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Groundbreaking ceremony at Nishi Nagoya thermal plant

NAGOYA, Japan - Akihisa Mizuno, president of Chubu Electric Power Co., speaks after the groundbreaking ceremony for the Nishi Nagoya Thermal Power Station Group No. 7 in Tobishima Village, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on Dec. 2, 2014.

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TEPCO to tie up with Chubu Electric on thermal power generation

TOKYO, Japan - Naomi Hirose (front), president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., and Akihisa Mizuno, president of Chubu Electric Power Co., hold a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 7, 2014. The utilities reached a basic agreement the same day on a tie-up to strengthen thermal power generation.

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TEPCO to tie up with Chubu Electric on thermal power generation

TOKYO, Japan - Naomi Hirose (R), president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., and Akihisa Mizuno, president of Chubu Electric Power Co., shake hands after a joint press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 7, 2014. The utilities reached a basic agreement the same day on a tie-up to strengthen thermal power generation.

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Opposition DPJ lawmaker supports collective self-defense

WASHINGTON, United States - Former Japanese Vice Defense Minister Akihisa Nagashima of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) speaks at a U.S. think-tank symposium in Washington on July 22, 2014, in which he expressed support for the Cabinet's approval earlier in the month of a policy to allow the exercise of the right to collective self-defense.

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Chubu Electric to start solar power project in Thailand

NAGOYA, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. President Akihisa Mizuno speaks at a press conference in Nagoya on Feb. 26, 2013, about the company's solar power generation project in Thailand, its first overseas solar power generation project.

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Japan-U.S. defense guidelines

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Senior Vice Defense Minister Akihisa Nagashima meets the press in Washington on Nov. 9, 2012, after holding talks separately with U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. The two sides agreed to start talks on reviewing the bilateral defense guidelines that define the coordination of Japan's Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military, Nagashima said.

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Japan pavilion wins top award at Venice architecture exhibition

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) architect Toyoo Ito, photographer Naoya Hatakeyama, and architects Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata and Sosuke Fujimoto, are pictured with the Golden Lion trophy at the award ceremony for the 13th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition in Venice on Aug. 29, 2012, where the Japan pavilion won top prize. Ito, commissioner of the pavilion, exhibited along with other architects the process of designing "Home for All" places where survivors of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan gather to eat, drink and talk. Hatakeyama displayed photos of disaster-hit areas.

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Chubu Electric asks for support to restart Hamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. President Akihisa Mizuno (R) submits a request to industry minister Banri Kaieda at the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo on July 4, 2011, asking for the ministry to support the utility's efforts for an early resumption of operations at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant, which was shut down at the government's request for safety reasons in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Chubu Electric meeting with government

TOKYO, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. President Akihisa Mizuno (L, back) arrives for a meeting with Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda (R) at the ministry building in Tokyo on May 11, 2011, two days after the utility acceded to the government's request to suspend operation at its Hamaoka nuclear power station in Shizuoka Prefecture for safety reasons.

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Hamaoka nuclear plant to be suspended

NAGOYA, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. President Akihisa Mizuno speaks in a press conference at the company's head office in Nagoya on May 9, 2011. He said the utility decided that day to suspend operation of the Hamaoka nuclear power station in Shizuoka Prefecture, as requested by Prime Minister Naoto Kan as there are concerns a quake could hit the area and cause a crisis similar to that at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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Chubu Electric eyes restarting Hamaoka nuke reactor in July

NAGOYA, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. President Akihisa Mizuno speaks during a press conference in Nagoya, central Japan, on April 28, 2011. Mizuno said the utility is planning to restart a nuclear reactor at its Hamaoka plant, now subject to regular checkups, in Shizuoka Prefecture in July to continue stable power supply in the summer.

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Lu Xun's calligraphy donated to university

SENDAI, Japan - Tohoku University President Akihisa Inoue (L) and poet Rumiko Kora attend a ceremony at the university to donate calligraphy drawn by Chinese writer Lu Xun (1881-1936) to the university in Sendai, northeastern Japan, by Kora's family on June 23, 2010.

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Nagashima speaks reporters in U.S.

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Parliamentary Defense Secretary Akihisa Nagashima speaks to reporters in Washington on Oct. 14, 2009. Nagashima notified the White House and Defense Department that Japan will halt its refueling mission in the Indian Ocean in January.

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Murderer ordered to pay 160 mil. yen in compensation

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Akihisa Matsuo (L) and Noboru Nagafuji (C), two of nine plaintiffs, and their lawyer Shoji Tagawa (R) talk to reporters in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 1 after the Yamaguchi District Court's Shimonoseki branch ordered convicted murderer Yasuaki Uwabe to pay a total of around 160 million yen in compensation to the families of people he killed in a stabbing spree and others injured in the 1999 incident.

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Daughters of crash victim discuss JAL compensation claim

TOKYO, Japan - Cassie Yukawa (L) and her sister Diana, whose father Akihisa was killed in a Japan Airlines plane crash in 1985, speak at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Aug. 10 about their plan to sue JAL and Boeing Co. of the United States for compensation. Their mother, Susanne Bayly, was also present at the press conference.

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NTT DoCoMo, Dentsu form venture

TOKYO, Japan - Dentsu Inc. President Yutaka Narita (L), Dentsu Executive Akihisa Fujita (C) and NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa (R), shake hands June 1 after announcing the formation of a joint venture to help corporate clients advertise goods and services on Websites accessible via NTT's ''i-mode'' Internet-capable mobile phones. Fujita is to assume the presidency of the new company, D2 Communications Inc.

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Murderer ordered to pay 160 mil. yen in compensation

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Akihisa Matsuo (L) and Noboru Nagafuji (C), two of nine plaintiffs, and their lawyer Shoji Tagawa (R) talk to reporters in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 1 after the Yamaguchi District Court's Shimonoseki branch ordered convicted murderer Yasuaki Uwabe to pay a total of around 160 million yen in compensation to the families of people he killed in a stabbing spree and others injured in the 1999 incident. (Kyodo)

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Daughters of crash victim discuss JAL compensation claim

TOKYO, Japan - Cassie Yukawa (L) and her sister Diana, whose father Akihisa was killed in a Japan Airlines plane crash in 1985, speak at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Aug. 10 about their plan to sue JAL and Boeing Co. of the United States for compensation. Their mother, Susanne Bayly, was also present at the press conference.

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NTT DoCoMo, Dentsu form venture

TOKYO, Japan - Dentsu Inc. President Yutaka Narita (L), Dentsu Executive Akihisa Fujita (C) and NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa (R), shake hands June 1 after announcing the formation of a joint venture to help corporate clients advertise goods and services on Websites accessible via NTT's ''i-mode'' Internet-capable mobile phones. Fujita is to assume the presidency of the new company, D2 Communications Inc.

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Tokyo, Chubu utilities to set up joint thermal power generator

Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Chubu Electric Power Co. announce an agreement in Tokyo on April 15, 2015, to set up a joint thermal power generation company called JERA Co. In this photo are (from L) Akihisa Mizuno, president of Chubu Electric Power, Yuji Kakimi, named president of JERA, Yoshihito Naito, appointed as chairman of the new company, and Naomi Hirose, president of Tokyo Electric Power. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chubu Electric asks for support to restart Hamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. President Akihisa Mizuno (R) submits a request to industry minister Banri Kaieda at the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo on July 4, 2011, asking for the ministry to support the utility's efforts for an early resumption of operations at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant, which was shut down at the government's request for safety reasons in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. (Kyodo)

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Lu Xun's calligraphy donated to university

SENDAI, Japan - Tohoku University President Akihisa Inoue (L) and poet Rumiko Kora attend a ceremony at the university to donate calligraphy drawn by Chinese writer Lu Xun (1881-1936) to the university in Sendai, northeastern Japan, by Kora's family on June 23, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Hamaoka nuclear plant to be suspended

NAGOYA, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. President Akihisa Mizuno speaks in a press conference at the company's head office in Nagoya on May 9, 2011. He said the utility decided that day to suspend operation of the Hamaoka nuclear power station in Shizuoka Prefecture, as requested by Prime Minister Naoto Kan as there are concerns a quake could hit the area and cause a crisis similar to that at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. (Kyodo)

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Chubu Electric meeting with government

TOKYO, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. President Akihisa Mizuno (L, back) arrives for a meeting with Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda (R) at the ministry building in Tokyo on May 11, 2011, two days after the utility acceded to the government's request to suspend operation at its Hamaoka nuclear power station in Shizuoka Prefecture for safety reasons. (Kyodo)

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Chubu Electric eyes restarting Hamaoka nuke reactor in July

NAGOYA, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. President Akihisa Mizuno speaks during a press conference in Nagoya, central Japan, on April 28, 2011. Mizuno said the utility is planning to restart a nuclear reactor at its Hamaoka plant, now subject to regular checkups, in Shizuoka Prefecture in July to continue stable power supply in the summer. (Kyodo)

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Japan firms organize donations in U.S. for quake-hit homeland

AUSTIN, United States - Akihisa Fujita (C), director and executive vice president at Dentsu Digital Holdings Inc., affixes a ''Gambare: Save Japan at SXSW'' sticker on the badge of an attendee who donated at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas on March 15, 2011. The group raised $5,000 in the first three days of the festival, which ends March 20. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO to tie up with Chubu Electric on thermal power generation

TOKYO, Japan - Naomi Hirose (front), president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., and Akihisa Mizuno, president of Chubu Electric Power Co., hold a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 7, 2014. The utilities reached a basic agreement the same day on a tie-up to strengthen thermal power generation. (Kyodo)

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Opposition DPJ lawmaker supports collective self-defense

WASHINGTON, United States - Former Japanese Vice Defense Minister Akihisa Nagashima of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) speaks at a U.S. think-tank symposium in Washington on July 22, 2014, in which he expressed support for the Cabinet's approval earlier in the month of a policy to allow the exercise of the right to collective self-defense. (Kyodo)

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Baseball: Swallows' Ogawa throws no-hitter

Yakult Swallows pitcher Yasuhiro Ogawa (L) and catcher Akihisa Nishida celebrate after Ogawa threw a no-hitter against the DeNA BayStars in Yokohama, eastern Japan, on Aug. 15, 2020.

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Baseball: Swallows' Ogawa throws no-hitter

Yakult Swallows pitcher Yasuhiro Ogawa (facing camera) and catcher Akihisa Nishida celebrate after Ogawa threw a no-hitter against the DeNA BayStars in Yokohama, eastern Japan, on Aug. 15, 2020.

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Swallows' Hara steals Norimoto's thunder

Yakult Swallow's pitcher Juri Hara (L) high-fives catcher Akihisa Nishida after pitching his first complete game to grab his second win of the season. Hara was on the mound for the Swallows 6-2 win over the Rakuten Eagles at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on June 15, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagashima speaks reporters in U.S.

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Parliamentary Defense Secretary Akihisa Nagashima speaks to reporters in Washington on Oct. 14, 2009. Nagashima notified the White House and Defense Department that Japan will halt its refueling mission in the Indian Ocean in January. (Kyodo)