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Shizuoka Bank Hachijuni Bank Yamanashi Chuo Bank Conference

Fuji-Alps Alliance press conference. Photo shows, from front, Mr. Yoshiaki Furuya, President of Yamanashi Chuo Bank, Mr. Minoru Yagi, President of Shizuoka Bank, and Mr. Masaki Matsushita, President of Hachijuni Bank.=March 27,2025,Tokyo

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Shizuoka Bank Hachijuni Bank Yamanashi Chuo Bank Conference

Fuji-Alps Alliance press conference. Photo shows, from front, Mr. Yoshiaki Furuya, President of Yamanashi Chuo Bank, Mr. Minoru Yagi, President of Shizuoka Bank, and Mr. Masaki Matsushita, President of Hachijuni Bank.=March 27,2025,Tokyo

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Shizuoka Bank Hachijuni Bank Yamanashi Chuo Bank Conference

Fuji-Alps Alliance press conference. Photo shows Minoru Yagi, President of Shizuoka Bank.=March 27,2025,Tokyo

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Exterior, logo and signage of The Yamanashi Chuo Bank

Logo and signage for FUJI KYUKO=September 2,2024,Yamanashi,Japan

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Families' grief stirred by 9/11 falling on Tuesday again

NEW YORK, United States - Kazusada Sumiyama and his wife Mari (both on R side) from Tokyo's Meguro Ward visit New Jersey's Bergen County where their son used to live, to pay tributes to the county's memorial monument dedicated to the Sept. 11 victims. Their 34-year-old son, Yoichi Sugiyama, was killed in the attack when he worked at Fuji Bank's New York office.

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10,000 Japanese paper cranes added to Tribute WTC Visitor Center

NEW YORK, United States - Ten thousand cranes folded by Japanese family members and friends of Fuji Bank employees killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers were hung April 10 as a tribute to their memory at a visitor center near ground zero.

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Nishimura, architect of Mizuho group, dies at 73

TOKYO, Japan - Former Industrial Bank of Japan President Masao Nishimura (file photo), one of the architects of the mega banking group Mizuho, died on Aug. 1 at a Tokyo hospital of heart failure. He was 73. As then president of the IBJ, Nishimura led the three-way merger in 2000 of his bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and Fuji Bank. Mizuho Financial Group Inc. was established in 2003 as the group holding company.

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Builder Tobishima devises new rehabilitation plan

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiharu Tomimatsu, president of construction company Tobishima Corp., on March 5 announces a new rehabilitation plan featuring financial help from its main creditor, Fuji Bank, to cut its group interest-bearing debt by 50 billion yen over the next three years.

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Mizuho Holdings to reshuffle top management

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiro Yamamoto (2nd from L), chairman of the holding company of the Mizuho Financial Group, the world's largest banking group, attends a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 26. He said Mizuho Holdings Inc. will reshuffle its top management next April, and named as its new president Terunobu Maeda, currently vice president of Fuji Bank, to succeed Katsuyuki Sugita.

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Ex-Fuji Bank President Iwasa dies of pneumonia at 95

TOKYO, Japan - Former Fuji Bank President Yoshizane Iwasa (file photo) died of pneumonia on Oct. 14. He was 95. Iwasa once served as chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, one of Japan's four leading business groups.

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(7)Terrorist attack

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Yokoyama, spokesman for Fuji Bank in Tokyo, speaks to reporters Sept. 12 on efforts being made to identify the whereabouts of his bank's staff employees who worked at one of New York's collapsed World Trade Center towers.

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Mega banking group Mizuho inaugurated

TOKYO, Japan - A tape is cut Sept. 29 to inaugurate a joint holding company, Mizuho Holdings Inc., the product of the integration of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan. The union creates the world's biggest banking group in terms of assets. (From L to R) Yoshiro Yamamoto, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO), Katsuyuki Sugita, president and co-CEO, and Masao Nishimura, chairman and CEO. The operations of the three banks will be fully integrated in April 2002.

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DKB, Fuji, IBJ name joint holding firm Mizuho Holdings

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiro Yamamoto (L), president of Fuji Bank, Katsuyuki Sugita (C), president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), and Masao Nishimura (R), president of the Industrial Bank of Japan, shake hands at the DKB headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 22 after announcing their decision to name the joint holding company they plan to create next year Mizuho Holdings Inc. The name ''Mizuho,'' which means ''fresh ears of rice'' in Japanese, was chosen in consultation with an advertising agency because it is used in a special appellation for Japan, ''Mizuho no Kuni'' (Land of Golden Ears of Rice), according to bank officials.

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DKB, Fuji, IBJ announce joint holding company

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Katsuyuki Sugita, president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), Masao Nishimura, president of the Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ), and Yoshiro Yamamoto, president of Fuji Bank, speak at a news conference in a Tokyo hotel Aug. 20 on their agreement on a wide-ranging business alliance that would create the world's biggest banking group with some 141 trillion yen (about 1.27 trillion dollars) in combined assets.

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DKB, Fuji, IBJ in talks on business alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Photo, taken Aug. 19, shows the headquarters of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank in Tokyo, which is in talks with Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan on a business alliance that could create the world's largest banking group in terms of assets.

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THE VOICE OF TOKYO

Hato Bus, foreigner, English announcement, bus guide, sightseeing, Tokyo Tower, sightseeing bus, Imperial Palace, National Stadium, National Diet, Asakusa, Kaminarimon, kimono=Date:April, 1974, Place:Tokyo,JAPAN (Credit:INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE/Kyodo News Images)

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Nishimura, architect of Mizuho group, dies at 73

TOKYO, Japan - Former Industrial Bank of Japan President Masao Nishimura (file photo), one of the architects of the mega banking group Mizuho, died on Aug. 1 at a Tokyo hospital of heart failure. He was 73. As then president of the IBJ, Nishimura led the three-way merger in 2000 of his bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and Fuji Bank. Mizuho Financial Group Inc. was established in 2003 as the group holding company. (Kyodo)

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Fuji Bank's Maeda to head Mizuho Holdings

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Terunobu Maeda, vice president of Fuji Bank, who is expected to be named as president of Mizuho Holdings Inc., the holding company of the world's largest banking group, the Mizuho Financial Group. Fuji Bank is one of the three banks belonging to the group.

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Fuji Bank branch manager confirmed dead in WTC attack

NEW YORK, United States - Taizo Ishikawa, branch manager of Fuji Bank in New York who went missing Sept. 11 in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center has been confirmed dead, New York city authorities said Jan. 11. Ishikawa was among the 12 from Fuji Bank, which had offices on the 79th to 82nd floors of the center's south tower.

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Mega banking group Mizuho inaugurated

TOKYO, Japan - A tape is cut Sept. 29 to inaugurate a joint holding company, Mizuho Holdings Inc., the product of the integration of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan. The union creates the world's biggest banking group in terms of assets. (From L to R) Yoshiro Yamamoto, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO), Katsuyuki Sugita, president and co-CEO, and Masao Nishimura, chairman and CEO. The operations of the three banks will be fully integrated in April 2002.

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Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 29

29 Mitsuke - A large sand-bank in the centre of the "Heaven-dragon" River, and people crossing the further arm in boats; two other boats in foreground, moored to the sand-bank, and the distant shore enveloped in mist. The name of this station was derived from the fact that people travelling from Kyoto to Edo were able to get their first glimpse of Mount Fuji from here. The rapidly flowing river "Tenryu" flowed west of the station and travellers had to cross the river by ferryboat. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858). The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido - Hoeido edition (1831-4) Date: 1831 - 1834

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Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 3

3 Kawasaki - A ferry-boat crossing the river, and passengers waiting on the further bank in front of a cluster of houses; Fuji in the distance. Close to the further bank is a man on a raft. Travellers crossing the river here by ferryboat may have felt they were being carried towards a different world. However, those returning to Edo looked forward to reentering the familiar homeland. This desolate area along the seashore is now an important industrial district of Japan. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858). The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido - Hoeido edition (1831-4) Date: 1831 - 1834

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Ginza at night, Tokyo, Japan

Ginza at night, Tokyo, Japan. Ginza is a district of Chuo, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyobashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yurakucho and Uchisaiwaicho, and north of Shinbashi. Known as an upscale area with numerous department stores, boutiques, restaurants and coffeehouses. One of the most luxurious shopping districts in the world. Date: circa 1959

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Families' grief stirred by 9/11 falling on Tuesday again

NEW YORK, United States - Kazusada Sumiyama and his wife Mari (both on R side) from Tokyo's Meguro Ward visit New Jersey's Bergen County where their son used to live, to pay tributes to the county's memorial monument dedicated to the Sept. 11 victims. Their 34-year-old son, Yoichi Sugiyama, was killed in the attack when he worked at Fuji Bank's New York office. (Kyodo)

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10,000 Japanese paper cranes added to Tribute WTC Visitor Center

NEW YORK, United States - Ten thousand cranes folded by Japanese family members and friends of Fuji Bank employees killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers were hung April 10 as a tribute to their memory at a visitor center near ground zero. (Kyodo)

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Mt. Fuji seen from a tea field

Northeastern view of snow-capped Mt. Fuji from a terraced tea field on the bank of Fuji River near Iwabuchi in Fujigawa-cho. The river runs below the terraced field, and Mt. Iwamoto is visible on the other side of the river. Five women picking tea leaves and a child carrying a smaller child are visible.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number88‐41‐0]

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Mt. Fuji seen from the Fuji River

Northeastern view of the snow-capped peak of Mt. Fuji, taken from the bank of Fuji River in Iwabuchi, Fujikawa-machi. The mountain on the left is Mt. Iwamoto, and the tree line reaches to the forest of Matsuoka Sui Shinto Shrine (Fuji City) on the left. Two men are at the riverside, and Fujigawa Bridge, which crosses from the south of the shrine to Iwabuchi, is visible. This bridge was washed away many times from the beginning of the Meiji Period. It is difficult to determine exactly when this photograph was taken.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number86‐5‐0]

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Mt. Fuji seen from the Fuji River

Northeastern view of Mt. Fuji from the bank of Fuji River at Iwabuchi in Fujigawa-machi. The ferry port of Iwabuchi is in the foreground, and Matsuoka Sui Shinto Shrine of Fuji City is visible in the forest on the other side. The bridge between the shrine and Iwabuchi is not visible in this photograph, perhaps because it had been recently washed away, which often happened due to the rapid flow of Fuji River. The mountain on the left is Mt. Iwamoto, and pine trees line the other side of the river.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number79‐16‐0]

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Mt. Fuji seen from Iwabuchi,Tokaido Road

Northeastern view of Mt. Fuji from the terraced bank of Fuji River near Iwabuchi, Fujigawa-cho. Houses line the Tokaido Highway, and Fujigawa Bridge is visible on the north side of the town. Pine trees line the riverbank on the right, and Mt. Iwamoto is visible on the left. Fujigawa Bridge was built in the beginning of the Meiji Period. However, it was washed away and repaired many times.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number64‐20‐0]

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Mt. Fuji seen from Iwabuchi,Tokaido Road

Northeastern view of Mt. Fuji from the terraced bank of Fuji River near Iwabuchi, Fujigawa-cho. Rice paddies stretch away from the foot of the hill, and the village of Iwabuchi is visible on the left. Fujigawa Bridge is visible beyond the pine trees on the right of Fuji River. Due to the rapid flow of the river, the bridge was washed away many times. The mountain on the left is Mt. Iwamoto, and pine trees line the other side of the river.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number64‐18‐0]

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Mt. Fuji seen from Omiya

A magnificent water wheel can be seen to the left. Omiya is located on the left bank of Urui River in the Fuji River system. It was a commercial centre as an important crossroad in Koshu, with the Asama Shrine of Omiya in the centre. From the Anei years, it was a temporary support town for lodgings in Yoshiwara on the Tokaido.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐24‐0]

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Mt. Fuji seen from Kashiwabara

Kashiwabara is located on the left bank of the mouth of the Katsumata River, which pours into Suruga Bay. Small houses of merchants and craftsmen line the Tanuma Kaido running in the centre, and it was a very busy city with the development of Kawasaki Minato. This photo was probably taken at a scenic spot along the road in the suburbs.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number14‐2‐0]

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Mt. Fuji seen from Numakawa,Tagonoura

A sand delta developed on the north bank of Suruga Bay with the sand carried by the Fuji River and Kano River. A lagoon was formed, and further sand accumulation created the peculiar Ukishimagahara. The boat in the photo is a flat bottom river boat. The river boats had a simple structure with boards stuck together in the shape of boxes.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number11‐28‐0]

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Mt. Fuji seen from Kashiwabara

Kashiwabara is located on the left bank of the mouth of Katsumata River, which pours into Suruga Bay. This may be the low wetlands near the mouth of the river. A sailing boat can be seen to the left and Mt. Fuji in the centre. The cameraman may have taken the photo from a boat. In the Morse Collection at the Salem Peabody Museum, there is a photo which is believed to be developed from the same negative as this photo. ( Japan as seen by Morse , published by Shogakkan).==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number11‐29‐0]

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FUJIGAWA river and Mt. FUJI from iwabuchi,tokaido

Iwabuchi was a Bakufu territory located on the left bank of Fuji River. In the foreground is a boat which may have been used to cross the Fuji River. From1603 the role of commuter boats was designated, and 10 boatmen administered the commuter boats. A wooden bridge can be seen in the distance.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number7‐25‐0]

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Mt. Fuji seen from Kashiwabara

Kashiwabara is located on the left bank of the Katsumata River which pours into the mouth of Suruga Bay. The houses of shopkeepers and craftsmen line the Tanuma Road in the center of the town, which was active in association with the development of Kawasaki Port. This photo was probably taken in the suburbs of the city.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number5‐28‐0]

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Mt. Fuji seen from Iwabuchi,Tokaido Road

Iwabuchi was a shogunate territory located on the left bank of the Fuji River. The shogunate established a ferry service here, and ten men are said to have administered the ten ferry boats. There is a high ladder in the centre, which may have been erected to watch for fires or to monitor boats and waves.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number3‐43‐0]

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Builder Tobishima devises new rehabilitation plan

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiharu Tomimatsu, president of construction company Tobishima Corp., on March 5 announces a new rehabilitation plan featuring financial help from its main creditor, Fuji Bank, to cut its group interest-bearing debt by 50 billion yen over the next three years.

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Tokyo scenes

Photo taken from a river bank in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Nov. 16, 2020, shows Mt. Fuji around sunset.

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Mizuho Financial Group's 20th anniversary

File photo taken in August 1999 shows (from L) Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank President Katsuyuki Sugita, Industrial Bank of Japan President Masao Nishimura and Fuji Bank President Yoshiro Yamamoto joining hands after a joint press conference at which they announced a plan to integrate their operations. Mizuho Financial Group Inc., the result of their merger, marked the 20th anniversary of its establishment on Sept. 29, 2020.

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Ex-Fuji Bank President Iwasa dies of pneumonia at 95

TOKYO, Japan - Former Fuji Bank President Yoshizane Iwasa (file photo) died of pneumonia on Oct. 14. He was 95. Iwasa once served as chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, one of Japan's four leading business groups.

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DKB, Fuji, IBJ name joint holding firm Mizuho Holdings

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiro Yamamoto (L), president of Fuji Bank, Katsuyuki Sugita (C), president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), and Masao Nishimura (R), president of the Industrial Bank of Japan, shake hands at the DKB headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 22 after announcing their decision to name the joint holding company they plan to create next year Mizuho Holdings Inc. The name ''Mizuho,'' which means ''fresh ears of rice'' in Japanese, was chosen in consultation with an advertising agency because it is used in a special appellation for Japan, ''Mizuho no Kuni'' (Land of Golden Ears of Rice), according to bank officials.

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DKB, Fuji, IBJ announce joint holding company

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Katsuyuki Sugita, president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), Masao Nishimura, president of the Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ), and Yoshiro Yamamoto, president of Fuji Bank, speak at a news conference in a Tokyo hotel Aug. 20 on their agreement on a wide-ranging business alliance that would create the world's biggest banking group with some 141 trillion yen (about 1.27 trillion dollars) in combined assets.

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DKB, Fuji, IBJ in talks on business alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Photo, taken Aug. 19, shows the headquarters of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank in Tokyo, which is in talks with Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan on a business alliance that could create the world's largest banking group in terms of assets.