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SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) Announce Takeover Bid

SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) Announce Takeover Bid

SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) press conference regarding takeover bid. Photo shows, from right to left are SGHD President Hidekazu Matsumoto and C&F Logistics HD President Hiromasa Aya. =May 31, 2024, Japan

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SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) Announce Takeover Bid

SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) Announce Takeover Bid

SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) at a press conference regarding the tender offer. Photo shows, from left to right; C&F Logistics HD President Hiromasa Aya, SGHD President Hidekazu Matsumoto, and Sagawa Express President Masahide Kimura. =May 31, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

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SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) press conference regarding tender offer

SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) press conference regarding tender offer

SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) press conference regarding takeover bid. Photo shows, from right to left are SGHD President Hidekazu Matsumoto and C&F Logistics HD President Hiromasa Aya. = May 31, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

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SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) Announce Takeover Bids

SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) Announce Takeover Bids

SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) at the press conference regarding the tender offer. Photo shows, from right to left are Masahide Kimura, director of SGHD; Hidekazu Matsumoto, president of SGHD; Hiromasa Aya, president of C&F Logistics HD; and Akihiro Muto, senior managing director of C&F Logistics HD. =May 31, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-SWIMMING (CN)

(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-SWIMMING (CN)

(230929) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Gold Medalist Xu Jiayu (C) of China, Silver Medalist Lee Juho (L) of South Korea and Bronze Medalist Takehara Hidekazu of Japan attend the awarding ceremony for Men's 200m Backstroke of Swimming at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 29, 2023. (Xinhua/Du yu)

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Policeman suspected of shooting acquaintance to death

Policeman suspected of shooting acquaintance to death

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers examine an apartment house in Kokubunji, Tokyo, on Aug. 21 where Hidekazu Tomono, 40, of the Tachikawa Police Station of the Metropolitan Police Department, and his 32-year-old female acquaintance were found dead. Police suspect Tomono shot the woman to death with his handgun and committed suicide by shooting himself with the same gun.

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Kashiwa, Lanus before Suruga Bank Championship

Kashiwa, Lanus before Suruga Bank Championship

KASHIWA, Japan - (From L) Japan's Kashiwa Reysol captain Hidekazu Otani and Kashiwa manager Nelsinho stand for photos with Argentina's CA Lanus manager Guillermo Barros Schelotto and Lanus captain Maximiliano Velazquez in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Aug. 5, 2014, the day before facing off in the Suruga Bank Championship.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies

Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hidekazu Yoshida, a noted classical music critic, standing in the garden of his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture in January 2012. Yoshida's family on May 27, 2012, said that he died of acute heart failure on May 22 at his home at age 98.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hidekazu Yoshida (R), a Japanese classical music critic, receiving the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in November 2006. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 98.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo in December 2011 shows (from L) novelist Saiichi Maruya, classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida and conductor Seiji Ozawa, chatting at a party to celebrate the awarding of the Order of Culture to Maruya. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 98.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hidekazu Yoshida, a Japanese classical music critic, during an interview at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, in April 2009. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in the city. He was 98.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2009 shows Hidekazu Yoshida, a Japanese classical music critic. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 98.

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Annual wage talks begin in full swing at major Japan firms

Annual wage talks begin in full swing at major Japan firms

TOKYO, Japan - Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. labor union leader Hidekazu Kitagawa (R) hands wage demands to company President Ikuo Mori (R) in Tokyo on Feb. 16, 2011. Japan's annual wage negotiations began in full swing that day with labor unions at major automakers filing their demands with management.

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Seibu gave dubious money to amateur managers, more players

Seibu gave dubious money to amateur managers, more players

TOKYO, Japan - Acting Seibu Lions owner Hidekazu Ota, speaking to reporters in Tokyo on April 4. The Lions paid 170 managers and others in supervisory posts at amateur baseball teams monetary rewards for acquiring new players over a period of 27 years until 2005, a committee investigating the Pacific League ballclub's improper scouting money deals says.

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Inoue makes triumphant comeback at Kodokan Cup

Inoue makes triumphant comeback at Kodokan Cup

CHIBA, Japan - Kosei Inoue (R) defeats Hidekazu Shoda by ippon in the men's over-100 kilogram final at the Kodokan Cup national weight-class championships at China Port Arena on Nov. 19, making a dramatic comeback from injury.

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Red Sox win rights to Matsuzaka for $51 mil.

Red Sox win rights to Matsuzaka for $51 mil.

TOKYO, Japan - Hidekazu Ota, acting owner of the Pacific League baseball club Seibu Lions, smiles during a press conference at the club office in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, Nov. 15. Ota announced that the Boston Red Sox have won the right to negotiate with right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka.

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Red Sox win rights to Matsuzaka for $51 mil.

Red Sox win rights to Matsuzaka for $51 mil.

TOKYO, Japan - Hidekazu Ota, acting owner of the Pacific League baseball club Seibu Lions, tells reporters at the club office in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, Nov. 15 that the Boston Red Sox have won the right to negotiate with right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka.

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Seibu puts off announcement on bids for Matsuzaka

Seibu puts off announcement on bids for Matsuzaka

TOKYO, Japan - Hidekazu Ota, acting owner of the Pacific League baseball club Seibu Lions, speaks to reporters about major league bids for the team's right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka at the club office in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, on Nov. 14.

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Writer Setouchi, 4 others receive Order of Culture

Writer Setouchi, 4 others receive Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - This year's five winners of the Order of Culture -- (From L to R) novelist Jakucho Setouchi, economist Miyohei Shinohara, music critic Hidekazu Yoshida, Japanese-style painter Chusaku Oyama and professor of welding engineering Yoshiaki Arata -- pose for photos at a garden at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3.

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Matsuzaka looking forward to realizing Major dream

Matsuzaka looking forward to realizing Major dream

TOKYO, Japan - Seibu Lions right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka (L) shakes hands with Hidekazu Ota, acting owner of the Pacific League baseball club, after the end of a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Nov. 1. Seibu Lions accepted Matsuzaka's request to become available for bids from Major League teams.

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Gold sales by individuals sharply increasing

Gold sales by individuals sharply increasing

TOKYO, Japan - Hidekazu Yamada (right), a gold adviser at Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K., receives consultations from a client in its Ginza head office store in central Tokyo on July 5.

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Hasuike's parents want Koizumi to revisit N. Korea

Hasuike's parents want Koizumi to revisit N. Korea

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Hidekazu (R) and Hatsui (L) Hasuike, the parents of Kaoru Hasuike, one of five Japanese abductees to North Korea, speak during an interview with Kyodo News at their home in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 3. They expressed discontent over the Japanese government's efforts to resolve the abduction issue.

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Japan experts call for cooperation with Taiwan to stem SARS

Japan experts call for cooperation with Taiwan to stem SARS

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Hiroshi Noguchi (L), from Narita Red Cross Hospital, and Hidekazu Nishimura, from National Sendai Hospital, speak at a news conference in Taipei on May 29. They said Japan can learn from Taiwan's experience in combating severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

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Mayor retracts night landing drill offer, quits post

Mayor retracts night landing drill offer, quits post

OKIMI, Japan - Hidekazu Tanimoto, mayor of Okimi in Hiroshima Prefecture, arrives at the town office Feb. 5. He said at a press conference he retracted an offer he made last week to offer uninhabited Okurokamishima Island, owned by the Okimi township in the Seto Inland Sea, for night landing exercises by U.S. warplanes and also resigned from his post to take responsibility for the commotion caused by his proposal.

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Chimuras to stay at Hasuikes' home

Chimuras to stay at Hasuikes' home

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (2nd from R) and his wife Fukie (3rd from R), two of the five Japanese now back home after being abducted to North Korea in 1978, were invited to stay at the home of the Hasuikes in Niigata Prefecture on the way back to their home in Fukui Prefecture after a reunion of the five in Niigata Prefecture. (From L to R) are Yukiko Hasuike, her husband Kaoru, and his mother Hatsui. At right is Kaoru's father Hidekazu. (Pool photo)

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(5)Japan, N. Korea resume normalization talks

(5)Japan, N. Korea resume normalization talks

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Hidekazu Hasuike (L) and his wife Hatsui, who had their son Kaoru abducted by North Korea in 1978, watch TV newscast reporting on the resumption of Japan-North Korea talks on normalization of relations in Kuala Lumpur at their home in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 29. (Pool photo)

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NTT East ready to have new firms develop new broadband service

NTT East ready to have new firms develop new broadband service

TOKYO, Japan - Hidekazu Inoue, president of NTT East Corp., one of the two local-call arms of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT), speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on April 30.

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NTT to cut 21,000 jobs

NTT to cut 21,000 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) President Junichiro Miyazu (L) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corp. (NTT East) President Hidekazu Inoue (R) speak on the group's restructuring program at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 17. NTT will slash 21,000 jobs by 2003 -- 10,000 at NTT East and 11,000 at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp. (NTT West).

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NTT to be reorganize

NTT to be reorganize

Hidekazu Inoue (L), president of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corp., and Kazuo Asada (R), president of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp., speak at a news conference June 30 following establishment of their new companies under a major shakeup of Japan's telecom giant, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT). Seated between them is Sho Nasu, chairman of a special panel that prepared for NTT's reorganization.

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Honda wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Honda wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Honda Motor anchor Hidekazu Hijikata crosses the finish line of the national corporate ekiden road relay in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2022. Honda won the New Year Day event for the first time.

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Honda wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Honda wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Honda Motor anchor Hidekazu Hijikata crosses the finish line of the national corporate ekiden road relay in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2022. Honda won the New Year Day event for the first time.

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Matsuzaka looking forward to realizing Major dream

Matsuzaka looking forward to realizing Major dream

TOKYO, Japan - Seibu Lions right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka (L) shakes hands with Hidekazu Ota, acting owner of the Pacific League baseball club, after the end of a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Nov. 1. Seibu Lions accepted Matsuzaka's request to become available for bids from Major League teams. (Kyodo)

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Seibu puts off announcement on bids for Matsuzaka

Seibu puts off announcement on bids for Matsuzaka

TOKYO, Japan - Hidekazu Ota, acting owner of the Pacific League baseball club Seibu Lions, speaks to reporters about major league bids for the team's right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka at the club office in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, on Nov. 14.

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Inoue makes triumphant comeback at Kodokan Cup

Inoue makes triumphant comeback at Kodokan Cup

CHIBA, Japan - Kosei Inoue (R) defeats Hidekazu Shoda by ippon in the men's over-100 kilogram final at the Kodokan Cup national weight-class championships at China Port Arena on Nov. 19, making a dramatic comeback from injury. (Kyodo)

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Seibu gave dubious money to amateur managers, more players

Seibu gave dubious money to amateur managers, more players

TOKYO, Japan - Acting Seibu Lions owner Hidekazu Ota, speaking to reporters in Tokyo on April 4. The Lions paid 170 managers and others in supervisory posts at amateur baseball teams monetary rewards for acquiring new players over a period of 27 years until 2005, a committee investigating the Pacific League ballclub's improper scouting money deals says. (Kyodo)

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NTT East ready to have new firms develop new broadband service

NTT East ready to have new firms develop new broadband service

TOKYO, Japan - Hidekazu Inoue, president of NTT East Corp., one of the two local-call arms of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT), speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on April 30.

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Matsumoto, Kashiwa players struggle for ball in J-League game

Matsumoto, Kashiwa players struggle for ball in J-League game

Defender Takumi Abe of Yamamoto Yamaga (2nd from L) and midfielder Hidekazu Otani (R) of Kashiwa Reysol struggle for the ball in the first half of a J-League Division 1 game in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, on April 12, 2015. Kashiwa won 3-1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panasonic promotes alkaline batteries to double sales in Thailand

Panasonic promotes alkaline batteries to double sales in Thailand

Hidekazu Ito (3rd from L), managing director of Panasonic Siew Sales (Thailand) Co., and other Panasonic officials pose with Chanathip Songkrasin (C), a Thai soccer star playing in the top division of Japan's J-League, at a launching event of a new alkaline battery in Bangkok on Dec. 12, 2017. (NNA/Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Policeman suspected of shooting acquaintance to death

Policeman suspected of shooting acquaintance to death

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers examine an apartment house in Kokubunji, Tokyo, on Aug. 21 where Hidekazu Tomono, 40, of the Tachikawa Police Station of the Metropolitan Police Department, and his 32-year-old female acquaintance were found dead. Police suspect Tomono shot the woman to death with his handgun and committed suicide by shooting himself with the same gun. (Kyodo)

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Writer Setouchi, 4 others receive Order of Culture

Writer Setouchi, 4 others receive Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - This year's five winners of the Order of Culture -- (From L to R) novelist Jakucho Setouchi, economist Miyohei Shinohara, music critic Hidekazu Yoshida, Japanese-style painter Chusaku Oyama and professor of welding engineering Yoshiaki Arata -- pose for photos at a garden at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3. (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED) Red Sox win rights to Matsuzaka for $51 mil.

(CORRECTED) Red Sox win rights to Matsuzaka for $51 mil.

TOKYO, Japan - Hidekazu Ota, acting owner of the Pacific League baseball club Seibu Lions, smiles during a press conference at the club office in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, Nov. 15. Ota announced that the Boston Red Sox have won the right to negotiate with right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka. (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED) Red Sox win rights to Matsuzaka for $51 mil.

(CORRECTED) Red Sox win rights to Matsuzaka for $51 mil.

TOKYO, Japan - Hidekazu Ota, acting owner of the Pacific League baseball club Seibu Lions, tells reporters at the club office in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, Nov. 15 that the Boston Red Sox have won the right to negotiate with right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka. (Kyodo)

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Red Sox win rights to Matsuzaka for $51 mil.

Red Sox win rights to Matsuzaka for $51 mil.

TOKYO, Japan - Hidekazu Ota, acting owner of the Pacific League baseball club Seibu Lions, tells reporters at the club office in Tikyorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, Nov. 15 that the Boston Red Sox have won the right to negotiate with right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka. (Kyodo)

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Japan experts call for cooperation with Taiwan to stem SARS

Japan experts call for cooperation with Taiwan to stem SARS

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Hiroshi Noguchi (L), from Narita Red Cross Hospital, and Hidekazu Nishimura, from National Sendai Hospital, speak at a news conference in Taipei on May 29. They said Japan can learn from Taiwan's experience in combating severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). (Kyodo)

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies

Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hidekazu Yoshida, a noted classical music critic, standing in the garden of his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture in January 2012. Yoshida's family on May 27, 2012, said that he died of acute heart failure on May 22 at his home at age 98. (Kyodo)

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2009 shows Hidekazu Yoshida, a Japanese classical music critic. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 98. (Kyodo)

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo in December 2011 shows (from L) novelist Saiichi Maruya, classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida and conductor Seiji Ozawa, chatting at a party to celebrate the awarding of the Order of Culture to Maruya. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 98. (Kyodo)

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hidekazu Yoshida, a Japanese classical music critic, during an interview at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, in April 2009. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in the city. He was 98. (Kyodo)

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hidekazu Yoshida (R), a Japanese classical music critic, receiving the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in November 2006. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 98. (Kyodo)

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Annual wage talks begin in full swing at major Japan firms

Annual wage talks begin in full swing at major Japan firms

TOKYO, Japan - Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. labor union leader Hidekazu Kitagawa (R) hands wage demands to company President Ikuo Mori (R) in Tokyo on Feb. 16, 2011. Japan's annual wage negotiations began in full swing that day with labor unions at major automakers filing their demands with management. (Kyodo)

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