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JAXA info center closes

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa (L), president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA, Junichiro Kawaguchi (C), professor and JAXA manager of the Hayabusa space probe project, and astronaut Akihiko Hoshide speak at an event to mark the closure of JAXAi, the space agency's information center in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2010. The center, which opened in 2004, closed as part of government spending cuts.

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3 astronauts including Japan's Noguchi lift off from Kazakhstan

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Keiji Tachikawa, president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, speaks to reporters at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Dec. 21, 2009, after seeing the successful launch of Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft carrying Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and two others.

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(3)Japan launches H-2A rocket

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa (L), president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nariaki Nakaayma shake hands at Tanegashima Space Center, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Feb. 26 after Japan launched an H-2A rocket that put a transport satellite into orbit.

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NTT DoCoMo suffers 7.8% fall in group operating profit

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 30. The mobile phone service provider said its group operating profit slid 7.8% in the six months to Sept. 30 from a year earlier to 590.11 billion yen, the first fall in the half-year period since its listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1998.

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NTT DoCoMo's pretax profit tops 1 tril. yen on robust sales

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa speaks to reporters in Tokyo on May 8 about the company's earnings report for fiscal 2002 ended March 31.

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NTT DoCoMo to seek Asian partners to promote 3G mobile service

DAVOS, Switzerland - NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa spoke in an interview with Kyodo News in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 27 about the company's business strategy for its third-generation (3G) mobile phone service. Tachikawa is in Davos to attend the World Economic Forum.

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NTT DoCoMo posts 168.35 bil. yen loss for 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 7 about the company's midterm earnings report. NTT DoCoMo posted an unconsolidated net loss of 168.35 billion yen in the fiscal first half to Sept. 30. At the group level, the company managed to log a net profit of 4.17 billion yen.

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NTT DoCoMo suffers 99% net profit dive

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa, president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., speaks with the media in Tokyo on May 8. The company suffered a 99.8% drop in group net profit in the year ended March 31 to 862 million yen, as it wrote down its shareholdings in foreign allies in which it had invested heavily.

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NTT DoCoMo licenses i-mode technologies to France's Bouygues

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa (R), president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., and Martin Bouygues (L), president and CEO of French mobile phone service provider Bouygues Telecom S.A., shake hands April 17 after announcing an agreement under which NTT DoCoMo will license and transfer its popular i-mode mobile Internet service technologies to enable the French firm to offer the services in France.

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NTT DoCoMo to post heavy losses on foreign investments

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa talks with the media at his office in Tokyo on April 4. He said the company will post an additional appraisal loss of 550 billion yen on its overseas investments for the year to March 31, pushing Japan's largest mobile phone operator into the red for the first time since it went public in 1998.

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NTT DoCoMo, Nokia tie up on standardizing 3G technologies

TOKYO, Nov. 14 Kyodo - Nokia CEO Jorman Ollila (R) and NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2001. They announced the two firms will cooperate in standardizing technologies for third-generation (3G) high-speed mobile phone services. They will work to unify the protocol for browsing by the end of this year and call on content providers around the world to adopt the protocol.

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NTT DoCoMo posts unconsolidated net loss in 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa, president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., speaks at a news conference Nov. 7 in Tokyo. He said the company incurred an unconsolidated net loss of 27.81 billion yen in the April-September first half of fiscal 2001 in stark contrast to a net profit of 101.45 billion yen a year earlier.

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NTT DoCoMo to start FOMA 3rd-generation mobile service Oct. 1

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa, president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., speaks at a press conference in a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward about the company's third-generation mobile phone service. Tachikawa said NTT DoCoMo will start the service, called FOMA -- short for ''freedom of mobile multimedia access'' -- on Oct. 1.

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NTT DoCoMo posts 45% surge in group profit

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa, president of Japan's top mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo Inc., speaks at a news conference May 9. The company announced a record group net profit of 365.51 billion yen in fiscal 2000, up 45.0% from the previous year, on the strength of its popular Internet services.

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DoCoMo's Tachikawa named Asia's businessman of year

HONG KONG - Photo shows NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer Keiji Tachikawa, who has been named Asia's Businessman of the Year for 2000 by Fortune. The U.S.-based magazine said it chose Tachikawa for ''his role in one of the world's greatest business successes'' last year.

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NTT DoCoMo, AOL announce tie-up deal

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa (L), president of NTT DoCoMo Inc. of Japan, and America Online International President Michael Lynton attend a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 27 to announce that NTT DoCoMo and America Online Inc. have reached a tie-up agreement. The accord will make Japan's mobile phone giant the largest shareholder in AOL's Japanese unit.

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NTT DoCoMo, Dentsu form venture

TOKYO, Japan - Dentsu Inc. President Yutaka Narita (L), Dentsu Executive Akihisa Fujita (C) and NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa (R), shake hands June 1 after announcing the formation of a joint venture to help corporate clients advertise goods and services on Websites accessible via NTT's ''i-mode'' Internet-capable mobile phones. Fujita is to assume the presidency of the new company, D2 Communications Inc.

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NTT DoCoMo posts unconsolidated net loss in 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa, president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., speaks at a news conference Nov. 7 in Tokyo. He said the company incurred an unconsolidated net loss of 27.81 billion yen in the April-September first half of fiscal 2001 in stark contrast to a net profit of 101.45 billion yen a year earlier.

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NTT DoCoMo, Nokia tie up on standardizing 3G technologies

TOKYO, Nov. 14 Kyodo - Nokia CEO Jorman Ollila (R) and NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2001. They announced the two firms will cooperate in standardizing technologies for third-generation (3G) high-speed mobile phone services. They will work to unify the protocol for browsing by the end of this year and call on content providers around the world to adopt the protocol.

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NTT DoCoMo to post heavy losses on foreign investments

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa talks with the media at his office in Tokyo on April 4. He said the company will post an additional appraisal loss of 550 billion yen on its overseas investments for the year to March 31, pushing Japan's largest mobile phone operator into the red for the first time since it went public in 1998.

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(3)Japan launches H-2A rocket

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa (L), president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nariaki Nakaayma shake hands at Tanegashima Space Center, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Feb. 26 after Japan launched an H-2A rocket that put a transport satellite into orbit. (Kyodo)

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NTT DoCoMo licenses i-mode technologies to France's Bouygues

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa (R), president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., and Martin Bouygues (L), president and CEO of French mobile phone service provider Bouygues Telecom S.A., shake hands April 17 after announcing an agreement under which NTT DoCoMo will license and transfer its popular i-mode mobile Internet service technologies to enable the French firm to offer the services in France.

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NTT DoCoMo posts 45% surge in group profit

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa, president of Japan's top mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo Inc., speaks at a news conference May 9. The company announced a record group net profit of 365.51 billion yen in fiscal 2000, up 45.0% from the previous year, on the strength of its popular Internet services.

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NTT DoCoMo, Dentsu form venture

TOKYO, Japan - Dentsu Inc. President Yutaka Narita (L), Dentsu Executive Akihisa Fujita (C) and NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa (R), shake hands June 1 after announcing the formation of a joint venture to help corporate clients advertise goods and services on Websites accessible via NTT's ''i-mode'' Internet-capable mobile phones. Fujita is to assume the presidency of the new company, D2 Communications Inc.

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Keiji Tachikawa, President of NTT DoCoMo, Japan

Keiji Tachikawa, President of NTT DoCoMo, Japan 06/22/00

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JAXA info center closes

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa (L), president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA, Junichiro Kawaguchi (C), professor and JAXA manager of the Hayabusa space probe project, and astronaut Akihiko Hoshide speak at an event to mark the closure of JAXAi, the space agency's information center in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2010. The center, which opened in 2004, closed as part of government spending cuts. (Kyodo)

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3 astronauts including Japan's Noguchi lift off from Kazakhstan

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Keiji Tachikawa, president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, speaks to reporters at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Dec. 21, 2009, after seeing the successful launch of Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft carrying Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and two others. (Kyodo)

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NTT DoCoMo to promote Tsuda to president

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. will promote Shiro Tsuda (photo), senior vice president, to president, succeeding Keiji Tachikawa, company sources said on April 8. The appointment of Tsuda, 58, will be finalized at a board meeting to be held soon after a shareholders' meeting in June. Photo was provided by NTT DoCoMo (Kyodo)

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NTT DoCoMo suffers 7.8% fall in group operating profit+

TOKYO, Japan, - NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 30. The mobile phone service provider said its group operating profit slid 7.8% in the six months to Sept. 30 from a year earlier to 590.11 billion yen, the first fall in the half-year period since its listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1998. (Kyodo)

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NTT DoCoMo's pretax profit tops 1 tril. yen on robust sales

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa speaks to reporters in Tokyo on May 8 about the company's earnings report for fiscal 2002 ended March 31. (Kyodo)

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NTT DoCoMo to seek Asian partners to promote 3G mobile service

DAVOS, Switzerland - NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa spoke in an interview with Kyodo News in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 27 about the company's business strategy for its third-generation (3G) mobile phone service. Tachikawa is in Davos to attend the World Economic Forum. (Kyodo)

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NTT DoCoMo posts 168.35 bil. yen loss for 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 7 about the company's midterm earnings report. NTT DoCoMo posted an unconsolidated net loss of 168.35 billion yen in the fiscal first half to Sept. 30. At the group level, the company managed to log a net profit of 4.17 billion yen. (Kyodo)

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NTT DoCoMo suffers 99% net profit dive

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa, president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., speaks with the media in Tokyo on May 8. The company suffered a 99.8% drop in group net profit in the year ended March 31 to 862 million yen, as it wrote down its shareholdings in foreign allies in which it had invested heavily.

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NTT DoCoMo to start FOMA 3rd-generation mobile service Oct. 1

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa, president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., speaks at a press conference in a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward about the company's third-generation mobile phone service. Tachikawa said NTT DoCoMo will start the service, called FOMA -- short for ''freedom of mobile multimedia access'' -- on Oct. 1.

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DoCoMo's Tachikawa named Asia's businessman of year

HONG KONG - Photo shows NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer Keiji Tachikawa, who has been named Asia's Businessman of the Year for 2000 by Fortune. The U.S.-based magazine said it chose Tachikawa for ''his role in one of the world's greatest business successes'' last year.

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NTT DoCoMo announces plan to buy stake in AT&T Wireless

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa (L) and AT&T Wireless Group President and CEO Jordan Roderick shake hands at a Tokyo hotel Nov. 30 after announcing an agreement in which Japan's biggest cell phone operator will acquire a 16% stake in the third largest mobile phone service operator in the United States.

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NTT DoCoMo, AOL announce tie-up deal

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa (L), president of NTT DoCoMo Inc. of Japan, and America Online International President Michael Lynton attend a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 27 to announce that NTT DoCoMo and America Online Inc. have reached a tie-up agreement. The accord will make Japan's mobile phone giant the largest shareholder in AOL's Japanese unit.