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Ad giant Dentsu fined 300 mil. yen over Tokyo Olympics bid-rigging

Photo taken on Jan. 30, 2025, shows the building housing the headquarters of leading Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Group Inc. in Tokyo. The Tokyo District Court fined the company 300 million yen ($1.94 million) the same day for its role in bid-rigging related to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

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Ad giant Dentsu fined 300 mil. yen over Tokyo Olympics bid-rigging

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 30, 2025, shows the building housing the headquarters of leading Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Group Inc. in Tokyo. The Tokyo District Court fined the company 300 million yen ($1.94 million) the same day for its role in bid-rigging related to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

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Ad giant Dentsu fined 300 mil. yen over Tokyo Olympics bid-rigging

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 30, 2025, shows the building housing the headquarters of leading Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Group Inc. in Tokyo. The Tokyo District Court fined the company 300 million yen ($1.94 million) the same day for its role in bid-rigging related to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

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Dentsu Soken Inc's signage, logo

Signboard and logo of the Dentsu Soken Inc. ＝April 23, 2024, in Tokyo.

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Dentsu Soken Inc signage and logo

The Dentsu Group's signboard and logo. ＝April 23, 2024, in Tokyo.

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Signboard and logo of the Dentsu Soken Inc, Inc.

Signboard and logo of the Dentsu Soken Inc. ＝April 23, 2024, in Tokyo.

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Dentsu building in Tokyo

Photo taken on Feb. 27, 2023, shows the building housing the headquarters of Dentsu Group Inc. in Tokyo.

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Ex-Tokyo Olympics operations exec arrested over bid rigging

Journalists gather in front of a building housing the head office of leading Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo after prosecutors arrested a former operations executive at the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee the same day on suspicion of playing a leading role in bid rigging for contracts related to games test events. The executive and Dentsu officials are suspected of collusion.

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Dentsu headquarters building

File photo taken on Feb. 8, 2023, shows the building housing the head office of leading Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo

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Entertainment content producer to get extra investment

TOKYO, Japan - President Shizuko Yokote of MCIP Holdings Co. announces in Tokyo on Oct. 30, 2014, additional investment will be made in the Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. subsidiary producing entertainment content by six entities, including the government-financed Cool Japan Fund and advertising agency Dentsu Inc., to fuel its entertainment content business in Asia.

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Osaka picks consortium to manage Osaka Castle Park

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Castle Park is seen in a file photo taken in August 2014. The Osaka city government has chosen a private-sector consortium formed by Dentsu Inc. and four other companies to manage and operate the park in a bid to cut maintenance costs and improve profit.

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Ex-Dentsu president Narita dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2009 shows former Dentsu Inc. President Yutaka Narita. He died of pneumonia at the age of 82 at a hospital in Tokyo on Nov. 20, 2011, the company said Nov. 21.

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Dentsu new president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Dentsu Inc. Executive Vice President Tadashi Ishii. The major ad agency has decided that Ishii will succeed President Tatsuyoshi Takashima in April, company sources said on Feb. 10, 2011.

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MOF hires former Dentsu official to push public relations

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshio Masuda (file photo), a former employee of the advertising agency Dentsu Inc., was hired by the Finance Ministry on Oct. 15 as a public relations officer. Masuda, 48, who worked at Dentsu's corporate brand planning division, is the first person from the private sector employed on contract by the Finance Ministry, ministry officials say.

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Dentsu set to name Vice President Takashima as president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Dentsu Inc. Executive Vice President Tatsuyoshi Takashima, who is expected to be appointed as president of Japan's biggest advertising agency. Dentsu President Tateo Mataki will assume the post of chairman, company sources said April 28.

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TBS to issue new shares, move seen as takeover defense

TOKYO, Japan - Financier Yoshiaki Murakami (R) speaks at a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Aug. 31 after Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. announced plans to raise a total of about 28 billion yen by selling new and outstanding shares to Dentsu Inc. and three other companies. Murakami tacitly criticized the TBS move, saying, ''In capital increases, it should be taken into account whether there are real fund needs.'' Murakami declined to comment on whether he owns TBS shares.

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TBS to issue new shares, move seen as takeover defense

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. Managing Director Keizo Zaitsu (L) speaks as Executive Director Kenichiro Kidokoro looks on at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 31. Zaitsu said TBS will raise a total of about 28 billion yen in September by selling new and outstanding shares to Dentsu Inc. and three other companies to help finance new mobile phone and Internet-related businesses. The step is being regarded as a measure to increase friendly long-term shareholders and discourage a hostile takeover, since an investment fund led by financier Yoshiaki Murakami has reportedly acquired some TBS shares and is eyeing a management buyout.

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Dentsu to sell media content in China via joint venture

SHANGHAI, China - Shoichi Yamamura (L, front), Dentsu Inc. representative for Asia, joins a ceremony in Shanghai on April 5 to sign an agreement with Shanghai Film Group Corp., a major Chinese producer of television programs and films, to form a joint venture in China to provide media content to the Chinese company.

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Sony, Dentsu to launch joint broadband businesses

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Chairman and CEO Nobuyuki Idei, Intervision Inc. President Ikuya Tanaka and Dentsu Inc. President Yutaka Narita pose at a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 30. Sony and Dentsu agreed to jointly engage in ''new communications businesses for the broadband network era,'' with Dentsu acquiring a 40% equity stake in Intervision Inc., a Sony subsidiary, on April 1. Intervision will be renamed upon Dentsu's capital participation.

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Dentsu scores maximum daily gain on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Yutaka Narita (L), president of Dentsu Inc., receives a plaque from Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) President Masaaki Tsuchida during a ceremony commemorating Dentsu's listing on the TSE at its building in Tokyo on Nov. 30. Japan's largest ad agency registered a maximum daily allowable gain of 50,000 yen to end the morning session at a bid price of 470,000 yen.

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Dentsu admits responsibility in 'karoshi' case

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's largest ad agency, Dentsu Inc., on June 23 admitted its liability in the 1991 suicide from overwork of a 24-year-old employee, Ichiro Oshima, and will pay some 168 million yen in compensation to the man's parents in an out-of-court settlement. Oshima's father, Hisamitsu, 71, tells a press conference the same day, ''My son's dignity was fully restored. I'm satisfied with the settlement.'' His lawyers said this is the first ''karoshi'' (death from overwork) case in which a company admitted its liability and reached an out-of-court settlement.

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NTT DoCoMo, Dentsu form venture

TOKYO, Japan - Dentsu Inc. President Yutaka Narita (L), Dentsu Executive Akihisa Fujita (C) and NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa (R), shake hands June 1 after announcing the formation of a joint venture to help corporate clients advertise goods and services on Websites accessible via NTT's ''i-mode'' Internet-capable mobile phones. Fujita is to assume the presidency of the new company, D2 Communications Inc.

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Dentsu headquarters in Tokyo

Photo taken on Nov. 25, 2022, shows the building housing the headquarters of leading Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo.

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Dentsu headquarters in Tokyo

Photo taken on Nov. 26, 2022, shows the building housing the headquarters of leading Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo.

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Dentsu headquarters

File photo taken in August 2022 shows the building housing the headquarters of Japanese advertisement agency Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo.

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Dentsu headquarters

Photo taken on Aug. 18, 2022, shows the building (C) housing the headquarters of major advertising agency Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo.

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Dentsu headquarters

Photo taken on Aug. 18, 2022, shows the building housing the headquarters of major advertising agency Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo.

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Japan's largest advertising agency Dentsu

Photo taken on Aug. 17, 2022, shows the headquarters of Japan's largest advertising agency Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo.

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Japan's largest advertising agency Dentsu

Photo taken on Aug. 17, 2022, shows the headquarters of Japan's largest advertising agency Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo.

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Dentsu scores maximum daily gain on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Yutaka Narita (L), president of Dentsu Inc., receives a plaque from Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) President Masaaki Tsuchida during a ceremony commemorating Dentsu's listing on the TSE at its building in Tokyo on Nov. 30. Japan's largest ad agency registered a maximum daily allowable gain of 50,000 yen to end the morning session at a bid price of 470,000 yen.

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TBS to issue new shares, move seen as takeover defense

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. Managing Director Keizo Zaitsu (L) speaks as Executive Director Kenichiro Kidokoro looks on at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 31. Zaitsu said TBS will raise a total of about 28 billion yen in September by selling new and outstanding shares to Dentsu Inc. and three other companies to help finance new mobile phone and Internet-related businesses. The step is being regarded as a measure to increase friendly long-term shareholders and discourage a hostile takeover, since an investment fund led by financier Yoshiaki Murakami has reportedly acquired some TBS shares and is eyeing a management buyout. (Kyodo)

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Dentsu set to name Vice President Takashima as president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Dentsu Inc. Executive Vice President Tatsuyoshi Takashima, who is expected to be appointed as president of Japan's biggest advertising agency. Dentsu President Tateo Mataki will assume the post of chairman, company sources said April 28. (Kyodo)

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MOF hires former Dentsu official to push public relations

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshio Masuda (file photo), a former employee of the advertising agency Dentsu Inc., was hired by the Finance Ministry on Oct. 15 as a public relations officer. Masuda, 48, who worked at Dentsu's corporate brand planning division, is the first person from the private sector employed on contract by the Finance Ministry, ministry officials say. (Kyodo)

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TBS to issue new shares, move seen as takeover defense

TOKYO, Japan - Financier Yoshiaki Murakami (R) speaks at a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Aug. 31 after Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. announced plans to raise a total of about 28 billion yen by selling new and outstanding shares to Dentsu Inc. and three other companies. Murakami tacitly criticized the TBS move, saying, ''In capital increases, it should be taken into account whether there are real fund needs.'' Murakami declined to comment on whether he owns TBS shares. (Kyodo)

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NTT DoCoMo, Dentsu form venture

TOKYO, Japan - Dentsu Inc. President Yutaka Narita (L), Dentsu Executive Akihisa Fujita (C) and NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa (R), shake hands June 1 after announcing the formation of a joint venture to help corporate clients advertise goods and services on Websites accessible via NTT's ''i-mode'' Internet-capable mobile phones. Fujita is to assume the presidency of the new company, D2 Communications Inc.

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Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Dentsu Inc. President Tadashi Ishii attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2016, after the labor ministry referred the advertising agency and one of its executives to prosecutors over an alleged overwork-related suicide of a 24-year-old employee. Ishii said he will step down in January 2017 to take responsibility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Dentsu Inc. President Tadashi Ishii attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2016, after the labor ministry referred the advertising agency and one of its executives to prosecutors over an alleged overwork-related suicide of a 24-year-old employee. Ishii said he will step down in January 2017 to take responsibility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Tadashi Ishii, president of advertising giant Dentsu Inc., bows in apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2016. Ishii said he will step down in January 2017 to take responsibility for an alleged overwork-related suicide of a 24-year-old female employee. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Probe into overwork at Dentsu after employee suicide

Undated photo shows Dentsu Inc.'s head office in Tokyo. Japan's labor authorities inspected four subsidiaries of the advertising giant on Oct. 18, 2016, following the suicide of a 24-year-old female employee in December 2015 due to overwork. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Death of ex-Dentsu employee recognized as overwork

Yukimi Takahashi (R), mother of Matsuri Takahashi, a 24-year-old Dentsu Inc. employee who committed suicide in 2015, attends a press conference with her attorney Hiroshi Kawahito in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2016, after her daughter's suicide was deemed to have been caused by overwork. The labor ministry has conducted on-site inspections at the Dentsu headquarters and some of its subsidiaries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan firms organize donations in U.S. for quake-hit homeland

AUSTIN, United States - Akihisa Fujita (C), director and executive vice president at Dentsu Digital Holdings Inc., affixes a ''Gambare: Save Japan at SXSW'' sticker on the badge of an attendee who donated at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas on March 15, 2011. The group raised $5,000 in the first three days of the festival, which ends March 20. (Kyodo)

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Dentsu new president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Dentsu Inc. Executive Vice President Tadashi Ishii. The major ad agency has decided that Ishii will succeed President Tatsuyoshi Takashima in April, company sources said on Feb. 10, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Dentsu president Narita dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2009 shows former Dentsu Inc. President Yutaka Narita. He died of pneumonia at the age of 82 at a hospital in Tokyo on Nov. 20, 2011, the company said Nov. 21. (Kyodo)

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Dentsu mulls selling headquarters building

Photo taken Jan 20, 2021, shows the headquarters of Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo. Japanese advertising giant Dentsu Group Inc. is considering selling the 48-story building to streamline its assets amid the spreading use of telework due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Bomb threat made against Dentsu's headquarters

Photo taken June 5, 2020, shows the headquarters building (C) of Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo. Police cordoned off the building and other commercial facilities in the vicinity the same day after a bomb threat was made in a posting with a personal name on the advertising agency's website. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bomb threat made against Dentsu's headquarters

Photo taken June 5, 2020, shows the headquarters building of Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo. Police cordoned off the building and other commercial facilities in the vicinity the same day after a bomb threat was made in a posting with a personal name on the advertising agency's website. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bomb threat made against Dentsu's headquarters

The entrance area of a commercial facility in Tokyo is cordoned off on June 5, 2020, after a bomb threat was made against Dentsu Inc., whose headquarters is located in the building, in a posting with a personal name on the advertising agency's website. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu headquarters

File photo taken May 15, 2020, shows the Tokyo headquarters of Dentsu Inc., Japan's largest advertising agency. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Photo taken on Feb. 25, 2020, shows Dentsu Inc. headquarters in Tokyo. Teleworking started at Japan's largest advertising agency the following day after one of its employees tested positive for a new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Photo taken on Feb. 25, 2020, shows Dentsu Inc. headquarters in Tokyo. Teleworking started at Japan's largest advertising agency the following day after one of its employees tested positive for a new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo