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Japan wins men's lightweight four rowing gold

GUANGZHOU, China - Members of the Japanese men's lightweight four rowing team -- (from L) Hideki Omoto, Yu Kataoka, Takahiro Suda and Yoshinori Sato -- show their gold medals after winning the event at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 18, 2010.

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Sega, Sammy scrap merger plan

TOKYO, Japan - Hideki Sato (L), president of Sega Corp., the struggling one-time leading maker of game software, speaks to reporters at the Tokyo Stock Exchange about a collapsed merger plan with pachinko machine manufacturer Sammy Corp. Later in the day, Game maker Namco Ltd. also announced it will withdraw a proposal made in April to merge with Sega.

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Sega scraps merger plan with Sammy

TOKYO, Japan - Hideki Sato, president of Sega Corp., the struggling one-time leading maker of game software, is surrounded by journalists at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on May 8 after announcing that the company has scrapped a merger plan with pachinko game machine maker Sammy Corp.

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Sega, Sammy to integrate operations around Oct.

TOKYO, Japan - Hideki Sato (L), president of Sega Corp., and Hajime Satomi, president of Sammy Corp., shake hands at a news conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Feb. 13. They announced that the two companies will integrate business operations by Oct. 1 with a view to eventually creating an entertainment company.

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Nobusuke Kishi

Born Nov. 13, 1896 in Yamaguchi Prefecture and deceased on Aug. 7, 1987. Kishi was a bureaucrat-turned politician who served as prime minister between 1957 and 1960. As a member of the cabinet of Hideki Tojo from 1941 to 1944, Kishi was in charge of Japan's economic mobilization in the war against the U.S. Though imprisoned by the occupation authorities as a class-A war criminal, he was released in 1948. As prime minister, Kishi signed the revised Japan-U.S. Security Treaty in 1960. Kishi had great influence in Japan's conservative political community until he died at the age of 90. His younger brother Eisaku Sato also served as prime minister. (Photo was taken on Dec. 23, 1964)

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Sega scraps merger plan with Sammy

TOKYO, Japan - Hideki Sato, president of Sega Corp., the struggling one-time leading maker of game software, is surrounded by journalists at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on May 8 after announcing that the company has scrapped a merger plan with pachinko game machine maker Sammy Corp. (Kyodo)

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Japan wins men's lightweight four rowing gold

GUANGZHOU, China - Members of the Japanese men's lightweight four rowing team -- (from L) Hideki Omoto, Yu Kataoka, Takahiro Suda and Yoshinori Sato -- show their gold medals after winning the event at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 18, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Sega, Sammy scrap merger plan

TOKYO, Japan - Hideki Sato (L), president of Sega Corp., the struggling one-time leading maker of game software, speaks to reporters at the Tokyo Stock Exchange about a collapsed merger plan with pachinko machine manufacturer Sammy Corp. Later in the day, Game maker Namco Ltd. also announced it will withdraw a proposal made in April to merge with Sega. (Kyodo)

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Sega, Sammy to integrate operations around Oct.

TOKYO, Japan - Hideki Sato (L), president of Sega Corp., and Hajime Satomi, president of Sammy Corp., shake hands at a news conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Feb. 13. They announced that the two companies will integrate business operations by Oct. 1 with a view to eventually creating an entertainment company. (Kyodo)

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Nobusuke Kishi

Born Nov. 13, 1896 in Yamaguchi Prefecture and deceased on Aug. 7, 1987. Kishi was a bureaucrat-turned politician who served as prime minister between 1957 and 1960. As a member of the cabinet of Hideki Tojo from 1941 to 1944, Kishi was in charge of Japan's economic mobilization in the war against the U.S. Though imprisoned by the occupation authorities as a class-A war criminal, he was released in 1948. As prime minister, Kishi signed the revised Japan-U.S. Security Treaty in 1960. Kishi had great influence in Japan's conservative political community until he died at the age of 90. His younger brother Eisaku Sato also served as prime minister. (Photo was taken on Dec. 23, 1964)