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Japanese performers commemorate Lafcadio Hearn in Greece

LEFKADA, Greece - Japanese actor Shiro Sano (L) recites passages from works of Lafcadio Hearn, aka Koizumi Yakumo, an author originally from Lefkada, Greece, with music played by Japanese guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto on the Greek island on July 5, 2014, to mark the 110th anniversary of Hearn's birth. Both Sano and Yamamoto are from Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, where Hearn spent his later life.

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Abe's push for collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoji Yanagisawa, who served as assistant chief Cabinet secretary from 2004 to 2009, holds a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo. Yanagisawa criticized Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to change Japan's interpretation of the Constitution to allow it to exercise the right to collective self-defense, saying the move goes against democratic principles.

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Nonfiction writer Asakura dies at 67

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 1997 shows nonfiction writer Kyoji Asakura. Asakura, whose real name is Hiroshi Oshima, was found dead in his apartment in Kanagawa Prefecture on Dec. 9, 2010. He was 67.

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Fuji Heavy debuts Subaru Stella minicar targeted at women

TOKYO, Japan - Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Kyoji Takenaka stands besides the Subaru Stella the company released on June 14.

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Hankyu to launch tender offer for Hanshin shares

OSAKA, Japan - Hankyu Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Sumi (L) and Hanshin Electric Railway Co. President Kyoji Nishikawa (R) shake hands in Osaka on May 29. Hankyu Holdings said the same day it will launch a public tender offer May 30 for shares of Hanshin Electric, though it has yet to agree on the purchase price with Hanshin's largest shareholder, the Murakami Fund.

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Murakami Fund seeking majority control of Hanshin board

OSAKA, Japan - An investment fund having the largest equity stake in Hanshin Electric Railway Co. said on May 2 it has called for the railway operator to accept nine board members, or a majority of its board, recommended by the fund. Photos show (from left to right) Yoshiaki Murakami, who head the investment fund, and Kyoji Nishikawa, president of Hanshin Electric Railway Co.

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Hankyu, Hanshin basically agree to integrate management

OSAKA, Japan - Kyoji Nishikawa (L), president of Hanshin Electric Railway Co., speaks about a basic agreement with Hankyu Holdings Inc. on the integration of the two companies' management at a news conference at Hanshin's head office in Osaka on April 28.

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Toyota let Fuji Heavy producing 100,000 Camrys

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki Watanabe (R) and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Kyoji Takenaka shake hands after a press conference in Tokyo on March 13. They announced their business tie-up centering on producing about 100,000 Toyota Camrys a year at Fuji Heavy's U.S. plant.

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Financier Murakami could withdraw request to list Tigers

OSAKA, Japan - Financier Yoshiaki Murakami speaks to reporters after his talks with Kyoji Nishikawa, president of Hanshin Electric Railway Co., which owns the Hanshin Tigers professional baseball team, in Osaka on Oct. 11. Murakami said he could withdraw his request to list the shares of the popular baseball team on a stock exchange for public trading.

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Financier Murakami could withdraw request to list Tigers

OSAKA, Japan - Kyoji Nishikawa, president of Hanshin Electric Railway Co., which owns the popular Hanshin Tigers baseball team, speaks to reporters after his talks with financier Yoshiaki Murakami in Osaka on Oct. 11. Nishikawa said, ''Hanshin Electric Railway should keep the team as a wholly owned subsidiary to improve the brand value.''

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Financier Murakami isn't sticking to plan to list Tigers

OSAKA, Japan - Financier Yoshiaki Murakami speaks to reporters at the head office of Hanshin Electric Railway Co. in Osaka on Oct. 11 after talks with Hanshin President Kyoji Nishikawa. The talks between Murakami and Nishikawa were the first since the revelation in late September that the Murakami Fund had acquired a major stake in the railway company.

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Toyota to become Fuji Heavy's biggest shareholder

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Mitsuo Kinoshita (L) shakes hands with Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Kyoji Takenaka after a press conference Oct. 5. The two automakers said Toyota will become the biggest shareholder in Fuji Heavy by acquiring an 8.7 percent stake from General Motors Corp. in the United States.

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Fuji Heavy unveils electric car that uses lithium-ion battery

TOKYO, Japan - Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Kyoji Takenaka unveils in Tokyo on Aug. 18 a Subaru R1e electric minicar concept model that uses high-performance lithium-ion batteries the automaker says will help it compete against others in developing environment-friendly vehicles.

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GM to beef up cooperation with Isuzu, Suzuki, Fuji Heavy

TOKYO, Japan - General Motors Corp. Chairman Rick Wagoner (L) speaks at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 20 about cooperation with its three Japanese automobile affiliates in the Asia-Pacific region. Yoshinori Ida (2nd from L), president of Isuzu Motors Ltd., Osamu Suzuki, chairman of Suzuki Motor Corp. (2nd from R) and Kyoji Takenaka, president of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., were also at the press conference.

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Japan wins gold medal in biathlon men's relay

IWAKI, Japan - Members of Japan's biathlon relay team -- (From L to R) Tatsumi Kasahara, Hironao Meguro, Kyoji Suga and Sunao Noto -- celebrate their victory in the men's 4x7.5-kilometer relay of the Winter Asian Games at Iwaki General Athletic on Feb. 7.

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Fuji Heavy Industries to devise 1-liter car

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoji Takenaka, president of Subaru car maker Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., holds a news conference Oct. 24 at the 35th Tokyo Motor Show at Makuhari Messe, Chiba Prefecture. Takenaka unveiled a plan to enter the market for automobiles in the 1-liter class in the near future.

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3 diplomats punished over false claims for allowances

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoji Komachi (R), director general of the Foreign Ministry's Secretariat, wipes his brow during a news conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 24 to announce another ministry scandal. The ministry disciplined Yoshihiko Arakawa, a former minister at the Japanese Embassy in Kenya, Masaru Dekiba, former secretary at the embassy, and Hikaru Maekawa, another secretary at the embassy, for obtaining up to 2.25 million yen through false claims for housing and other benefits between 1997 and last year.

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Osaka stock exchange gets new president

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Goro Tatsumi, who was appointed June 30 as president of the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE). Tatsumi, 64, former president of Kosei Securities Co., replaces Kyoji Kitamura, a former Finance Ministry official. Tatsumi is the first OSE president in 24 years to be selected from the private sector.

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8 firms apply for listing on Nasdaq Japan market

TOKYO, Japan - The presidents of eight companies (at the back) that applied for listing on the newly-opened Nasdaq Japan stock market attend a news conference in Tokyo on May 8, along with Tatsuyuki Saeki (R in front), president of Nasdaq Japan Inc., and Kyoji Kitamura (C), president of the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE). The Nasdaq Japan market was opened the same day by the OSE.

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OSE, Nasdaq Japan sign accord to launch Nasdaq Japan market

OSAKA, Japan - Kyoji Kitamura (R), president of the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE), and Tatsuyuki Saeki, president of Nasdaq Japan Planning Co., shake hands in Osaka on April 19 after signing a business tie-up agreement to launch the Nasdaq Japan stock market in June.

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OSE launches electronic stock trading

Kyoji Kitamura (2nd from L), president of the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE), launches an electronic stock trading system in a ceremony at the OSE on Jan. 25. The system, dubbed ''J-Net,'' allows investors and member securities firms to communicate sell and buy orders using a computerized trading network.

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Financier Murakami could withdraw request to list Tigers

OSAKA, Japan - Kyoji Nishikawa, president of Hanshin Electric Railway Co., which owns the popular Hanshin Tigers baseball team, speaks to reporters after his talks with financier Yoshiaki Murakami in Osaka on Oct. 11. Nishikawa said, ''Hanshin Electric Railway should keep the team as a wholly owned subsidiary to improve the brand value.'' (Kyodo)

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Financier Murakami could withdraw request to list Tigers

OSAKA, Japan - Financier Yoshiaki Murakami speaks to reporters after his talks with Kyoji Nishikawa, president of Hanshin Electric Railway Co., which owns the Hanshin Tigers professional baseball team, in Osaka on Oct. 11. Murakami said he could withdraw his request to list the shares of the popular baseball team on a stock exchange for public trading. (Kyodo)

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Financier Murakami isn't sticking to plan to list Tigers

OSAKA, Japan - Financier Yoshiaki Murakami speaks to reporters at the head office of Hanshin Electric Railway Co. in Osaka on Oct. 11 after talks with Hanshin President Kyoji Nishikawa. The talks between Murakami and Nishikawa were the first since the revelation in late September that the Murakami Fund had acquired a major stake in the railway company. (Kyodo)

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Toyota let Fuji Heavy producing 100,000 Camrys

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki Watanabe (R) and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Kyoji Takenaka shake hands after a press conference in Tokyo on March 13. They announced their business tie-up centering on producing about 100,000 Toyota Camrys a year at Fuji Heavy's U.S. plant. (Kyodo)

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Fuji Heavy to make diesel engines under tie-up with Toyota

TOKYO, Japan - Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Kyoji Takenaka speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on March 24. He said the company will begin producing diesel engines for passenger cars in Gunma Prefecture in 2007 under its business and capital tie-up with Toyota Motor Corp. (Kyodo)

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Hankyu, Hanshin basically agree to integrate management

OSAKA, Japan - Kyoji Nishikawa (L), president of Hanshin Electric Railway Co., speaks about a basic agreement with Hankyu Holdings Inc. on the integration of the two companies' management at a news conference at Hanshin's head office in Osaka on April 28. (Kyodo)

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Murakami Fund seeking majority control of Hanshin board

OSAKA, Japan - An investment fund having the largest equity stake in Hanshin Electric Railway Co. said on May 2 it has called for the railway operator to accept nine board members, or a majority of its board, recommended by the fund. Photos show (from left to right) Yoshiaki Murakami, who head the investment fund, and Kyoji Nishikawa, president of Hanshin Electric Railway Co. (Kyodo)

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Hankyu to launch tender offer for Hanshin shares

OSAKA, Japan - Hankyu Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Sumi (L) and Hanshin Electric Railway Co. President Kyoji Nishikawa (R) shake hands in Osaka on May 29. Hankyu Holdings said the same day it will launch a public tender offer May 30 for shares of Hanshin Electric, though it has yet to agree on the purchase price with Hanshin's largest shareholder, the Murakami Fund. (Kyodo)

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Toyota to become Fuji Heavy's biggest shareholder

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Mitsuo Kinoshita (L) shakes hands with Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Kyoji Takenaka after a press conference Oct. 5. The two automakers said Toyota will become the biggest shareholder in Fuji Heavy by acquiring an 8.7 percent stake from General Motors Corp. in the United States. (Kyodo)

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OSE, Nasdaq Japan sign accord to launch Nasdaq Japan market

OSAKA, Japan - Kyoji Kitamura (R), president of the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE), and Tatsuyuki Saeki, president of Nasdaq Japan Planning Co., shake hands in Osaka on April 19 after signing a business tie-up agreement to launch the Nasdaq Japan stock market in June.

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Guidebook critical of Osaka war museum published

Former high school teacher Kyoji Tomii shows a new guidebook, titled "Peace Osaka," for the Osaka International Peace Center, a war museum, in the western Japanese city on July 7, 2015. Tomii and four other former schoolteachers have compiled the guidebook to help visitors look critically at the center, which has removed exhibits and items showing the Japanese military's invasion of other countries and brutal deeds during World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-defense elite raps gov't framework for national security

Kyoji Yanagisawa, a former senior Defense Ministry official, speaks at a symposium in Tokyo on April 3, 2015, at which he argued that the framework for national security legislation agreed to by the ruling coalition's Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito party would endanger the lives of Self-Defense Forces members on duty abroad. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Spending overnight in car continues following quakes

Kyoji Okubo, 61, (R) and his wife Mutsuko, 59, have spent overnight in their car for almost a week at a parking lot in the southwestern Japan city of Kumamoto on April 20, 2016, as their house may collapse in the wake of powerful earthquakes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fuji Heavy debuts Subaru Stella minicar targeted at women

TOKYO, Japan - Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Kyoji Takenaka stands besides the Subaru Stella the company released on June 14. (Kyodo)

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Nonfiction writer Asakura dies at 67

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 1997 shows nonfiction writer Kyoji Asakura. Asakura, whose real name is Hiroshi Oshima, was found dead in his apartment in Kanagawa Prefecture on Dec. 9, 2010. He was 67. (Kyodo)

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Japanese performers commemorate Lafcadio Hearn in Greece

LEFKADA, Greece - Japanese actor Shiro Sano (L) recites passages from works of Lafcadio Hearn, aka Koizumi Yakumo, an author originally from Lefkada, Greece, with music played by Japanese guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto on the Greek island on July 5, 2014, to mark the 110th anniversary of Hearn's birth. Both Sano and Yamamoto are from Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, where Hearn spent his later life. (Kyodo)

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GM to beef up cooperation with Isuzu, Suzuki, Fuji Heavy

TOKYO, Japan - General Motors Corp. Chairman Rick Wagoner (L) speaks at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 20 about cooperation with its three Japanese automobile affiliates in the Asia-Pacific region. Yoshinori Ida (2nd from L), president of Isuzu Motors Ltd., Osamu Suzuki, chairman of Suzuki Motor Corp. (2nd from R) and Kyoji Takenaka, president of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., were also at the press conference. (Kyodo)

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Japan wins gold medal in biathlon men's relay

IWAKI, Japan - Members of Japan's biathlon relay team -- (From L to R) Tatsumi Kasahara, Hironao Meguro, Kyoji Suga and Sunao Noto -- celebrate their victory in the men's 4x7.5-kilometer relay of the Winter Asian Games at Iwaki General Athletic on Feb. 7. (Kyodo)

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Fuji Heavy Industries to devise 1-liter car

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoji Takenaka, president of Subaru car maker Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., holds a news conference Oct. 24 at the 35th Tokyo Motor Show at Makuhari Messe, Chiba Prefecture. Takenaka unveiled a plan to enter the market for automobiles in the 1-liter class in the near future.

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3 diplomats punished over false claims for allowances

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoji Komachi (R), director general of the Foreign Ministry's Secretariat, wipes his brow during a news conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 24 to announce another ministry scandal. The ministry disciplined Yoshihiko Arakawa, a former minister at the Japanese Embassy in Kenya, Masaru Dekiba, former secretary at the embassy, and Hikaru Maekawa, another secretary at the embassy, for obtaining up to 2.25 million yen through false claims for housing and other benefits between 1997 and last year.

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Sale of Tokyo Sowa to WL Ross canceled

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoji Matsuda (2nd from L), a deputy governor of the government's Deposit Insurance Corp. (DIC), flanked by administrators of Tokyo Sowa Bank, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 30. Matsuda said DIC and the administrators have decided to cancel the sale of the failed regional bank to an investment company led by U.S. financier Wilbur R. Ross.

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Osaka stock exchange gets new president

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Goro Tatsumi, who was appointed June 30 as president of the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE). Tatsumi, 64, former president of Kosei Securities Co., replaces Kyoji Kitamura, a former Finance Ministry official. Tatsumi is the first OSE president in 24 years to be selected from the private sector.

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8 firms apply for listing on Nasdaq Japan market

TOKYO, Japan - The presidents of eight companies (at the back) that applied for listing on the newly-opened Nasdaq Japan stock market attend a news conference in Tokyo on May 8, along with Tatsuyuki Saeki (R in front), president of Nasdaq Japan Inc., and Kyoji Kitamura (C), president of the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE). The Nasdaq Japan market was opened the same day by the OSE.

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OSE, Softbank announce tie-up for Nasdaq Japan market

TOKYO, Japan - The Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) and Nasdaq Japan Planning Co. have agreed to launch in mid-2000 a new over-the-counter market for high-growth venture businesses called Nasdaq Japan. Photo shows OSE President Kyoji Kitamura (L) and Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son, who also heads Nasdaq Japan Planning, shaking hands at a Tokyo hotel after their announcement on Dec. 24.