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Japan PM Ishiba meets Dodgers' Sasaki in Tokyo

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Roki Sasaki (L, facing camera) meets the press at the prime minister's office in Tokyo along with owner and chairman Mark Walter after meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on March 14, 2025, while the team is in Tokyo for Major League Baseball's season-opening Tokyo Series against the Chicago Cubs at Tokyo Dome.

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Japan PM Ishiba meets Dodgers' Sasaki in Tokyo

(from L) Los Angeles Dodgers owner and chairman Mark Walter, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, and pitcher Roki Sasaki pose for a photo during a courtesy call at the premier's office in Tokyo on March 14, 2025. The team is in Tokyo for Major League Baseball's season-opening Tokyo Series against the Chicago Cubs at Tokyo Dome.

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Japan PM Ishiba meets Dodgers' Sasaki in Tokyo

The Los Angeles Dodgers' new pitcher Roki Sasaki of Japan (L) presents a Dodgers cap to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) along with owner and chairman Mark Walter at the premier's office in Tokyo on March 14, 2025, while the team is in Tokyo for Major League Baseball's season-opening Tokyo Series against the Chicago Cubs at Tokyo Dome.

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Japan PM Ishiba meets Dodgers' Sasaki in Tokyo

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) meets Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Roki Sasaki of Japan (L, front) alongside owner and chairman Mark Walter at the premier's office in Tokyo on March 14, 2025. The team is in Tokyo for Major League Baseball's season-opening Tokyo Series against the Chicago Cubs at Tokyo Dome.

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Japan, S. Korea business leaders to cooperate for FTA

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Sasaki (R), chairman of the Japan-Korea Economic Association and his South Korean counterpart Kim Yoon shake hands after the Japan-Korea Business Conference, a two-day meeting of Japanese and South Korean business leaders, in Tokyo on May 15, 2014. The business leaders pledged to cooperate in realizing a bilateral free trade agreement in the joint statement.

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46th Japan-Korea Business Conference in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Sasaki, chairman of the Japan-Korea Economic Association, speaks at the 46th Japan-Korea Business Conference in Tokyo on May 14, 2014. Sasaki requested a Japan-ROK summit meeting.

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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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Toshiba announces next president

TOKYO, Japan - Hisao Tanaka, corporate senior executive vice president of Toshiba Corp., holds a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2013, after the company announced it will promote Tanaka to president, replacing Norio Sasaki, who will assume the new post of vice chairman in June.

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Manabe to become West Japan Railway president

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken April 27, 2012, shows Seiji Manabe, vice president of West Japan Railway Co., known as JR West, at a press conference at the company headquarters in Osaka. The company said the same day that Manabe will be appointed president on May 1, succeeding Takayuki Sasaki, who will become chairman.

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Manabe to become West Japan Railway president

OSAKA, Japan - Seiji Manabe (R), vice president of West Japan Railway Co., known as JR West, shakes hands with President Takayuki Sasaki at the headquarters of the company in Osaka on April 27, 2012. The company said the same day that Manabe will be appointed president on May 1, succeeding Sasaki, who will become chairman.

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Japan pitches technology in bid to host soccer World Cup

ZURICH, Switzerland - Members of Japan's 2022 World Cup bid committee pose for photos as they make their final presentation, pitching the use of cutting-edge technology to host the tournament, in Zurich, Switzerland, on Dec. 1, 2010. They are (From L to R) Japan Football Association general secretary Kozo Tashima, 8-year-old actress Rio Sasaki, senior vice sports minister Kan Suzuki, bid committee chief and FIFA board member Junji Ogura and Sony Corp. Chairman and President Howard Stringer.

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Shiki troupe promotes 'Wicked' in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - The main cast members of the musical ''Wicked'' pose for photos with Shiki Theatre Co. vice chairman Norio Sasaki (L) at a press conference in Fukuoka on Oct. 25, 2010. The musical troupe announced it will perform the popular Broadway musical from April through August 2011 in Fukuoka.

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Toshiba, Bill Gates to cooperate on nuclear reactor

TOKYO, Japan - Combination file photo shows Toshiba Corp. President Norio Sasaki (L) and Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates. The Japanese electronics giant is eyeing a tie-up with Gates-led venture firm TerraPower to jointly develop a next-generation nuclear reactor.

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JR Vice Chairman Sasaki to become president

OSAKA, Japan - West Japan Railway Co. Vice Chairman Takayuki Sasaki speaks at a news conference in Osaka on July 10 after being approved as next president to succeed Masao Yamazaki. Yamazaki is stepping down after his indictment July 8 over the fatal train derailment in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, in 2005.

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JR Vice Chairman Sasaki to become president

OSAKA, Japan - Masao Yamazaki (L), who is stepping down as president of West Japan Railway Co., and Vice Chairman Takayuki Sasaki, who will succeed Yamazaki, shake hands after a news conference in Osaka on July 10. Yamazaki expressed his intention to resign on July 8 after being indicted over the fatal train derailment in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, in 2005.

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Olympic organizers seek apology in alleged gun-pointing

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Japan Olympic Committee Chairman Tsunekazu Takeda (L) and Japan cross country ski team coach Kazunari Sasaki speak at a press conference in the Main Media Center Feb. 20 after a newspaper reported police on Feb. 18 saw three members of the Japan delegation point a biathlon rifle out of a window at a Heber City hotel. The Salt Lake City Olympic organizing committee reportedly wants an apology.

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Mitsubishi, Nissan to join transmission businesses

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Vice President Hiroshi Yajima, Jatco TransTechnology Ltd. Chairman Kenichi Sasaki and Nissan Motor Co. Accounting Officer Kiyohito Shinohara shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4. MMC and Nissan announced an agreement to integrate their automatic transmission (AT) and continually variable transmission (CVT) businesses. MMC will spin off its AT and CVT divisions into a new company to integrate it with Nissan's transmission subsidiary Jatco TransTechnology by the middle of 2002.

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Prosperity

A general compilation of the year 1967. The seats in the House of Representatives remain unchanged after the dissolution of the Black Fog, and distrust of politics increases the strain on society. An old man's suicide note, the state funeral of former Prime Minister Yoshida, the Osaka Detention Center, boxing, wads of cash, date of shooting unknown, release date: December 22, 1967.

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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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Toshiba vice chairman to step down as board member

Undated photo shows Toshiba Corp. Vice Chairman Norio Sasaki, a former president of the company. The electronics maker is arranging for the 66-year-old executive to step down as a board member at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders scheduled for September to take the blame for a spate of accounting irregularities, sources said on July 9, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea business leaders meet in Seoul

Mikio Sasaki (R), head of the Japan-Korea Economic Association, and Kim Yoon, chairman of the Korea-Japan Economic Association, give a joint press conference in Seoul on May 14, 2015, after a two-day meeting closing with a joint statement to strengthen cooperation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toyota likely to agree to biggest base-wage hike since 2002

Tatsuya Sasaki, chairman of the Federation of All Toyota Workers' Unions, speaks at a press conference in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on March 12, 2015, about this spring's labor-management wage talks. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Manabe to become West Japan Railway president

OSAKA, Japan - Seiji Manabe (R), vice president of West Japan Railway Co., known as JR West, shakes hands with President Takayuki Sasaki at the headquarters of the company in Osaka on April 27, 2012. The company said the same day that Manabe will be appointed president on May 1, succeeding Sasaki, who will become chairman. (Kyodo)

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Manabe to become West Japan Railway president

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken April 27, 2012, shows Seiji Manabe, vice president of West Japan Railway Co., known as JR West, at a press conference at the company headquarters in Osaka. The company said the same day that Manabe will be appointed president on May 1, succeeding Takayuki Sasaki, who will become chairman. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba, Bill Gates to cooperate on nuclear reactor

TOKYO, Japan - Combination file photo shows Toshiba Corp. President Norio Sasaki (L) and Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates. The Japanese electronics giant is eyeing a tie-up with Gates-led venture firm TerraPower to jointly develop a next-generation nuclear reactor. (Kyodo)

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Japan pitches technology in bid to host soccer World Cup

ZURICH, Switzerland - Members of Japan's 2022 World Cup bid committee pose for photos as they make their final presentation, pitching the use of cutting-edge technology to host the tournament, in Zurich, Switzerland, on Dec. 1, 2010. They are (From L to R) Japan Football Association general secretary Kozo Tashima, 8-year-old actress Rio Sasaki, senior vice sports minister Kan Suzuki, bid committee chief and FIFA board member Junji Ogura and Sony Corp. Chairman and President Howard Stringer. (Kyodo)

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Shiki troupe promotes 'Wicked' in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - The main cast members of the musical ''Wicked'' pose for photos with Shiki Theatre Co. vice chairman Norio Sasaki (L) at a press conference in Fukuoka on Oct. 25, 2010. The musical troupe announced it will perform the popular Broadway musical from April through August 2011 in Fukuoka. (Kyodo)

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Mitsubishi, Nissan to join transmission businesses

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Vice President Hiroshi Yajima, Jatco TransTechnology Ltd. Chairman Kenichi Sasaki and Nissan Motor Co. Accounting Officer Kiyohito Shinohara shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4. MMC and Nissan announced an agreement to integrate their automatic transmission (AT) and continually variable transmission (CVT) businesses. MMC will spin off its AT and CVT divisions into a new company to integrate it with Nissan's transmission subsidiary Jatco TransTechnology by the middle of 2002.

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Former opposition leader Sasaki dies at 85

TOKYO, Japan - The late Ryosaku Sasaki (C), a former chairman of the now-defunct opposition Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), is shown in this file photo with colleagues celebrating the DSP's 25th anniversary in 1985. Sasaki died at midnight March 8 of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital. He was 85. He chaired the DSP for seven years and five months until April 1985. The DSP was established in 1960 and merged in December 1994 into the New Frontier Party, which has since been dissolved.

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Sasaki joins Seattle Mariners

KYOTO, Japan - Japanese closer Kazuhiro Sasaki tries on his new uniform Saturday at a press conference in Kyoto after signing a two-year contract with the Seattle Mariners. The 31-year-old relief ace will become the 10th Japanese pitcher to play in the North American major leagues. Mariners' chairman and chief operating officer Howard Lincoln is on the right.