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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Sightings Across The World 7

Comet C/2023A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), a comet visible only once every 80,000 years has been spotted streaking across skies around the world.

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Mizuho Bank, Toshiba obtain naming rights of Koshien Stadium stands

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken on Dec. 19, 2007 shows (From L) Hanshin Electric Railway Co. President Shinya Sakai, Mizuho Bank senior executive Nobuhiro Ishikawa, Toshiba Corp. Kansai branch office chief Shunsuke Kobayashi and Hanshin Tigers owner Tsuneaki Miyazaki after a signing ceremony in Osaka for an agreement on naming rights to part of the infield stands of Hanshin Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture. Toshiba and Mizuho Bank agreed with Hanshin Electric to obtain the naming rights for five years from 2008.

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U.S. fund announces plan to take over Ishikawa Bank

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Nekoba (R), who heads Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co.'s business in Hawaii and the Pacific basin, tells reporters June 24 in Tokyo that the U.S. investment fund plans to take over failed Ishikawa Bank of Japan in its first attempt to enter Japan's financial market.

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Ishikawa Bank president bows at news conference

KANAZAWA, Japan - Ishikawa Bank President Atsushi Kawaguchi bows at a news conference at the bank head office in Kanazawa on Dec. 28 after his bank filed for insolvency proceedings with the Financial Services Agency. The Bank of Japan decided to provide unlimited, unsecured loans to Ishikawa Bank to help it meet daily fund requirements.

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Yanagisawa speaks on Ishikawa Bank insolvency

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa speaks with the media on application filed by Ishikawa Bank for insolvency proceedings Dec. 28. He expressed support for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's reported intention to bail out the banking sector with public funds to avoid a financial crisis.

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Ishikawa Bank to file for bankruptcy

KANAZAWA, Japan - A security guard stands at an entrance to the head office of Ishikawa Bank, which has decided to file for bankruptcy with the Financial Services Agency, in Kanazawa on Dec. 28. The second-tier bank was to convene a board meeting later in the day to formalize the decision.

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Ishikawa Bank to file for bankruptcy

KANAZAWA, Japan - A security guard stands at an entrance to the head office of Ishikawa Bank, which has decided to file for bankruptcy with the Financial Services Agency, in Kanazawa on Dec. 28. The second-tier bank was to convene a board meeting later in the day to formalize the decision.

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Ishikawa Bank president bows at news conference

KANAZAWA, Japan - Ishikawa Bank President Atsushi Kawaguchi bows at a news conference at the bank head office in Kanazawa on Dec. 28 after his bank filed for insolvency proceedings with the Financial Services Agency. The Bank of Japan decided to provide unlimited, unsecured loans to Ishikawa Bank to help it meet daily fund requirements.

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Fuji Bank branch manager confirmed dead in WTC attack

NEW YORK, United States - Taizo Ishikawa, branch manager of Fuji Bank in New York who went missing Sept. 11 in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center has been confirmed dead, New York city authorities said Jan. 11. Ishikawa was among the 12 from Fuji Bank, which had offices on the 79th to 82nd floors of the center's south tower.

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U.S. fund announces plan to take over Ishikawa Bank

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Nekoba (R), who heads Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co.'s business in Hawaii and the Pacific basin, tells reporters June 24 in Tokyo that the U.S. investment fund plans to take over failed Ishikawa Bank of Japan in its first attempt to enter Japan's financial market.

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Court rejects appeal by former head of Hokkoku Bank

NAGOYA, Japan - Yasumori Honjin, a former president of Hokkoku Bank, a regional bank based in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, enters the Nagoya High Court on Jan. 24. The court upheld a ruling sentencing him to a suspended jail term for breach of trust. Honjin was convicted for causing a prefectural credit insurance association to suffer 80 million yen in losses by covering bad loans made by the bank.