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H2O Retailing's new president

OSAKA, Japan - Atsushi Suzuki, an executive of Hankyu Hanshin Department Stores Inc., holds a press conference in Osaka on Feb. 25, 2014, after H2O Retailing Corp., the operator of the department store chain, decided to appoint Suzuki as its next president on April 1, replacing Jun Wakabayashi.

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Takashimaya, H2O Retailing cancel merger plan

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows Koji Suzuki (L), president of Takashimaya Co., and Shunichi Sugioka, chairman of H2O Retailing Corp., speaking at press conferences in Tokyo and Osaka, respectively, on March 25, 2010. The operators of the Takashimaya and Hankyu Hanshin department store chains announced they have cancelled their plan to merge.

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Fear of new flu outbreak grips Kansai region

KOBE, Japan - A train conductor and a passenger wear protective masks at Hankyu Corp.'s Sannomiya Station in Kobe in the western Japan prefecture of Hyogo on May 17. More than 20 people including students in Hyogo and neighboring Osaka Prefecture have been confirmed as infected with the new strain of influenza A.

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DPJ leader Ozawa to resign amid fundraising scandal

OSAKA, Japan - Passersby watch TV news reporting opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa's announcement that he will resign as president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan on a large screen at Hankyu Corp.'s Umeda Station in Osaka on May 11.

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Holding firm for Hankyu, Hanshin to be led by Hankyu execs

OSAKA, Japan - Jun Wakabayashi (2nd from L), senior managing executive officer of Hankyu Department Stores Inc., holds up a signboard saying ''H2O Retailing Corp.'' during a press conference in Osaka on May 10. Wakabayashi will assume the post of president of H2O Retailing Corp., the holding company which Hankyu and Hanshin Department Stores Ltd. will jointly set up on Oct. 1 to integrate their operations.

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Hankyu to formally decide on purchasing Hanshin shares: sources

OSAKA, Japan - File photos show the head office of Hanshin Electric Railway Co. (L) and the head office of Hankyu Corp. Hankyu Holdings Inc., which owns Hankyu Corp., will soon make a formal decision to purchase all the Hanshin Electric Railway Co. shares held by an investment fund led by financier Yoshiaki Murakami, possibly paving the way for management integration of the two railway operators, company sources said on April 18.

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Hankyu to formally decide on purchasing Hanshin shares: sources

OSAKA, Japan - File photos show the head office of Hanshin Electric Railway Co. (L) and the head office of Hankyu Corp. Hankyu Holdings Inc., which owns Hankyu Corp., will soon make a formal decision to purchase all the Hanshin Electric Railway Co. shares held by an investment fund led by financier Yoshiaki Murakami, possibly paving the way for management integration of the two railway operators, company sources said on April 18. (Kyodo)

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Holding firm for Hankyu, Hanshin to be led by Hankyu execs

OSAKA, Japan - Jun Wakabayashi (2nd from L), senior managing executive officer of Hankyu Department Stores Inc., holds up a signboard saying ''H2O Retailing Corp.'' during a press conference in Osaka on May 10. Wakabayashi will assume the post of president of H2O Retailing Corp., the holding company which Hankyu and Hanshin Department Stores Ltd. will jointly set up on Oct. 1 to integrate their operations. (Kyodo)

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Hankyu to run trains decorated with "Astro Boy" images

Hankyu Corp. shows trains decorated with illustrations of characters from the late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka's popular comic series "Astro Boy" at Takarazuka Station in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 31, 2015. The trains, launched on Nov. 1, will run on Hankyu's Takarazuka and Kobe lines through the end of November 2017. Tezuka lived around the Takarazuka Line during his childhood. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Osaka high school girls distribute anti-molester handouts

Students from Kinrankai Girls' Senior High School distribute anti-molester pamphlets in front of railway operator Hankyu Corp.'s Nakatsu Station in Osaka, western Japan, on Oct. 15, 2015. The students are members of the voluntary crime-prevention group KGP or Kinran Girls Police. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-railman named new head of all-female Takarazuka Revue troupe

Tomotsugu Ogawa, new president of the Takarazuka Revue troupe, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on April 16, 2015, looking ahead to the next 100 years following the centenary last year of the all-female company's establishment. Ogawa, a former employee of Hankyu Corp., once underwent on-the-job training as a motorman for the private railway operator. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fear of new flu outbreak grips Kansai region

KOBE, Japan - A train conductor and a passenger wear protective masks at Hankyu Corp.'s Sannomiya Station in Kobe in the western Japan prefecture of Hyogo on May 17. More than 20 people including students in Hyogo and neighboring Osaka Prefecture have been confirmed as infected with the new strain of influenza A. (Kyodo)

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DPJ leader Ozawa to resign amid fundraising scandal

OSAKA, Japan - Passersby watch TV news reporting opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa's announcement that he will resign as president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan on a large screen at Hankyu Corp.'s Umeda Station in Osaka on May 11. (Kyodo)

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Takashimaya, H2O Retailing cancel merger plan

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows Koji Suzuki (L), president of Takashimaya Co., and Shunichi Sugioka, chairman of H2O Retailing Corp., speaking at press conferences in Tokyo and Osaka, respectively, on March 25, 2010. The operators of the Takashimaya and Hankyu Hanshin department store chains announced they have cancelled their plan to merge. (Kyodo)