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Toshiba opens new flash memory production facility

NAGOYA, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Hisao Tanaka (C) and other officials, including those of its U.S. business partner SanDisk Corp., cut the ribbon at a ceremony to open the second phase of the No. 5 flash memory chip fabrication facility in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 9, 2014. They also started construction of a new facility there for production of a next-generation memory chip.

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Toshiba to spend annual 200 bil. yen in chip business

NAGOYA, Japan - Hisao Tanaka, chief executive officer of Toshiba Corp., says at a press conference in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, his company plans to maintain annual capital spending of around 200 billion yen in its chip business in fiscal 2014 and following years to meet solid demand for smartphones and tablet devices.

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Sochi Olympics silver medalist Watabe honored in Nagano

NAGANO, Japan - Sochi Olympics individual Nordic combined skiing silver medalist Akito Watabe (R) of Japan receives an honorary citizen award from Nagano Mayor Hisao Kato at the central Japan city's government office on April 2, 2014.

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Toshiba president

TOKYO, Japan - Hisao Tanaka, president of Toshiba Corp., is interviewed in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2013.

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Toshiba announces next president

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Toshiba Corp.'s Atsutoshi Nishida, chairman, Hisao Tanaka, corporate senior executive vice president, and Norio Sasaki, president, join hands in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2013. The company announced the same day it will promote Tanaka to president and Sasaki will assume the new post of vice chairman in June.

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Toshiba announces next president

TOKYO, Japan - Hisao Tanaka, corporate senior executive vice president of Toshiba Corp., holds a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2013, after the company announced it will promote Tanaka to president, replacing Norio Sasaki, who will assume the new post of vice chairman in June.

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Ceremony for quake victims in New Zealand

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Hisao Yoshida (3rd from L), principal of the Toyama College of Foreign Languages in central Japan, delivers a speech in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 21, 2013, at a memorial service for students and staff of an English language school who died in an earthquake that struck the area on Feb. 22, 2011.

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T-shirt of Hearn's book introducing word 'tsunami

MATSUE, Japan - Hisao Nakamura, president of Nakamura Chaho Corp., holds a T-shirt carrying an image of Lafcadio Hearn's 1897 book that introduced the word ''tsunami'' to the world, in Matsue, western Japan, on Aug. 11, 2011. The T-shirt project is aimed at supporting victims of the March earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Myanmar refugees count on freelance journalist

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese freelance journalist Hisao Tanabe talks about his work to help Myanmarese residents in Japan in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on April 12.

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Japan's oldest boat-shaped wooden coffin excavated in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 21 shows part of what is believed to be Japan's oldest boat-shaped coffin which was excavated in the Hiratecho ruins in Nagoya's Kita Ward. The city's Board of Education said the coffin is believed to be made some 2,000 years ago, or in the latter period of the mid-Yayoi Era. The 2.8-meter-long, 80-centimeter-wide ''boat'' is placed with its bow facing northwest. Hisao Suzuki, who heads the board's cultural assets conservation section, said it is presumed that the bow faced the sunset as ancient people thought the coffin was a vehicle to take the deceased person to the afterlife.

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Award-winning writer Miyoshi dies at 76

MORIOKA, Japan - Award-winning writer Kyozo Miyoshi (file photo taken in Feb. 1977) died of a stroke May 11 at a hospital in Oshu, Iwate Prefecture, his family said. He was 76. Miyoshi, whose real name was Hisao Sasaki, published ''Kosodate Gokko'' (Play Nurturing), based on his experiences as a teacher at small, remote schools, which won the prestigious Naoki literary award in 1977.

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Izuhakone Railway vows to try re-listing

TOKYO, Japan - Izuhakone Railway Co. President Hisao Watanabe speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 26. He pledged to try to again list the company's shares on a stock exchange following the Tokyo Stock Exchange's decision to delist it in December for falsifying financial statements.

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Hitachi, Omron to integrate ATM operations

TOKYO, Japan - Etsuhiko Shoyama (2nd from L), president of Hitachi Ltd., and Hisao Sakuta (2nd from R) shake hands during a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 26. They announced the two companies will set up a joint venture to integrate operations concerning automated teller machines (ATM) and other information technology equipment.

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Sakuta to become Omron president

OSAKA, Japan - Omron Corp. has decided to name Senior Managing Director Hisao Sakuta (file photo) as president and chief executive officer to succeed Yoshio Tateishi. The promotion of Sakuta, 58, will be finalized after a general shareholders' meeting scheduled for late June, making him the first president of the electrical machinery maker to be picked from outside the founding family.

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Construction work begins for new Ehime Maru

IMABARI, Japan - Construction began in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, on April 17 of a new fishery training ship to succeed the Ehime Maru, which sank off Hawaii in 2001 after being rammed by a U.S. submarine, with the loss of nine lives. Hisao Onishi (C), captain of the sunken Ehime Maru, were among about 20 people who attended the keel-laying ceremony at a shipbuilding yard of Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co.

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Ehime Maru captain leaves for Honolulu

OSAKA, Japan - Hisao Onishi (L), captain of the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru, and Tetsuo Hama, a deckhand, check in to go aboard a flight to Honolulu at Kansai airport on Oct. 14.

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Ehime Maru captain urges U.S. Navy inquiry to be thorough

HONOLULU, United States - Hisao Onishi, captain of the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru, leaves a U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry on Oahu Island, Hawaii, on March 14 after testifying on the events surrounding the Feb. 9 collision between his ship and the U.S. submarine Greeneville. He called for the court to be thorough in its investigation into the accident to prevent similar disasters.

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Censure motion against Mori submitted to upper house

TOKYO, Japan - Representatives of four opposition parties and the Mushozoku no Kai parliamentary group formally submit a nonbinding censure motion against Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to Hisao Horikawa (L), secretary general of the Secretariat of the House of Councillors. The measure seeks Mori's immediate resignation.

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Ehime Maru captain arrives in Hawaii to testify

HONOLULU, United States - Hisao Onishi, captain of the Ehime Maru training ship, arrives at Honolulu airport on March 11 to testify at a U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry. The inquiry is looking into the sinking of his ship by the U.S. submarine Greeneville on Feb. 9. Onishi has been asked by the court to recount his version of events surrounding the collision.

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Ehime Maru captain dissatisfied with Waddle's written apology

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows a letter of apology recently sent from Cmdr. Scott Waddle, captain of the U.S. submarine Greeneville, to Hisao Onishi, captain of the Ehime Maru, in Hiroshima, western Japan. After releasing the contents of the letter, Onishi expressed dissatisfaction March 9 over the letter, saying, ''I wanted (Waddle) to write about his own responsibility.''

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Ehime Maru captain arrives in Japan

MATSUYAMA, Japan - The captain of a Japanese fisheries training ship from Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, sunk early in February by the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville expresses deep sadness over the nine still missing on his return home Feb. 24. ''To return home without the (missing) nine is unbearable for me. I can do nothing but apologize to their family members,'' Hisao Onishi, 58, told a news conference the same night at the Ehime prefectural government office in Matsuyama.

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Ehime Maru captain returns to Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Hisao Onishi (C), captain of the 499-ton Ehime Maru which was sunk by the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville off Hawaii on Feb. 9 arrived at Kansai airport from Honolulu on Feb. 24. Onishi is last of the rescued crew members to return home from Hawaii. Nine people -- four 17-year-old high school students, two teachers and three crew members -- are missing following the accident and presumed dead.

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Ehime Maru captain leaves Hawaii for Japan

HONOLULU, United States - Hisao Onishi, captain of the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fisheries training ship hit and sunk Feb. 9 by the U.S. submarine Greeneville off Hawaii, is surrounded by reporters Feb. 23 as he leaves a Honolulu hotel. Onishi, who was the last of the rescued crew members still in Hawaii, departed from Honolulu airport to temporarily return home.

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Surviving crew members fly back home

NARITA, Japan - Sixteen surviving crew members of Ehime Maru, the Japanese fishery training ship sunk by a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine off the Hawaiian coast Feb. 9, return to Narita airport Feb. 15. Their return leaves only one person of the Ehime crew, captain Hisao Onishi, in Hawaii, as U.S. officials continued their probe into the cause of the collision, which has left nine people on board the vessel missing.

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Ehime Maru captain says not one rescued by sub crew

HONOLULU, United States - The rescued captain of a Japanese ship sunk Feb. 9 by a 6,080-ton U.S. Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine in a collision off Hawaii accuses the sub crew Feb. 10 of doing little to help people from his ship. ''Not one (member of my ship) was rescued by the submarine crew,'' Hisao Onishi, captain of the 499-ton Ehime Maru, a fisheries training ship from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, tearfully told a press conference in Honolulu.

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Private Funeral for Kurosawa held

The family of the late film director Akira Kurosawa holds a private funeral at his home in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Sept. 8. The photo shows Kurosawa's son, Hisao, about to get into a hearse, carrying his father's photo. The director died of a stroke on Sept. 6 at the age of 88.

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Construction work begins for new Ehime Maru

IMABARI, Japan - Construction began in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, on April 17 of a new fishery training ship to succeed the Ehime Maru, which sank off Hawaii in 2001 after being rammed by a U.S. submarine, with the loss of nine lives. Hisao Onishi (C), captain of the sunken Ehime Maru, were among about 20 people who attended the keel-laying ceremony at a shipbuilding yard of Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co.

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Izuhakone Railway vows to try re-listing

TOKYO, Japan - Izuhakone Railway Co. President Hisao Watanabe speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 26. He pledged to try to again list the company's shares on a stock exchange following the Tokyo Stock Exchange's decision to delist it in December for falsifying financial statements. (Kyodo)

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Sakuta to become Omron president

OSAKA, Japan - Omron Corp. has decided to name Senior Managing Director Hisao Sakuta (file photo) as president and chief executive officer to succeed Yoshio Tateishi. The promotion of Sakuta, 58, will be finalized after a general shareholders' meeting scheduled for late June, making him the first president of the electrical machinery maker to be picked from outside the founding family. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Toshiba chief questioned over falsified financial reports

Photo shows former Toshiba Corp. President Hisao Tanaka. It was reported on March 19, 2016, that the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission questioned him over falsified earnings reports. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Principal defends controversial remarks about women and childbirth

Hisao Terai, the head of a junior high school in Osaka, speaks to reporters in the western Japan city on March 15, 2016, about his controversial remarks about women and childbirth. Terai defended his Feb. 29 remarks in front of about 600 students that giving birth to two children or more is the "most important thing" for a woman and "more valuable than building her career." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese student basketball player to challenge playing in U.S.

High school basketball player Rui Hachimura (L) and his coach Hisao Sato pose for photos during a press conference in the northeastern Japan city of Sendai on Dec. 6, 2015. The promising 17-year-old player announced that he will apply to Gonzaga University, one of the most prestigious colleges under the American National Collegiate Athletic Association. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba chief steps down over accounting scandal

Hisao Tanaka, president of Toshiba Corp., speaks at a press conference at the company's head office in Tokyo on July 21, 2015, after resigning to take responsibility for an accounting scandal that a third-party investigation panel found involved the Japanese electronics maker's top executives. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba chief steps down over accounting scandal

Hisao Tanaka, president of Toshiba Corp., looks glum during a press conference at the company's head office in Tokyo on July 21, 2015, after resigning to take responsibility for an accounting scandal that a third-party investigation panel found involved the Japanese electronics maker's top executives. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba chief steps down over accounting scandal

Hisao Tanaka, president of Toshiba Corp., speaks at a press conference at the company's head office in Tokyo on July 21, 2015, after resigning to take responsibility for an accounting scandal that a third-party investigation panel found involved the Japanese electronics maker's top executives. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba chief steps down over accounting scandal

Hisao Tanaka (C), president of Toshiba Corp., bows in apology during a press conference at the company's head office in Tokyo on July 21, 2015, after resigning to take responsibility for an accounting scandal that a third-party investigation panel found involved the Japanese electronics maker's top executives. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba chief steps down over accounting scandal

Hisao Tanaka (2nd from R), president of Toshiba Corp., bows in apology during a press conference at the company's head office in Tokyo on July 21, 2015, after resigning to take responsibility for an accounting scandal that a third-party investigation panel found involved the Japanese electronics maker's top executives. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba's irregular accounting "systematic" wrongdoing

Photo shows (from L) Toshiba Corp. President Hisao Tanaka, Vice Chairman Norio Sasaki and advisor Atsutoshi Nishida. A third-party panel investigating the company's accounting irregularities said July 20, 2015, that its top management exerted pressure on subordinates to achieve ambitious budget targets and prompted the overstating of profits by 151.8 billion yen over seven years in a "systematic" manner. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba pres. apologizes to shareholders for "biggest crisis"

Shareholders in Toshiba Corp. enter the venue of their general meeting in Tokyo on June 25, 2015. Toshiba President Hisao Tanaka apologized to disgruntled investors for a spate of accounting irregularities, saying it is "the biggest crisis" facing the electronics maker. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tortoise takes stroll in downtown Tokyo

A tortoise with a boy on its back takes a stroll along a street with its owner Hisao Mitani in Tokyo's Tsukishima district on June 23, 2015. "Bon-chan," the 70-kilogram, one-meter pet, who joined the Mitani family 20 years ago, is popular among local people in the town. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba sets up 3rd-party panel to probe accounting irregularities

Hisao Tanaka, president of Toshiba Corp., apologizes at a press conference in Tokyo on May 15, 2015. Toshiba said the same day it has set up a third-party committee to probe accounting irregularities regarding past infrastructure projects, amid growing fears the matter may extend further and could erode trust in the Japanese electronics giant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba sets up 3rd-party panel to probe accounting irregularities

Hisao Tanaka, president of Toshiba Corp., is pictured during a press conference in Tokyo on May 15, 2015. Toshiba said the same day it has set up a third-party committee to probe accounting irregularities regarding past infrastructure projects, amid growing fears the matter may extend further and could erode trust in the Japanese electronics giant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba sets up 3rd-party panel to probe accounting irregularities

Hisao Tanaka, president of Toshiba Corp., attends a press conference in Tokyo on May 15, 2015. Toshiba said the same day it has set up a third-party committee to probe accounting irregularities regarding past infrastructure projects, amid growing fears the matter may extend further and could erode trust in the Japanese electronics giant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Club Michelin site renovated

Nihon Michelin Tire Co. President Bernard Delmas (R) shakes hands with Hisao Taki, chairman of Gurunavi Inc., operator of Japan's major restaurant information resource website, in Tokyo on April 16, 2015. Michelin, in cooperation with Gurunavi, renovated the Club Michelin paid membership website. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba aiming to boost hydrogen energy sales to 100 bil. yen

Toshiba Corp. executives, led by President Hisao Tanaka (R), attend a tape-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of its hydrogen energy research and development center in Tokyo on April 6, 2015. The electronics maker aims to boost sales of its hydrogen energy business to 100 billion yen ($840 million) by fiscal 2020 ending March 2021, from 15 billion to 20 billion yen expected in fiscal 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Postgraduates flocking to carpentry jobs at small builder in Japan

Hisao Akimoto, president of Heisei Corp., speaks in an interview with Kyodo News about his construction company, where employees start working as carpenters. It is drawing scores of postgraduate students from top schools in Japan. Photo was taken Dec. 14, 2016 at the company's head office in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nikko Toshogu Shrine, Hiroshima city exchange trees for peace

Hisao Inaba (R), chief priest of Nikko Toshogu Shrine, and Teruto Ishida, head of the Hiroshima municipal government's green policy section, exchange lists of gifts on Oct. 9, 2015, in front of a Formosan sweetgum tree, a symbol of peace donated by the Shinto shrine in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, and planted in the Central Park in the western Japanese city. In turn, the Hiroshima city office donated an atomic bomb-exposed phoenix tree to the shrine. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami survivor grows pine seedlings in northeastern Japan

Hisao Otsuki holds a black pine seedling in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 26, 2015. He is the leader of volunteers growing pine seedlings to be planted to create a bulwark forest along the city's coast, part of northeastern Japan devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba president to resign over accounting irregularities

Photo taken May 15, 2015 shows Hisao Tanaka, president of Toshiba Corp., during a press conference in Tokyo. Tanaka is expected to step down to take responsibility for accounting irregularities, sources familiar with the matter said July 11, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Award-winning writer Miyoshi dies at 76

MORIOKA, Japan - Award-winning writer Kyozo Miyoshi (file photo taken in Feb. 1977) died of a stroke May 11 at a hospital in Oshu, Iwate Prefecture, his family said. He was 76. Miyoshi, whose real name was Hisao Sasaki, published ''Kosodate Gokko'' (Play Nurturing), based on his experiences as a teacher at small, remote schools, which won the prestigious Naoki literary award in 1977. (Kyodo)