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Japanese TV personality Kuroyanagi teaches Chinese students in Beijing

Japanese TV personality and essayist Tetsuko Kuroyanagi poses for a photo with students learning Japanese at Beijing Foreign Studies University after holding a special class for them at the university in Beijing on May 31, 2024.

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Japanese TV personality Kuroyanagi teaches Chinese students in Beijing

Japanese TV personality and essayist Tetsuko Kuroyanagi talks with students learning Japanese at Beijing Foreign Studies University after holding a special class for them at the university in Beijing on May 31, 2024.

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Japanese TV personality Kuroyanagi teaches Chinese students in Beijing

Japanese TV personality and essayist Tetsuko Kuroyanagi holds a special class in front of 600 students learning Japanese at Beijing Foreign Studies University in Beijing on May 31, 2024.

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UNICEF goodwill ambassador Kuroyanagi

Japanese TV personality and UICEF goodwill ambassador Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (L) enters Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's office in Tokyo on June 30, 2023, for a meeting with him.

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UNICEF goodwill ambassador Kuroyanagi

Japanese TV personality and UNICEF goodwill ambassador Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (L) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a meeting at his office in Tokyo on June 30, 2023.

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Chinese version of Japanese children's tale published

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuyuki Shiraishi, head of Japanese publisher Kodansha Ltd.'s subsidiary in Beijing, speaks during an event in the Chinese capital on Jan. 10, 2015, to release the Chinese translation of "The Little Girl at the Window," a best-selling children's book written by Japanese TV personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi speaks at an event celebrating her 30 years of work as goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Nov. 26, 2014.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi makes a toast at an event celebrating her 30 years of work as goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Nov. 26, 2014.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi attends an event celebrating her 30 years of work as goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Nov. 26, 2014.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in August 2004 shows Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (L), a Japanese goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, embracing a girl in Goma, eastern Congo. Kuroyanagi, who marked 30 years in 2014 since assuming the UNICEF post, says she wants to continue charitable works for 20 more years until the age of 100.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, a Japanese actress, talk-show hostess, author of children's books and goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF. Kuroyanagi, who marked 30 years in 2014 since assuming the UNICEF post, says she wants to continue charitable works for 20 more years until the age of 100.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in June 2006 shows Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (C back), a Japanese goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, taking a class with children at a school with clay walls in the Ivory Coast. Kuroyanagi, who marked 30 years in 2014 since assuming the UNICEF post, says she wants to continue charitable works for 20 more years until the age of 100.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in June 2006 shows Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, a Japanese goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, standing at a building ruined by a civil war in the Ivory Coast. Kuroyanagi, who marked 30 years in 2014 since assuming the UNICEF post, says she wants to continue charitable works for 20 more years until the age of 100.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in June 2006 shows Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (C), a Japanese goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, surrounded by children in Bouake, in the central part of the Ivory Coast. Kuroyanagi, who marked 30 years in 2014 since assuming the UNICEF post, says she wants to continue charitable works for 20 more years until the age of 100.

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U.S. Open tennis runner-up Nishikori returns home

NARITA, Japan - Kei Nishikori (R), the runner-up at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, receives flowers from Nobuo Kuroyanagi, chairman of the Japan Tennis Association, during a press conference at a hotel in Narita near Tokyo on Sept. 13, 2014, after returning home. Nishikori became the first Asian man to play in a Grand Slam singles final.

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Kuroyanagi visits Philippine cyclone-hit area

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines - Japanese television personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (2nd from front), a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, holds a baby girl about to receive an immunization shot on Leyte Island in the central Philippines on June 18, 2014. The area was devastated by Cyclone Haiyan in November 2013.

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Kuroyanagi visits Philippine cyclone-hit area

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines - Japanese television personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, is interviewed on Leyte Island in the central Philippines on June 19, 2014.

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Kuroyanagi visits Philippine cyclone-hit area

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines - Japanese television personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (2nd from L), a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, holds a baby girl and talks to her mother (far L) before the baby receives an immunization shot on Leyte Island in the central Philippines on June 18, 2014. The area was devastated by Cyclone Haiyan in November 2013.

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Kuroyanagi visits Philippine cyclone-hit area

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines - Japanese television personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (far R), a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, washes her hands with pupils as part of hygiene education at an elementary school on Leyte Island in the central Philippines on June 18, 2014. The school building was heavily damaged by Cyclone Haiyan in November 2013.

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Actress, director show scale model of 'Totto-chan's Square'

TOKYO, Japan - Actress and TV personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (2nd from R) and movie director Yoji Yamada (2nd from L) stand before a scale model of "Totto-chan's Square" in Tokyo on May 22, 2014. The square is to be built at the Chihiro Art Museum featuring illustrator Chihiro Iwasaki in Matsukawa, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. "Totto-chan" is a lead character in "The Little Girl at the Window" authored by Kuroyanagai, who also is director of the museum.

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Actress Kuroyanagi visits S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Japanese actress and UNICEF goodwill ambassador Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (far L) visits Japan Ground Self-Defense Force troops engaged in infrastructure development as part of U.N. peacekeeping operations in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on March 15, 2013.

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Actress Kuroyanagi visits S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Japanese actress and UNICEF goodwill ambassador Tetsuko Kuroyanagi holds an infant under the care of the Totto Chan center, which carries the nickname of the actress, in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on March 15, 2013. After visiting the city in 1993 during the Sudanese civil war, Kuroyanagi led efforts to build the center set up to care for children traumatized by conflict.

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Actress Kuroyanagi visits S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Japanese actress and UNICEF goodwill ambassador Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (R) meets a man raised at the Totto Chan center, which carries the nickname of the actress, in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on March 15, 2013. After visiting the city in 1993 during the Sudanese civil war, Kuroyanagi led efforts to build the center set up to care for children traumatized by conflict.

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Old train car transformed into classroom, popular among kindergarteners

TOKYO, Japan - Students of Tomoe Kindergarten enjoy their classroom built out of an old train car. Tomoe Elementary School, whose unique teaching style was featured in the best-selling novel ''Totto-chan'' by actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, burnt down during the March 10, 1945 air raids on Tokyo, and only its kindergarten reopened. This file photo was taken on Nov. 2, 1948 in Jiyugaoka, Tokyo.

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U.N. chief Ban asks Japanese goodwill envoys to mobilize people

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (L) shakes hands with Japanese actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, who has been working as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund for the past 25 years, at the U.N. University in Tokyo's Shibuya district on July 1. Ban asked Japanese goodwill ambassadors and supporters for U.N. agencies to convey messages on matters such as peace, security, climate change and disarmament as well as mobilize people.

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Mitsubishi UFJ, Morgan Stanley to set up firm to assist mergers

NEW YORK, United States - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi (L) and Morgan Stanley Chairman John J. Mack shake hands in New York on June 30. The two companies will set up a joint venture to assist mergers and acquisitions as part of their business strategy to enhance their alliance.

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MUFG records 1st net loss in FY 2008, eyes profit in FY 2009

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi speaks at a press conference at the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on May 19. Japan's largest banking group reported its first red ink in fiscal 2008 since its launch in 2005.

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MUFG, Morgan Stanley to merge Japan brokerage units by spring 2010

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi (R) speaks during a press conference announcing that his company and U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley aim to create a new securities company by merging their Japanese units by the end of March 2010.

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MUFG, Morgan Stanley to merge Japan brokerage units by spring 2010

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Morgan Stanley Japan Securities President Jonathan Kindred, Morgan Stanley Co-President Walid Chammah, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities President Fumiyuki Akikusa shake hands after a press conference announcing their aim to create a new securities company by merging their Japanese units by the end of March 2010.

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MUFG's net profit falls 64% in FY 2008 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuo Kuroyanagi, president and CEO of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., briefs reporters on the group's earnings report for the first half of fiscal 2008 during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 18.

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Mitsubishi UFJ's FY 2007 group net profit down 27.7%

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuo Kuroyanagi, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., said in Tokyo on May 20 that group net profit fell 27.7 percent in fiscal 2007 from the year before to 636.62 billion yen.

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Nagayasu to head Bank of Tokyo-M'bishi UFJ from April 1

TOKYO, Japan - Katsunori Nagayasu (R), the newly nominated president of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Nobuo Kuroyanagi (L), the newly nominated chairman, speak to the press in Tokyo on Jan. 16 after the bank announced the top-level management change. Nagayasu is currently vice president, and Kuroyanagi the president. The two will assume their new posts on April 1.

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Mitsubishi UFJ's 1st-half group net profit plunges 49%

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuo Kuroyanagi, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., briefs reporters on the group's earnings report for the first half of fiscal 2007 at the Bank of Japan's headquarters in Tokyo on Nov. 21.

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Mitsubishi UFJ reports effective 25.5% fall in FY 2006 net profit

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi answers media questions during a press conference in Tokyo on May 23. He said Mitsubishi UFJ's group net profit in fiscal 2006 posted an effective 25.5 percent drop from the previous year to 881 billion yen as an extra profit on recovery of loan-loss provisions in the previous year diminished with new provisions made in the year.

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Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ ordered to suspend part of operations

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuo Kuroyanagi (C), president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, and other bank executives bow in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 15. The Financial Services Agency ordered the bank to suspend part of its lending operations for a week over earlier improper lending to a man who was recently convicted of embezzlement.

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Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ ordered to suspend part of operations

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuo Kuroyanagi (L), president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 15 after the Financial Services Agency ordered the bank to suspend part of its lending operations for a week over earlier improper lending to a man who was recently convicted of embezzlement.

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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial's net profit totals 507.3 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuo Kuroyanagi, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., announces the group's earnings for the first six months of fiscal 2006 at a news conference at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on Nov. 20.

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MUFG's net profit tops 1 tril. yen, Mizuho logs record profit

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi (3rd from right) speaks at a press conference on May 22 on the group's business results for fiscal 2005. The world's largest banking group reported more than 1 trillion yen ($8.87 billion) in consolidated net profit for the year to March 31, 2006.

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MUFG's net profit tops 1 tril. yen, Mizuho logs record profit

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi speaks at a press conference on May 22 on the group's business results for fiscal 2005. The world's largest banking group reported more than 1 trillion yen ($8.87 billion) in consolidated net profit for the year, which saw Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. merged with UFJ Holdings Inc.

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Mitsubishi UFJ, Merrill Lynch starts private banking unit

TOKYO, Japan - Robert McCann (L), vice chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co., and Nobuo Kuroyanagi, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., shake hands during a ceremony in Tokyo on May 1 to mark the beginning of operations at Mitsubishi UFJ Merrill Lynch PB Securities Co., an equally owned private banking venture between Mitsubishi UFJ group and Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co.

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Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ starts merged operation after 3-month delay

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuo Kuroyanagi (L), president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, speaks to reporters at the bank's head office in Tokyo on Jan. 4 after a ceremony marking the start of the bank's operations following the merger of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and UFJ Bank.

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Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ starts merged operation

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuo Kuroyanagi (L), president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Chairman Shigemitsu Miki (C), and Vice President Takamune Okihara cut the tape during a ceremony marking the start of merged operations at the bank's head office in Tokyo on Jan. 4. The bank made its debut on Jan. 1 with the merger of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and UFJ Bank.

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MUFG celebrates inauguration as world's largest group in assets

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuo Kuroyanagi (L), president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., and Group Chairman Ryosuke Tamakoshi cut the tape in Tokyo on Oct. 3 during a ceremony to commemorate the founding of the world's largest financial group in terms of assets.

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MTFG's Kuroyanagi to become bankers' association head next April

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese Bankers Association on Sept. 20 selected Nobuo Kuroyanagi (file photo), president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., as the next chairman who will replace current head Terunobu Maeda.

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Tokyo-Mitsubishi, UFJ delay merger

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuo Kuroyanagi (R), president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., and UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara hold a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 12. They announced the postponement of the merger of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and UFJ Bank for three months to Jan. 1.

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Mitsubishi Tokyo suffers 39.7% fall in net profit for FY 2004

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi tells a press conference on May 25 that group net profit fell 39.7 percent in fiscal 2004 from a year earlier to 338.42 billion yen due to growing bad-loan disposal costs.

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Congolese president meets UNICEF ambassador Kuroyanagi

TOKYO, Japan - Congolese President Joseph Kabila (R) meets with UNICEF ambassador Tetsuko Kuroyanagi at a Tokyo hotel March 15 to express thanks for her contribution to African countries.

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(2)MTFG, UFJ set merger ratio at 1 to 0.62

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi (L) and UFJ Holdings Inc. President Ryosuke Tamakoshi pose at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 18. A new company to be formed through their merger on Oct. 1 will be named Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and rank top in the world in terms of assets.

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(1) MTFG, UFJ set merger ratio at 1 to 0.62

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi (L) shows off the symbol mark of a new banking group to be formed through a merger between his group and UFJ Holdings Inc. on Oct. 1 at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 18. Seated to his right is UFJ Holdings President Ryosuke Tamakoshi.