Saori Minami

Saori Minami

Saori Minami=Date: November 2, 1971, Place: Japan

Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura on the set of the movie “Abashiri Prison”=Date : December 10, 1971, Place : Sounkyo, Hokkaido

Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tomisaburo Wakayama=Place: Akasaka, Japan

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Pro-Pyongyang group's ex-exec held on breach of trust

Pro-Pyongyang group's ex-exec held on breach of trust

TOKYO, Japan - Li Bom Rak (R), former chairman of the Korean Credit Unions' Association in Japan, leaves his home in Tokyo's Suginami Ward on Dec. 5 with investigators for questioning. Li was arrested later in the day on suspicion of financially damaging Chogin Kinki Credit Cooperative, which collapsed in December last year.

Chongryon executive arrested over alleged fraud

Chongryon executive arrested over alleged fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters and photographers gather in front of the building of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Nov. 28 after Kang Young Kwan, a Chongryon executive, was arrested by police in connection with the 820 million yen embezzlement case. Kang is suspected of instructing former top officials of the failed Chogin Tokyo credit union to embezzle the money from the union's funds.

Police begin questioning ex-Chogin Tokyo execs

Police begin questioning ex-Chogin Tokyo execs

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the media swarm outside Chogin Tokyo credit union Nov. 8, 2001 as police began questioning former senior executives of the failed credit union on suspicion they withheld data from Tokyo metropolitan government investigators in 1998.

N. Korea-linked credit union declared insolvent

N. Korea-linked credit union declared insolvent

TOKYO, Japan - Hakuo Yanagisawa, chairman of the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission, declares Chogin Kinki Shinyo Kumiai, the largest pro-Pyongyang credit union in Japan, insolvent at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 29.

N. Korea-linked credit union asks FRC for public funds

N. Korea-linked credit union asks FRC for public funds

TOKYO, Japan - The picture shows an aerial view of the headquarters of Chogin Kinki Shinyo Kumiai, the nation's largest pro-Pyongyang credit union, in Kobe, western Japan. Chogin Kinki, the third largest credit union in Japan with some 640 billion yen in deposits, asked the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC) on Dec. 29 to replenish its depleted liquidity holdings under the financial-system revival law.

Police begin questioning ex-Chogin Tokyo execs

Police begin questioning ex-Chogin Tokyo execs

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the media swarm outside Chogin Tokyo credit union Nov. 8, 2001 as police began questioning former senior executives of the failed credit union on suspicion they withheld data from Tokyo metropolitan government investigators in 1998.

Chongryon executive arrested over alleged fraud

Chongryon executive arrested over alleged fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters and photographers gather in front of the building of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Nov. 28 after Kang Young Kwan, a Chongryon executive, was arrested by police in connection with the 820 million yen embezzlement case. Kang is suspected of instructing former top officials of the failed Chogin Tokyo credit union to embezzle the money from the union's funds.

Pro-Pyongyang group's ex-exec held on breach of trust

Pro-Pyongyang group's ex-exec held on breach of trust

TOKYO, Japan - Li Bom Rak (R), former chairman of the Korean Credit Unions' Association in Japan, leaves his home in Tokyo's Suginami Ward on Dec. 5 with investigators for questioning. Li was arrested later in the day on suspicion of financially damaging Chogin Kinki Credit Cooperative, which collapsed in December last year.

Court sentences ex-Chogin Tokyo credit union head

Court sentences ex-Chogin Tokyo credit union head

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo District Court on Oct. 22 sentenced Chong Gyong Saeng (file photo), a former head of the failed Chogin Tokyo credit union mainly serving pro-Pyongyang Korean residents in the metropolitan area to three years and six months in jail for illegally diverting more than 800 million yen of the credit union's funds to the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon). (Kyodo)

N. Korea-linked credit union asks FRC for public funds

N. Korea-linked credit union asks FRC for public funds

TOKYO, Japan - The picture shows an aerial view of the headquarters of Chogin Kinki Shinyo Kumiai, the nation's largest pro-Pyongyang credit union, in Kobe, western Japan. Chogin Kinki, the third largest credit union in Japan with some 640 billion yen in deposits, asked the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC) on Dec. 29 to replenish its depleted liquidity holdings under the financial-system revival law.