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Baseball: Dodgers' Ohtani, interpreter Mizuhara

Shohei Ohtani (L) of the Los Angeles Dodgers and his then interpreter Ippei Mizuhara are pictured in the dugout during the team's spring training game in Glendale, Arizona, on March 1, 2024. Mizuhara was fired later in the month and was charged on April 11 with illegally transferring more than $16 million from one of Ohtani's bank accounts to cover gambling debts.

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Japan marks centenary of Great Kanto Earthquake

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks at a venue in Tokyo's Marunouchi area where an emergency drill was held on Sept. 1, 2023, the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that hit Tokyo and surrounding areas and left more than 105,000 people dead or missing.

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Japan marks centenary of Great Kanto Earthquake

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike observes a moment of silence at the time the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake struck at a venue in Tokyo's Marunouchi area where an emergency drill was held on Sept. 1, 2023. The quake that shook Tokyo and surrounding areas occurred 100 years ago the same day, leaving more than 105,000 people dead or missing.

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Car attack in Manhattan

NEW YORK, United States, Nov. 3 Kyodo - Police vehicles are parked in Manhattan, New York, on Nov. 1, 2017, near the site of a motor vehicle attack which left eight people dead and more than 10 others injured.

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Abe remembers Japanese-Americans at L.A. monument, museum

LOS ANGELES, May 2 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and his wife Akie lay a wreath in front of the Go For Broke Monument with the names of more than 16,000 American soldiers of Japanese descent inscribed on it in the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles on May 1, 2015.

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People gather to remember S. Korean ferry accident

SEOUL, South Korea - People, including the bereaved families of people killed in the sinking of the South Korean ferry Sewol in April 2014 in southwestern waters, hold yellow balloons, a symbol of mourning for the victims, and gather in central Seoul on Nov. 1, 2014, the 200th day since the tragedy that left more than 300 people, mostly students on a school excursion, dead or missing.

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World record set in Takarazuka for longest single line of dancers

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - People in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, the city famous for the Takarazuka Revue, dance together in a line on the bank of the Muko River on Nov. 1, 2014, as they attempt to set a world record for the longest single line of dancers. They set a record recognized by the Guinness World Records when 4,395 people danced for more than 5 minutes in a line, beating the previous record set in 2012 in the United States with 2,569 dancers.

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World record set in Takarazuka for longest single line of dancers

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - People in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, the city famous for the Takarazuka Revue, dance together in a line on the bank of the Muko River on Nov. 1, 2014, as they attempt to set a world record for the longest single line of dancers. They set a record recognized by the Guinness World Records when 4,395 people danced for more than 5 minutes in a line, beating the previous record set in 2012 in the United States with 2,569 dancers.

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World record set in Takarazuka for longest single line of dancers

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - People in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, the city famous for the Takarazuka Revue, dance together in a line on Nov. 1, 2014, as they attempt to set a world record for the longest single line of dancers. They set a record recognized by the Guinness World Records when 4,395 people danced for more than 5 minutes in a line, beating the previous record set in 2012 in the United States with 2,569 dancers. Takarazuka Grand Theater, a theater dedicated to the all-female troupe, is seen in the background.

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H.K. woman writes message of support for democracy campaign

HONG KONG, China - A woman writes a message of support on a card posted on a wall by pro-democracy demonstrators on a main street in Hong Kong on Oct. 1, 2014. More than 10,000 Hong Kong residents continued to swarm streets in the autonomous region within China, demanding free elections in the former British colony.

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Street almost empty at foot of erupting Mt. Ontake

TOKYO, Japan - A main street is almost empty in Kiso in the central Japan prefecture of Nagano at the foot of Mt. Ontake on Oct. 1, 2014, following the volcano's eruption that claimed the lives of more than 50 climbers.

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Nishikori reaches U.S. Open q'finals

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's Kei Nishikori strains to play a shot against Canadian Milos Raonic in the fourth round of the U.S. Open at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York on Sept. 1, 2014. No. 10 seed Nishikori defeated the fifth-seeded Raonic 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-4 in a match that lasted more than four hours, becoming the first Japanese player in 92 years to reach the final eight in the men's singles tournament.

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Nishikori reaches U.S. Open q'finals

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's Kei Nishikori strains to play a shot against Canadian Milos Raonic in the fourth round of the U.S. Open at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York on Sept. 1, 2014. No. 10 seed Nishikori defeated the fifth-seeded Raonic 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-4 in a match that lasted more than four hours, becoming the first Japanese player in 92 years to reach the final eight in the men's singles tournament.

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Commuter train derails in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - A display at Grand Central Terminal in New York shows services suspended on the Hudson Line on the morning of Dec. 1, 2013, following a train derailment. A Metro-North commuter train derailed on the line in New York City earlier the same day, killing four people and injuring more than 60, city officials and fire authorities said.

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Prosecutors raid Tokuda's Diet office

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Takeshi Tokuda, a House of Representatives member and son of Torao Tokuda, former chief of the Tokushukai hospital and welfare business chain. On Nov. 1, 2013, prosecutors raided Tokuda's parliamentary office over an election fraud scandal involving the pair and more than 200 of the chain's employees.

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Boeing 787 back in regular service

TOKYO, Japan - Mechanics (in foreground) line up to see off an All Nippon Airways Co. flight bound for Frankfurt, using the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, at Tokyo's Haneda airport ahead of its departure at 1:05 a.m. on June 1, 2013. ANA and Japan Airlines Co. resumed regular flights June 1 using the Dreamliner, after the technologically advanced jet was grounded for more than four months due to a series of battery problems.

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Boeing 787 back in regular service

TOKYO, Japan - An All Nippon Airways Co. flight bound for Frankfurt, using the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, heads for a runway at Tokyo's Haneda airport shortly before its departure at 1:05 a.m. on June 1, 2013. ANA and Japan Airlines Co. resumed regular flights June 1 using the Dreamliner, after the technologically advanced jet was grounded for more than four months due to a series of battery problems.

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Sony-Olympus tie-up

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Kazuo Hirai (L) and Olympus Corp. President Hiroyuki Sasa hold a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2012, on their new tie-up. Hirai said his company aims to achieve sales of more than 200 billion yen from the medical business through the new tie-up.

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Sony-Olympus tie-up

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Kazuo Hirai (L) and Olympus Corp. President Hiroyuki Sasa shake hands in a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2012, on their new tie-up. Hirai said his company aims to achieve sales of more than 200 billion yen from the medical business through the new tie-up.

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Clinton in press conference

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a press conference in Myanmar's administrative capital Naypyitaw on Dec. 1, 2011. Clinton arrived in Myanmar the previous day for a three-day official visit, the first by a U.S. secretary of state to the country in more than 50 years.

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Clinton in press conference

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a press conference in Myanmar's administrative capital Naypyitaw on Dec. 1, 2011. Clinton arrived in Myanmar the previous day for a three-day official visit, the first by a U.S. secretary of state to the country in more than 50 years.

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Clinton meets Myanmar's president

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) shakes hands with Myanmar President Thein Sein at the presidential office in Myanmar's administrative capital Naypyitaw on Dec. 1, 2011. Clinton arrived in Myanmar the previous day for a three-day official visit, the first by a U.S. secretary of state to the country in more than 50 years.

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Good-bye, jumbo jet

NARITA, Japan - Japan Airlines cabin attendants wearing both current and earlier uniforms pose with a Boeing 747 that returned from Honolulu to Narita airport near Tokyo on March 1, 2011 on its final international flight, bringing to an end more than four decades of service by the 'jumbo jets' for the carrier.

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Week after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Japanese rescue workers continue to search for survivors on March 1, 2011, in the collapsed Canterbury TV building in central Christchurch, New Zealand, where more than 20 Japanese students are feared to have been trapped in a devastating earthquake a week earlier.

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Week after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key speaks in an interview in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 1, 2011, a week after an earthquake devastated the area. He said it would be ''impossible'' to find survivors in the collapsed Canterbury TV building in central Christchurch, where more than 20 Japanese students are feared to have been trapped following the quake.

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Shelters in S. Korea

YANGJU, South Korea - Photo shows the entrance of an underground shelter against nuclear attack in the building of the Yangju city office Dec. 1, 2010. South Korea has more than 25,000 shelters nationwide to be used in a possible air strike as well as a disaster.

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Nikkei average falls to 12-year low in Tokyo

A dealer at the Tokyo Stock Exchange frowns in morning trading Aug. 28 watching a stock-price terminal. At one point the Nikkei 225 index fell more than 600 points to 13,792.76, its lowest since closing at 13,727.86 on March 1, 1986 -- the start of Japan's bubble economy.

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ANA resumes flights to Hawaii from Japan

All Nippon Airways employees perform hula dancing at Narita airport near Tokyo on July 1, 2022, during a ceremony to mark the reopening of the airline's Narita-Honolulu route following more than a two-year suspension due to the coronavirus pandemic.