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Japan startup Space One postpones rocket launch

KUSHIMOTO, Japan, Dec. 14 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 14, 2024, shows the 18-meter-long solid-fuel Kairos No. 2 rocket at the commercial spaceport in Kushimoto in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan. Space One Co., which aims to become the first Japanese firm to put a satellite into orbit, said the same day it had postponed the launch of the rocket due to strong winds.

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Football: Ex-Japan captain Miyamoto heads governing body

New Japan Football Association President Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (L) shakes hands with his predecessor Kozo Tashima during a press conference held in Tokyo on March 23, 2024, to announce the handover of the job to the former Samurai Blue captain.

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Football: JFA chief Tashima

Japan Football Association chief Kozo Tashima gives an interview in Tokyo on Aug. 18, 2023.

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Football: JFA chief Tashima

Japan Football Association chief Kozo Tashima gives an interview in Tokyo on Aug. 18, 2023.

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Sharp posts 1st profit in 3 years

TOKYO, Japan - Kozo Takahashi, president of Sharp Corp., answers a reporter's question after releasing the company's earnings results for the nine months to Dec. 31, 2013, at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2014. Sharp reported a group net profit of 17.72 billion yen for the period, a turnaround from a year-earlier loss of 424.35 billion yen and its first black ink in three years.

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Sharp posts 1st profit in 3 years

TOKYO, Japan - Kozo Takahashi, president of Sharp Corp., answers a reporter's question after releasing the company's earnings results for the nine months to Dec. 31, 2013, at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2014. Sharp reported a group net profit of 17.72 billion yen for the period, a turnaround from a year-earlier loss of 424.35 billion yen and its first black ink in three years.

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Football: Japan new coach Nishino and JFA President Tashima

TOKYO, Japan, April 12 Kyodo - New Japan national football team head coach Akira Nishino and Japan Football Association President Kozo Tashima are pictured in Tokyo on April 12, 2018.

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Sharp to shift more production back to Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Kozo Takahashi, president of Sharp Corp., speaks during an interview in Osaka, Japan, on Jan. 6, 2015. Takahashi said the company plans to accelerate its move to shift production back to Japan, prompted by a sharply weaker yen.

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COO of 2015 AFC Asian Cup LOC, JFA deputy president hold cup

TOKYO, Japan - Mark Falvo (L), chief operating officer of the local organizing committee of the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, and Kozo Tashima, vice president of the Japan Football Association, hold the cup in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2014.

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Sharp's 1st-half operating profit falls 13.6%

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Kozo Takahashi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2014. Sharp said its group operating profit in the April-September half fell 13.6 percent from a year earlier to 29.22 billion yen.

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Baseball proponents vow to reinstate sport as Olympic game

TOKYO, Japan - Some participants in Olympic baseball games in the past 30 years vow to make efforts to reinstate baseball as an official Olympic event in a talk show at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2014. The event, held to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Japan's win in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics as a demonstration event, was joined by (from L) former player Katsumi Hirosawa, and former managers Masatake Yamanaka, Reiichi Matsunaga, Yoshinobu Suzuki, Katsuji Kawashima and Kozo Otagaki.

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Sharp remains in red in April-June

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Kozo Takahashi announces the company's earnings report for the April-June quarter on Aug. 1, 2014, in Tokyo, Japan. The company remained in the red in the reporting quarter for the fourth year, due to costs related to withdrawal from the solar battery business in Europe.

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Sharp gets IEEE Milestone for LCD advancement

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Kozo Takahashi (R) receives an IEEE Milestone award on June 10, 2014, in Osaka for the company's contribution to the advancement of the liquid crystal display industry. The IEEE, based in the United States, is the world's largest nonprofit association of electrical and electronics engineers.

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Sharp returns to black in FY 2013

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Kozo Takahashi holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 12, 2014, on the electronics maker's earnings results for fiscal 2013. Sharp said it returned to profitability in the business year ended March 2014 for the first time in three years, posting a group net profit of 11.56 billion yen, on increased sales of its mainstay liquid crystal display panels and solar batteries.

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JFA official speaks at Asian soccer groups' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Kozo Tashima, vice president of the Japan Football Association, speaks at a meeting in Tokyo with officials of soccer organizations from Association of Southeast Asian Nations member countries and East Asia on April 9, 2014.

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Japan's Paralympics medalists at Sochi

SOCHI, Russia - Japanese medalists at the Sochi Winter Paralympic Games - (from L) alpine skiers Taiki Morii, Takeshi Suzuki and Akira Kano, and biathlon and cross-country skier Kozo Kubo - pose with their medals on March 17, 2014, in Sochi, Russia.

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Sharp president speaks at opening of plant in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Sharp Corp. President Kozo Takahashi gives an address during the opening ceremony of the Japanese electronics maker's new plant in Karawang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia on Feb. 12, 2014.

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Sharp president

OSAKA, Japan - Kozo Takahashi, president of Sharp Corp., speaks in an interview in Osaka on Jan. 6, 2014.

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Sharp quarterly earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Kozo Takahashi talks about the struggling Japanese electronics maker's quarterly earnings during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2013. Sharp posted a group operating profit of 3.01 billion yen for the April-June quarter, a turnaround from a loss of 94.13 billion yen a year earlier, on increased sales of its mainstay liquid crystal display panels and the positive effects of restructuring efforts.

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Sharp quarterly earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Kozo Takahashi talks about the struggling Japanese electronics maker's quarterly earnings during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2013. Sharp posted a group operating profit of 3.01 billion yen for the April-June quarter, a turnaround from a loss of 94.13 billion yen a year earlier, on increased sales of its mainstay liquid crystal display panels and the positive effects of restructuring efforts.

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Sharp quarterly earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Kozo Takahashi talks about the struggling Japanese electronics maker's quarterly earnings during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2013. Sharp posted a group operating profit of 3.01 billion yen for the April-June quarter, a turnaround from a loss of 94.13 billion yen a year earlier, on increased sales of its mainstay liquid crystal display panels and the positive effects of restructuring efforts.

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Sharp quarterly earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Kozo Takahashi talks about the struggling Japanese electronics maker's quarterly earnings during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2013. Sharp posted a group operating profit of 3.01 billion yen for the April-June quarter, a turnaround from a loss of 94.13 billion yen a year earlier, on increased sales of its mainstay liquid crystal display panels and the positive effects of restructuring efforts.

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Sharp's new president

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Takashi Okuda (L) and Executive Vice President Kozo Takahashi shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on May 14, 2013. Takahashi will be promoted to president replacing Okuda.

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Sharp's new president

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. Executive Vice President Kozo Takahashi (R) speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on May 14, 2013. Takahashi will be promoted to president, replacing Takashi Okuda (L).

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Sharp's new president

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. Executive Vice President Kozo Takahashi answers questions during a press conference on the company's earnings, in Tokyo on May 14, 2013. Sharp said Takahashi will be promoted to president, replacing Takashi Okuda.

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S. Korean President Lee considering visit to Japan in mid-December

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (L) chats with Kozo Watanabe (R), a senior lawmaker from the Democratic Party of Japan, in Seoul on Nov. 28, 2011. Lee told a delegation of Japanese lawmakers led by Watanabe that he is considering ''visiting Japan on Dec. 17 and 18.''

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Japan-S. Korea lawmakers' associations meet

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang Sik (R) speaks at the opening ceremony of a joint conference of the Japanese and South Korean lawmakers' associations in Seoul on Nov. 28, 2011. Kozo Watanabe (C), head of the Japanese group, is shown listening to Kim's speech.

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Japan pitches technology in bid to host soccer World Cup

ZURICH, Switzerland - Members of Japan's 2022 World Cup bid committee pose for photos as they make their final presentation, pitching the use of cutting-edge technology to host the tournament, in Zurich, Switzerland, on Dec. 1, 2010. They are (From L to R) Japan Football Association general secretary Kozo Tashima, 8-year-old actress Rio Sasaki, senior vice sports minister Kan Suzuki, bid committee chief and FIFA board member Junji Ogura and Sony Corp. Chairman and President Howard Stringer.

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Livedoor eyes damages suit against Horie, other ex-execs

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 23. He said the company is willing to seek damages from its convicted founder Takafumi Horie and other former top executives now that a court has made a series of judgments condemning accounting fraud by the once high-flying Internet and financial services company.

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Japanese woman dies in bus accident in China

OSAKA, Japan - Kozo Suzuki (R), president of JTB Western Japan Corp., speaks to the media in Osaka late Dec. 28 after a sightseeing bus carrying a JTB Western Japan tourist group overturned in Yunnan, China, killing a 78-year-old Japanese woman and injuring more than 10 other fellow travelers.

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Livedoor holds shareholders meeting

CHIBA, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu (on monitor screen) explains Livedoor's activities at the company's extraordinary shareholders meeting at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba near Tokyo on June 14.

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Livedoor hopes Horie will reduce stake in company: president

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu (L) speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on March 24. He expressed hope that former President Takafumi Horie, in detention since Jan. 23 over alleged accounting fraud, will reduce his equity stake in the embattled company.

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Usen President Uno to buy Fuji TV's entire stake in Livedoor

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhide Uno (L), president of Usen Corp., and Kozo Hiramatsu, president of Livedoor Co., shake hands after a news conference at a Tokyo hotel. They announced that Uno will purchase Fuji Television Network Inc.'s entire stake in Livedoor Co. to form a business tie-up with Livedoor.

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Livedoor to be delisted April 14

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu (C) bows at a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on March 13 after the TSE decided to delist Livedoor stock on April 14.

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Horie will not return to Livedoor: Hiramatsu

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 24. He said that Takafumi Horie, the founder of the Internet firm who has been arrested over alleged securities law violations, will not be able to come back to the company, no matter the outcome of his trial.

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Horie faces fresh arrest, Livedoor's future in doubt

TOKYO, Japan - Kozo Hiramatsu, president of Livedoor Co., speaks at a news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Feb. 22 after Takafumi Horie, the company's former president, and three other former executives were served fresh arrest warrants on suspicion of inflating Livedoor group earnings.

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Livedoor calls on Fuji TV to support restructuring

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Murakami, president of Fuji Television Network Inc., speaks at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 27 after his talks with Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu. Fuji Chairman Hisashi Hieda also attended the talks.

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Horie steps down, Hiramatsu becomes president

TOKYO, Japan - New Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu (3rd from right on the stage) and other executives of the company bow at a hurriedly arranged press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 24.

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Horie steps down, Hiramatsu becomes president

TOKYO, Japan - New Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu (2nd from L) and other executives of the company bow at a hurriedly arranged press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 24. Takafumi Horie stepped down as president, a day after he was arrested on suspicion of violating securities laws.

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Horie steps down, Hiramatsu becomes president

TOKYO, Japan - Kozo Hiramatsu (R), newly appointed president of Livedoor Co., speaks at a hurriedly arranged press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 24, flanked by Fumito Kumagai, who was named director with the right to represent the company. Takafumi Horie stepped down as president, a day after he was arrested on suspicion of violating securities laws.

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Livedoor President Horie to step down

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show (from left to right) Kozo Hiramatsu, 60, Fumito Kumagai, 28, who was named president of Livedoor Co., and Fumito Kumagai, 28, who oversees the company's accounting and financial matters and will be given the right to represent the firm.

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'''Japan Sports Grand' to be created

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Kozo Haraguchi, 95, run 100 meters in 22.04 seconds to renew a world record in the men's 95-to-99-old division at the Miyazaki Masters track held at Miyazaki Prefectural Sports Park in the city of Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture, on June 19, 2005.

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(8)Real Madrid vs JEF United Ichihara in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Real Madrid striker Fernando Morientes (2nd from L) tussles for possession with JEF United Ichihara defender Kozo Yuki (L) during the first half of their friendly at National Stadium on July 29.

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Larios arrives in Nagoya to defend WBC super bantamweight title

NAGOYA, Japan - World Boxing Council (WBC) super bantamweight champion Oscar ''Chololo'' Larios of Mexico shows off his champion belt on arrival at Nagoya airport on Aug. 31 to defend his title against Japan's Kozo Ishii on Sept. 7.

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Japan parliamentary mission meets Afghan leader

KABUL, Afghanistan - Kozo Watanabe (center), vice speaker of Japan's House of Representatives, talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the presidential office in Kabul on Aug. 31.

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(1)Troussier includes veteran duo in Japan's World Cup squad

TOKYO, Japan - Kozo Kinomoto, a senior Japan Football Association official, holds up the roster for the 23-member Japanese soccer team for the World Cup finals at a news conference at a hotel May 17 in Tokyo.

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Mycal chief quits, Urano becomes new president

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Urano (R), the new president of Mycal Corp., the bankrupt supermarket chain, accompanied by his predecessor Kozo Yamashita, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 28. Yamashita, who resigned the same day, took over the company's presidency from Osamu Shikata on Sept. 14 when Mycal filed for court protection from creditors with 1,742.8 billion yen in debts.

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Mycal files for court protection from creditors

TOKYO, Japan - Kozo Yamashita, president of Mycal Corp., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Sept. 14 after Japan's fourth-largest supermarket chain operator filed for court protection from creditors under legislation for fast-track corporate rehabilitation, making it one of the biggest corporate failures in Japan.

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Cuba dashes Japan's dream of baseball gold

SYDNEY, Australia - Pitcher Tomohiro Kuroki (L) is pepped up by his manager Kozo Otagaki and catcher Fumihiro Suzuki in the bottom of the sixth inning of the semifinal game against Cuba at Sydney Baseball Stadium on Sept. 26. Japan's dream of an Olympic gold medal was dashed as it lost to double gold medallists Cuba 3-0.

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Watanuki elected lower house speaker

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show (from L to R) former Construction Minister Tamisuke Watanuki of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who was elected speaker of the House of Representatives on July 4, and Kozo Watanabe, who was reelected vice speaker of the lower house. Watanabe belongs to the Mushozokuno Kai (a group of independents).