ILEA001218591: New Year in disaster area

Fujii joins Habu as only players in shogi history with 7 titles

Shogi prodigy Sota Fujii (R) reviews Game 5 of the best-of-seven Meijin series against Akira Watanabe after clinching the prestigious title at a traditional Japanese inn in Takayama, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, on June 1, 2023. The 20-year-old Fujii became the second player in the board game's history to hold seven titles simultaneously after Yoshiharu Habu in 1996 and also became the youngest Meijin title holder, breaking the previous record of 21 years and two months, set by Koji Tanigawa in 1983.

Seven & i welcomes recruits

TOKYO, Japan -Seven & i Holdings Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Toshifumi Suzuki speaks during a welcome ceremony in Tokyo on March 13, 2014, for 1,219 new recruits joining 14 group companies.

Leica gives girl of quake-hit area camera

TOKYO, Japan - Airi Sato, an 18-year-old high school student from Miyagi Prefecture, holds a monochrome camera given to her by Andreas Kaufmann (R), a senior executive of Leica Camera AG, at the German camera maker's shop in Tokyo's Ginza area on March 12, 2014. The girl who was chief of the camera club at Shiroishi Technical High School in an area hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake said she will keep photographing the images of the stricken northeastern Japan areas.

Leica gives girl of quake-hit area camera

TOKYO, Japan - Airi Sato, an 18-year-old high school student from Miyagi Prefecture, holds a monochrome camera given to her by Andreas Kaufmann (R), a senior executive of Leica Camera AG, at the German camera maker's shop in Tokyo's Ginza area on March 12, 2014. The girl who was chief of the camera club at Shiroishi Technical High School in an area hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake said she will keep photographing the images of the stricken northeastern Japan areas.

Tohoku firm on track for recovery

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Aki Murakami (L) and Akie Hoshi, who started work at Yagisawa Shoten after the March 2011 disaster, showcase products of the established maker and seller of soy sauce and miso at the company in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture on Jan. 31, 2013.

University students start job hunting for spring 2014

TOKYO, Japan - A job fair participated in by about 240 companies is held for university students in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Dec. 1, 2012, as major Japanese businesses opened their doors the same day for official recruitment events targeted mainly at university students in their third year looking for jobs after their graduation in spring 2014.

Panasonic expects to incur huge loss in FY 2012

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiro Tsuga, president of Panasonic Corp., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2012. The electronics maker said it expects to book a group net loss of 765 billion yen in fiscal 2012 ending March 31, incurring a hefty loss for the second straight year due to massive restructuring costs amid a continued slump in its mainstay electronics operation.

Sharp mulls plant spinoff

TOKYO, Japan - A February 2009 file photo shows Sharp Corp.'s plant in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, that produces liquid crystal display panels for smartphones. Sources said on Aug. 17, 2012, that the struggling electronics manufacturer is considering a spinoff of the plant.

Tokyo NPOs provide tutors for kids in quake-hit town

OTSUCHI, Japan - Aya Kawai deals with questions from a junior high school student at a tutorial class in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on July 2, 2012. She is a staff member of a free after-school program launched by Tokyo-based nonprofit organizations.

Annual wage talks start in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Business Federation Chairman Hiromasa Yonekura (R) speaks as Japan's annual round of wage negotiations started on Jan. 25, 2012. Yonekura and Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Nobuaki Koga met in Tokyo to discuss labor conditions for the year from April.

New Year in disaster area