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New antivirus hospital operating room to go on sale

OSAKA, Japan - Kikuo Toyoda, senior managing director at major industrial gas and medical product supplier Air Water Inc., speaks at a news conference in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 18, 2014, about the company's new antivirus hospital operating room that will be available from April 2015. Air Water aims to win contracts for 100 rooms in the first fiscal year.

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BOJ vice governor

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata gives a lecture at Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on May 26, 2014.

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BOJ deputy chief Iwata

KYOTO, Japan - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata gives a speech in Kyoto, western Japan, on Aug. 28, 2013. Iwata said clear improvements in economic activity induced by the central bank's ultra monetary easing may be evident by year-end.

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BOJ deputy chief Iwata

KYOTO, Japan - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata gives a speech in Kyoto, western Japan, on Aug. 28, 2013. Iwata said clear improvements in economic activity induced by the central bank's ultra monetary easing may be evident by year-end.

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New BOJ governor starts work

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda (C) and Deputy Governors Kikuo Iwata (L) and Hiroshi Nakaso (R) shake hands at the BOJ head office in Tokyo on March 21, 2013. Their appointments were effective as of March 20, a national holiday, and they started working at the central bank March 21.

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New BOJ governor starts work

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda (C) and Deputy Governors Kikuo Iwata (L) and Hiroshi Nakaso (R) shake hands at the BOJ head office in Tokyo on March 21, 2013. Their appointments were effective as of March 20, a national holiday, and they started working at the central bank March 21.

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New BOJ governor starts work

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda speaks during a press conference at the BOJ head office in Tokyo on March 21, 2013. The appointments of Kuroda and Deputy Governors Kikuo Iwata and Hiroshi Nakaso were effective as of March 20, a national holiday, and they started working at the central bank March 21.

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Bank of Japan new leadership

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda (front R) and Deputy Governors Hiroshi Nakaso (back R) and Kikuo Iwata (back L) leave the prime minister's office in Tokyo after meeting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and receiving their letters of appointment on March 21, 2013, a day after they took office at the central bank.

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Bank of Japan new leadership

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda (L) and Deputy Governors Hiroshi Nakaso (R) and Kikuo Iwata (C) are pictured in the Diet in Tokyo on March 21, 2013, a day after they took office at the central bank.

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Bank of Japan new leadership

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo to meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and receive his letter of appointment on March 21, 2013, a day after taking office at the central bank.

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New BOJ leadership approved

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Kikuo Iwata, one of the new deputy governors of the Bank of Japan. Japan's parliament approved March 15, 2013, the nominations of Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda for Bank of Japan governor and Gakushuin University professor Kikuo Iwata and BOJ Executive Director Hiroshi Nakaso for deputy chiefs.

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New BOJ leadership approved

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Haruhiko Kuroda, new governor of the Bank of Japan. Japan's parliament approved March 15, 2013, the nominations of Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda for Bank of Japan governor and Gakushuin University professor Kikuo Iwata and BOJ Executive Director Hiroshi Nakaso for deputy chiefs.

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BOJ deputy nominees

TOKYO, Japan - The government's two nominees for Bank of Japan deputy governor, Kikuo Iwata (R) and Hiroshi Nakaso, attend their confirmation hearing at the House of Councillors in Tokyo on March 12, 2013.

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Hearing on BOJ deputy nomination

TOKYO, Japan - Gakushuin University professor Kikuo Iwata, one of the government's nominees for Bank of Japan deputy governor, speaks at a confirmation hearing at a lower house panel in Tokyo on March 5, 2013, held to determine whether he is qualified for one of the two posts. To the right is the other nominee Hiroshi Nakaso, an executive director of the central bank.

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Hearing on BOJ deputy nomination

TOKYO, Japan - Gakushuin University professor Kikuo Iwata, one of the government's nominees for Bank of Japan deputy governor, speaks at a confirmation hearing at a lower house panel in Tokyo on March 5, 2013, held to determine whether he is qualified for one of the two posts.

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Professor Iwata

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Gakushuin University professor Kikuo Iwata. The government plans to nominate Iwata, who has called for aggressive monetary easing, as the Bank of Japan's next deputy governor, sources close to the matter said on Feb. 25, 2013.

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Top court reinstates lay judges' acquittal in drug case

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyers for Kikuo Anzai display a banner that reads ''not guilty'' outside the Supreme Court in Tokyo, on Feb. 13, 2012. The Supreme Court acquitted the former business executive of drug smuggling charges in a closely watched case, after a high court found him guilty by overturning an initial acquittal by lay judges at a district court.

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Senba Kitcho admits responsibility in mislabeling scam

KYOTO, Japan - Sachiko Yuki (front) and Kikuo Yuki (in back), board directors of the high-class Japanese restaurant chain Senba Kitcho K.K., apologize during a news conference at a Kyoto hotel on Dec. 10 after the Osaka-based firm admitted the responsibility of its executives for false labeling of its beef and other products.

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Senba Kitcho admits executive's role in mislabeling

KYOTO, Japan - Sachiko Yuki (L) and Kikuo Yuki, board directors of high-class Japanese restaurant chain Senba Kitcho K.K., bow in apology during a press conference at a Kyoto hotel on Dec. 10 after submitting a report to the farm ministry's regional office. In the report, Senba Kicho admitted responsibility for the false labeling of its beef and other products.

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Hayashiya Kikuo

Hayashiya Kikuo, comic storyteller (photo taken on May 25, 2007)

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Senba Kitcho admits responsibility in mislabeling scam

KYOTO, Japan - Sachiko Yuki (front) and Kikuo Yuki (in back), board directors of the high-class Japanese restaurant chain Senba Kitcho K.K., apologize during a news conference at a Kyoto hotel on Dec. 10 after the Osaka-based firm admitted the responsibility of its executives for false labeling of its beef and other products. (Kyodo)

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BOJ says 2 board members without diplomas "completed" PhD programs

Undated combined photo shows Bank of Japan Policy Board member Makoto Sakurai and Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata. The central bank said on May 9, 2016, that its website states the two Policy Board members "completed a Ph.D. program in economics" at the University of Tokyo graduate school, not that they held doctoral degrees, responding to a weekly magazine report that said Sakurai may have fabricated details of his academic record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Empress Michiko attends piano recital in Tokyo

Empress Michiko attends a piano recital by Japanese pianist Kikuo Watanabe marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius at a hall in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2015. (Pool photo by Asahi Shimbun) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Slowdown in emerging economies biggest risk

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata attends a press conference in the western Japanese city of Okayama on Dec. 2, 2015. During his speech there, Iwata said a further slowdown in Chinese and other emerging economies is the "most significant risk" to achieving the central bank's 2 percent inflation target. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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BOJ chief says Japan economy recovering moderately

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda (L) and Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata attend the bank's quarterly meeting with branch managers at the BOJ headquarters in Tokyo on July 6, 2015. Kuroda said in the meeting that Japan's economy is recovering moderately and that trend is likely to continue under the central bank's large-scale monetary easing policy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukuoka radio station's mascot on live program

FM Fukuoka Inc. mascot "Kumano Kikuo," also known as "Kuma P," debuts on a live radio program of the broadcaster on March 31, 2015. The radio station in the southwestern Japan city started broadcasting in 1970, the year the producer-mimicking character was born. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farmer harvests rice driving from seeds gathered in Nagasaki after A-bombing

Kikuo Sakai examines a bunch of harvested rice stalks grown from seeds deriving from those collected in Nagasaki in 1945 after the atomic bombing of the southwestern Japanese city, as seen in this photo taken in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 12, 2015. Sakai, who is among more than 20 farmers cultivating such "radiated rice" to remember the A-bombing tragedy, says half of rice ears are empty due to chromosomal aberrancy stemming from the lingering effects of radiation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farmer harvests rice driving from seeds gathered in Nagasaki after A-bombing

Kikuo Sakai examines a bunch of harvested rice stalks grown from seeds deriving from those collected in Nagasaki in 1945 after the atomic bombing of the southwestern Japanese city, as seen in this photo taken in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 12, 2015. Sakai, who is among more than 20 farmers cultivating such "radiated rice" to remember the A-bombing tragedy, says half of rice ears are empty due to chromosomal aberrancy stemming from the lingering effects of radiation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Senba Kitcho admits executive's role in mislabeling

KYOTO, Japan - Sachiko Yuki (L) and Kikuo Yuki, board directors of high-class Japanese restaurant chain Senba Kitcho K.K., bow in apology during a press conference at a Kyoto hotel on Dec. 10 after submitting a report to the farm ministry's regional office. In the report, Senba Kicho admitted responsibility for the false labeling of its beef and other products. (Kyodo)

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Top court reinstates lay judges' acquittal in drug case

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyers for Kikuo Anzai display a banner that reads ''not guilty'' outside the Supreme Court in Tokyo, on Feb. 13, 2012. The Supreme Court acquitted the former business executive of drug smuggling charges in a closely watched case, after a high court found him guilty by overturning an initial acquittal by lay judges at a district court. (Kyodo)

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New antivirus hospital operating room to go on sale

OSAKA, Japan - Kikuo Toyoda, senior managing director at major industrial gas and medical product supplier Air Water Inc., speaks at a news conference in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 18, 2014, about the company's new antivirus hospital operating room that will be available from April 2015. Air Water aims to win contracts for 100 rooms in the first fiscal year. (Kyodo)

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8th anniversary of massive New Zealand quake

Kikuo (R) and Chizuko Suzuki, who lost their daughter Yoko in the 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, touch the memorial wall which has their daughter's name engraved on it, at the Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial in the city on Feb. 22, 2019, the eighth anniversary of the disaster. The quake killed 185 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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8th anniversary of massive New Zealand quake

Kikuo (back) and Chizuko Suzuki, who lost their 31-year-old daughter Yoko in the 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, offer prayers at the former Canterbury Television Building site in the city on Feb. 21, 2019, a day before the quake's eighth anniversary.(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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8th anniversary of massive New Zealand quake

Kikuo (L) and Chizuko Suzuki, who lost their 31-year-old daughter Yoko in the 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, visit the Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial in the city on Feb. 21, 2019, a day before the quake's eighth anniversary. The earthquake killed 185 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Families of quake victims open memorial garden in NZ's Christchurch

Kikuo (L) and Chizuko Suzuki offer prayers after placing flowers at a memorial garden in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 21, 2018, for the 115 people who died when an office building collapsed there during a devastating 2011 earthquake. Their 31-year-old daughter, Yoko, was one of those killed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Monetary easing still necessary in Japan: BOJ deputy gov.

Bank Of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata makes a speech in the city of Aomori on June 22, 2017. Iwata said large-scale monetary easing is still necessary in order to achieve the central bank's 2 percent inflation target. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Monetary easing still necessary in Japan: BOJ deputy gov.

Bank Of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata makes a speech in the city of Aomori on June 22, 2017. Iwata said large-scale monetary easing is still necessary in order to achieve the central bank's 2 percent inflation target. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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BOJ deputy governor speaks in Nagasaki

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata holds a press conference in Nagasaki on Dec. 7, 2016, after making a speech to business leaders. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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BOJ Deputy Gov. delivers speech in Nagasaki

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata talks about the central bank's policies in his speech in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Dec. 7, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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BOJ Deputy Governor Iwata rules out "helicopter money"

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata speaks at a press conference in Yokohama on Aug. 4, 2016. Iwata ruled out the possibility of introducing so-called "helicopter money," saying it is "not productive" to discuss the extremely radical monetary easing policy without clearly defining it. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo