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[Breaking News]IBM Japan president to head Keizai Doyukai

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 16 Kyodo - IBM Japan Ltd. President Akio Yamaguchi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2025, after being named head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, a major Japanese business lobby known as Keizai Doyukai. The appointment, effective on Jan. 1, 2026, follows the resignation of former Suntory Holdings Ltd. Chairman Takeshi Niinami after a police probe over his purchase of certain supplements. (Kyodo)

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IBM Japan president to head Keizai Doyukai

IBM Japan Ltd. President Akio Yamaguchi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2025, after being named head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, a major Japanese business lobby known as Keizai Doyukai. The appointment, effective on Jan. 1, 2026, follows the resignation of former Suntory Holdings Ltd. Chairman Takeshi Niinami after a police probe over his purchase of certain supplements.

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IBM Japan president to head Keizai Doyukai

IBM Japan Ltd. President Akio Yamaguchi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2025, after being named head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, a major Japanese business lobby known as Keizai Doyukai. The appointment, effective on Jan. 1, 2026, follows the resignation of former Suntory Holdings Ltd. Chairman Takeshi Niinami after a police probe over his purchase of certain supplements.

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IBM Japan president to head Keizai Doyukai

IBM Japan Ltd. President Akio Yamaguchi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2025, after being named head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, a major Japanese business lobby known as Keizai Doyukai. The appointment, effective on Jan. 1, 2026, follows the resignation of former Suntory Holdings Ltd. Chairman Takeshi Niinami after a police probe over his purchase of certain supplements.

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IBM Japan president to head Keizai Doyukai

IBM Japan Ltd. President Akio Yamaguchi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2025, after being named head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, a major Japanese business lobby known as Keizai Doyukai. The appointment, effective on Jan. 1, 2026, follows the resignation of former Suntory Holdings Ltd. Chairman Takeshi Niinami after a police probe over his purchase of certain supplements.

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IBM Japan to have 1st foreign president in 56 years

TOKYO, Japan - Martin Jetter, vice president of corporate strategy at International Business Machines Corp., holds a press conference at the head office of IBM Japan Ltd. in Tokyo on March 30, 2012. The Japanese unit said the same day Jetter will succeed Takayuki Hashimoto as its president, effective May 15, becoming the first non-Japanese president of IBM Japan in about 56 years.

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IBM hit by Japan's largest corporate tax allegation

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the headquarters of IBM Japan Ltd. in the Nihombashi district in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on March 18, 2010. The IBM Japan group is suspected of failing to declare more than 400 billion yen in income, an amount believed to be the largest ever in the country.

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Hashimoto to become IBM Japan president

TOKYO, Japan - Takayuki Hashimoto (R), senior managing director of IBM Japan Ltd., who will become president on Jan. 1, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 30. At left is Takuma Otoshi, the company's current president and chairman.

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IBM to lower 2004 sales due to improper practice at Japan unit

TOKYO, Japan - Takuma Otoshi, president of International Business Machines Corp.'s Japanese unit, said Feb. 25 in Tokyo that IBM will revise its 2004 sales downward by $210 million as improper in-house accounting practice by some employees have been found at IBM Japan Ltd.

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IBM Japan to sell easy Internet terminal for handicapped, elderly

TOKYO, Japan - IBM Japan Ltd. said March 4 it has developed a large-screen computer terminal (in photo) offering easy Internet access for elderly people and the handicapped, including sight-impaired people. The Japan unit of U.S. computer giant International Business Machines Corp. installed its Internet-browser software onto a terminal with a 50-inch plasma TV display developed by Pioneer Corp. The terminal is expected to be put on the market by the end of June at the earliest with an estimated retail price of just over 5 million yen.

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IBM Japan develops prototype, portable computing device

TOKYO, Japan - IBM Japan Ltd. said Feb. 25 it has developed a prototype of a compact portable computing device that allows users to carry their software to locations equipped with dedicated cradles. The small device, tentatively named the PC Core System, measures only 8.2 by 16 by 2.2 centimeters, weighs just 300 grams and contains a processor, memory and hard disk drive.

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Doyukai's Kitashiro wants to create jobs, nurture start-ups

TOKYO, Dec. 26 Kyodo - Kakutaro Kitashiro (R), who is to become the head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 26 with Yotaro Kobayashi, the current Doyukai chairman, looking on. Kitashiro, chairman of IBM Japan Ltd., will be the first executive from a foreign-owned company to head a major Japanese business lobby.

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Otoshi to become president of IBM Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Takuma Otoshi (L), managing director of IBM Japan Ltd., the Japanese subsidiary of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) of the United States, shakes hands with Kakutaro Kitashiro, president of IBM Japan, after the company announced at a Tokyo hotel Nov. 2. that Otoshi, 51, will succeed Kitashiro as president on Dec. 1.

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IBM to lower 2004 sales due to improper practice at Japan unit

TOKYO, Japan - Takuma Otoshi, president of International Business Machines Corp.'s Japanese unit, said Feb. 25 in Tokyo that IBM will revise its 2004 sales downward by $210 million as improper in-house accounting practice by some employees have been found at IBM Japan Ltd. (Kyodo)

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Hashimoto to become IBM Japan president

TOKYO, Japan - Takayuki Hashimoto (R), senior managing director of IBM Japan Ltd., who will become president on Jan. 1, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 30. At left is Takuma Otoshi, the company's current president and chairman. (Kyodo)

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IBM hit by Japan's largest corporate tax allegation

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the headquarters of IBM Japan Ltd. in the Nihombashi district in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on March 18, 2010. The IBM Japan group is suspected of failing to declare more than 400 billion yen in income, an amount believed to be the largest ever in the country. (Kyodo)

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IBM Japan to have 1st foreign president in 56 years

TOKYO, Japan - Martin Jetter, vice president of corporate strategy at International Business Machines Corp., holds a press conference at the head office of IBM Japan Ltd. in Tokyo on March 30, 2012. The Japanese unit said the same day Jetter will succeed Takayuki Hashimoto as its president, effective May 15, becoming the first non-Japanese president of IBM Japan in about 56 years. (Kyodo)

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IBM Japan develops prototype, portable computing device

TOKYO, Japan - IBM Japan Ltd. said Feb. 25 it has developed a prototype of a compact portable computing device that allows users to carry their software to locations equipped with dedicated cradles. The small device, tentatively named the PC Core System, measures only 8.2 by 16 by 2.2 centimeters, weighs just 300 grams and contains a processor, memory and hard disk drive. (Kyodo)

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Doyukai's Kitashiro wants to create jobs, nurture start-ups

TOKYO, Dec. 26 Kyodo - Kakutaro Kitashiro (R), who is to become the head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 26 with Yotaro Kobayashi, the current Doyukai chairman, looking on. Kitashiro, chairman of IBM Japan Ltd., will be the first executive from a foreign-owned company to head a major Japanese business lobby. (Kyodo)

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Otoshi to become president of IBM Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Takuma Otoshi (L), managing director of IBM Japan Ltd., the Japanese subsidiary of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) of the United States, shakes hands with Kakutaro Kitashiro, president of IBM Japan, after the company announced at a Tokyo hotel Nov. 2. that Otoshi, 51, will succeed Kitashiro as president on Dec. 1.