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Japan's new banknotes

Susumu Kojima, mayor of Saitama Prefecture's Fukaya, the hometown of industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), rings the bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo during an event on July 3, 2024, as Japan begins issuing three new banknotes the same day, including a 10,000 yen note featuring Shibusawa, widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism."

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Japan's new banknotes

People in Saitama Prefecture's Fukaya, the hometown of industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), celebrate at a countdown event in the early hours of July 3, 2024, as Japan begins issuing three new banknotes the same day, including a 10,000 yen note featuring Shibusawa, widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism."

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Japan's new banknotes

People in Saitama Prefecture's Fukaya, the hometown of industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), celebrate at a countdown event in the early hours of July 3, 2024, as Japan begins issuing three new banknotes the same day, including a 10,000 yen note featuring Shibusawa, widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism."

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Japan's new banknotes

People in Saitama Prefecture's Fukaya, the hometown of industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), celebrate at a countdown event in the early hours of July 3, 2024, as Japan begins issuing three new banknotes the same day, including a 10,000 yen note featuring Shibusawa, widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism."

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Emperor, empress visit Saitama Pref.

FUKAYA, Japan - Japan's Emperor Akihito (3rd from R) and Empress Michiko (2nd from R) watch farmers planting lily bulbs inside a vinyl greenhouse in the city of Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Nov. 20, 2014, as they visit areas hard hit by record heavy snow in February. (Pool photo by Yomiuri Shimbun)

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Paralympic athletes visit mayor in Saitama Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Toshihiro Abe (L) and Momoka Muraoka (R), the oldest and youngest athletes on Japan's Sochi Paralympic Games team, shake hands with Fukaya Mayor Susumu Kojima during their visit to the Fukaya city hall in Saitama Prefecture on Jan. 23, 2014. Abe, 42, and Muraoka, 16, are both residents of the eastern Japan city. The two will compete in alpine skiing events at the Sochi games in March.

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Sony, Olympus set up medical joint venture

TOKYO, Japan - Toru Katsumoto (L), president of Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc., shakes hands with Takashi Fukaya, executive vice president of the new company, at a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2013. Sony Olympus Medical Solutions is a joint venture formally established the same day by merging the medical businesses of Sony Corp. and Olympus Corp., with an eye to marketing new endoscopes and other medical equipment.

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Houses for raising bright children in the spotlight

KYOTO, Japan - Keisuke Fukaya, principal of the private Ritsumeikan Elementary School in Kyoto City, and his wife, who are raising three children, have built their new house designed to let all the family members feel each other's presence on March 16, 2008.

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WTO chief hails Japan's capacity-building initiative

DARWIN, Australia - Japanese International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya (L) shakes hands with World Trade Organization (WTO) Director General Mike Moore at the start of their talks in Darwin, Australia on June 5. Moore hailed Japan's proposal for industrialized countries to help developing ones meet their WTO commitments, saying it would help build confidence needed for an early launch of a new round of multilateral trade talks.

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MITI report stresses value of regional, bilateral trade pacts

TOKYO, Japan - International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya (C), is pictured on his way to a cabinet meeting May 16, during which he received approval for the 2000 MITI report. In its annual report, the ministry said regional and bilateral trade agreements help promote competition and expand markets and are becoming increasingly important for Japan.

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MITI head Fukaya visits India

NEW DELHI, India - Japan's International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya (L) meets Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (R) in New Delhi May 5. Fukaya is the first Japanese cabinet minister to visit India since both July 1997 and New Delhi's nuclear tests in 1998.

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Trade Minister Fukaya unveils assistance for Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - Japanese International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya (L) meets Lt. Gen. Khin Nyunt (R), first secretary of Myanmar's State Peace and Development Council, the country's military government, May 1 in Yangon. Fukaya unveiled an assistance package to help Myanmar develop human resources and nurture small and midsize firms as it makes the transition to a market economy. Fukaya is the first Japanese cabinet minister to travel to Myanmar since the junta took power in 1988.

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Top spokesman heads list for acting premier

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (C) and his cabinet members decide April 14 to designate Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki (1) as acting premier in the event the premier becomes unable to carry out his duties. Mori said Foreign Minister Yohei Kono (2) would be second in line for the post, followed by Construction Minister Masaaki Nakayama (3), International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya (4) and Defense Agency Chief Tsutomu Kawara (5). The arrangement stands only for Mori's cabinet. Successive prime ministers will draw up their own list when they launch their cabinets.

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Fukaya appointed new trade minister

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Fukaya, the new minister for international trade and industry, speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's official residence Oct. 5. Fukaya is known as an aggressive debater in the Diet and earned the nickname ''Mr. Budget Committee'' while chairing the House of Representatives committee from 1996 to 1997.

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Chip makers to cancel summer vacations to meet demand

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo shows the liquid crystal panel plant of Toshiba Corp. in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo. Toshiba and four other Japanese electronics makers plan to cancel planned summer holidays at their production plants for semiconductors and liquid crystal panels in order to meet soaring demand. The other four are Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Hitachi Ltd., NEC Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd.

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Toshiba begins production of new LCDs

Commercial production of next-generation liquid crystal displays (LCDs) featuring sharp images comparable with those of color photos gets under way at Toshiba Corp.'s Fukaya factory, north of Tokyo. The display has adopted state-of-the-art liquid crystal technology called the low-temperature polysilicon thin film transistor (TFT). Toshiba said it is the first in the world to produce such LCDs on a commercial basis. This photo was taken June 18.

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LDP, LP set stage for coalition

Liberal Party (LP) leader Ichiro Ozawa (L) shakes hands with Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka on Jan. 13 after striking an agreement on security issues with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The accord on the last remaining hurdle paved the way for the formation of an LDP-LP coalition government. Seated beside are LDP Secretary General Yoshiro Mori (2nd from R) and LDP Executive Council Chairman Ryuji Fukaya (R).

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Pres. Kim meets Japan's LDP senior member Fukaya

South Korean President Kim Dae Jung (L) meets with Takashi Fukaya, chairman of the decision-making General Council of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on Nov. 5 for talks about bilateral and regional issues. Fukaya will meet with Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil on Nov. 6.

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Mori takes LDP's No. 2 post

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on July 25 appoints Yoshiro Mori (L), chairman of the party's decision-making General Council, as the new party secretary general. The LDP also appointed former posts minister Takashi Fukaya (2nd from R) chairman of the General Council and former Foreign Minister Yukihiko Ikeda (R) chairman of the Policy Research Council.

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Saitama Institute of Technology's demonstration experiment with self-driving school buses

A monitor will be installed inside the bus to display the results of analysis of data acquired by the high-function sensor riders and other devices. At the departure ceremony held on the same day, Fukaya Mayor Susumu Kojima touched on Shibusawa Eiichi, who will be the main character in NHK's historical drama series in 2009, saying, "It takes about 10 minutes to walk between the Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Museum in the city and 'Naka no Ie' (his birthplace). I want to run an automatic bus next year," he said. (= December 23, 2019, photo location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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LDP, LP set stage for coalition

Liberal Party (LP) leader Ichiro Ozawa (L) shakes hands with Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka on Jan. 13 after striking an agreement on security issues with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The accord on the last remaining hurdle paved the way for the formation of an LDP-LP coalition government. Seated beside are LDP Secretary General Yoshiro Mori (2nd from R) and LDP Executive Council Chairman Ryuji Fukaya (R).

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Rose farm

Photo taken on Oct. 18, 2018, shows roses grown in a chemical-free environment at Rose Labo Co.'s farm in Fukaya in Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rose farm

Rose Labo Co. founder and CEO Ayaka Tanaka, 25, checks roses grown at her farm in Fukaya in Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shintomi-za Theatre

After Kabuki-za opened in 1889, Shintomi-za gradually lost its appeal. Renamed Fukaya-za in 1892 and Miyako-za in 1896, it again adopted the name of Shintomi-za in 1898. Although popular for many years with theatre aficionados, it was converted to a movie theatre of the same name after the Great Earthquake of Kanto of 1923. This is a business card-sized photograph taken in the mid-Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number71‐20‐0]

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Emperor, empress visit Saitama Pref.

FUKAYA, Japan - Japan's Emperor Akihito (3rd from R) and Empress Michiko (2nd from R) watch farmers planting lily bulbs inside a vinyl greenhouse in the city of Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Nov. 20, 2014, as they visit areas hard hit by record heavy snow in February. (Pool photo by Yomiuri Shimbun)(Kyodo)

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Android featuring industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa

Photo taken on June 30, 2020, in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, shows an android (R) featuring late Japanese industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa, who will be printed on new 10,000 yen banknotes in fiscal 2024. The robot, unveiled during a ceremony in Fukaya the same day, will be on display from July 3 at a memorial museum dedicated to him in the eastern Japan city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Android featuring industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa

Photo taken June 30, 2020, shows a ceremony in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, to unveil an android (C) featuring late Japanese industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa, who will be printed on new 10,000 yen banknotes in fiscal 2024. The robot will be on display from July 3 at a memorial museum dedicated to him in the eastern Japan city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

A plastic sheet curtain is placed between employees at the Fukaya city office in Saitama Prefecture in eastern Japan on April 13, 2020, to avoid risks of coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

A plastic sheet curtain is placed between employees at the Fukaya city office in Saitama Prefecture in eastern Japan on April 13, 2020, to avoid risks of coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

A plastic sheet curtain is placed between customers and employees at the Fukaya city office in Saitama Prefecture in eastern Japan on April 13, 2020, to avoid risks of coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Eiichi Shibusawa museum in Japan

Photo taken May 21, 2019, shows a visitor looking at a portrait of Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931) at a museum in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, dedicated to the industrialist widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism." Japan's new 10,000 yen bill to be introduced in fiscal 2024 will feature Shibusawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Eiichi Shibusawa museum in Japan

People visit a museum featuring Japanese industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931) in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo on April 9, 2019. Japan's new 10,000 yen bill to be introduced in fiscal 2024 will feature Shibusawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Eiichi Shibusawa museum in Japan

People visit a museum featuring Japanese industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931) in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo on April 9, 2019. Japan's new 10,000 yen bill to be introduced in fiscal 2024 will feature Shibusawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Eiichi Shibusawa museum in Japan

People visit a museum featuring Japanese industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931) in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo on April 9, 2019. Japan's new 10,000 yen bill to be introduced in fiscal 2024 will feature Shibusawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Statue of Japanese industrialist Shibusawa

A man takes a photo of a statue of Japanese industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa in front of JR Fukaya Station in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on April 9, 2019. Japan's new 10,000 yen bill to be introduced in fiscal 2024 will feature Shibusawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Statue of Japanese industrialist Shibusawa

Photo shows a statue of Japanese industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa in front of JR Fukaya Station in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on April 9, 2019. Japan's new 10,000 yen bill to be introduced in fiscal 2024 will feature Shibusawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cycling: Team sprint at world c'ships

Japan's Kazuki Amagai (L), Yudai Nitta (R, front) and Tomohiro Fukaya compete in a men's team sprint qualifying race at the track cycling world championships in Pruszkow, Poland, on Feb. 27, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cycling: Team sprint at world c'ships

Japan's (from R) Kazuki Amagai, Yudai Nitta and Tomohiro Fukaya compete in a men's team sprint qualifying race at the track cycling world championships in Pruszkow, Poland, on Feb. 27, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WTO chief hails Japan's capacity-building initiative

DARWIN, Australia - Japanese International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya (L) shakes hands with World Trade Organization (WTO) Director General Mike Moore at the start of their talks in Darwin, Australia on June 5. Moore hailed Japan's proposal for industrialized countries to help developing ones meet their WTO commitments, saying it would help build confidence needed for an early launch of a new round of multilateral trade talks.

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MITI report stresses value of regional, bilateral trade pacts

TOKYO, Japan - International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya (C), is pictured on his way to a cabinet meeting May 16, during which he received approval for the 2000 MITI report. In its annual report, the ministry said regional and bilateral trade agreements help promote competition and expand markets and are becoming increasingly important for Japan.

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MITI head Fukaya visits India

NEW DELHI, India - Japan's International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya (L) meets Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (R) in New Delhi May 5. Fukaya is the first Japanese cabinet minister to visit India since both July 1997 and New Delhi's nuclear tests in 1998.

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Trade Minister Fukaya unveils assistance for Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - Japanese International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya (L) meets Lt. Gen. Khin Nyunt (R), first secretary of Myanmar's State Peace and Development Council, the country's military government, May 1 in Yangon. Fukaya unveiled an assistance package to help Myanmar develop human resources and nurture small and midsize firms as it makes the transition to a market economy. Fukaya is the first Japanese cabinet minister to travel to Myanmar since the junta took power in 1988.

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Top spokesman heads list for acting premier

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (C) and his cabinet members decide April 14 to designate Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki (1) as acting premier in the event the premier becomes unable to carry out his duties. Mori said Foreign Minister Yohei Kono (2) would be second in line for the post, followed by Construction Minister Masaaki Nakayama (3), International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya (4) and Defense Agency Chief Tsutomu Kawara (5). The arrangement stands only for Mori's cabinet. Successive prime ministers will draw up their own list when they launch their cabinets.

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Int'l convention center opens in Osaka+

OSAKA, Japan, - An opening ceremony is held on March 25 for the Osaka International Convention Center, the biggest such facility in the Kansai region, which Osaka Prefecture built at a cost of roughly 70 billion yen. Osaka Gov. Fusae Ota, International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya and around 1,000 people, including industry representatives and officials from the central government and the Osaka prefectural government, attend the ceremony.

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MITI establishes forum to nurture entrepreneurs

TOKYO, Japan - International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya (L) and Nobel Physics Prize winner Reona (Leo) Esaki hold a board inscribed with the name and logo of a just-established national forum aiming to nurture Japanese entrepreneurs, at a Tokyo meeting of its senior officials March 17. Local businesspeople and newspapers will be invited as regional organizers and sponsors of the forum's symposiums so their ideas and experiences can be shared.

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Arabian Oil chief speaks on his Saudi visit

TOKYO, Japan - Keiichi Konaga, president of Japan's Arabian Oil Co., speaks to reporters Feb. 23 after reporting to International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya on his visit to Saudi Arabia last week. Konaga said Arabian Oil will continue efforts to reach a settlement on renewal of its drilling rights in the Khafji oil field between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

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Talks on Arabian Oil drilling rights continue

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya (L) have informal talks with Saudi Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Ali Ibrahim al-Nuaimi (2nd from R) over lunch at a ''soba'' (buckwheat noodle) restaurant in Tokyo on Feb. 16. Fukaya asked al-Nuaim to seriously consider any new proposal to be made by Tokyo-based Arabian Oil Co. to have its oil drilling rights renewed.

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Japan, Saudi ministers talk over ''soba'' lunch

TOKYO, Japan - International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya (R) and Saudi Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Ali Ibrahim al-Nuaimi (2nd from R) watch a cook prepare ''soba'' (buckwheat) noodle at a Tokyo restaurant Feb. 16. They later had informal talks over lunch.

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Japan's trade minister seeks Saudi's oil rights

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Japan's trade minister Takashi Fukaya (L) meets with Saudi Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Ibrahim al-Nuaimi in Saudi capital Riyadh on Jan. 15 in a bid to persuade Saudi Arabia to renew oil-drilling rights for Tokyo-based Arabian Oil Co. Arabian Oil's drilling rights in the Khafji oil field off the former neutral zone between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait expire at the end of February.