New Sony execs vow to restore company's status

New Sony execs vow to restore company's status

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Chairman and group Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer (L) and President Ryoji Chubachi shake hands at a hotel in Tokyo on June 23 prior to a press conference. They met the press a day after Sony's board launched a new management team that Stringer, a Welsh-born U.S. citizen, heads as the first non-Japanese CEO in the company's 59-year history.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001109684
  • Registered date
  • 2005/6/23 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2005 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1864 × 1228 pixel
  • Resolution
  • dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 383.27(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Press conference by Japan's SBI, Taiwan's PSMC

    Press conference by Japan's SBI, Taiwan's PSMC

    Yoshitaka Kitao (L), chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., and Frank Huang, chairman of Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., shake hands at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. The two companies said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.
      U.S. regulators OK Alzheimer's drug developed by Japan's Eisai

      U.S. regulators OK Alzheimer's drug developed by Japan's Eisai

      Japanese pharmaceutical maker Eisai Co. CEO Haruo Naito holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2023, a day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved lecanemab, an Alzheimer's drug developed by his company and U.S. firm Biogen Inc. for treatment in the early stage of the fatal, brain-robbing disease.
        Panel concludes Mizuho's poor system operation caused ATM failures

        Panel concludes Mizuho's poor system operation caused ATM failures

        Mizuho Financial Group Inc. CEO Tatsufumi Sakai (L) and Mizuho Bank President Koji Fujiwara attend a press conference in Tokyo on June 15, 2021. A third-party panel concluded the same day that a series of system failures that hit the Japanese megabank earlier this year, including many of its automated teller machines, were due to poor operation and management rather than system defects.
          Yahoo Japan to buy fashion retailer Zozo

          Yahoo Japan to buy fashion retailer Zozo

          SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son (L) and Yusaku Maezawa, former CEO of online fashion retailer Zozo Inc., shake hands after announcing at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 12, 2019, that Yahoo Japan Corp., operating under Son's group, will buy Zozo for about 400 billion yen in a friendly takeover. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
            Hiroto Nishikawa, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nissan, at a press conference.

            Hiroto Nishikawa, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nissan, at a press conference.

            Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. announced on October 9 that Hiroto Nishikawa, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), will resign on October 16, and Yasuhiro Yamauchi, Chief Operating Officer (COO), will take over as President and CEO on the same day. At a press conference on the same day, Mr. Yasushi Kimura, Chairman of Nissan's Board of Directors, said, "It is essential to make sure that governance is effective under the new system. By changing the top management with this sense of speed, we can convince our stakeholders just in time. President Nishikawa said, "I have been able to get some idea of the 'homework' I need to fulfill. This was the earliest timing for my resignation among the various assumptions I made. In addition, the company has been working on a list of candidates both inside and outside of Nissan, which is currently being narrowed down. (September 9, 2019, Nissan Global Headquarters, Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

              Ghosn to become Mitsubishi Motors chairman

              TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 20 Kyodo - Nissan Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Carlos Ghosn attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2016, as he will take the post of chairman of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Nissan put Mitsubishi under its wing by buying a 34 percent stake in the company for 237 billion yen ($2.3 billion).
                New Asahi president apologizes over retracted news stories

                New Asahi president apologizes over retracted news stories

                OSAKA, Japan - Masataka Watanabe (L) and Shinya Iida hold a press conference in Osaka on Dec. 5, 2014, after becoming the new president and chairman, respectively, of Japanese daily The Asahi Shimbun earlier in the day. During the press conference, they apologized for retracted articles on the Fukushima nuclear disaster and for the belated apology for the withdrawal of articles on the comfort women issue.
                  New Asahi president apologizes over retracted news stories

                  New Asahi president apologizes over retracted news stories

                  OSAKA, Japan - Masataka Watanabe (L) and Shinya Iida hold a press conference in Osaka on Dec. 5, 2014, after becoming the new president and chairman, respectively, of Japanese daily The Asahi Shimbun earlier in the day. During the press conference, they apologized for retracted articles on the Fukushima nuclear disaster and for the belated apology for the withdrawal of articles on the comfort women issue.
                    Toyota posts record 1st-half profits

                    Toyota posts record 1st-half profits

                    TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyori Kodaira (C), executive vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., smiles as he is surrounded by reporters after a press conference in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Nov. 5, 2014, on the automaker's earnings for the first half of fiscal 2014. Toyota posted a record group operating profit of 1.35 trillion yen for the six months to Sept. 30, up 7.7 percent from a year earlier. Net profit rose 12.6 percent to a record 1.13 trillion yen.
                      Bridgestone becomes official sponsor of Olympic Games through 2024

                      Bridgestone becomes official sponsor of Olympic Games through 2024

                      TOKYO, Japan - Bridgestone Corp. Chief Executive Officer Masaaki Tsuya (L) shakes hands with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach at a press conference in Tokyo on June 13, 2014. The world's largest tire maker concluded a deal with the IOC the same day, becoming one of the top sponsors of the Olympic Games through 2024 including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.