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Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami quits as business body chief

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 30 Kyodo - Former Suntory Holdings Ltd. Chairman Takeshi Niinami speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2025, following his resignation as chief of a major business body, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, known as Keizai Doyukai, after coming under police investigation over supplement purchases. (Kyodo)

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Keizai Doyukai Press Conference

Economic Council press conference. Photo shows Representative Director Takeshi Niinami.=September 30,2025,Tokyo

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Keizai Doyukai Press Conference

Economic Council press conference. Photo shows Representative Director Takeshi Niinami.=September 30,2025,Tokyo

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Keizai Doyukai Press Conference

Economic Council press conference. photo shows, from left, Representative Director Takeshi Niinami and Vice Representative Director Mutsuo Iwai.=September 30,2025,Tokyo

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Keizai Doyukai Press Conference

Economic Council press conference. Photo shows Representative Director Takeshi Niinami.=September 30,2025,Tokyo

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Keizai Doyukai Press Conference

Economic Council press conference. photo shows, from left, Representative Director Takeshi Niinami and Vice Representative Director Mutsuo Iwai.=September 30,2025,Tokyo

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Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami quits as business body chief

Former Suntory Holdings Ltd. Chairman Takeshi Niinami speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2025, following his resignation as chief of a major business body, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, known as Keizai Doyukai, after coming under police investigation over supplement purchases.

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Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami quits as business body chief

Former Suntory Holdings Ltd. Chairman Takeshi Niinami speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2025, following his resignation as chief of a major business body, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, known as Keizai Doyukai, after coming under police investigation over supplement purchases.

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Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami quits as business body chief

Former Suntory Holdings Ltd. Chairman Takeshi Niinami speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2025, following his resignation as chief of a major business body, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, known as Keizai Doyukai, after coming under police investigation over supplement purchases.

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Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami quits as business body chief

Former Suntory Holdings Ltd. Chairman Takeshi Niinami speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2025, following his resignation as chief of a major business body, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, known as Keizai Doyukai, after coming under police investigation over supplement purchases.

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Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami quits as business body chief

Former Suntory Holdings Ltd. Chairman Takeshi Niinami speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2025, following his resignation as chief of a major business body, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, known as Keizai Doyukai, after coming under police investigation over supplement purchases.

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Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami quits as business body chief

Former Suntory Holdings Ltd. Chairman Takeshi Niinami speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2025, following his resignation as chief of a major business body, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, known as Keizai Doyukai, after coming under police investigation over supplement purchases.

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Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami quits as business body chief

Former Suntory Holdings Ltd. Chairman Takeshi Niinami speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2025, following his resignation as chief of a major business body, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, known as Keizai Doyukai, after coming under police investigation over supplement purchases.

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Keizai Doyukai Ordinary General Meeting Press Conference

Press conference at the Ordinary General Meeting of Keizai Doyukai. Photo shows, from left, Nambu Toshikazu (newly appointed), Keizai Doyukai Representative Director Takeshi Niinami, Yasuhito Hirota (newly appointed), and Tetsuro Yoshimatsu (newly appointed).=April 28,2025,Tokyo

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Keizai Doyukai Ordinary General Meeting Press Conference

Press conference at the Ordinary General Meeting of Keizai Doyukai. Photo shows, from left, Nambu Toshikazu (newly appointed), Keizai Doyukai Representative Director Takeshi Niinami, Yasuhito Hirota (newly appointed), and Tetsuro Yoshimatsu (newly appointed).=April 28,2025,Tokyo

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Three Economic Organizations 2025 New Year's Celebration Party

Keizai Doyukai 2025 New Year's Celebration Party. Pictured is Takeshi Niinami, Representative Director of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives).=January 7,2025,Imperial Hotel Tokyo (Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)

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Three economic organizations Press Conference 2025

Three economic organizations press conference 2025. Photo shows (from left) Ken Kobayashi, President of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI), Takeshi Niinami, Representative Secretary of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Doyukai), and Masakazu Tokura, Chairman of Keidanren, shaking hands after the press conference.=January 7,2025,Imperial Hotel Tokyo (Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)

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Three Economic Organizations 2025 New Year's Celebration Party

Keizai Doyukai 2025 New Year's Celebration Party. Photo shows Takeshi Niinami, Representative Director of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives), addressing the guests.=January 7,2025,Imperial Hotel Tokyo (Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)

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Three Economic Organizations 2025 New Year's Celebration Party

Keizai Doyukai 2025 New Year's Celebration Party. Photo shows, from right, Takeshi Niinami, Representative Director of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives), and guest of honor, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.=January 7,2025,Imperial Hotel Tokyo (Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)

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Three Economic Organizations 2025 New Year's Celebration Party

New Year's Celebration Party for the Three Economic Organizations in 2025. Photo shows, from left, Ken Kobayashi, President of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI); Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, guest of honor; Takeshi Niinami, Representative Director of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Doyukai); and Masakazu Tokura, Chairman of Keidanren.=January 7,2025,Imperial Hotel Tokyo (Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)

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M'bishi Chemical chief Kobayashi to become Doyukai chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, president of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp., who will assume the chairmanship the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, known as Keizai Doyukai, next April. He assumed the presidency of Mitsubishi Chemical in April 2007.

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Japan's business leaders

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Akio Mimura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, and Yasuchika Hasegawa, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, or Keizai Doyukai, shake hands during a joint press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 7, 2014.

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Japan's business leaders

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuchika Hasegawa, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, or Keizai Doyukai, attends a joint press conference at a Tokyo hotel with leaders of two other major business organizations on Jan. 7, 2014.

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U.S. envoy in Japan

MORIOKA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos delivers a keynote speech during a seminar of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, or Keizai Doyukai, in Morioka, northeastern Japan, on May 23, 2013.

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Matsushita to become co-chairman of Kansai Keizai Doyukai

OSAKA, Japan - Masayuki Matsushita (R), vice chairman of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., will succeed Chiyono Terada (L) as co-chairman of the Kansai Association of Corporate Executives (Kansai Keizai Doyukai) when Terada's term of office expires next May. At the center is Tsutomu Okuda, co-chairman of the economic organization.

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Koizumi renews commitment to structural reforms

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks at a meeting of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), a leading business, in Tokyo on Sept. 2. Koizumi said that he will keep implementing structural reforms if reelected as head of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Sept. 20.

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Doyukai's Kitashiro says calls for more gov't spending unwise

KARUIZAWA, Japan - Kakutaro Kitashiro (standing), chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), addresses a seminar of the association in the summer resort town of Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture on July 17.

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Business lobby regrets Koizumi's absence from Davos forum

DAVOS, Switzerland - Yotaro Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), tells Kyodo News in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 26 that he was sorry that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi did not attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) there.

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Doyukai's Kitashiro wants to create jobs, nurture start-ups

TOKYO, Dec. 26 Kyodo - Kakutaro Kitashiro (R), who is to become the head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 26 with Yotaro Kobayashi, the current Doyukai chairman, looking on. Kitashiro, chairman of IBM Japan Ltd., will be the first executive from a foreign-owned company to head a major Japanese business lobby.

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Fukuma, Haru as appointed BOJ Policy Board members

TOKYO, Japan - Toshikatsu Fukuma (R), vice chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), and Hidehiko Haru (L), executive vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speak with the media April 5 after being appointed as members of the Bank of Japan's Policy Board.

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Terada to become 1st female leader of Kansai Keizai Doyukai

OSAKA, Japan - Chiyono Terada (R), president of major moving company Art Corp., poses with Kazuo Asada (L), president of NTT West Corp., at a news conference in Osaka on Dec. 20. Terada and Asada have been appointed to succeed Kazuaki Tsuda as co-chairmen of the Kansai Keizai Doyukai (Kansai Association of Corporate Executives). Terada will be the first woman to lead any of the five major business organizations based in Osaka.

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Business leaders confident about 1.7% growth

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's top four industrial bosses give a joint news conference at a Tokyo hotel Jan. 5. (From L to R) Kosaku Inaba, head of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Takashi Imai, head of the Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren), Hiroshi Okuda, chief of the Japan Federation of Employers Associations (Nikkeiren), and Yotaro Kobayashi, chief of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai).

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Kobayashi to head Keizai Doyukai

Fuji Xerox Co. Chairman Yotaro Kobayashi (L) speakes at a news conference April 22 after being named new chief of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), one of Japan's four influential business lobby organs. At right is his predecessor Jiro Ushio.

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Japan business dons pin hope on 2nd-half recovery

The leaders of Japan's top four big-business groups hold a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 5, voicing hope that the nation's economy will be put on a recovery track in the second half of this year, while expressing shock at a series of negative developments at the new year's onset. From left to right are Jiro Ushio, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), Takashi Imai, chairman of the Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren), Jiro Nemoto, chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers Associations (Nikkeiren), and Kosaku Inaba, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

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Kobayashi named Keizai Doyukai head

The file photo shows Yotaro Kobayashi, chairman of Fuji Xerox Co., who was appointed as head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai) on Dec. 22. Kobayashi, 65, is currently vice chairman of the business group.

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Terada to become 1st female leader of Kansai Keizai Doyukai

OSAKA, Japan - Chiyono Terada (R), president of major moving company Art Corp., poses with Kazuo Asada (L), president of NTT West Corp., at a news conference in Osaka on Dec. 20. Terada and Asada have been appointed to succeed Kazuaki Tsuda as co-chairmen of the Kansai Keizai Doyukai (Kansai Association of Corporate Executives). Terada will be the first woman to lead any of the five major business organizations based in Osaka.

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Fukuma to be named BOJ Board member

TOKYO, Japan - The government informally decided March 8 to appoint Toshikatsu Fukuma (in file photo), vice chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), as a member of the Bank of Japan's Policy Board.

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Fukuma, Haru as appointed BOJ Policy Board members

TOKYO, Japan - Toshikatsu Fukuma (R), vice chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), and Hidehiko Haru (L), executive vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speak with the media April 5 after being appointed as members of the Bank of Japan's Policy Board.

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Kobayashi named Keizai Doyukai head

The file photo shows Yotaro Kobayashi, chairman of Fuji Xerox Co., who was appointed as head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai) on Dec. 22. Kobayashi, 65, is currently vice chairman of the business group. ==Kyodo

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Business lobby regrets Koizumi's absence from Davos forum

DAVOS, Switzerland - Yotaro Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), tells Kyodo News in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 26 that he was sorry that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi did not attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) there. (Kyodo)

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(2)Junichiro Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi addresses the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai) in Tokyo on Sept. 2. (Kyodo)

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Business chiefs vow to do part to help Japan exit from deflation

Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren, speaks at news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2016, after a New Year's celebration organized by Keidanren, the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, known as Keizai Doyukai. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Fuji Xerox chief Kobayashi dies at 82

File photo shows former Fuji Xerox Co. President Yotaro Kobayashi attending a press conference in April 2003 in Tokyo. It was reported on Sept. 7, 2015, that Kobayashi, who also served as chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, or Keizai Doyukai, died on Sept. 5 at the age of 82. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Business community's energy chief speaks about Japan's nuke power reliance

Teruo Asada, chairman of Marubeni Corp. and head of the business community's energy panel, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on March 24, 2015. In a report released the same day, the Committee for Environment and Energy of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai) said Japan should set a lower limit to its reliance on nuclear power generation at around 20 percent of the country's electricity needs for 2030. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kobayashi becomes new head of Keizai Doyukai

Yoshimitsu Kobayashi (L), president of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp., speaks to reporters as new chairman the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai) in Tokyo on April 27, 2015, as Yasuchika Hasegawa, Kobayashi's processor and chairman of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., listens to him. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Keizai Doyukai head calls for hike in consumption tax

TOKYO, Japan - Masamitsu Sakurai, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives known as Keizai Doyukai, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. Sakurai has urged the government to hike the consumption tax to secure stable revenues to fund its policies. (Kyodo)

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M'bishi Chemical chief Kobayashi to become Doyukai chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, president of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp., who will assume the chairmanship the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, known as Keizai Doyukai, next April. He assumed the presidency of Mitsubishi Chemical in April 2007. (Kyodo)

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Matsushita to become co-chairman of Kansai Keizai Doyukai

OSAKA, Japan - Masayuki Matsushita (R), vice chairman of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., will succeed Chiyono Terada (L) as co-chairman of the Kansai Association of Corporate Executives (Kansai Keizai Doyukai) when Terada's term of office expires next May. At the center is Tsutomu Okuda, co-chairman of the economic organization. (Kyodo)

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Koizumi renews commitment to structural reforms

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks at a meeting of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), a leading business, in Tokyo on Sept. 2. Koizumi said that he will keep implementing structural reforms if reelected as head of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Sept. 20. (Kyodo)

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Doyukai's Kitashiro says calls for more gov't spending unwise

KARUIZAWA, Japan - Kakutaro Kitashiro (standing), chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), addresses a seminar of the association in the summer resort town of Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture on July 17. (Kyodo)