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Japan hangs 3 death row inmates, 1st executions in six months

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Eisuke Mori announces the execution of three death row inmates at a press conference at the Justice Ministry in Tokyo on July 28. The executions are the first in six months and the first since the lay judge system was launched in May.

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Lay judge system starts in Japan amid lingering concerns

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Eisuke Mori speaks about the just-launched lay judge trial system at a news conference in Tokyo on May 21 with a promotional poster next to him. A law to introduce the lay judge system, which enables ordinary citizens to try criminal cases, took effect the same day.

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Japan executes 4 death-row inmates: justice minister

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Eisuke Mori announces the executions of four death-row inmates at a press conference at the Justice Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 29. It is the first set of executions in Japan in about three months and the second since Prime Minister Taro Aso took office in September last year.

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Japan hangs 2 more inmates, marking record-high executions per year

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Eisuke Mori speaks about the execution of two death-row inmates at a news conference at the Justice Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 28. The executions brought the number of inmates hanged this year to 15, a record high for the number of inmates executed per year since 1999 when the government began announcing execution figures.

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New justice minister backs death penalty

TOKYO, Japan - New Justice Minister Eisuke Mori speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 24. Mori said he will order the execution of death row inmates when necessary.

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'Mr. Yen' predicts further global slowdown

TOKYO, Japan - Eisuke Sakakibara, a former senior Finance Ministry official known as ''Mr. Yen,'' speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo.

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'Mr. Yen' warns optimism on credit crunch over subprime woes

TOKYO, Japan - Eisuke Sakakibara, a former senior Finance Ministry official, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News.

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(1)Senior welfare vice minister fails to pay pension premiums

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Senior Vice Minister Eisuke Mori bows at a news conference May 13 after admitting to have tailed to pay mandatory national pension premiums in the past. Mori, while apologizing, said he would not resign, calling it a ''personal problem.''

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(2)Senior welfare vice minister fails to pay pension premiums

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Senior Vice Minister Eisuke Mori speaks at a news conference May 13 after admitting to have tailed to pay mandatory national pension premiums in the past. Mori said he would not resign, calling it a ''personal problem.''

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DPJ unveils 'cabinet roster' with 'Mr. Yen' as MOF head

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan (R), president of the Democratic Party of Japan, on Nov. 4 introduced his nominees for key posts in a cabinet he would form if the party wins the Nov. 9 general election. Kan said if he becomes premier he will appoint former Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Eisuke Sakakibara (2nd from L) as finance minister, reformist Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka (3rd from L) as minister for decentralization, and Yasuyo Yamazaki (L), a former partner in U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs, as land, infrastructure and transport minister.

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Lower house panel adopts medical reform bills

TOKYO, Japan -- Eisuke Mori (C), chairman of the House of Representatives Health, Labor and Welfare Committee, is harassed by opposition party members June 14 during voting on a set of bills on medical reforms. The panel adopted the bills with the support of the three ruling parties.

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Pioneer of spy fiction Nakazono dies at 81

TOKYO, Japan - Hideki Nakazono (file photo), one of Japan's pioneer writers of spy fiction who used the pseudonym Eisuke Nakazono, died on April 9 of pneumonia at a hospital in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 81. His novel ''Rachi,'' (Abduction) which deals with the abduction of now South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, has been made into a film, ''KT,'' to be released in May.

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New, outgoing vice finance ministers meet press

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's new Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Haruhiko Kuroda (R) meets the press at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on July 9, after succeeding Eisuke Sakakibara (L) on July 8. Kuroda voiced his determination to do his utmost to keep the yen's exchange rates against major currencies stable.

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Mahathir interested in Japan's bond guarantee scheme

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (R) shakes hands with Eisuke Sakakibara (L), vice finance minister for international affairs, at the start of their talks at a Tokyo hotel June 2. Mahathir expressed interest in making use of the partial bond guarantee scheme under Japan's Asian aid program.

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E. Asia's finance leaders meet in Hanoi

ASEAN nations' vice finance ministers and central bank chiefs have talks in Hanoi with their counterparts from Japan, China and South Korea on March 18. The photo shows Japanese delegates -- Eisuke Sakakibara (3rd from L), vice finance minister for international affairs, and Masayuki Matsushima (2nd from L), executive director of the Bank of Japan.

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Pioneer of spy fiction Nakazono dies at 81

TOKYO, Japan - Hideki Nakazono (file photo), one of Japan's pioneer writers of spy fiction who used the pseudonym Eisuke Nakazono, died on April 9 of pneumonia at a hospital in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 81. His novel ''Rachi,'' (Abduction) which deals with the abduction of now South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, has been made into a film, ''KT,'' to be released in May.

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U.S. harping on China's currency is election ploy: Sakakibara

TOKYO, Japan - Eisuke Sakakibara, a former vice finance minister for international affairs, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News. Sakakibara, now a professor at Keio University, said the United States is expected to step up calls on China to relax its fixed currency system at the Oct. 1 financial meeting in Washington of the Group of Seven major economies. (Kyodo)

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'Mr. Yen' warns optimism on credit crunch over subprime woes

TOKYO, Japan - Eisuke Sakakibara, a former senior Finance Ministry official, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News. (Kyodo)

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'Mr. Yen' predicts further global slowdown

TOKYO, Japan - Eisuke Sakakibara, a former senior Finance Ministry official known as ''Mr. Yen,'' speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. (Kyodo)

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Lay judge system starts in Japan amid lingering concerns

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Eisuke Mori speaks about the just-launched lay judge trial system at a news conference in Tokyo on May 21 with a promotional poster next to him. A law to introduce the lay judge system, which enables ordinary citizens to try criminal cases, took effect the same day. (Kyodo)

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Mahathir interested in Japan's bond guarantee scheme

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (R) shakes hands with Eisuke Sakakibara (L), vice finance minister for international affairs, at the start of their talks at a Tokyo hotel June 2. Mahathir expressed interest in making use of the partial bond guarantee scheme under Japan's Asian aid program.

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(1)Senior welfare vice minister fails to pay pension premiums

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Senior Vice Minister Eisuke Mori bows at a news conference May 13 after admitting to have tailed to pay mandatory national pension premiums in the past. Mori, while apologizing, said he would not resign, calling it a ''personal problem.'' (Kyodo)

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Kyoto Univ. grad Tanaka set for top flight debut

Lotte Marines pitcher Eisuke Tanaka chats with pitching coach Eiji Ochiai during practice at QVC Marine Field on April 27, 2015. The first pro baseball player from the elite academic world of Kyoto University is scheduled to make his top flight debut on April 29 against the Seibu Lions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido music fan crafting ukuleles made of local wood

Eisuke Miyagi plays a ukulele made out of Sakhalin spruce, a tree found in the wild on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, in Chitose, Hokkaido, on March 3, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese man recalls ordeal in Japan-ruled Manchuria during WWII

Eisuke Iijiro recounts his ordeal in Manchuria, the Japanese-ruled region of northeastern China during World War II, in an interview at his home in Chiba, east of Tokyo, as seen in this photo taken on April 10, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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DPJ unveils 'cabinet roster' with 'Mr. Yen' as MOF head

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan (R), president of the Democratic Party of Japan, on Nov. 4 introduced his nominees for key posts in a cabinet he would form if the party wins the Nov. 9 general election. Kan said if he becomes premier he will appoint former Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Eisuke Sakakibara (2nd from L) as finance minister, reformist Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka (3rd from L) as minister for decentralization, and Yasuyo Yamazaki (L), a former partner in U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs, as land, infrastructure and transport minister. (Kyodo)

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New justice minister backs death penalty

TOKYO, Japan - New Justice Minister Eisuke Mori speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 24. Mori said he will order the execution of death row inmates when necessary. (Kyodo)

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Japan executes 4 death-row inmates: justice minister

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Eisuke Mori announces the executions of four death-row inmates at a press conference at the Justice Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 29. It is the first set of executions in Japan in about three months and the second since Prime Minister Taro Aso took office in September last year. (Kyodo)

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Japan hangs 2 more inmates, marking record-high executions per ye

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Eisuke Mori speaks about the execution of two death-row inmates at a news conference at the Justice Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 28. The executions brought the number of inmates hanged this year to 15, a record high for the number of inmates executed per year since 1999 when the government began announcing execution figures. (Kyodo)

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Portrait of a man (Kitagawa Eisuke) (Osaka)

Portrait of a man (Kitagawa Eisuke) (Osaka)==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Eastern Japan city encourages hunting as business

Eisuke Okano (L), a 39-year-old restaurateur from Tokyo, teaches people how to dissect and cook a fowl during a session of a "business school for hunting" in Kimitsu, an eastern Japan city near Tokyo, on Sept. 29, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(2)Senior welfare vice minister fails to pay pension premiums

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Senior Vice Minister Eisuke Mori speaks at a news conference May 13 after admitting to have tailed to pay mandatory national pension premiums in the past. Mori said he would not resign, calling it a ''personal problem.'' (Kyodo)

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Sakakibara, Fischer formal candidates for IMF chief

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Eisuke Sakakibara, former Japanese vice finance minister for international affairs, who was proposed as candidate for the top post of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington on Feb. 22 along with Stanley Fischer, first deputy managing director of the IMF.

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New, outgoing vice finance ministers meet press

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's new Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Haruhiko Kuroda (R) meets the press at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on July 9, after succeeding Eisuke Sakakibara (L) on July 8. Kuroda voiced his determination to do his utmost to keep the yen's exchange rates against major currencies stable.

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New, outgoing vice finance ministers meet press

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's new Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Haruhiko Kuroda (R) meets the press at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on July 9, after succeeding Eisuke Sakakibara (L) on July 8. Kuroda voiced his determination to do his utmost to keep the yen's exchange rates against major currencies stable.

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E. Asia's finance leaders meet in Hanoi

ASEAN nations' vice finance ministers and central bank chiefs have talks in Hanoi with their counterparts from Japan, China and South Korea on March 18. The photo shows Japanese delegates -- Eisuke Sakakibara (3rd from L), vice finance minister for international affairs, and Masayuki Matsushima (2nd from L), executive director of the Bank of Japan.