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Canon Inc. Vice President Ogawa to become president

Canon Inc. Executive Vice President Kazuto Ogawa attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2026, following an announcement that he will be promoted to president on March 27.

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Canon Inc. Vice President Ogawa to become president

Canon Inc. Executive Vice President Kazuto Ogawa (L) attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2026, alongside Fujio Mitarai, president and chairman, following an announcement that Ogawa will be promoted to president on March 27.

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Canon Inc. Vice President Ogawa to become president

Canon Inc. Executive Vice President Kazuto Ogawa (L) shakes hands with Fujio Mitarai, president and chairman, after a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2026, following an announcement that Ogawa will be promoted to president on March 27.

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Japan PM Ishiba in Hanoi

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C, L) and his wife Yoshiko are greeted during a visit to a factory of Japan's Canon Inc. housed in Thang Long Industrial Park in Hanoi on April 27, 2025.

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Japan PM Ishiba in Hanoi

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (back, R) and his wife Yoshiko visit a factory of Japan's Canon Inc. in Thang Long Industrial Park during a visit to Hanoi on April 27, 2025.

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Japan PM Ishiba in Hanoi

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (back, R) and his wife Yoshiko visit a factory of Japan's Canon Inc. in Thang Long Industrial Park during a visit to Hanoi on April 27, 2025.

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Semicon Japan 2023

Photo taken on Dec. 13, 2023, shows the booth of Canon Inc. at Semicon Japan 2023, an international exhibition of semiconductors, in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2023.

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Signing Ceremony for the University of Tokyo, Canon, and Canon Medical Systems Industry-Academia Collaboration Agreement

Signing Ceremony for the University of Tokyo, Canon, and Canon Medical Systems Industry-Academia Collaboration Agreement. From left to right: Teruo Fujii, President of the University of Tokyo; Fujio Mitarai, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Canon Inc. and Toshio Takiguchi, President and CEO of Canon Medical Systems Inc=Date:November 7, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Signing Ceremony for the University of Tokyo, Canon, and Canon Medical Systems Industry-Academia Collaboration Agreement

Signing Ceremony for the University of Tokyo, Canon, and Canon Medical Systems Industry-Academia Collaboration Agreement. From left to right: Teruo Fujii, President of the University of Tokyo; Fujio Mitarai, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Canon Inc. and Toshio Takiguchi, President and CEO of Canon Medical Systems Inc=Date:November 7, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Memorial ceremony for ex-head of Panasonic predecessor

Canon Inc. Chairman and CEO Fujio Mitarai speaks to reporters in Osaka, western Japan, on March 17, 2023, after attending a memorial ceremony for Kunio Nakamura, former president of Panasonic Holdings Corp. forerunner Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., who died of pneumonia on Nov. 28, 2022, at age 83.

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Canon unveils new lineup of digital cameras

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actor Ken Watanabe shows off a new Canon Inc. single-lens reflex camera model at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 20. The company unveiled a new lineup of digital cameras including the EOS 40D single-lens reflex camera model targeted at advanced amateur photographers, amid intensifying competition with its main rival Nikon Corp.

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Tokyo 2020 executive board meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Executive Board of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games - (from L) Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda, organizing committee president and former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, organizing committee honorary president and Canon Inc. Chairman Fujio Mitarai, and organizing committee chief executive officer and Daiwa Institute of Research Chairman Toshiro Muto - pose for photos after a meeting where all 34 members of the executive board met on March 26, 2014.

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Canon group net profit up 2.6%

TOKYO, Japan - Toshizo Tanaka, executive vice president of Canon Inc., releases the company's earnings results for the year ended Dec. 31, 2013, at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2014. The maker of printers, photocopiers and cameras said its group net profit for the just-ended business year rose 2.6 percent from the previous year to 230.48 billion yen.

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Canon plant in China resumes

ZHUHAI, China - Employees report to work as Canon Inc.'s plant in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, resumed operation on Sept. 25, 2012, after anti-Japan demonstrations and protests in China.

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Canon group unit opens printer component plant in Oita

HITA, Japan - A truck leaves a printer toner and toner cartridge parts plant of a group firm of Canon Inc. in Hita, Oita Prefecture, on May 17, 2012, carrying the first shipment from the facility. Hita Canon Materials Inc. began operations at the plant the same day.

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Canon Chairman Mitarai

NEW DELHI, India - Canon Inc. Chairman Fujio Mitarai speaks with reporters near New Delhi in India on Feb. 9, 2012, disclosing a plan to triple the company's sales in India to about 77.2 billion yen in 2015 from 23.4 billion yen in 2011.

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Canon Chairman Mitarai to return as president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2009, shows Canon Inc. Chairman Fujio Mitarai. Canon said Jan. 30, 2012, that the 76-year-old Mitarai, who was president of the company from 1995 to 2006, will return as president on March 29 to help it achieve its targets through 2015 amid uncertain business prospects stemming from the eurozone debt crisis.

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Canon to foray into movie camera market

LOS ANGELES, United States - Fujio Mitarai, chairman of Canon Inc., shows the Japanese camera maker's first movie camera during a press conference in Hollywood, southern California, on Nov. 3, 2011. He said that the company will launch the camera and lenses for it, called Cinema EOS System, in late January.

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Flooded Canon plant in Thailand

AYUTTHAYA, Thailand - A plant affiliated with Japan's Canon Inc. is flooded in the Hi-Tech Industrial Estate in Ayutthaya Province, Thailand, on Oct. 13, 2011.

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Canon chairman Mitarai in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Canon Inc. Chairman Fujio Mitarai speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2011. Mitarai said the company plans to spend up to 1 trillion yen through 2015 on mergers and acquisitions in the medical and robot businesses considering a strong yen.

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Incoming Keidanren chief eyes deepening dialogue with DPJ-led gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Hiromasa Yonekura (L), chairman of Sumitomo Chemical Co., shake hands with Fujio Mitarai, chairman of Canon Inc. at the headquarters of the Japan Business Federation, or Nippon Keidanren, on Feb, 22, 2010. Yonekura will succeed Mitarai as the chairman of Japan's most influential business lobby known as Keidanren.

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Canon to acquire biggest European printer maker Oce

TOKYO, Japan - Canon Inc. President Tsuneji Uchida (L) shakes hands with Anton Schaaf, chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Oce NV of the Netherlands, the biggest printer maker in Europe, during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2009, at which they announced that Canon will acquire Oce through a takeover bid worth about 730 million euros (around 100 billion yen).

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Canon to begin plant construction 6 months behind schedule

NAGASAKI, Japan - Hiroyuki Wakasa (L), president of Nagasaki Canon Inc., speaks at a news conference in Nagasaki on June 5 about a plan to start construction of a new digital camera plant in the town of Hasami. Canon initially planned to begin construction work in January but subsequently shelved the plan amid the deepening recession.

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Consultancy in tax evasion manages property of Canon's Mitarai

OITA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 24 shows a plot of land owned by Canon Inc. Chairman Fujio Mitarai now used as a parking lot. Oita-based consultancy Daiko, at the center of a massive tax evasion case connected with construction work for Canon Inc., has been managing the property, sources familiar with the matter said the same day.

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Top Japanese manufacturers retain hefty earnings while shedding jobs

OITA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 10 shows members of a labor union for non-regular workers and part-timers of affiliates of Canon Inc. in Oita Prefecture handing an official at the firm a written request that the company maintain jobs for them.

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Canon postpones construction of camera plant in Nagasaki

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Wakasa, president of Nagasaki Canon Inc., a camera-manufacturing unit of Japanese camera maker Canon Inc., announces postponement of a plan to build a plant in Nagasaki Prefecture at the Nagasaki prefectural government building in Nagasaki on Dec. 17 due to sharply falling demand for digital cameras amid the global economic slowdown.

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Canon 1st company to ship 100 mil. compact digital cameras

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the PowerShot 600, the first compact digital camera that Canon Inc. released in July 1996. The world's largest digital camera maker said Aug. 19 it has shipped more than 100 million compact digital cameras worldwide, becoming the first company ever to reach the milestone.

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Hitachi, Canon, Matsushita tie up in flat-panel business

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Canon Inc. President Tsuneji Uchida, Hitachi Ltd. President Kazuo Furukawa and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. President Fumio Otsubo join hands at a hotel in Tokyo on Dec. 25, after reaching a basic accord to form a comprehensive alliance in the flat-panel display business to jointly manufacture liquid crystal display panels and to accelerate the development of organic light-emitting diode displays.

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Canon, Nikon hoping to stimulate camera market via rivalry

TOKYO, Japan - Nikon Corp. President Michio Kariya said in a recent interview that the Tokyo-based company has no intention of competing head-on with Canon Inc. in the world's fast-growing digital single-lens reflex camera market. Noting that the corporate size of Nikon is much smaller than Canon's, Kariya said his company thinks it is important to offer new types of cameras to consumers when its chief rival does not do so, instead of vying with similar price-range products around the same time.

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Canon, Nikon hoping to stimulate camera market via rivalry

TOKYO, Japan - Canon Inc. President Tsuneji Uchida said in a recent interview that Canon and Nikon Corp. want to move their digital single-lens reflex camera businesses onto a path of higher sustained growth through friendly rivalry, despite their neck-and-neck race for the title of the world's No. 1 ahead of next year's Beijing Olympics.

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Canon to release new flagship EOS SLR camera this spring

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuneji Uchida, president of Canon Inc., holds up the company's new digital camera EOS-1D Mark III -- its first flagship single-lens reflex camera model in about two years -- during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 22.

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Canon to release new entry-level digital SLR in Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Canon Inc. said Aug. 24 it will release a new entry-level digital single-lens reflex camera on Sept. 8, hoping to bring its domestic market share back to more than 50 percent. The EOS Kiss Digital X camera will have a 10.1 million pixel CMOS sensor and work with as many as 60 lenses, Canon said.

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Canon's Mitarai succeeds Toyota's Okuda as head of Keidanren

TOKYO, Japan - Chief executive officer of Canon Inc. Fujio Mitarai speaks at a general meeting of the Japan Business Federation in Tokyo on May 24 after becoming head of the federation.

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Canon's Mitarai succeeds Toyota's Okuda as head of Keidanren

TOKYO, Japan - Chief executive officer of Canon Inc. Fujio Mitarai (L, center) shakes hands with Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Hiroshi Okuda after he was chosen as head of the Japan Business Federation succeeding Okuda at a federation's general meeting in Tokyo.

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Canon's Mitarai succeeds Toyota's Okuda as head of Keidanren

TOKYO, Japan - Chief executive officer of Canon Inc. Fujio Mitarai (L) shakes hands with Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Hiroshi Okuda after he became head of the Japan Business Federation succeeding Okuda.

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Okuda shows high self-appraisal as Keidanren chief

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Okuda, outgoing chairman of the Japan Business Federation, speaks at a press conference at Keidanren Hall in Tokyo on May 18. Okuda, who will be succeeded by Fujio Mitarai, chairman of Canon Inc., gave a high mark to his performance as head of the country's most powerful business lobby, saying, ''I think I am eligible for 70 to 80 points'' out of a perfect 100.''

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Toshiba, Canon delay next-generation SED TV's release till late 2007

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. and Canon Inc. said on March 8 their alliance will delay the release of a next-generation high quality-image TV, known as a surface-conduction electron-emitter display television, or SED TV (in photo taken on Oct. 4, 2005), until the October-December period of 2007 from the originally planned release date this spring. A Canon official said the two decided to put off the release as they have found it hard to cut production costs quickly enough.

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Canon's Mitarai to assume chairmanship of Nippon Keidanren

TOKYO, Japan - Canon Inc. President Fujio Mitarai (file photo) will likely assume the chairmanship of Japan's most powerful business lobby, the Japan Business Federation, sources familiar with the matter said Oct. 15.

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Canon, Toshiba to start joint venture for new flat-screen panels

TOKYO, Japan - Canon Inc. President Fujio Mitarai (2nd from L) and Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura pose at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 14 after announcing an agreement to establish a joint venture for the development, production and marketing of a new flat-screen panel called surface-conduction electron-emitter display or SED. The new company, SED Inc., will make SED panels primarily for large flat-screen televisions, with production planned to begin in 2005.

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Konica, Minolta set to launch holding company for integration

TOKYO, Japan - The new logo is displayed Aug. 4 for Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., which will be set up by Japanese camera and office equipment makers Konica Corp. and Minolta Co. on Tuesday for the integration of their business operations scheduled for Oct. 1. The holding company will challenge the top three leaders in the precision instrument industry -- Canon Inc., Fuji Photo Film Co. and Ricoh Co.

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Toyota's Cho among best managers picked by BusinessWeek

NEW YORK, United States - File photos show (from L to R) Toyota Motor Corp. President Fujio Cho, Canon Inc. President and CEO Fujio Mitarai and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ken Kudaragi, who were picked by BusinessWeek magazine for its ''best manager'' roster for 2002. BusinessWeek cited Cho's role in growing Toyota into a ''truly global carmaker'' by further expanding production in the United States as well as stretching its reach into Eastern Europe and China.

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Canon, Honda presidents among world's top 25 managers

NEW YORK, United States - File photos show Canon Inc. President Fujio Mitarai (L) and Honda Motor Co. President Hiroyuki Yoshino (R), who were chosen as two of the world's top 25 managers in 2001 by the U.S. magazine BusinessWeeek.

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Weak yen is last resort in boosting Japan economy: Canon head

TOKYO, Japan - Fujio Mitarai, president of Canon Inc., speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News. He said the Japanese government should guide the value of the yen down ''as much as possible'' to pull Japan out of its economic doldrums.

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Competition heating up

The photo shows a high-powered copying machine unveiled by by Canon U.S.A. Inc. in New York on Tuesday Aug. 18. The U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Canon Inc. said it will start selling the $115,000 machine in mid-September in the markets long dominated by Xerox Corp. ''We're taking on Xerox in markets where they traditionally haven't had much competition,'' said Canon U.S.A. President Haruo Murase.

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Precise replica of "Wind God and Thunder God Screens"

A precise replica of national treasure "Wind God and Thunder God Screens" is seen at Kyoto's Kenninji temple on Nov. 5, 2021, after being created by camera maker Canon Inc. and the Kyoto Culture Association. The temple owns the original Wind God and Thunder God Screens.

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Precise replica of "Wind God and Thunder God Screens"

A precise replica of national treasure "Wind God and Thunder God Screens" is seen at Kyoto's Kenninji temple on Nov. 5, 2021, after being created by camera maker Canon Inc. and the Kyoto Culture Association. The temple owns the original Wind God and Thunder God Screens.

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Precise replica of "Wind God and Thunder God Screens"

A precise replica of national treasure "Wind God and Thunder God Screens" is seen at Kyoto's Kenninji temple on Nov. 5, 2021, after being created by camera maker Canon Inc. and the Kyoto Culture Association. The temple owns the original Wind God and Thunder God Screens.

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Precise replica of "Wind God and Thunder God Screens"

A precise replica of national treasure "Wind God and Thunder God Screens" is seen at Kyoto's Kenninji temple on Nov. 5, 2021, after being created by camera maker Canon Inc. and the Kyoto Culture Association. The temple owns the original Wind God and Thunder God Screens.

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Canon, Honda presidents among world's top 25 managers

NEW YORK, United States - File photos show Canon Inc. President Fujio Mitarai (L) and Honda Motor Co. President Hiroyuki Yoshino (R), who were chosen as two of the world's top 25 managers in 2001 by the U.S. magazine BusinessWeeek.

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Canon, Toshiba to start joint venture for new flat-screen panels

TOKYO, Japan - Canon Inc. President Fujio Mitarai (2nd from L) and Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura pose at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 14 after announcing an agreement to establish a joint venture for the development, production and marketing of a new flat-screen panel called surface-conduction electron-emitter display or SED. The new company, SED Inc., will make SED panels primarily for large flat-screen televisions, with production planned to begin in 2005. (Kyodo)