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Toshiba announces next president

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Toshiba Corp.'s Atsutoshi Nishida, chairman, Hisao Tanaka, corporate senior executive vice president, and Norio Sasaki, president, join hands in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2013. The company announced the same day it will promote Tanaka to president and Sasaki will assume the new post of vice chairman in June.

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Japan delegation at global travel summit

LAS VEGAS, United States - Japanese delegation head Atsutoshi Nishida (C) and vice head Mutsutake Otsuka (R) attend the Global Travel and Tourism Summit in Las Vegas on May 19, 2011. Nishida, chairman of Toshiba Corp., and Otsuka, chairman of East Japan Railway Co., asked leaders of global tourism industry to help Japanese tourism recovering from the March 11 disaster.

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Kan looks to industry

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) is briefed by Toshiba Corp. Chairman Atsutoshi Nishida (R) on the manufacturing process of a light-emitting diode at a Toshiba factory in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 28, 2010. (Pool photo)

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Toshiba's Nishida becomes Nippon Keidanren vice chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 28 after becoming a vice chairman of the Japan Business Federation.

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Toshiba to promote vice president Sasaki to president in June

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. Corporate Senior Vice President Norio Sasaki speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 18. The company announced it will promote Sasaki to president in late June, replacing Atsutoshi Nishida.

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Toshiba to promote vice president Sasaki to president in June

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. Corporate Senior Vice President Norio Sasaki (R) shakes hands with President Atsutoshi Nishida after a press conference in Tokyo on March 18. The company announced it will promote Sasaki to president in late June replacing Nishida.

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Toshiba sees FY08 operating loss of 280 bil. yen, 1st red ink in 7 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida bows at the end of a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 29. The struggling Japanese electronics giant said it will lay off 4,500 temporary workers in its loss-making semiconductor and liquid crystal display businesses and it expects to incur group net and operating losses of 280 billion yen each for fiscal 2008 through March, its first red-ink figures in seven years.

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Toshiba head calls on gov't to prepare safety net for unemployed

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Dec. 26. Nishida called on the government to prepare a safety net for unemployed workers as companies are forced to carry out aggressive layoffs to combat the economic storm.

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Toshiba to start using rechargeable batteries in PCs next year

TOKYO, Japan - Atsutoshi Nishida, president and chief executive of Toshiba Corp., speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 4.

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Toshiba quits HD DVD business, Blu-ray to be industry standard

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida announces in Tokyo on Feb. 19 that his company will completely withdraw from the HD DVD business, a move that will allow the rival Blu-ray format promoted by a group of electronics makers led by Sony Corp. to become the industry standard for next-generation DVDs.

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Toshiba to ally with Sharp in LCD TV business

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Katayama (L), president of Sharp Corp., and Atsutoshi Nishida, president of Toshiba Corp., shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 21 to announce that the companies have agreed to team up in liquid-crystal display panels in an attempt to slash investment burdens amid intensifying competition in the global flat-panel TV industry.

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Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida at an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Jan. 9.

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Toshiba raises 1st-half group net profit estimate 2.5-fold

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida briefs reporters on the company's earnings estimate for the first half of fiscal 2006 at the head office in Tokyo on Oct. 17.

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Toshiba to invest 2 tril. yen, expand flash memory output

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida said May 11 that the Japanese electronics giant will make capital investments totaling 2.04 trillion yen over three years through fiscal 2008, including about 1 trillion yen to strengthen its computer chip business.

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Toshiba eyeing 3.5-fold sales rise in atomic power business

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida tells a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 8 that the company has set an eye toward a 3.5-fold sales increase in its nuclear power generation business to some 700 billion yen by 2015. The announcement came the day after Toshiba made an agreement with British Nuclear Fuels PLC to acquire its U.S. nuclear power plant arm, Westinghouse Electric Co.

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Toshiba to focus investment on semiconductors: President Nishida

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida speaks at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 9. He bared a medium-range business plan in which Toshiba will invest 550 billion yen on semiconductor operations, half of the company's total capital investment in three years through fiscal 2007.

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Microsoft, Toshiba to jointly develop HD-DVD players

TOKYO, Tokyo - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates (L) and Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida shake hands at a press conference in Tokyo on June 27 after announcing plans to jointly develop HD-DVD players based on a next-generation DVD format by bringing together the two companies' expertise in software and hardware.

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Nishida nominated as new Toshiba president

TOKYO, Japan - Atsutoshi Nishida (R), Toshiba Corp. executive officer and corporate executive vice president who was nominated as the next company president on Feb. 22, shakes hands with current President Tadashi Okamura during a news conference in Tokyo the same day.

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Nishida to become Toshiba's new president

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. plans to appoint Atsutoshi Nishida (file phto), 61, a senior managing director, as the company's new president to succeed Tadashi Okamura, 66, who will assume the chairmanship. Toshiba Chairman Taizo Nishimuro, 69, will become an adviser to the company. (Kyodo)

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Microsoft, Toshiba to jointly develop HD-DVD players

TOKYO, Tokyo - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates (L) and Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida shake hands at a press conference in Tokyo on June 27 after announcing plans to jointly develop HD-DVD players based on a next-generation DVD format by bringing together the two companies' expertise in software and hardware. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba to focus investment on semiconductors: President Nishida

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida speaks at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 9. He bared a medium-range business plan in which Toshiba will invest 550 billion yen on semiconductor operations, half of the company's total capital investment in three years through fiscal 2007. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba eyeing 3.5-fold sales rise in atomic power business

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida tells a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 8 that the company has set an eye toward a 3.5-fold sales increase in its nuclear power generation business to some 700 billion yen by 2015. The announcement came the day after Toshiba made an agreement with British Nuclear Fuels PLC to acquire its U.S. nuclear power plant arm, Westinghouse Electric Co. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba to invest 2 tril. yen, expand flash memory output

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida said May 11 that the Japanese electronics giant will make capital investments totaling 2.04 trillion yen over three years through fiscal 2008, including about 1 trillion yen to strengthen its computer chip business. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba raises 1st-half group net profit estimate 2.5-fold

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida briefs reporters on the company's earnings estimate for the first half of fiscal 2006 at the head office in Tokyo on Oct. 17. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida at an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Jan. 9. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba to ally with Sharp in LCD TV business

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Katayama (L), president of Sharp Corp., and Atsutoshi Nishida, president of Toshiba Corp., shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 21 to announce that the companies have agreed to team up in liquid-crystal display panels in an attempt to slash investment burdens amid intensifying competition in the global flat-panel TV industry. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba quits HD DVD business, Blu-ray to be industry standard

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida announces in Tokyo on Feb. 19 that his company will completely withdraw from the HD DVD business, a move that will allow the rival Blu-ray format promoted by a group of electronics makers led by Sony Corp. to become the industry standard for next-generation DVDs. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba to start using rechargeable batteries in PCs next year

TOKYO, Japan - Atsutoshi Nishida, president and chief executive of Toshiba Corp., speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 4. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba head calls on gov't to prepare safety net for unemployed

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Dec. 26. Nishida called on the government to prepare a safety net for unemployed workers as companies are forced to carry out aggressive layoffs to combat the economic storm. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba to cut 4,500 temp jobs by end of March as it faces loss

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida bows at the end of a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 29. The struggling Japanese electronics giant said it will lay off 4,500 temporary workers in its loss-making semiconductor and liquid crystal display businesses and it expects to incur group net and operating losses of 280 billion yen each for fiscal 2008 through March, its first red-ink figures in seven years. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba to promote vice president Sasaki to president in June

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. Corporate Senior Vice President Norio Sasaki speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 18. The company announced it will promote Sasaki to president in late June, replacing Atsutoshi Nishida. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba to promote vice president Sasaki to president in June

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. Corporate Senior Vice President Norio Sasaki (R) shakes hands with President Atsutoshi Nishida after a press conference in Tokyo on March 18. The company announced it will promote Sasaki to president in late June replacing Nishida. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba's Nishida becomes Nippon Keidanren vice chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 28 after becoming a vice chairman of the Japan Business Federation. (Kyodo)

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Nishida nominated as new Toshiba president

TOKYO, Japan - Atsutoshi Nishida (R), Toshiba Corp. executive officer and corporate executive vice president who was nominated as the next company president on Feb. 22, shakes hands with current President Tadashi Okamura during a news conference in Tokyo the same day. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba's irregular accounting "systematic" wrongdoing

Photo shows (from L) Toshiba Corp. President Hisao Tanaka, Vice Chairman Norio Sasaki and advisor Atsutoshi Nishida. A third-party panel investigating the company's accounting irregularities said July 20, 2015, that its top management exerted pressure on subordinates to achieve ambitious budget targets and prompted the overstating of profits by 151.8 billion yen over seven years in a "systematic" manner. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kan looks to industry

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) is briefed by Toshiba Corp. Chairman Atsutoshi Nishida (R) on the manufacturing process of a light-emitting diode at a Toshiba factory in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 28, 2010. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Japan delegation at global travel summit

LAS VEGAS, United States - Japanese delegation head Atsutoshi Nishida (C) and vice head Mutsutake Otsuka (R) attend the Global Travel and Tourism Summit in Las Vegas on May 19, 2011. Nishida, chairman of Toshiba Corp., and Otsuka, chairman of East Japan Railway Co., asked leaders of global tourism industry to help Japanese tourism recovering from the March 11 disaster. (Kyodo)

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Fire foils Japanese rocket launch

Atsutoshi Tamura (R), vice chief of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s space operations, prepares to attend a press conference at Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2019, after a fire prompted the cancellation of the launch of an H-2B rocket carrying the unmanned Kounotori8 spacecraft, due to fly to the International Space Station. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fire cancels Japanese rocket launch to ISS

Atsutoshi Tamura (L), vice chief of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s space operations, speaks at a press conference at Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2019, after a fire prompted the cancellation of the launch of an H-2B rocket carrying the unmanned Kounotori8 spacecraft, which had been scheduled to fly to the International Space Station. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fire foils Japanese rocket launch

Atsutoshi Tamura (L), vice chief of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s space operations division, bows at a press conference at Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2019, after a fire prompted the cancellation of the launch of an H-2B rocket carrying the unmanned Kounotori8 spacecraft, bound for the International Space Station. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Toshiba president Nishida

Atsutoshi Nishida, seen in this file photo taken in May 2009, one of the three former Toshiba Corp. presidents involved in a damages suit over a bookkeeping scandal, died of a heart attack Dec. 8, 2017, the company said Dec. 9. He was 73. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo