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Memorial ceremony for ex-head of Panasonic predecessor

Panasonic Holdings Corp. Chairman Kazuhiro Tsuga speaks to reporters in Osaka, western Japan, on March 17, 2023, after attending a memorial ceremony for Kunio Nakamura, former president of Panasonic Holdings forerunner Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., who died of pneumonia on Nov. 28, 2022, at age 83.

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Memorial ceremony for ex-head of Panasonic predecessor

A memorial ceremony is held for Kunio Nakamura, former president of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., now Panasonic Holdings Corp., at an Osaka hotel in western Japan on March 17, 2023. Nakamura died of pneumonia on Nov. 28, 2022, at age 83.

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Memorial ceremony for ex-head of Panasonic predecessor

Canon Inc. Chairman and CEO Fujio Mitarai speaks to reporters in Osaka, western Japan, on March 17, 2023, after attending a memorial ceremony for Kunio Nakamura, former president of Panasonic Holdings Corp. forerunner Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., who died of pneumonia on Nov. 28, 2022, at age 83.

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Memorial ceremony for ex-head of Panasonic predecessor

A memorial ceremony is held for Kunio Nakamura, former president of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., now Panasonic Holdings Corp., at an Osaka hotel in western Japan on March 17, 2023. Nakamura died of pneumonia on Nov. 28, 2022, at age 83.

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Memorial ceremony for ex-head of Panasonic predecessor

A memorial ceremony is held for Kunio Nakamura, former president of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., now Panasonic Holdings Corp., at an Osaka hotel in western Japan on March 17, 2023. Nakamura died of pneumonia on Nov. 28, 2022, at age 83.

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Ex-head of U.N. panel on DPRK human rights meets abductee kin

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Kirby (R), former chief of a U.N. commission investigating North Korean human rights violations, meets Eriko Yamatani, state minister in charge of the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang agents, at the Cabinet Office in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2014, shortly before meeting a group of Japanese abductees' relatives.

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Ex-head of bar associations Tsuchiya dies at 86

TOKYO, Japan - This undated file photo shows Koken Tsuchiya, a former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations. Tsuchiya died of kidney cancer aged 86 at a Tokyo hospital on Sept. 25, 2009, a bar association to which he belonged said.

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Physicist Fushimi, ex-head of Science Council of Japan, dies

TOKYO, Japan - Leading Japanese theoretical physicist Koji Fushimi (in file photo taken 1988) dies of old age at a hospital in Yokohama on May 8, his family said. He was 98. Fushimi headed, from 1977 to 1982, the Science Council of Japan, a Cabinet Office organization that is given the task to promote and enhance science, and to have science reflect and permeate into administration, industry and people's lives. He was elected to the House of Councillors in the 1983 upper house election. He retired from the Diet after serving out a six-year term.

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Japan PM Kishida on death of ex-head of abductee kin group

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2021, after Shigeo Iizuka, the former head of a group representing families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea, died at the age of 83. (Pool photo)

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Shigeo Iizuka, ex-head of N. Korea abductee kin group, dies at 83

File photo taken Nov. 13, 2021, shows Shigeo Iizuka, head of a group representing families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea, makes a speech in Tokyo during a rally calling for the return of abductees. Iizuka died at the age of 83 on Dec. 18, a week after he stepped down from his post due to poor health.

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Shigeo Iizuka, ex-head of N. Korea abductee kin group, dies at 83

Sakie Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, speaks to reporters in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on Dec. 18, 2021, after Shigeo Iizuka, the former head of a group representing families of Japanese abductees, died earlier in the day at the age of 83.

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Shigeo Iizuka, ex-head of N. Korea abductee kin group, dies at 83

Takuya Yokota, head of a group representing families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea, speaks to reporters in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Dec. 18, 2021, after his predecessor Shigeo Iizuka died earlier in the day at the age of 83.

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Shigeo Iizuka, ex-head of N. Korea abductee kin group, dies at 83

File photo taken in March 2009 shows Shigeo Iizuka (L), head of a group representing families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea, hands a gift to former North Korean agent Kim Hyon Hui in Busan, South Korea. Iizuka died on Dec. 18, 2021, at the age of 83.

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Shigeo Iizuka, ex-head of N. Korea abductee kin group, dies at 83

File photo taken in July 2014 shows Shigeo Iizuka, head of a group representing families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea, makes a speech in Sendai, northeastern Japan, holding a photo of his abducted younger sister Yaeko Taguchi. Iizuka died on Dec. 18, 2021, at the age of 83.

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Ex-head of Economic Planning Agency Miyazaki dies at 92

Photo taken in September 2008 shows Isamu Miyazaki, who served as chief of the now-defunct Japanese Economic Planning Agency between 1995 and 1996 in the administration of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. Miyazaki died of heart failure in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2016, at age 92, according to an official of the Daiwa Institute of Research. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike (3rd from L), a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, arrives at the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office on July 27, 2017, to be questioned over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, arrives at the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office on July 27, 2017, to be questioned over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, leaves his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to be questioned by prosecutors on July 27, 2017, over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, leaves his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to be questioned by prosecutors on July 27, 2017, over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, leaves his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to be questioned by prosecutors on July 27, 2017, over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of bar associations Tsuchiya dies at 86

TOKYO, Japan - This undated file photo shows Koken Tsuchiya, a former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations. Tsuchiya died of kidney cancer aged 86 at a Tokyo hospital on Sept. 25, 2009, a bar association to which he belonged said. (Kyodo)

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Ex-head of bill-collection agency held for fraud

KATO, Japan - Takeyasu Tsuji (C), former chairman of the Nippon Jusei Hoken Kiko bill-collection agency, leaves his house in Kato, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 25 for voluntary police questioning. He was later arrested on suspicion of fraud for allegedly swindling about 200 million yen from the company's business partner. (Kyodo)

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Physicist Fushimi, ex-head of Science Council of Japan, dies

TOKYO, Japan - Leading Japanese theoretical physicist Koji Fushimi (in file photo taken 1988) dies of old age at a hospital in Yokohama on May 8, his family said. He was 98. Fushimi headed, from 1977 to 1982, the Science Council of Japan, a Cabinet Office organization that is given the task to promote and enhance science, and to have science reflect and permeate into administration, industry and people's lives. He was elected to the House of Councillors in the 1983 upper house election. He retired from the Diet after serving out a six-year term. (Kyodo)

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Ex-head of condo developer receives suspended prison term

TOKYO, Japan - Susumu Ojima (file photo), 54, president of now-bankrupt Huser Ltd., was convicted by Tokyo District Court on March 25 and sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for five years, for defrauding home-buyers of about 400 million yen by selling condominium units with fabricated earthquake resistance data. (Kyodo)

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Ex-head of U.N. panel on DPRK human rights meets abductee kin

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Kirby (R), former chief of a U.N. commission investigating North Korean human rights violations, meets Eriko Yamatani, state minister in charge of the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang agents, at the Cabinet Office in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2014, shortly before meeting a group of Japanese abductees' relatives. (Kyodo)

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Court rejects NG gallery ex-head's suit against his dismissal, Richard Pecha, Martina Tvrdkova, Martin Valis

A Prague district court rejected on December 11, 2019, a lawsuit filed by former National Gallery Prague (NGP) director Jir Fajt against his dismissal from this post in May, which he claims was invalid, judge Martina Tvrdkova, center, has said. The decision has not yet taken effect. On the left side is seen Fajt's advocate Richard Pecha and on the right side is seen NGP's advocate Martin Valis. (CTK Photo/Roman Vondrous)

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Court rejects NG gallery ex-head's suit against his dismissal, Martina Tvrdkova, Michaela Votapkova, Martin Valis

A Prague district court rejected on December 11, 2019, a lawsuit filed by former National Gallery Prague (NGP) director Jir Fajt against his dismissal from this post in May, which he claims was invalid, judge Martina Tvrdkova, left, has said. The decision has not yet taken effect. On the right side is seen NGP's advocate Martin Valis and on the center of the photo is seen lay judge Michaela Votapkova. (CTK Photo/Roman Vondrous)

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Ex-head of Osaka school operator served with fresh warrant over fraud

Combination photo taken July 27, 2017, shows Yasunori Kagoike (L), former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife Junko. Prosecutors served on Aug. 21 a new arrest warrant for subsidy fraud totaling more than 90 million yen ($826,000) against the couple over a discounted purchase of public land. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE AFTER NOV. 21)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of Osaka school operator to face new arrest over fraud

Undated photo shows Yasunori Kagoike, the former head of Osaka-based school operator Moritomo Gakuen. Prosecutors plan to serve a fresh arrest warrant for subsidy fraud against Kagoike, who has been embroiled in the scandal over a discounted purchase of public land, sources close to the case said on Aug. 18, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator arrested over subsidy fraud

Officials of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office carry seized articles from the home of Yasunori Kagoike and his wife Junko in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, in the early hours of Aug. 1, 2017, following a search as part of an investigation. Kagoike, the former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife were arrested the previous day on suspicion of illegal receipt of public subsidies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator arrested over subsidy fraud

Officials of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office carry seized articles from the home of Yasunori Kagoike and his wife Junko in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, in the early hours of Aug. 1, 2017, following a search as part of an investigation. Kagoike, the former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife were arrested the previous day on suspicion of illegal receipt of public subsidies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator, wife arrested

Yasunori Kagoike (R), former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, arrives at the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office on July 31, 2017. Kagoike and his wife Junko were arrested over the illegal receipt of public subsidies. Their arrests follow a controversial sale of public land that embroiled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose wife Akie was named honorary principal of the school planned for the site. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE AFTER OCT. 31)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator, wife arrested

Yasunori Kagoike, former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife Junko (R on back) leave their home in the western Japan city of Toyonaka on July 31, 2017. They were arrested by prosecutors later over the illegal receipt of public subsidies. Their arrests follow a controversial sale of public land that embroiled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose wife Akie was named honorary principal of the school planned for the site. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE AFTER OCT. 31)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator, wife arrested

File photo taken in June 2017 shows Yasunori Kagoike (R), former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife Junko meeting with reporters in the city of Osaka. They were arrested by prosecutors on July 31 over the illegal receipt of public subsidies. Their arrests follow a controversial sale of public land that embroiled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose wife Akie was named honorary principal of the school planned for the site. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE AFTER OCT. 31)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator, wife arrested

Yasunori Kagoike, former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, arrives at the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office on July 31, 2017. Kagoike and his wife Junko were arrested over the illegal receipt of public subsidies. Their arrests follow a controversial sale of public land that embroiled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose wife Akie was named honorary principal of the school planned for the site. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE AFTER OCT. 31)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator, wife arrested

Combination photo taken July 27, 2017, shows Yasunori Kagoike (L), former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife Junko, who were arrested by prosecutors on July 31 over the illegal receipt of public subsidies. Their arrests followed a controversial sale of public land that embroiled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose wife Akie was named honorary principal of the school planned for the site. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE AFTER OCT. 31)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of Shinwa bank gets 4-yr jail sentence for loans

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo shows former President Toru Tsujita of Shinwa Bank in Nagasaki Prefecture, who was sentenced by the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 7 to four years in prison for misusing 6.5 billion yen in bank funds. Tsujita, 74, was charged with conspiring to loan money to a Tokyo cosmetic company run by Yoshimasa Soejima, as well as two other companies from July 1993 to June 1995 with the foreknowledge that the money was not likely to be recovered. Soejima, 56, was also sentenced to three years and eight months in prison.

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Ex-head of Nomura gets suspended jail term

Hideo Sakamaki (C), former president of Nomura Securities Co., was sentenced Jan. 20 by the Tokyo District Court to a one-year prison term, suspended for three years, for illegal payoffs to a ''sokaiya'' corporate racketeer. Sakamaki, seen entering the court building, paid some 370 million yen to Ryuichi Koike in 1995 in exchange for not disrupting the company's shareholders meeting, according to the ruling. ==Kyodo