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Five companies, including Govmates, reach basic agreement to support business reform of small and medium-sized local governments.

Five companies, including Govmates, reach basic agreement to support business reform of small and medium-sized local governments. From right to left: Mikio Beppu, President of Gabermates; Norihiko Koshida, Director and Executive Officer of AltiusLink; Yoshiki Numano, Managing Executive Officer of Dai Nippon Printing; Tomoki Kosaka, Senior Executive Officer of Dentsu International Information Service; Takeyuki Ishii, Chief Business Officer of RPA Technologies=Date:November 7, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Five companies, including Govmates, reach basic agreement to support business reform of small and medium-sized local governments.

Five companies, including Govmates, reach basic agreement to support business reform of small and medium-sized local governments. From right to left: Mikio Beppu, President of Gabermates; Norihiko Koshida, Director and Executive Officer of AltiusLink; Yoshiki Numano, Managing Executive Officer of Dai Nippon Printing; Tomoki Kosaka, Senior Executive Officer of Dentsu International Information Service; Takeyuki Ishii, Chief Business Officer of RPA Technologies=Date:November 7, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Five companies, including Govmates, reach basic agreement to support business reform of small and medium-sized local governments.

Five companies, including Govmates, reach basic agreement to support business reform of small and medium-sized local governments. From right to left: Mikio Beppu, President of Gabermates; Norihiko Koshida, Director and Executive Officer of AltiusLink; Yoshiki Numano, Managing Executive Officer of Dai Nippon Printing; Tomoki Kosaka, Senior Executive Officer of Dentsu International Information Service; Takeyuki Ishii, Chief Business Officer of RPA Technologies=Date:November 7, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Museum featuring Sun Yat-sen, Japanese supporter opens in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Ayano Kosaka, a great granddaughter of Shokichi Umeya who supported the 1911 Chinese Revolution's spiritual leader Sun Yat-sen, speaks at a ceremony to open a museum exhibiting items related to the friendship between the two men, in the Japanese southwestern city of Nagasaki on April 26, 2014. The museum showcases exchanges between Shokichi Umeya (1868-1934), a Nagasaki businessman, and Sun (1866-1925) as well as historical background.

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Japan's construction industry

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in September 2013 in Sendai, Japan, shows Kazuki Kosaka, a 22-year-old employee of construction contractor Atsumi Kensetsu. The construction industry in Japan faces a lack of young workers like Kosaka.

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10 Japanese land on disputed Senkakus

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Eiji Kosaka (C), a member of the Arakawa ward assembly in Tokyo, answers reporters' questions at a port in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, on the afternoon of Aug. 19, 2012, after returning back from Uotsuri Island. Ten Japanese including Kosaka landed that morning on the island, one of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea and the focus of a territorial row with China.

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Descendant of Sun Yat-sen's major supporter to visit Taiwan

TOKYO, Japan - Ayano Kosaka (R), a great-granddaughter of Japanese businessman Shokichi Umeya, and Jin Pu-cong, secretary general of Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party, pose for photos in Tokyo in September 2010. Jin invited the descendant of a major supporter of the Chinese Revolution's spiritual leader Sun Yat-sen to visit Taiwan in mid-December ahead of the centennial of the 1911 revolution.

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Akita inspects chicken farms over deadly avian flu virus

AKITA, Japan - Health officials inspect a chicken farm near Lake Towada in Akita on April 30 after the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza was detected in dead swans found in the lakeside town Kosaka on April 21.

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Ruling coalition approves education law revision bill

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe (far right) hands a revision bill for the Fundamental Law of Education to Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) as New Komeito party Secretary General Tetsuzo Fuyushiba (far left) and education minister Kenji Kosaka (2nd from R) watch at the prime minister's official residence on April 13.

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N. Korea official invites NGO head to meet abductees' children

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Kosaka, head of the nongovernmental organization Rainbow Bridge, holds letters from children of Japanese abductees who have returned to Japan at a news conference Aug. 1 in Tokyo. Kosaka said he met the children in Pyongyang at the invitation of a North Korean official. (Pool photo)

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Importer arrested in illegal sale of Viagra

NAGOYA, Japan - Police arrested an importer Nov. 13, 2001 on suspicion of illegally selling Viagra (photographed) on the Internet in violation of the Pharmaceuticals Business Law. Police said Tetsuo Kosaka, 43, a resident of Owariasahi, Aichi Prefecture in central Japan, admitted that he sold on the Internet 100-milligram pills of the anti-impotence drug.

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Importer arrested in illegal sale of Viagra

NAGOYA, Japan - Police arrested an importer Nov. 13, 2001 on suspicion of illegally selling Viagra (photographed) on the Internet in violation of the Pharmaceuticals Business Law. Police said Tetsuo Kosaka, 43, a resident of Owariasahi, Aichi Prefecture in central Japan, admitted that he sold on the Internet 100-milligram pills of the anti-impotence drug.

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Ruling coalition approves education law revision bill

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe (far right) hands a revision bill for the Fundamental Law of Education to Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) as New Komeito party Secretary General Tetsuzo Fuyushiba (far left) and education minister Kenji Kosaka (2nd from R) watch at the prime minister's official residence on April 13. (Kyodo)

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Emperor, Empress inspect metal recycling technologies in Akita

AKITA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (C) and Empress Michiko (L) visit Kosaka Seiren (Refining) Corp. in Kosaka, Akita Prefecture on June 16 where they inspected the company's metal recycling technologies. The imperial couple were in Akita to attend a national tree plantation festival. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Prominent figures in art protest gov't move to merge big museums

TOKYO, Japan - Painter Ikuo Hirayama (L) hands a written statement to Education, Culture Sports, Science and Technology Minister Kenji Kosaka on Nov. 9, protesting a proposal to integrate two national museums and a research institute on cultural assets because of financial difficulties. The three institutions affected are the National Museum of Art, the Tokyo National Museum and the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Comedian Daimaou Kosaka runs in the Tokyo Olympic torch relay in a waterfront park in the northeastern Japan city of Aomori on June 10, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Comedian Daimaou Kosaka runs in the Tokyo Olympic torch relay in a waterfront park in the northeastern Japan city of Aomori on June 10, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Comedian Daimaou Kosaka transfers the Olympic flame to a cauldron after running in the Tokyo Olympic torch relay in a waterfront park in the northeastern Japan city of Aomori on June 10, 2021.

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Descendant of Sun Yat-sen's major supporter to visit Taiwan

TOKYO, Japan - Ayano Kosaka (R), a great-granddaughter of Japanese businessman Shokichi Umeya, and Jin Pu-cong, secretary general of Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party, pose for photos in Tokyo in September 2010. Jin invited the descendant of a major supporter of the Chinese Revolution's spiritual leader Sun Yat-sen to visit Taiwan in mid-December ahead of the centennial of the 1911 revolution. (Kyodo)

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Ex-education minister Kenji Kosaka dies at 70

Undated photo shows Kenji Kosaka, a former Japanese upper house lawmaker, who as education minister worked on the issue of damaged murals at a famed tumulus in Nara Prefecture. Kosaka died of cancer at a Tokyo hospital on Oct. 21, 2016 at the age of 70, the House of Councillors secretariat said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korea official invites NGO head to meet abductees' children

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Kosaka, head of the nongovernmental organization Rainbow Bridge, holds letters from children of Japanese abductees who have returned to Japan at a news conference Aug. 1 in Tokyo. Kosaka said he met the children in Pyongyang at the invitation of a North Korean official. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)