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Growing plants for medicinal use in Nara Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Members of "farming Kitora" harvest Angelica acutiloba, an ingredient of Kampo medicine, Japan's traditional herbal medicine, in the village of Asuka, Nara Prefecture, in December 2014. Demand for plants used in Kampo medicine has been increasing in Japan.

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Nishikawa's reappointment approved by Japan Post shareholders

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (R) attends a shareholders meeting in Tokyo on June 29. He was approved to remain at the helm of Japan Post despite a series of scandals such as an aborted attempt to sell the Kampo-no-yado resort network. At left is a senior Finance Ministry official who attended as a government representative.

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Nishikawa's reappointment approved by Japan Post shareholders

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (R) attends a shareholders meeting in Tokyo on June 29. He was approved to remain at the helm of Japan Post despite a series of scandals such as an aborted attempt to sell the Kampo-no-yado resort network.

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Minister Sato OKs Nishikawa's reappointment as Japan Post head

TOKYO, Japan - Internal affairs minister Tsutomu Sato meets the press after talks with Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa at his office on June 22. Sato said he has decided to authorize the reappointment of Nishikawa after he offered to take a disciplinary pay cut over a scandal involving an abortive plan to sell the Kampo-no-yado nationwide resort inn network.

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Japan Post President Nishikawa offers to discipline himself

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (standing) answers questions during a House of Representatives committee session on June 18. Nishikawa offered to discipline himself over scandals, such as the company's failed sale of the Kampo-no-yado nationwide resort inn network, while suggesting that he intends to remain as president.

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Hatoyama issues business-improvement order to Japan Post

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Kunio Hatoyama (L front) hands a business-improvement order to Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (R) at the ministry on April 3. Hatoyama issued the order following Japan Post's aborted contract to sell the ''Kampo-no-yado'' nationwide resort inn network.

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Minister urges Japan Post to make Kampo inn network profitable

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Kunio Hatoyama (L) hands over to Yoshifumi Nishikawa, president of Japan Post Holdings Co., a note to approve Japan Post's business program for fiscal 2009 at his office in Tokyo on March 31.

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Japan Post, Orix agree to cancel 'Kampo-no-yado' inn network sale

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa is surrounded by reporters and photographers at the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 13 after talks with communication minister Kunio Hatoyama. Nishikawa was quoted as telling Hatoyama that Japan Post and leasing firm Orix Corp. have agreed to cancel a controversial 10.9 billion yen contract for Japan Post's sale of 70 ''Kampo-no-yado'' inns and nine housing facilities to Orix.

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Japan Post, Orix agree to cancel 'Kampo-no-yado' inn network sale

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Kunio Hatoyama speaks to reporters at his ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 13 after talks with Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa. Hatoyama said Japan Post and leasing firm Orix Corp. have agreed to cancel a controversial 10.9 billion yen contract for Japan Post's sale of 70 ''Kampo-no-yado'' inns and nine housing facilities to Orix.

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Postal life insurance to sell other firms' products even before IPO

TOKYO, Japan - Josuke Shindo, chairman-designate of a postal life insurance firm that will emerge on the privatization of Japan's postal system in October 2007, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. He said that the firm, tentatively called Kampo Life Insurance, will seek to sell other insurers' products even before its initial public offering.

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(1)Gov't panel debates privatization of postal services

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L), accompanied by his Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Heizo Takenaka, presides over a meeting of his key policy-setting panel called to discuss privatization of the public postal services, including a plan to put the three main businesses -- mail delivery, postal savings and ''kampo'' life insurance -- independently under a holding company.

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(1)Japan Post takes over postal services from gov't

TOKYO, Japan - The new logo of Japan Post, which takes over the governmental Postal Services Agency, is unveiled during an inauguration ceremony in Tokyo on April 1. Capitalized at 1 trillion yen, Japan Post has taken over the three services of mail delivery, postal savings and ''kampo'' life insurance from the agency.

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Postal life insurance to sell other firms' products even before

TOKYO, Japan - Josuke Shindo, chairman-designate of a postal life insurance firm that will emerge on the privatization of Japan's postal system in October 2007, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. He said that the firm, tentatively called Kampo Life Insurance, will seek to sell other insurers' products even before its initial public offering. (Kyodo)

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Japan Post, Orix agree to cancel 'Kampo-no-yado' inn network sale

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Kunio Hatoyama speaks to reporters at his ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 13 after talks with Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa. Hatoyama said Japan Post and leasing firm Orix Corp. have agreed to cancel a controversial 10.9 billion yen contract for Japan Post's sale of 70 ''Kampo-no-yado'' inns and nine housing facilities to Orix. (Kyodo)

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Japan Post, Orix agree to cancel 'Kampo-no-yado' inn network sale

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa is surrounded by reporters and photographers at the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 13 after talks with communication minister Kunio Hatoyama. Nishikawa was quoted as telling Hatoyama that Japan Post and leasing firm Orix Corp. have agreed to cancel a controversial 10.9 billion yen contract for Japan Post's sale of 70 ''Kampo-no-yado'' inns and nine housing facilities to Orix. (Kyodo)

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Minister urges Japan Post to make Kampo inn network profitable

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Kunio Hatoyama (L) hands over to Yoshifumi Nishikawa, president of Japan Post Holdings Co., a note to approve Japan Post's business program for fiscal 2009 at his office in Tokyo on March 31. (Kyodo)

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Hatoyama issues business-improvement order to Japan Post

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Kunio Hatoyama (L front) hands a business-improvement order to Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (R) at the ministry on April 3. Hatoyama issued the order following Japan Post's aborted contract to sell the ''Kampo-no-yado'' nationwide resort inn network. (Kyodo)

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Japan Post President Nishikawa offers to discipline himself

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (standing) answers questions during a House of Representatives committee session on June 18. Nishikawa offered to discipline himself over scandals, such as the company's failed sale of the Kampo-no-yado nationwide resort inn network, while suggesting that he intends to remain as president. (Kyodo)

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Minister Sato OKs Nishikawa's reappointment as Japan Post head

TOKYO, Japan - Internal affairs minister Tsutomu Sato meets the press after talks with Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa at his office on June 22. Sato said he has decided to authorize the reappointment of Nishikawa after he offered to take a disciplinary pay cut over a scandal involving an abortive plan to sell the Kampo-no-yado nationwide resort inn network. (Kyodo)

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Growing plants for medicinal use in Nara Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Members of "farming Kitora" harvest Angelica acutiloba, an ingredient of Kampo medicine, Japan's traditional herbal medicine, in the village of Asuka, Nara Prefecture, in December 2014. Demand for plants used in Kampo medicine has been increasing in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Chelsea Flower Show

Photo taken in London on May 21, 2019, shows the "Kampo no Niwa" (garden of Chinese herbal medicine) by Japanese garden designers Kazuto Kashiwakura and Miki Sato, a gold medal-winning garden at the 2019 Chelsea Flower Show. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nishikawa's reappointment approved by Japan Post shareholders

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (R) attends a shareholders meeting in Tokyo on June 29. He was approved to remain at the helm of Japan Post despite a series of scandals such as an aborted attempt to sell the Kampo-no-yado resort network. (Kyodo)

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Nishikawa's reappointment approved by Japan Post shareholders

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (R) attends a shareholders meeting in Tokyo on June 29. He was approved to remain at the helm of Japan Post despite a series of scandals such as an aborted attempt to sell the Kampo-no-yado resort network. At left is a senior Finance Ministry official who attended as a government representative. (Kyodo)

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(1)Gov't panel debates privatization of postal services

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L), accompanied by his Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Heizo Takenaka, presides over a meeting of his key policy-setting panel called to discuss privatization of the public postal services, including a plan to put the three main businesses -- mail delivery, postal savings and ''kampo'' life insurance -- independently under a holding company. (Kyodo)

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(1)Japan Post takes over postal services from gov't

TOKYO, Japan - The new logo of Japan Post, which takes over the governmental Postal Services Agency, is unveiled during an inauguration ceremony in Tokyo on April 1. Capitalized at 1 trillion yen, Japan Post has taken over the three services of mail delivery, postal savings and ''kampo'' life insurance from the agency. (Kyodo)