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Sony's PlayStation 4 hits Japanese market

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. President and CEO Andrew House, Ryo Watanabe, the first Japanese customer for the PlayStation 4, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan President Hiroshi Kawano, and actress and fashion model Mayuko Kawakita celebrate in Tokyo's Ginza district on Feb. 22, 2014, as the the gaming unit of Sony Corp. launched the successor to the PlayStation 3 console in Japan.

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Sony's PlayStation 4 hits Japanese market

TOKYO, Japan - Ryo Watanabe, the first Japanese customer for the PlayStation 4, is flanked by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. President and CEO Andrew House (L) and Sony Computer Entertainment Japan President Hiroshi Kawano (R) in Tokyo's Ginza district on Feb. 22, 2014, as the gaming unit of Sony Corp. began selling the successor to the PlayStation 3 console in Japan.

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Watanabe becomes JBIC governor

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Watanabe (L), new governor of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, along with his predecessor Hiroshi Okuda (R), a former president of Toyota Motor Corp., attend a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2013. Watanabe served as head of the International Bureau of the Finance Ministry and vice minister for international affairs before becoming JBIC's executive managing director, the No. 2 post at the institution, in April 2012.

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Actor Watanabe visits quake-hit areas

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Japanese actor Ken Watanabe (L) speaks with Ishinomaki Mayor Hiroshi Kameyama (R) at the city offices of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 14, 2011, when he made an appearance for a local FM radio program in support of people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Watanabe, an internationally known star who has appeared in Hollywood movies, visited evacuation centers and encouraged evacuees in the city and the town of Onagawa the same day. He has also launched the disaster support website ''kizuna311'' with other actors.

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JBIC loans $3 bil. to Abu Dhabi state firm for oil supply

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Hiroshi Watanabe (C), president of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, and Yousef Omair bin Yousef (R), CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, sign a document in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 2, 2010. The state-run JBIC signed a deal with ADNOC to loan $3 billion in conjunction with five banks in exchange for securing a stable oil supply for Japan.

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Japan's upper house rejects Watanabe as BOJ deputy

TOKYO, Japan - The opposition-controlled House of Councillors on April 9 voted down the nomination of Hiroshi Watanabe, a former vice finance minister for international affairs, for one of the two Bank of Japan deputy chief posts.

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Top DPJ execs reject Watanabe for BOJ deputy governor

TOKYO, Japan - Top Democratic Party of Japan officials -- (from L to R) President Ichiro Ozawa, Acting President Naoto Kan and Secretary General Yukio Hatoyama -- attend a meeting of senior party executives at the party headquarters in Tokyo on April 8 where they rejected the government's nomination of Hiroshi Watanabe, a former vice finance minister for international affairs, for the post of Bank of Japan deputy governor.

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Nominees for BOJ's 2 top posts testify at Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Masaaki Shirakawa (L), nominee for the post of governor of the Bank of Japan, and Hiroshi Watanabe (R), nominee for deputy governor, emerge from the House of Councillors after testifying in the upper house on April 8. They also testified in the House of Representatives earlier in the day. Shirakawa is currently serving as acting governor of the BOJ and Watanabe, a former senior Finance Ministry official, is currently a professor at Hitotsubashi University.

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Watanabe vows to help stabilize financial markets

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Watanabe (C), nominee for deputy governor of the Bank of Japan, speaks at the House of Representatives steering committee on April 8. Watanabe is now a professor at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University. (Pool photo)

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Gov't nominates Shirakawa for BOJ chief, Watanabe for deputy

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese government nominated acting Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa (L in file photo) for the post of governor of the central bank April 7, a move that could end the leadership vacuum at the bank ahead of a Group of Seven financial ministers' meeting slated for April 11 in Washington. The government also selected Hiroshi Watanabe (R in file photo), a former vice finance minister for international affairs, as its nominee for one of the BOJ's two deputy governor posts.

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Toyota fetes opening of 1st Russia plant

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki Watanabe (L) and Director and Adviser Hiroshi Okuda show Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) around Toyota's car assembly plant on the outskirts of St. Petersburg on Dec. 21 after the opening ceremony for the plant. Toyota is the first Japanese automaker to start production in Russia.

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Shinohara to replace Watanabe as Japan's top currency diplomat

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Koji Omi has decided to appoint Naoyuki Shinohara (file photo), director general of his ministry's International Bureau, as vice finance minister for international affairs, replacing incumbent Hiroshi Watanabe, government sources said June 26. Omi is expected to announce the appointment after the ongoing Diet session adjourns in early July, the sources said. Watanabe, 58, will retire from the ministry.

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Lawyer files criminal complaint against Setsuri cult member

CHIBA, Japan - Lawyer Hiroshi Watanabe (R) enters a Chiba police station Aug. 10 to file a criminal complaint against a South Korean cult member in charge of the cult's Japan activities. The founder of the South Korean cult, which is called Setsuri or Providence, has allegedly sexually assaulted female Japanese cult members.

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Japan welcomes China's effective yuan revaluation

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Watanabe, Japanese vice minister of finance for international affairs, speaks with journalists at the Finance Ministry late July 21 on China's revaluation of the yuan. He indicated the government will intervene in the markets if the yuan's revaluation prompts the yen to sharply rise against the dollar.

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(2)Toyota Motor promotes Vice President Watanabe to president

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Hiroshi Okuda (R) and President Fujio Cho (far L) are seated at a press conference, called on Feb. 9 to announce the appointment of Executive Vice President Katsuaki Watanabe (C) as next president. Watanabe, 62, will replace Cho, who will take the post of vice chairman, in June.

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(2)Toyota Motor promotes Vice President Watanabe to president

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Hiroshi Okuda (R) and President Fujio Cho (far L) are seated at a press conference, called on Feb. 9 to announce the appointment of Executive Vice President Katsuaki Watanabe (C) as next president. Watanabe, 62, will replace Cho, who will take the post of vice chairman, in June. (Kyodo)

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Japan welcomes China's effective yuan revaluation

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Watanabe, Japanese vice minister of finance for international affairs, speaks with journalists at the Finance Ministry late July 21 on China's revaluation of the yuan. He indicated the government will intervene in the markets if the yuan's revaluation prompts the yen to sharply rise against the dollar. (Kyodo)

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Shinohara to replace Watanabe as Japan's top currency diplomat

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Koji Omi has decided to appoint Naoyuki Shinohara (file photo), director general of his ministry's International Bureau, as vice finance minister for international affairs, replacing incumbent Hiroshi Watanabe, government sources said June 26. Omi is expected to announce the appointment after the ongoing Diet session adjourns in early July, the sources said. Watanabe, 58, will retire from the ministry.

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Toyota fetes opening of 1st Russia plant

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki Watanabe (L) and Director and Adviser Hiroshi Okuda show Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) around Toyota's car assembly plant on the outskirts of St. Petersburg on Dec. 21 after the opening ceremony for the plant. Toyota is the first Japanese automaker to start production in Russia. (Kyodo)

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Fukuda visits Toyota's joint-venture plant in Tianjin

TIANJIN, China - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (C) signs the visitors' book after a visit to Toyota Motor Corp.'s joint-venture automobile plant in Tianjin on Dec. 29. On Fukuda's left is Toyota senior adviser Hiroshi Okuda and on his right is Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Gov't nominates Shirakawa for BOJ chief, Watanabe for deputy

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese government nominated acting Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa (L in file photo) for the post of governor of the central bank April 7, a move that could end the leadership vacuum at the bank ahead of a Group of Seven financial ministers' meeting slated for April 11 in Washington. The government also selected Hiroshi Watanabe (R in file photo), a former vice finance minister for international affairs, as its nominee for one of the BOJ's two deputy governor posts. (Kyodo)

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Top DPJ execs reject Watanabe for BOJ deputy governor

TOKYO, Japan - Top Democratic Party of Japan officials -- (from L to R) President Ichiro Ozawa, Acting President Naoto Kan and Secretary General Yukio Hatoyama -- attend a meeting of senior party executives at the party headquarters in Tokyo on April 8 where they rejected the government's nomination of Hiroshi Watanabe, a former vice finance minister for international affairs, for the post of Bank of Japan deputy governor. (Kyodo)

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Nominees for BOJ's 2 top posts testify at Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Masaaki Shirakawa (L), nominee for the post of governor of the Bank of Japan, and Hiroshi Watanabe (R), nominee for deputy governor, emerge from the House of Councillors after testifying in the upper house on April 8. They also testified in the House of Representatives earlier in the day. Shirakawa is currently serving as acting governor of the BOJ and Watanabe, a former senior Finance Ministry official, is currently a professor at Hitotsubashi University. (Kyodo)

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Watanabe vows to help stabilize financial markets

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Watanabe (C), nominee for deputy governor of the Bank of Japan, speaks at the House of Representatives steering committee on April 8. Watanabe is now a professor at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Japan's upper house rejects Watanabe as BOJ deputy

TOKYO, Japan - The opposition-controlled House of Councillors on April 9 voted down the nomination of Hiroshi Watanabe, a former vice finance minister for international affairs, for one of the two Bank of Japan deputy chief posts. (Kyodo)

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Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)

Ken Kensei, Masashi Nagadoi, Hiroshi Watanabe & Ken Watanabe Characters: Maj. General Hayashi,Admiral Ichimaru,Lieutenant Fujita & General Kuribayashi Film: Letters From Iwo Jima (USA 2006) Director: Clint Eastwood 15 November 2006 Date: 15 November 2006

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Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)

Silhouette Soldiers Film: Letters From Iwo Jima (USA 2006) Director: Clint Eastwood 15 November 2006 (L-r) HIROSHI WATANABE as Lieutenant Fujita, NOBUMASA SAKAGAMI as Admiral Ohsugi, KEN KENSEI as Maj. General Hayashi, SHIDOU NAKAMURA as Lieutenant Ito, TOSHI TODA as Colonel Adachi and KEN WATANABE as General Kuribayashi in Warner Bros. Pictures

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Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)

Ken Watanabe, Odate Masashi, Hiroshi Watanabe & Tsuyoshi Ihara Characters: General Kuribayashi,,Lieutenant Fujita & Baron Nishi Film: Letters From Iwo Jima (USA 2006) Director: Clint Eastwood 15 November 2006 (L-r) KEN WATANABE as General Kuribayashi, ODATE MASASHI as Cook, HIROSHI WATANABE as Lieutenant Fujita and TSUYOSHI IHARA as Baron Nishi in Warner Bros. Pictures

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Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)

Ken Watanabe & Hiroshi Watanabe Characters: General Kuribayashi & Lieutenant Fujita Film: Letters From Iwo Jima (USA 2006) Director: Clint Eastwood 15 November 2006 Date: 15 November 2006

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Baseball: Giants announce 4th player involved in gambling

Yomiuri Giants President Hiroshi Kubo announces in Tokyo on March 8, 2016 that relief pitcher Kyosuke Takagi was found to have bet on baseball games, the fourth player in Japanese baseball's most storied franchise to admit to the illegal act. The Giants' supreme advisor Tsuneo Watanabe and owner Kojiro Shiraishi have decided to resign to take the blame. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Idemitsu Kosan, Showa Shell agree on merger

Hiroshi Watanabe (L), an executive officer of Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., and Susumu Nibuya, a director of Idemitsu Kosan Co., speak to reporters in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2015. They announced that the companies have agreed to integrate their businesses, starting between October 2016 and April 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JBIC chief Watanabe speaks with Kyodo News ahead of G-20 meeting

Hiroshi Watanabe, head of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and former vice finance minister for international affairs, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on April 8, 2015, ahead of a meeting of finance chiefs from the Group of 20 countries in Washington on April 16-17. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympic ceremonies chief Sasaki resigns over comedian insult

Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 18, 2021. She announced the resignation of Hiroshi Sasaki, head creative director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the games, over a derogatory suggestion involving popular female entertainer Naomi Watanabe. (Pool photo)

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Olympic ceremonies chief Sasaki resigns over comedian insult

Seiko Hashimoto (R), president of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 18, 2021, alongside Toshiro Muto, CEO of the committee. Hashimoto announced the resignation of Hiroshi Sasaki, head creative director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the games, over a derogatory suggestion involving popular female entertainer Naomi Watanabe. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo Olympic creative chief quits over derogatory suggestion

Hiroshi Sasaki, head creative director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, seen in this file photo, said in the early hours of March 18, 2021 that he will step down over a derogatory suggestion involving popular female entertainer Naomi Watanabe.

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Tokyo Olympic creative chief reportedly made slur on female comedian

File photo taken in December 2020 shows Hiroshi Sasaki, chief executive creative director of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Sasaki proposed to some staff members in March 2020 through the messaging app Line an idea involving the entertainer Naomi Watanabe coming down from the sky as a pig as part of the Olympic opening ceremony, according to a report by weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun, made available online on March 17, 2021.

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Lawyer files criminal complaint against Setsuri cult member

CHIBA, Japan - Lawyer Hiroshi Watanabe (R) enters a Chiba police station Aug. 10 to file a criminal complaint against a South Korean cult member in charge of the cult's Japan activities. The founder of the South Korean cult, which is called Setsuri or Providence, has allegedly sexually assaulted female Japanese cult members. (Kyodo)

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Tsunami aftermath in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Makoto Endo (R), a local fisherman farming scallops and salmon, eats supper with his wife in a room provided by his friend Hiroshi Watanabe in the Ogatsucho area of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 26, 2011, following the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo)

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Tsunami aftermath in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Local fishermen -- (from L) Hiroshi Sasaki, Makoto Endo and Hiroshi Watanabe -- recollect the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster on higher ground in the Ogatsucho area of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 26, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Actor Watanabe visits quake-hit areas

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Japanese actor Ken Watanabe (L) speaks with Ishinomaki Mayor Hiroshi Kameyama (R) at the city offices of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 14, 2011, when he made an appearance for a local FM radio program in support of people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Watanabe, an internationally known star who has appeared in Hollywood movies, visited evacuation centers and encouraged evacuees in the city and the town of Onagawa the same day. He has also launched the disaster support website ''kizuna311'' with other actors. (Kyodo)

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JBIC loans $3 bil. to Abu Dhabi state firm for oil supply

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Hiroshi Watanabe (C), president of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, and Yousef Omair bin Yousef (R), CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, sign a document in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 2, 2010. The state-run JBIC signed a deal with ADNOC to loan $3 billion in conjunction with five banks in exchange for securing a stable oil supply for Japan. (Kyodo)