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Kubota President's Succession Press Conference

Kubota President Transition Press Conference. photo shows, from right: Shingo Hanada, Representative Director and Vice President, scheduled to become the next Representative Director, President and CEO; Yuichi Kitao, Representative Director and President, scheduled to become the next Representative Director and Chairman.=October 22,2025,Tokyo

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Kubota President's Succession Press Conference

Kubota President Transition Press Conference. photo shows, from right: Shingo Hanada, Representative Director and Vice President, scheduled to become the next Representative Director, President and CEO; Yuichi Kitao, Representative Director and President, scheduled to become the next Representative Director and Chairman.=October 22,2025,Tokyo

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Press Conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG, SBI Holdings and others

Press conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG and SBI Holdings. Photo shows Toru Nakajima, President and Group CEO of Sumitomo Mitsui FG (left) and Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings, shaking hands.=June 16,2025,Tokyo

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Press Conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG, SBI Holdings and others

Press conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG and SBI Holdings. Photo shows Toru Nakajima, Group CEO and President of Sumitomo Mitsui FG (third from left) and Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings, answering questions.=June 16,2025,Tokyo

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Press Conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG, SBI Holdings and others

Press conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG and SBI Holdings. Photo shows Toru Nakajima, President and Group CEO of Sumitomo Mitsui FG (left) and Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings.=June 16,2025,Tokyo

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Press Conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG, SBI Holdings and others

Press conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG and SBI Holdings. Photo shows Toru Nakajima, President Group CEO of Sumitomo Mitsui FG (left) and Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and President of SBI Holdings, explaining.=June 16,2025,Tokyo

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Press Conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG, SBI Holdings and others

Press conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG, SBI Holdings, and others. Photo shows (from left) Shuji Yoshioka, President and CEO of SMBC Nikko Securities; Yukihiko Onishi, President and CEO of SMCC; Toru Nakajima, President and Group CEO of SMFG; Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings; and Masato Takamura, President of SBI Securities.=June 16,2025,Tokyo

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NTT DOCOMO press conference on acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank

NTT DOCOMO's press conference on the acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Photo shows, from left, Yoshiaki Maeda, President of NTT DOCOMO, Akira Shimada, President of NTT, Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings, and Noriaki Maruyama, President of SBI Sumishin Net Bank.=May 29,2025,Tokyo

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NTT DOCOMO press conference on acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank

NTT DOCOMO's press conference on the acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Photo shows, from left, Yoshiaki Maeda, President of NTT DOCOMO, Akira Shimada, President of NTT, Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings, and Noriaki Maruyama, President of SBI Sumishin Net Bank.=May 29,2025,Tokyo

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NTT DOCOMO press conference on acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank

NTT DOCOMO's press conference on the acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Photo shows NTT President Akira Shimada and Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings.=May 29,2025,Tokyo

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NTT DOCOMO press conference on acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank

NTT DOCOMO's press conference on the acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Photo shows, from left, Yoshiaki Maeda, President of NTT DOCOMO, Akira Shimada, President of NTT, Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings, and Noriaki Maruyama, President of SBI Sumishin Net Bank.=May 29,2025,Tokyo

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NTT DOCOMO press conference on acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank

NTT DOCOMO's press conference on the acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Photo shows, from left, Yoshiaki Maeda, President of NTT DOCOMO, Akira Shimada, President of NTT, Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings, and Noriaki Maruyama, President of SBI Sumishin Net Bank.=May 29,2025,Tokyo

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NTT DOCOMO press conference on acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank

NTT DOCOMO's press conference on the acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Photo shows NTT President Akira Shimada and Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings.=May 29,2025,Tokyo

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NTT DOCOMO press conference on acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank

NTT DOCOMO's press conference on the acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Photo shows, from left, Yoshiaki Maeda, President of NTT DOCOMO, Akira Shimada, President of NTT, Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings, and Noriaki Maruyama, President of SBI Sumishin Net Bank.=May 29,2025,Tokyo

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SBI Holdings CEO Yoshitaka Kitao

SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao attends a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 8, 2024.

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Rice price futures index's listing

OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 20 Kyodo - SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao, Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Masayoshi Matsumoto, Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama and Osaka Dojima Exchange Inc. President Wataru Ariga pose for a photo in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 20, 2024, in a ceremony marking the listing a week before of a Japanese rice price futures index on the Osaka Dojima Exchange. (Kyodo)

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Rice price futures index's listing

SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao speaks in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 20, 2024, in a ceremony marking the listing a week before of a Japanese rice price futures index on the Osaka Dojima Exchange.

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Rice price futures index's listing

(from L) SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao, Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Masayoshi Matsumoto, Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama and Osaka Dojima Exchange Inc. President Wataru Ariga pose for a photo in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 20, 2024, in a ceremony marking the listing a week before of a Japanese rice price futures index on the Osaka Dojima Exchange.

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Rice price futures index's listing

(from L) SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao, Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Masayoshi Matsumoto, Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama and Osaka Dojima Exchange Inc. President Wataru Ariga break a sake cask in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 20, 2024, in a ceremony marking the listing a week before of a Japanese rice price futures index on the Osaka Dojima Exchange.

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SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference

SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference. From left to right: Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and President, SBI Holdings; Chong Jin Hwang, Chairman and Representative Director, Powerchip Group; and Chairman and Representative Director, PSMC=Date:October 31, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference

SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference. From left to right: Yoshihiro Murai, Governor of Miyagi Prefecture; Takahito Hwang, Chairman of Powerchip Group and Representative Director of PSMC; Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman of the Board and President of SBI Holdings; Wu Yuan Xiong, President of PSMC Japan=Date:October 31, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference

SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference. Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and President, SBI Holdings=Date:October 31, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference

SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference. From left to right: Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and President, SBI Holdings; Chong Jin Hwang, Chairman and Representative Director, Powerchip Group; and Chairman and Representative Director, PSMC=Date:October 31, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference

SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference. From left to right: Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and President, SBI Holdings; Chong Jin Hwang, Chairman and Representative Director, Powerchip Group; and Chairman and Representative Director, PSMC=Date:October 31, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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SBI Holdings Chairman Kitao

Yoshitaka Kitao, chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. SBI and Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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SBI Holdings Chairman Kitao

Yoshitaka Kitao, chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. SBI and Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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Press conference by Japan's SBI, Taiwan's PSMC

Yoshitaka Kitao (L), chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., and Frank Huang, chairman of Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., shake hands at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. The two companies said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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Press conference by Japan's SBI, Taiwan's PSMC

Yoshitaka Kitao (L), chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., and Frank Huang, chairman of Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., attend a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. The two companies said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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SBI Holdings Chairman Kitao

Yoshitaka Kitao, chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. SBI and Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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SBI Holdings establishes a preparatory company for the semiconductor field.

SBI Holdings establishes a preparatory company for the semiconductor field. Photo shows Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and President of SBI Holdings.=Date:July 5, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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SBI Holdings establishes a preparatory company for the semiconductor field.

SBI Holdings establishes a preparatory company for the semiconductor field. Photo shows Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and President of SBI Holdings.=Date:July 5, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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SBI Holdings establishes a preparatory company for the semiconductor field.

SBI Holdings establishes a preparatory company for the semiconductor field. Photo shows, from left, Frank Huang, Chairman of Powerchip Group, Chairman of PSMC, and Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman of the Board and President of SBI Holdings.=Date:July 5, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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SBI Holdings establishes a preparatory company for the semiconductor field.

SBI Holdings establishes a preparatory company for the semiconductor field. Photo from left to right: Wu Yuan Xiong, President and Representative Director of PSMC Japan; Huang Chong Ren, Chairman and Representative Director of Powerchip Group and Chairman of PSMC; Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and Representative Director and President of SBI Holdings; Masato Takamura, Vice President and Representative Director of SBI Holdings and President of SBI Securities. =Date:July 5, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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SBI Holdings establishes a preparatory company for the semiconductor field.

SBI Holdings establishes a preparatory company for the semiconductor field. Photo shows Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and President of SBI Holdings.=Date:July 5, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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SBI to delist Shinsei Bank

SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao unveils a plan to delist subsidiary Shinsei Bank to pay back funds the lender owes to taxpayers at a press conference in Tokyo on May 12, 2023. Shinsei Bank has been unable to repay the public money its predecessor bank received decades ago as its share prices have long underperformed.

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SBI to delist Shinsei Bank

SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao unveils a plan to delist subsidiary Shinsei Bank to pay back funds the lender owes to taxpayers at a press conference in Tokyo on May 12, 2023. Shinsei Bank has been unable to repay the public money its predecessor bank received decades ago as its share prices have long underperformed.

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Sumitomo Trust, SBI Holdings to create Net bank

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. President Yutaka Morita (L) and Yoshitaka Kitao, leader of SBI Holdings Inc., a venture capital firm of the Softbank Corp. group, shake hands at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 25 after announcing their agreement to create an Internet bank.

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(1)Japan wins gold in women's synchronized swimming

ROME, Italy - The Japanese women's synchronized swimming team performs at the Rome Open Synchronized Swimming Competition on June 8. The Japanese team, consisting of Emiko Suzuki, Saho Harada, Naoko Kawashima, Kanako Kitao, Ayako Matsumura, Masako Tachibana, Erika Komura and Takako Konishi, won the gold medal.

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Softbank Investment becomes Fuji TV's largest shareholder

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Investment Corp. Chief Executive Officer Yoshitaka Kitao smiles during a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on March 24. He said the company has become Fuji Television Network Inc.'s largest shareholder, with an equity stake of 13.88 percent.

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SBI Holdings CEO Kitao

SBI Holdings Inc. President and CEO Yoshitaka Kitao speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2021.

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SBI Holdings CEO Kitao

SBI Holdings Inc. President and CEO Yoshitaka Kitao speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2021.

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Softbank Investment becomes Fuji TV's largest shareholder

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Investment Corp. Chief Executive Officer Yoshitaka Kitao smiles during a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on March 24. He said the company has become Fuji Television Network Inc.'s largest shareholder, with an equity stake of 13.88 percent. (Kyodo)

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(1)Japan wins gold in women's synchronized swimming

ROME, Italy - The Japanese women's synchronized swimming team perform at the Rome Open Synchronized Swimming Competition on June 8. The Japanese team, consisting of Emiko Suzuki, Saho Harada, Naoko Kawashima, Kanako Kitao, Ayako Matsumura, Masako Tachibana, Erika Komura and Takako Konishi, won the gold medal. (Kyodo)

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Sumitomo Trust, SBI Holdings to create Net bank

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. President Yutaka Morita (L) and Yoshitaka Kitao, leader of SBI Holdings Inc., a venture capital firm of the Softbank Corp. group, shake hands at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 25 after announcing their agreement to create an Internet bank. (Kyodo)

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Yoshitaka KITAO -CFO-Softbank

Yoshitaka KITAO -- CFO of Softbank (At the interview with Kyodo News December 9, 1998)

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"Prison idols" singing duo helping inmates get back on life's track

Prison idol duo Paix2, comprising Manami Kitao (L) and Megumi Ikatsu, hold a concert for inmates at Yokohama Prison in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Jan. 27, 2016. The signboard above the stage was prepared by inmates. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Prison idols" singing duo helping inmates get back on life's track

Prison idol duo Paix2, comprising Manami Kitao (L) and Megumi Ikatsu, hold a concert for inmates at Yokohama Prison in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Jan. 27, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Prison idols" singing duo helping inmates get back on life's track

Manami Kitao (L) and Megumi Ikatsu, members of prison idol duo Paix2, pose for photos at Yokohama Prison in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, after giving a concert for inmates there on Jan. 27, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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SBI Holdings CEO Kitao

SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2020.

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SBI Holdings CEO Kitao

SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2020.