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Flash mob shows danger of smartphone use while walking

TOKYO, Japan - Members of a dancing group from Toyo University perform in a flash mob at Hitotsubashi University in the suburbs of Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2014, with smartphones in their hands to raise awareness about the danger of using them while walking.

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Shintaro Ishihara in 1956

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 1956 shows Shintaro Ishihara, currently the governor of Tokyo, soon after he won the Akutagawa literary award for his novel ''Taiyo no Kisetsu'' (Season of the Sun). At the time, the 23-year-old Ishihara was a student at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University.

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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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(1) Japanese universities open offices in China to woo students

BEIJING, China - Photo taken on Nov. 24 shows the Beijing office of Japan's Hitotsubashi University. Faced with a declining population of young people and increased competition at home, some of Japan's top universities are opening up offices in China in a bid to woo the country's young bright minds to Japan.

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Social psychology pioneer Minami dies at 87

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese pioneer social psychologist Hiroshi Minami (file photo) died Dec. 17 of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. He was 87. Minami, a professor emeritus at the state-run Hitotsubashi University, wrote numerous books, including ''Shakai Shinrigaku'' (Social Psychology) in 1949, which has been used as a standard textbook at Japanese universities.

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Ishi named new chief of gov't tax panel

TOKYO, Japan - Picture shows Hiromitsu Ishi, president of Hitotsubashi University, who was formally named chairman of the government's Tax Commission on Sept. 14. Ishi succeeds Kan Kato, president of Chiba University of Commerce, who was the panel's chief for about 10 years.

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Japan launches Digital Agency

Digitalization minister Takuya Hirai (R) poses for a photo during the launch ceremony of Japan's Digital Agency in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2021, alongside Hitotsubashi University honorary professor Yoko Ishikura, who assumed the top bureaucrat post of digital supervisor at the new agency which aims to accelerate digitalization of local and central government services.

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Hakusensha logo

Hakusensha, manga, manga, boys' magazine, girls' manga, publishing, publishing business, publishing company, Hitotsubashi Group, company, sign, logo, logo mark = July 11, 2019, Kanda Awaji-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Hakusensha logo

Hakusensha, manga, manga, boys' magazine, girls' manga, publishing, publishing business, publishing company, Hitotsubashi Group, company, sign, logo, logo mark = July 11, 2019, Kanda Awaji-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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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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Social psychology pioneer Minami dies at 87

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese pioneer social psychologist Hiroshi Minami (file photo) died Dec. 17 of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. He was 87. Minami, a professor emeritus at the state-run Hitotsubashi University, wrote numerous books, including ''Shakai Shinrigaku'' (Social Psychology) in 1949, which has been used as a standard textbook at Japanese universities.

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(1) Japanese universities open offices in China to woo students

BEIJING, China - Photo taken on Nov. 24 shows the Beijing office of Japan's Hitotsubashi University. Faced with a declining population of young people and increased competition at home, some of Japan's top universities are opening up offices in China in a bid to woo the country's young bright minds to Japan. (Kyodo)

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Ishi named new chief of gov't tax panel

TOKYO, Japan - Picture shows Hiromitsu Ishi, president of Hitotsubashi University, who was formally named chairman of the government's Tax Commission on Sept. 14. Ishi succeeds Kan Kato, president of Chiba University of Commerce, who was the panel's chief for about 10 years.

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Security law opponents vow to continue campaign at Tokyo meeting

Hitotsubashi University professor emeritus Osamu Watanabe speaks at a meeting organized by a group of young people opposing the recently enacted security laws in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2015. Participants said they will continue trying to have the laws scrapped. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gojiinhara field outside of hitotsubashi gate

Gojiinhara field outside of hitotsubashi gate==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Flash mob shows danger of smartphone use while walking

TOKYO, Japan - Members of a dancing group from Toyo University perform in a flash mob at Hitotsubashi University in the suburbs of Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2014, with smartphones in their hands to raise awareness about the danger of using them while walking. (Kyodo)

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Shintaro Ishihara in 1956

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 1956 shows Shintaro Ishihara, currently the governor of Tokyo, soon after he won the Akutagawa literary award for his novel ''Taiyo no Kisetsu'' (Season of the Sun). At the time, the 23-year-old Ishihara was a student at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University. (Kyodo)

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Princess Mako, granddaughter of Japan emperor, to become engaged

Kei Komuro (C), who will soon become engaged to Princess Mako, the first grandchild of Emperor Akihito, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on May 17, 2017. Komuro, a former fellow student with the princess at International Christian University, works at a Tokyo law firm while attending Hitotsubashi University's graduate school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Princess Mako, granddaughter of Japan emperor, to become engaged

Kei Komuro, who will soon become engaged to Princess Mako, the first grandchild of Emperor Akihito, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on May 17, 2017. Komuro, a former fellow student with the princess at International Christian University, works at a Tokyo law firm while attending Hitotsubashi University's graduate school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Princess Mako, granddaughter of Japan emperor, to become engaged

Kei Komuro, who will soon become engaged to Princess Mako, the first grandchild of Emperor Akihito, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on May 17, 2017. Komuro, a former fellow student with the princess at International Christian University, works at a Tokyo law firm while attending Hitotsubashi University's graduate school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Princess Mako, granddaughter of Japan emperor, to become engaged

Kei Komuro, who will soon become engaged to Princess Mako, a granddaughter of Emperor Akihito, leaves his home in Yokohama on the morning of May 17, 2017. Komuro is a graduate student at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University and an employee of a legal firm in the capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Princess Mako, granddaughter of Japan emperor, to become engaged

A street TV in Tokyo's Yurakucho area shows a news report saying that Princess Mako (L), the first grandchild of Japanese Emperor Akihito, will soon become engaged to Kei Komuro (R), a 25-year-old graduate student at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University, on May 16, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ishi to succeed Kato as chairman of Tax Commission

TOKYO, Japan - An archive photo shows Hiromitsu Ishi, president of Hitotsubashi University, whom the government plans to name as successor to Kan Kato, chairman of the Tax Commission. Ishi, 62, is currently chairman of the corporate tax subcommittee of the commission, an advisory panel to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi.