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Japanese high schooler teaches U.S. students calligraphy

CRESCENT CITY, United States - A male student from Takata High School in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, teaches calligraphy to a student at Del Norte High School in Crescent City, California, on Jan. 8, 2015. A group of Takata students visited the U.S. city to thank local people for sending back a school boat that was swept away by a tsunami caused by the devastating 2011 earthquake.

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Japanese high schooler teaches U.S. student calligraphy

CRESCENT CITY, United States - A female student from Takata High School in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, teaches calligraphy to a student at Del Norte High School in Crescent City, California, on Jan. 8, 2015. A group of Takata students visited the U.S. city to thank local people for sending back a school boat that was washed up there after the devastating 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunami.

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High schooler passes weather forecaster exam

TOKYO, Japan - Chihiro Kataoka, a student of Oin senior high school in Tokyo, became Japan's youngest woman to pass the national exam for a certified weather forecaster at the age of 15 years and eight months in August 2014.

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High schooler among protesters

HONG KONG, China - A 17-year-old high school student, a pro-democracy protester in Hong Kong, says on Oct. 14, 2014, that he is a citizen of Hong Kong and is not intimidated by police's pepper spray, while sitting on a barricade with skyscrapers standing in the background.

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Japanese high schooler at Fukushima festival in Paris

Paris, France - Asuka Endo (R), a student at Kaishi Kokusai High School of Niigata Prefecture who hails from the town of Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture, talks with a visitor on Aug. 31, 2014, at a booth at a two-day cultural event in Paris titled "Ring of Tohoku Rebirth," an OECD project to help the 2011 earthquake-hit northeastern Japanese region get back on its feet. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also visited the event.

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Japanese high schooler at Fukushima festival in Paris

Paris, France - Rinoa Nakai of Otsuchi High School in Iwate Prefecture talks with visitors on Aug. 31, 2014, at a booth at a two-day cultural event in Paris titled "Ring of Tohoku Rebirth," an OECD project to help the 2011 earthquake-hit northeastern Japanese region get back on its feet. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also visited the event.

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Man arrested over dumping of 5-yr-old girl's body in Chiba

TOGANE, Japan - Flowers and stuffed toy animals are offered near the site where the naked body of Yukimaro Narita, a nursery schooler from Togane, Chiba Prefecture, was found in September. A 21-year-old unemployed man, Ryo Katsuki, was arrested Dec. 6 on suspicion of abandoning the body.

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High schooler explains tsunami monument in northern Japan town

Shu Yamashita, a 16-year-old high school sophomore, explains on July 19, 2015, about the seventh stone monument in the Nonohama district of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, built by graduates of the northeastern Japan town's sole public junior high school to remember victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Woman in news: High-schooler editor for food magazine in Fukushima

Tomoka Kanno, a high school student from Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, poses as editor in chief of a quarterly food magazine on May 5, 2015. Copies of the magazine are sent to readers together with food produced in the northeastern Japanese prefecture ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese high schooler hits 2 grand slams in one game

Teppei Matsumoto hit his second grand slam in as many at-bats in a semifinal game of the 87th national high school baseball invitational between Tsuruga Kehi and Osaka Toin at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on March 31, 2015. He became the first player in the tournament's history to hit grand slams in consecutive at-bats as the team from Fukui Prefecture won 11-0. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese high schooler hits 2 grand slams in one game

Teppei Matsumoto hit his second grand slam in as many at-bats in a semifinal game of the 87th national high school baseball invitational between Tsuruga Kehi and Osaka Toin at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on March 31, 2015. He became the first player in the tournament's history to hit grand slams in consecutive at-bats as the team from Fukui Prefecture won 11-0. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Groundbreaking ceremony for new school in tsunami-hit town

A groundbreaking ceremony is conducted in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2015, to mark the start of construction of a primary-cum-secondary school building. (From L) Elementary schooler Mana Saito, Otsuchi Mayor Yutaka Ikarigawa and junior high schooler Kinnosuke Hakoyama. The town was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aichi middle schooler becomes "shogi" pro at youngest age

Sota Fujii, a junior high school sophomore from Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, will become the youngest professional shogi player on Oct. 1, 2016, at age 14 years and 2 months. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man arrested over dumping of 5-yr-old girl's body in Chiba

TOGANE, Japan - Flowers and stuffed toy animals are offered near the site where the naked body of Yukimaro Narita, a nursery schooler from Togane, Chiba Prefecture, was found in September. A 21-year-old unemployed man, Ryo Katsuki, was arrested Dec. 6 on suspicion of abandoning the body. (Kyodo)

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Project delivers voices of A-bomb survivors to N.Y. high schooler

NEW YORK, United States - Reiko Yamada (far left) talks about her experience of surviving the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima to students at Brooklyn International High School on Dec. 10, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Project delivers voices of A-bomb survivors to N.Y. high schooler

NEW YORK, United States - Setsuko Thurlow (far right) talks about her experience of surviving the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima to students at Brooklyn International High School on Dec. 10, 2010. (Kyodo)

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High schooler passes weather forecaster exam

TOKYO, Japan - Chihiro Kataoka, a student of Oin senior high school in Tokyo, became Japan's youngest woman to pass the national exam for a certified weather forecaster at the age of 15 years and eight months in August 2014. (Kyodo)

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Japanese high schooler at Fukushima festival in Paris

Paris, France - Asuka Endo (R), a student at Kaishi Kokusai High School of Niigata Prefecture who hails from the town of Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture, talks with a visitor on Aug. 31, 2014, at a booth at a two-day cultural event in Paris titled "Ring of Tohoku Rebirth," an OECD project to help the 2011 earthquake-hit northeastern Japanese region get back on its feet. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also visited the event. (Kyodo)

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Japanese high schooler at Fukushima festival in Paris

Paris, France - Rinoa Nakai of Otsuchi High School in Iwate Prefecture talks with visitors on Aug. 31, 2014, at a booth at a two-day cultural event in Paris titled "Ring of Tohoku Rebirth," an OECD project to help the 2011 earthquake-hit northeastern Japanese region get back on its feet. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also visited the event. (Kyodo)

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Pope Francis in Japan

Pope Francis (2nd from L) shakes hands with high schooler Matsuki Kamoshita (R) in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2019, during a meeting with victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan. Earlier in the day, 17-year-old Kamoshita, who evacuated to Tokyo amid the Fukushima nuclear disaster, delivered a speech, as did Toshiko Kato (L), head of a kindergarten who lost one of her students in the tsunami, and Buddhist priest Tokuun Tanaka (C), who survived the nuclear crisis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High school slugger Kiyomiya agrees to join Fighters

High school slugger Kotaro Kiyomiya (L), the most sought-after player in October's amateur draft, shakes hands with Nippon Ham Fighters acting general manager Masao Kida in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2017, after agreeing to join the Pacific League ballclub. The Fighters won negotiating rights in a seven-way draft-day lottery for the 18-year-old, 1.84-meter, 102-kilogram Kiyomiya, who hit 111 home runs as a high schooler -- a total said to be an unofficial Japan record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High school slugger Kiyomiya agrees to join Fighters

High school slugger Kotaro Kiyomiya, the most sought-after player in October's amateur draft, poses for a photo in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2017, after agreeing to join the Nippon Ham Fighters. The Pacific League ballclub won negotiating rights in a seven-way draft-day lottery for the 18-year-old, 1.84-meter, 102-kilogram Kiyomiya, who hit 111 home runs as a high schooler -- a total said to be an unofficial Japan record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High school slugger Kiyomiya agrees to join Fighters

High school slugger Kotaro Kiyomiya, the most sought-after player in October's amateur draft, enters a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2017. Earlier in the day, Kiyomiya, 18, agreed to join the Pacific League's Nippon Ham Fighters, which won negotiating rights for the 1.84-meter, 102-kilogram player, who hit 111 home runs as a high schooler -- a total said to be an unofficial Japan record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High school slugger Kiyomiya agrees to join Fighters

High school slugger Kotaro Kiyomiya, the most sought-after player in October's amateur draft, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2017, after agreeing to join the Nippon Ham Fighters. The Pacific League ballclub won negotiating rights in a seven-way draft-day lottery for the 1.84-meter, 102-kilogram Kiyomiya, 18, who hit 111 home runs as a high schooler -- a total said to be an unofficial Japan record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High school slugger Kiyomiya agrees to join Fighters

High school slugger Kotaro Kiyomiya, the most sought-after player in October's amateur draft, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2017, after agreeing to join the Nippon Ham Fighters. The Pacific League ballclub won negotiating rights in a seven-way draft-day lottery for the 1.84-meter, 102-kilogram Kiyomiya, 18, who hit 111 home runs as a high schooler -- a total said to be an unofficial Japan record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High school slugger Kiyomiya agrees to join Fighters

High school slugger Kotaro Kiyomiya, the most sought-after player in October's amateur draft, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2017, after agreeing to join the Nippon Ham Fighters. The Pacific League ballclub won negotiating rights in a seven-way draft-day lottery for the 1.84-meter, 102-kilogram Kiyomiya, 18, who hit 111 home runs as a high schooler -- a total said to be an unofficial Japan record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High school slugger Kiyomiya agrees to join Fighters

High school slugger Kotaro Kiyomiya, the most sought-after player in October's amateur draft, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2017, after agreeing to join the Nippon Ham Fighters. The Pacific League ballclub won negotiating rights in a seven-way draft-day lottery for the 1.84-meter, 102-kilogram Kiyomiya, 18, who hit 111 home runs as a high schooler -- a total said to be an unofficial Japan record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High school slugger Kiyomiya agrees to join Fighters

High school slugger Kotaro Kiyomiya, the most sought-after player in October's amateur draft, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2017, after agreeing to join the Nippon Ham Fighters. The Pacific League ballclub won negotiating rights in a seven-way draft-day lottery for the 1.84-meter, 102-kilogram Kiyomiya, 18, who hit 111 home runs as a high schooler -- a total said to be an unofficial Japan record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High school slugger Kiyomiya agrees to join Fighters

High school slugger Kotaro Kiyomiya, the most sought-after player in October's amateur draft, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2017, after agreeing to join the Nippon Ham Fighters. The Pacific League ballclub won negotiating rights in a seven-way draft-day lottery for the 1.84-meter, 102-kilogram Kiyomiya, 18, who hit 111 home runs as a high schooler -- a total said to be an unofficial Japan record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo