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Forum to back economic recovery in Ukraine

Taras Kachka (L), Ukraine's deputy prime minister for European integration, and Akiyoshi Katoto, Japan's parliamentary vice minister of economy, trade and industry, attend a document exchange ceremony during a Tokyo forum on supporting economic reconstruction in war-torn Ukraine on Aug. 4, 2025.

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Tokyo Metro shares debut on Tokyo bourse

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - President Akiyoshi Yamamura of Tokyo Metro Co. rings the bell in a ceremony to mark the Tokyo Stock Exchange's top-tier Prime Market debut of the Asia's oldest subway operator on Oct. 23, 2024. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Tokyo Metro shares debut on Tokyo bourse

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - President Akiyoshi Yamamura of Tokyo Metro Co. rings the bell in a ceremony to mark the Tokyo Stock Exchange's top-tier Prime Market debut of the Asia's oldest subway operator on Oct. 23, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Metro shares debut on Tokyo bourse

President Akiyoshi Yamamura of Tokyo Metro Co. rings the bell in a ceremony to mark the Tokyo Stock Exchange's top-tier Prime Market debut of the Asia's oldest subway operator on Oct. 23, 2024.

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Tokyo Metro shares debut on Tokyo bourse

President Akiyoshi Yamamura (front, 5th from L) of Tokyo Metro Co., Asia's oldest subway operator, poses for photos with the company's executives at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 23, 2024, after the company was listed on the bourse's top-tier Prime Market the same day.

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Tokyo Metro shares debut on Tokyo bourse

President Akiyoshi Yamamura (R) of Tokyo Metro Co., Asia's oldest subway operator, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024, after the company was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's top-tier Prime Market the same day.

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Tokyo Metro shares debut on Tokyo bourse

President Akiyoshi Yamamura of Tokyo Metro Co., Asia's oldest subway operator, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024, after the company was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's top-tier Prime Market the same day.

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Tokyo Metro shares debut on Tokyo bourse

President Akiyoshi Yamamura of Tokyo Metro Co., Asia's oldest subway operator, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024, after the company was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's top-tier Prime Market the same day.

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Tokyo Metro shares debut on Tokyo bourse

President Akiyoshi Yamamura (C, front) of Tokyo Metro Co., Asia's oldest subway operator, poses for photos with the company's executives at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 23, 2024, after the company was listed on the bourse's top-tier Prime Market the same day.

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Aeon, Marubeni agree to integrate 3 food supermarket chains

TOKYO, Japan - Leaders of the Aeon retail group, Marubeni Corp. and two food supermarket chains pose in Tokyo on May 19, 2014, after announcing their agreement to integrate three supermarket chains. From R: Aeon Co. President Motoya Okada, Marubeni Senior Executive Vice President Mitsuru Akiyoshi, Maruetsu Inc. President Makoto Ueda and Kasumi Co. Chairman Hiromasa Kohama.

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Ex-Japan pilot serving as safety manager at Asiana

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo taken Dec. 4, 2013, at the headquarters of Asiana Airlines Inc. in Seoul shows Akiyoshi Yamamura, a former All Nippon Airways pilot hired by the South Korean carrier to improve safety standards following July 2013's fatal crash of an Asiana aircraft at San Francisco airport in the United States.

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Asahi Breweries President Koji

TOKYO, Japan - Akiyoshi Koji, president of Asahi Breweries Ltd., holds a press conference in Tokyo to promote new products on Jan. 8, 2013.

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Police inspect Yamaguchi hotel after fatal CO poisoning

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Police inspect Yamaguchi Shuhou Plaza Hotel near the tourist attraction Akiyoshi Cave in Mine in Yamaguchi Prefecture on June 3, a day after a fatal carbon monoxide poisoning incident. A photographer tasked with taking photos for a school group excursion died.

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Kanebo Trinity to change company, brand names to Kracie

TOKYO, Japan - Kanebo Trinity Holdings Ltd. President Tetsuo Komori (L) with the company's chairman Akiyoshi Nakajima at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 27 announcing that Kanebo Trinity will change the company and brand names to Kracie on July 1 to project an image of a company starting anew. The costs necessitated by the name changes are estimated at well over 1 billion yen.

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Toshiko Akiyoshi awarded highest honor in U.S. jazz

NEW YORK, United States - Jazz great Toshiko Akiyoshi (2nd L, front row) joins other acclaimed musicians and jazz contributors to be awarded the 2007 National Endowment for the Arts' Jazz Master award in New York on Jan. 12. Akiyoshi, 77, dressed in a shimmering black dress adorned with flowers, told the packed audience at the Hilton New York Hotel that she was ''extremely honored to receive this highest award a jazz musician can possibly have.''

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Jazz great selects social, political songs to fete Japan's entry into U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Famous jazz pianist and composer Toshiko Akiyoshi performs at the United Nations in New York recently to mark Japan's 50th anniversary of its entry into the international body.

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Russia releases 2 fishermen, keeps skipper in custody

NEMURO, Japan - Akiyoshi Kawamura (capped) and Haruki Kamiya disembark from a ship in Nemuro port in eastern Hokkaido on Aug. 30. Russia released the two Japanese fishermen who were detained two weeks ago for alleged illegal fishing in disputed waters off northern Japan.

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3 Japanese fishermen on Russian-held Kunashiri Island

TOKYO, Japan - Three Japanese fishermen -- (From L to R) Noboru Sakashita, captain of the fishing boat Kisshin Maru No. 31, Haruki Kamiya and Akiyoshi Kawamura -- are seen detained at a facility on the Russian-held Kunashiri Island. The photo was taken on Aug. 18 by a local newspaper under permission of Russian authorities.

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Toyota opens new engine factory in Fukuoka Pref.

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki Watanabe (R) shakes hands with Akiyoshi Watanabe, president of Toyota Motor Kyushu Inc. -- a wholly owned unit, after a news conference in Kitakyushu on April 18. K. Watanabe is on a visit to Kitakyushu to commemorate the completion of a new engine factory in Kanda, Fukuoka Prefecture, Toyota's first domestic engine plant in a location other than its home turf of Aichi Prefecture.

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Struggling Kanebo logs 19.8 bil. yen net loss in April-Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Akiyoshi Nakajima, president of struggling Kanebo Ltd., speaks at a press conference after reporting a group net loss of 19.8 billion yen for the April-September first half of fiscal 2005 in Tokyo on Nov. 29.

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Empress Michiko enjoys jazz music

TOKYO, Japan - Empress Michiko (C) enjoys a concert by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in Tokyo on Sept. 12. (Pool photo)

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Kanebo to raise extra capital from Kanebo Cosmetics

TOKYO, Japan - Akiyoshi Nakajima (R), chairman of Japanese textile and household products maker Kanebo Ltd., and Kenji Chishiki (L), president of Kanebo Cosmetics Inc., announced in a news conference in Tokyo on June 6 that Kanebo will raise 20 billion yen in fresh capital in late July through a third-party allotment of new shares to be purchased by Kanebo Cosmetics.

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Kanebo sees group net balance back to black under rehabilitation

TOKYO, Japan - Kanebo Ltd. Chairman Akiyoshi Nakajima (L) and President Takehiko Ogi give a press conference in Tokyo on May 31. The struggling textile and household product maker said its group net balance returned to the black in the business year ended in March under rehabilitation efforts with the support of the state-backed corporate bailout agency.

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Kanebo in negative net worth at least in past 5 fiscal years

TOKYO, Japan - Kanebo Ltd. Chairman Akiyoshi Nakajima tells a press conference in Tokyo on April 13 that the company had been in negative net worth on a consolidated basis for five years from fiscal 1999 to fiscal 2003 as its former management falsified reports by such accounting fraud as inflating sales and underreporting expenses.

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Corporate revival entity director Ogi heads Kanebo

TOKYO, Japan - Struggling textile maker Kanebo Ltd. on Nov. 1 named Takehiko Ogi (shown), managing director of the government-backed Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan, as its president. Ogi, 43, also an outside board director of Kanebo Cosmetics Inc., a firm spun off from Kanebo in May, replaced Akiyoshi Nakajima, 54, who became Kanebo Ltd.'s chairman with the right to represent the company.

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Kanebo may sue ex-managers for hiding 20-30 bil. yen losses

TOKYO, Japan - Kanebo Ltd. President Akiyoshi Nakajima speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28. He suggested that the company may file criminal and civil complaints against its former management on suspicion of concealing up to 30 billion yen in losses for the business years ended in March 2002 and March 2003.

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Kanebo sets up panel to probe into past accounting practices

TOKYO, Japan - Kanebo Ltd. President Akiyoshi Nakajima (L) tells reporters in Tokyo on April 19 that the troubled cosmetics and textile maker has launched an investigative panel, led by legal experts, to study whether there have been any illegalities in the company's accounting practices and business transactions. The panel is headed by lawyer Yuichi Suzuki (R).

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(3)IRCJ OKs 366 bil. yen aid package for Kanebo

TOKYO, Japan - Akiyoshi Nakajima, who has been named to take over the presidency of Kanebo Ltd. from Chairman and President Takashi Hoashi, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 10. The Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan (IRCJ) approved a 366 billion yen aid package for the ailing cosmetics company.

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Dead grass burned on Akiyoshi Plateau

SHUHO, Japan - The annual burning of dead grass on Akiyoshi plateau in the quasi-national park in Yamaguchi Prefecture takes place Feb. 15.

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Japan signs agreement on protecting Bamiyan remains

KABUL, Afghanistan - Akiyoshi Watanabe (R), director general at the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in Tokyo, shakes hands with Afghan Information and Culture Minister Sayed Makhdoom Rahim after signing an agreement in Kabul on Sept. 13 to cooperate on protecting the archaeological remains in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley.

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Grass-burning held on Japan's largest limestone plateau

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - An annual grass-burning event is held on Japan's largest limestone plateau Feb. 23 in Akiyoshi, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The burning, to help new grass sprout, heralds the arrival of spring.

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Toshiko Akiyoshi to play requiem for Hiroshima A-bomb victims

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese jazz pianist and composer Toshiko Akiyoshi speaks at a press conference in New York on July 2 about her newest composition, ''Hiroshima, Rising From the Abyss.'' She said she plans to perform the requiem in a world debut in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, the 56th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack.

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Kanebo may sue ex-managers for hiding 20-30 bil. yen losses

TOKYO, Japan - Kanebo Ltd. President Akiyoshi Nakajima speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28. He suggested that the company may file criminal and civil complaints against its former management on suspicion of concealing up to 30 billion yen in losses for the business years ended in March 2002 and March 2003. (Kyodo)

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Corporate revival entity director Ogi heads Kanebo

TOKYO, Japan - Struggling textile maker Kanebo Ltd. on Nov. 1 named Takehiko Ogi (shown), managing director of the government-backed Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan, as its president. Ogi, 43, also an outside board director of Kanebo Cosmetics Inc., a firm spun off from Kanebo in May, replaced Akiyoshi Nakajima, 54, who became Kanebo Ltd.'s chairman with the right to represent the company. (Kyodo)

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Kanebo sees group net balance back to black under rehabilitation

TOKYO, Japan - Kanebo Ltd. Chairman Akiyoshi Nakajima (L) and President Takehiko Ogi give a press conference in Tokyo on May 31. The struggling textile and household product maker said its group net balance returned to the black in the business year ended in March under rehabilitation efforts with the support of the state-backed corporate bailout agency. (Kyodo)

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Kanebo to raise extra capital from Kanebo Cosmetics

TOKYO, Japan - Akiyoshi Nakajima (R), chairman of Japanese textile and household products maker Kanebo Ltd., and Kenji Chishiki (L), president of Kanebo Cosmetics Inc., announced in a news conference in Tokyo on June 6 that Kanebo will raise 20 billion yen in fresh capital in late July through a third-party allotment of new shares to be purchased by Kanebo Cosmetics. (Kyodo)

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Struggling Kanebo logs 19.8 bil. yen net loss in April-Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Akiyoshi Nakajima, president of struggling Kanebo Ltd., speaks at a press conference after reporting a group net loss of 19.8 billion yen for the April-September first half of fiscal 2005 in Tokyo on Nov. 29. (Kyodo)

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Toyota opens new engine factory in Fukuoka Pref.

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki Watanabe (R) shakes hands with Akiyoshi Watanabe, president of Toyota Motor Kyushu Inc. -- a wholly owned unit, after a news conference in Kitakyushu on April 18. K. Watanabe is on a visit to Kitakyushu to commemorate the completion of a new engine factory in Kanda, Fukuoka Prefecture, Toyota's first domestic engine plant in a location other than its home turf of Aichi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Kanebo Trinity to change company, brand names to Kracie

TOKYO, Japan - Kanebo Trinity Holdings Ltd. President Tetsuo Komori (L) with the company's chairman Akiyoshi Nakajima at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 27 announcing that Kanebo Trinity will change the company and brand names to Kracie on July 1 to project an image of a company starting anew. The costs necessitated by the name changes are estimated at well over 1 billion yen. (Kyodo)

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Kanebo in negative net worth at least in past 5 fiscal years

TOKYO, Japan - Kanebo Ltd. Chairman Akiyoshi Nakajima tells a press conference in Tokyo on April 13 that the company had been in negative net worth on a consolidated basis for five years from fiscal 1999 to fiscal 2003 as its former management falsified reports by such accounting fraud as inflating sales and underreporting expenses. (Kyodo)

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Japan signs agreement on protecting Bamiyan remains

KABUL, Afghanistan - Akiyoshi Watanabe (R), director general at the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in Tokyo, shakes hands with Afghan Information and Culture Minister Sayed Makhdoom Rahim after signing an agreement in Kabul on Sept. 13 to cooperate on protecting the archaeological remains in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley.

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SoftBank Hawks, Yakult Swallows play in Game 2 of Japan Series

SoftBank Hawks' Akira Nakamura hits a homer over the right fence off Yakult Swallows' Ryo Akiyoshi in the sixth inning of Game 2 in the best-of-seven Japan Series at Yafuoku Dome in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 25, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gay people call for legalization of same-sex marriage in Japan

Petitioners hold a press conference in Tokyo on July 7, 2015, after filing a request with the Japan Federation of Bar Associations to recommend that the government and parliament legislate for the legalization of same-sex marriages in the country: (From L to R) Asako Makimura, who is married to a French woman in France, Akiyoshi Tanaka and his partner Yuki Kawata, and Toshimasa Yamashita, who heads the defense team. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Asiana meets press after plane skids off runway in Hiroshima

Akiyoshi Yamamura, vice president of Asiana Airlines, speaks at a press conference at Hiroshima Airport on April 16, 2015, after an Asiana-operated flight from Seoul skidded off the runway at the Japanese airport two days earlier. More than 20 passengers on the plane were injured in the incident. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Asiana meets press after plane skids off runway in Hiroshima

Akiyoshi Yamamura, vice president of Asiana Airlines, speaks at a press conference at Hiroshima Airport on April 16, 2015, after an Asiana-operated flight from Seoul skidded off the runway at the Japanese airport two days earlier. More than 20 passengers on the plane were injured in the incident. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Asiana meets press after plane skids off runway in Hiroshima

Akiyoshi Yamamura, vice president of Asiana Airlines, bows during a press conference at Hiroshima Airport on April 16, 2015, to apologize after an Asiana-operated flight from Seoul skidded the runway at the Japanese airport two days earlier. More than 20 passengers on the plane were injured in the incident. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Photo of feudal warrior likely taken by John Manjiro: researcher

Akiyoshi Tani, a specialist at the University of Tokyo's Historiographical Institute, explains in Kochi, western Japan, on March 13, 2015, his research results that show a portrait photo of the Tosa domain's reform-minded "samurai" warrior Yoshida Toyo was likely taken by John Manjiro in 1861 in Edo, today's Tokyo. The photo was one of the first wet collodion process photography shots in Japan. Manjiro was the first Japanese known to have studied in the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Asahi Breweries becomes 'gold partner' for 2020 Olympics in Tokyo

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R), head of the organizing committee for the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, shakes hands with Akiyoshi Koji, president of Asahi Breweries Ltd., on Jan. 27, 2015, after signing a "gold partner" agreement. The contract has made Asahi the second top sponsor for the Games. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese man publishes book about WWII experience in China

Akiyoshi Arai talks about a book he wrote on the basis of his experience in China as an Imperial Japanese Army soldier during World War II in an interview at his home in Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, as pictured on Feb. 7, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Empress Michiko enjoys jazz music

TOKYO, Japan - Empress Michiko (C) enjoys a concert by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in Tokyo on Sept. 12. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)