Ex-Asahi Breweries President Higuchi dies

Ex-Asahi Breweries President Higuchi dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 1999 shows former Asahi Breweries Ltd. President Hirotaro Higuchi (L) handing a report of the Economic Strategy Council as its chief to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi. Higuchi, who launched the brewer's mega-hit beer Asahi Super Dry in 1987, died of acute cardiac failure at a hospital in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2012. He was 86.

Ex-Asahi Breweries President Higuchi dies

Ex-Asahi Breweries President Higuchi dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2001 shows former Asahi Breweries Ltd. President Hirotaro Higuchi. Higuchi, who launched the brewer's mega-hit beer Asahi Super Dry in 1987, died of acute cardiac failure at a hospital in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2012. He was 86.

Koizumi appoints policy advisers for economy, urban affairs

Koizumi appoints policy advisers for economy, urban affairs

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (C), flanked by Toru Makino (L) and Hirotaro Higuchi (R), poses for photographers at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Sept. 3. Koizumi appointed Higuchi, honorary chairman of Asahi Breweries Ltd., and Makino, former administrative vice minister of the Construction Ministry, to advise him on policies related to the economy and urban affairs.

Asahi Breweries' Higuchi to chair Osaka bourse

Asahi Breweries' Higuchi to chair Osaka bourse

OSAKA, Japan - File photos show Hirotaro Higuchi (L), honorary chairman of Asahi Breweries Ltd., and Taichi Sakaiya (R), former head of the Economic Planning Agency. Higuchi will be appointed as chairman of the Osaka Securities Exchange, which is to become a publicly traded company April 1. Sakaiya will be named a board member of the new entity.

Nasdaq Japan Club holds 1st meeting

Nasdaq Japan Club holds 1st meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son (R), president of Softbank Corp., Frank Zarb (C), chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) of the United States, and Hirotaro Higuchi, honorary chairman of Asahi Breweries Ltd., shake hands at a news conference at a Tokyo hotel Oct. 12. They were briefing reporters on the inaugural meeting of a corporate club set up to prepare for the start of Nasdaq Japan, the Japanese version of the technology-laden U.S. equity market.

Key panel proposes 3-step plan for Japanese economy

Key panel proposes 3-step plan for Japanese economy

Hirotaro Higuchi (L), chairman of the Economic Strategy Council, an ad hoc panel of top business leaders and scholars, hands his council's final report to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi on Feb. 26. The report urged the government to revive Japan's economy and set its deficit-ridden finances in order around fiscal 2008 by implementing a three-stage plan over the next 10 years.

Panel submit policy recommendations

Panel submit policy recommendations

Hirotaro Higuchi (L), chairman of the Economic Strategy Council, presents his panel's policy recommendations to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) on Wednesday Oct. 14. The panel urged the government to pump 'tens of trillions of yen' into the nation's troubled banking industry and called for an additional stimulus package of more than 10 trillion yen to rev up the faltering economy.

Koizumi appoints policy advisers for economy, urban affairs

Koizumi appoints policy advisers for economy, urban affairs

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (C), flanked by Toru Makino (L) and Hirotaro Higuchi (R), poses for photographers at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Sept. 3. Koizumi appointed Higuchi, honorary chairman of Asahi Breweries Ltd., and Makino, former administrative vice minister of the Construction Ministry, to advise him on policies related to the economy and urban affairs.

Asahi Breweries' Higuchi to chair Osaka bourse

Asahi Breweries' Higuchi to chair Osaka bourse

OSAKA, Japan - File photos show Hirotaro Higuchi (L), honorary chairman of Asahi Breweries Ltd., and Taichi Sakaiya (R), former head of the Economic Planning Agency. Higuchi will be appointed as chairman of the Osaka Securities Exchange, which is to become a publicly traded company April 1. Sakaiya will be named a board member of the new entity.

Nasdaq Japan Club holds 1st meeting

Nasdaq Japan Club holds 1st meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son (R), president of Softbank Corp., Frank Zarb (C), chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) of the United States, and Hirotaro Higuchi, honorary chairman of Asahi Breweries Ltd., shake hands at a news conference at a Tokyo hotel Oct. 12. They were briefing reporters on the inaugural meeting of a corporate club set up to prepare for the start of Nasdaq Japan, the Japanese version of the technology-laden U.S. equity market.

Key panel proposes 3-step plan for Japanese economy

Key panel proposes 3-step plan for Japanese economy

Hirotaro Higuchi (L), chairman of the Economic Strategy Council, an ad hoc panel of top business leaders and scholars, hands his council's final report to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi on Feb. 26. The report urged the government to revive Japan's economy and set its deficit-ridden finances in order around fiscal 2008 by implementing a three-stage plan over the next 10 years. ==Kyodo

Panel submit policy recommendations

Panel submit policy recommendations

Hirotaro Higuchi (L), chairman of the Economic Strategy Council, presents his panel's policy recommendations to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) on Wednesday Oct. 14. The panel urged the government to pump 'tens of trillions of yen' into the nation's troubled banking industry and called for an additional stimulus package of more than 10 trillion yen to rev up the faltering economy. ==Kyodo