for newcomers.

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Ex-disarmament envoy Inoguchi set to win Diet seat

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniko Inoguchi (C), former Japanese ambassador to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament, is set to win a seat in the House of Representatives election Sept. 11, Kyodo News projects. Inoguchi, 53, a political science professor at Tokyo's Sophia University, is listed among LDP candidates in the proportional representation sector in the Tokyo block.

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Ex-disarmament envoy Inoguchi to run in election on LDP ticket

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniko Inoguchi, disarmament ambassador in Geneva for two years from April 2002, speaks to reporters at Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 16 after talks with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Inoguchi said she will run in the Sept. 11 general election on the LDP ticket.

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Kawaguchi concerned about N. Korea intent to withdraw from NPT

GENEVA, Switzerland - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi (L) speaks at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, flanked by conference President Kuniko Inokuchi on Sept. 4. She expressed concern over North Korea's announcement early this year of its intention to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

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Emperor, empress meet Paralympic medalists

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L, foreground in this pool photo) talks to Salt Lake City Winter Paralympic medalist Kuniko Obinata at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on April 22. Empress Michiko is in the background (L).

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Sophia Univ. professor to be Japan's new envoy to Geneva

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Kuniko Inoguchi, professor of Sophia University, who has been named Japan's new ambassador to the Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament.

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Sophia Univ. professor to be Japan's new envoy to Geneva

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Kuniko Inoguchi, professor of Sophia University, who has been named Japan's new ambassador to the Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament.

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Kawaguchi to appoint Sophia Univ. professor as ambassador

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi (L) greets Sophia University professor Kuniko Inoguchi with a deep bow at her office April 4. Kawaguchi earlier said she will appoint Inoguchi as ambassador to the Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament.

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Sophia Univ. professor to be Japan's new envoy to Geneva

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Kuniko Inoguchi, professor of Sophia University, who has been named Japan's new ambassador to the Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament.