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Nobel laureate Kitagawa donates MOF to museum

Photo taken on Dec 9, 2025, shows metal-organic frameworks at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, donated by Kyoto University professor and 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry co-winner Susumu Kitagawa. Kitagawa was recognized for developing MOF and driving its application in environmental and other fields.

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Nobel laureate Kitagawa donates MOF to museum

Photo taken on Dec 9, 2025, shows metal-organic frameworks at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, donated by Kyoto University professor and 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry co-winner Susumu Kitagawa. Kitagawa was recognized for developing MOF and driving its application in environmental and other fields.

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BEIJING, CHINA - JANUARY 7, 2025 - The Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China, Beijing, 7 January 2025.

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BEIJING, CHINA - JANUARY 7, 2025 - The Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China, Beijing, 7 January 2025.

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BEIJING, CHINA - JANUARY 7, 2025 - The Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China, Beijing, 7 January 2025.

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France: Air Force Acrobatic Team Marks Centenary Of Meilleur Ouvrier De France

The Patrouille de France (PAF), the French Air and Space Force's aerobatics demonstration unit, flew over Lyon on Sunday, June 9 to mark the centenary of Meilleur Ouvrier de France (MOF), the competition for craftsmen held in France every four years.

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CHINA-LI KEQIANG-HAN ZHENG-NDRC-MOF-INSPECTION-SYMPOSIUM (CN)

(230224) -- BEIJING, Feb. 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang chairs a symposium during his inspection to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Feb. 23, 2023. Vice Premier Han Zheng also attended. (Xinhua/Liu Bin)

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CHINA-LI KEQIANG-HAN ZHENG-NDRC-MOF-INSPECTION-SYMPOSIUM (CN)

(230224) -- BEIJING, Feb. 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang inspects the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Feb. 23, 2023. Li inspected the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Finance (MOF) on Thursday. He also chaired a symposium on the same day. Vice Premier Han Zheng also attended. (Xinhua/Liu Bin)

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CHINA-LI KEQIANG-HAN ZHENG-NDRC-MOF-INSPECTION-SYMPOSIUM (CN)

(230224) -- BEIJING, Feb. 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang inspects the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Feb. 23, 2023. Li inspected the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Finance (MOF) on Thursday. He also chaired a symposium on the same day. Vice Premier Han Zheng also attended. (Xinhua/Liu Bin)

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Japan MOF, BOJ chiefs attend G-20

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Finance Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa hold a press conference in Washington on April 23, 2010, after attending a meeting with their counterparts from other Group of 20 advanced and emerging nations. The G-20 officials shared a view that the world economy is recovering despite Greece's debt crisis.

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Kan says making MOF more transparent is major task, mum on forex

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks to reporters in front of his residence in Musashino city in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2010, a day after being appointed by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to replace Hirohisa Fujii as finance minister.

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Vice MOF chief Hirata to quit over shady stock trading

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Finance Minister Koichi Hirata announces his intention to resign during a press conference at the Finance Ministry on March 26. He made the announcement following the revelation of his shady stock sales earlier this month.

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Vice MOF chief Hirata to quit over shady stock trading

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) and Senior Vice Finance Minister Koichi Hirata (L) attend a session of the fiscal and finance committee of the House of Councilors on March 26. Hirata announced his intention to resign later in the day following the revelation of his shady stock sales earlier this month, and Aso accepted his offer.

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MOF lowers economic views for all 11 regions for 2nd qtr

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Finance Minister Wataru Takeshita addresses a meeting of the chiefs of the 11 regional bureaus of the Finance Ministry at the ministry on Jan. 28. The ministry lowered its economic assessments for all of Japan's 11 regions for the October-December period from the previous three months. It adopted the word ''worsening'' in the overall assessment for the first time since comparable data became available in 1985.

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MOF presents revised draft FY 2009 budget

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa responds to questions from reporters at the Finance Ministry on Dec. 22 after the ministry presented a revised draft budget for fiscal 2009 to ministries and agencies which sets aside a total of 353 billion yen for priority policy matters and adjustments, following an instruction from Prime Minister Taro Aso.

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MOF tables record 88.55 trillion yen budget to buoy economy

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa speaks during a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 20 after proposing to an extra cabinet meeting a state budget for fiscal 2009, reaching an all-time high of 88,548.0 billion yen.

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MOF cuts economic assessments for all 11 regions

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Finance Minister Koichi Hirata (second from right) delivers a speech at a meeting of the heads of regional financial bureaus held at the Finance Ministry on Oct. 29. The ministry downgraded its economic assessments for all of Japan's 11 regions for the July-September period from the previous quarter, the first across-the-board evaluation cut in 10 years.

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MOF proposes 83 tril. yen budget

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga smiles during a press conference after proposing an 83,061.3 billion yen state budget for fiscal 2008 focusing on measures to revitalize regional economies and improve medical and education services.

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MOF proposes 83 tril. yen budget

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga arrives at the Diet building to attend an extra Cabinet session convened on Dec. 20 to approve an 895.4 billion yen supplementary budget for fiscal 2007. Earlier in the day, the Finance Ministry proposed a state budget for fiscal 2008 totaling 83,061.3 billion yen centering on measures to revitalize regional economies and improve medical and education services.

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MOF hires former Dentsu official to push public relations

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshio Masuda (file photo), a former employee of the advertising agency Dentsu Inc., was hired by the Finance Ministry on Oct. 15 as a public relations officer. Masuda, 48, who worked at Dentsu's corporate brand planning division, is the first person from the private sector employed on contract by the Finance Ministry, ministry officials say.

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All regions report recovery in April-June for 3 qtrs in row: MOF

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki (standing on the left side) addresses a meeting of 11 regional finance bureaus at the Finance Ministry on July 11. All the regional bureau chiefs reported a recovery trend in local economies in the April-June period for the third straight quarter, the first such case since 1997.

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All regions report recovery in April-June for 3 qtrs in row: MOF

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki addresses a meeting of 11 regional finance bureaus held at the Finance Ministry on July 11. The Finance Ministry said that all its 11 regional bureaus reported a recovery trend in local economies in the April-June period for the third straight quarter, the first such case since 1997.

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Koizumi asks MOF bureaucrat to run in election

TOKYO, Japan - Satsuki Katayama, a Ministry of Finance bureaucrat, leaves the Liberal Democratic Party Headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 13 after a meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Koizumi, who doubles as LDP President, asked her to run in the Sept. 11 election on an LDP ticket, party officials said. Kyodo)

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Ex-MOF official doubts China will make quick forex shift

TOKYO, Japan - Zembei Mizoguchi (in file photo), a former Japanese vice finance minister for international affairs and now president of the Japan Center for International Finance, says in a media interview that China making an early shift in its foreign exchange rate policy is unlikely due to potentially enormous negative effects on its economy.

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MOF holds 1st briefing in London to push bond sales

LONDON, Britain - Finance Ministry officials from Japan brief potential investors in London on Jan. 18 about Japanese government bonds.

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Gov't to continue debt-cutting efforts: MOF official

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's new Vice Finance Minister Koichi Hosokawa speaks during an interview with Kyodo News on July 2. He indicated that the government will continue trimming spending and curbing the issuance of government bonds in a bid to reduce the balance of government debt, which has swelled to 483 trillion yen.

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JT appoints former MOF bureaucrat Wakui as chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) said April 28 it has unofficially appointed Yoji Wakui (in file photo), the disgraced former director general of the Finance Ministry's Budget Bureau, as its chairman to succeed Tadashi Ogawa in June. Wakui resigned from the ministry after it emerged that he received an expensive lithograph as a wedding gift from a businessman who was later indicted on charges of evading taxes.

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DPJ unveils 'cabinet roster' with 'Mr. Yen' as MOF head

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan (R), president of the Democratic Party of Japan, on Nov. 4 introduced his nominees for key posts in a cabinet he would form if the party wins the Nov. 9 general election. Kan said if he becomes premier he will appoint former Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Eisuke Sakakibara (2nd from L) as finance minister, reformist Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka (3rd from L) as minister for decentralization, and Yasuyo Yamazaki (L), a former partner in U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs, as land, infrastructure and transport minister.

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(1)Koizumi retains Takenaka, Kawaguchi, picks Tanigaki as MOF head

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda announces a new lineup of the cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 22. Fukuda remained as top government spokesman in the third Koizumi cabinet, which will be formally launched later in the day.

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MOF's Kobayashi fails to declare donors' names

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Finance Minister Koki Kobayashi (file photo) failed to state the names of some donors in official reports on political donations as required under law, his office said May 7. The office cited clerical errors as the reason for the situation.

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MOF's Kuroda says deflation risk shared by developed nations

TOKYO, Japan - Haruhiko Kuroda, outgoing Japanese Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs, said in a recent interview with Kyodo News that all the world's major industrialized countries face the risk of deflation and that steps should be taken to prevent them from falling into it.

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Miyazawa meets press after MOF proposes FY '99 budget

Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa holds a press conference on the morning of Dec. 21 after his ministry proposed a record 81.86 trillion yen national budget for fiscal 1999 that calls for an 11 percent rise in public works spending to lift Japan's economy out of recession.

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MOF bureau chief resigns

Atsushi Nagano, chief of the Securities Bureau at the Ministry of Finance, is surrounded by reporters after turning in his resignation April 27. Nagano took the action after being punished for being excessively wined and dined by brokerage houses.

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Prosecutors raid MOF

Prosecutors enter the financial inspection department at the Ministry of Finance in Tokyo on Jan. 26 to investigate allegations that two department officials accepted bribes in the form of wining, dining and golf from several major Japanese banks.

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Prosecutors raid MOF

Prosecutors enter the financial inspection department at the Ministry of Finance in Tokyo on Jan. 26 to investigate allegations that two department officials accepted bribes in the form of wining, dining and golf from several major Japanese banks.

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MOF Scandal

Katsuhiko KUMAZAKI, Prosecutor who has been attacking on Minisoty of Finance for its recent scandals. (At the interview with Kyodo News in January 1998)

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Ex-MOF official doubts China will make quick forex shift

TOKYO, Japan - Zembei Mizoguchi (in file photo), a former Japanese vice finance minister for international affairs and now president of the Japan Center for International Finance, says in a media interview that China making an early shift in its foreign exchange rate policy is unlikely due to potentially enormous negative effects on its economy. (Kyodo)

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All regions report recovery trend in January-March: MOF

TOKYO, Japan - Heads of the Finance Ministry's regional bureaus gather at the ministry in Tokyo on April 26 to discuss Japan's local economies. (Kyodo)

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All regions report recovery in April-June for 3 qtrs in row: MOF

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki addresses a meeting of 11 regional finance bureaus held at the Finance Ministry on July 11. The Finance Ministry said that all its 11 regional bureaus reported a recovery trend in local economies in the April-June period for the third straight quarter, the first such case since 1997. (Kyodo)

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All regions report recovery in April-June for 3 qtrs in row: MOF

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki (standing on the left side) addresses a meeting of 11 regional finance bureaus at the Finance Ministry on July 11. All the regional bureau chiefs reported a recovery trend in local economies in the April-June period for the third straight quarter, the first such case since 1997. (Kyodo)

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MOF hires former Dentsu official to push public relations

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshio Masuda (file photo), a former employee of the advertising agency Dentsu Inc., was hired by the Finance Ministry on Oct. 15 as a public relations officer. Masuda, 48, who worked at Dentsu's corporate brand planning division, is the first person from the private sector employed on contract by the Finance Ministry, ministry officials say. (Kyodo)

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MOF proposes 83 tril. yen budget

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga smiles during a press conference after proposing an 83,061.3 billion yen state budget for fiscal 2008 focusing on measures to revitalize regional economies and improve medical and education services. (Kyodo)

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MOF proposes 83 tril. yen budget

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga arrives at the Diet building to attend an extra Cabinet session convened on Dec. 20 to approve an 895.4 billion yen supplementary budget for fiscal 2007. Earlier in the day, the Finance Ministry proposed a state budget for fiscal 2008 totaling 83,061.3 billion yen centering on measures to revitalize regional economies and improve medical and education services. (Kyodo)

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MOF downgrades economic assessments of 5 of 11 regions

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga makes an address at the outset of a meeting of the Finance Ministry's 11 bureau chiefs in Tokyo on Jan. 21. (Kyodo)

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MOF cuts economic assessments for all 11 regions

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Finance Minister Koichi Hirata (second from right) delivers a speech at a meeting of the heads of regional financial bureaus held at the Finance Ministry on Oct. 29. The ministry downgraded its economic assessments for all of Japan's 11 regions for the July-September period from the previous quarter, the first across-the-board evaluation cut in 10 years. (Kyodo)

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MOF tables record 88.55 trillion yen budget to buoy economy

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa speaks during a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 20 after proposing to an extra cabinet meeting a state budget for fiscal 2009, reaching an all-time high of 88,548.0 billion yen. (Kyodo)

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MOF presents revised draft FY 2009 budget

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa responds to questions from reporters at the Finance Ministry on Dec. 22 after the ministry presented a revised draft budget for fiscal 2009 to ministries and agencies which sets aside a total of 353 billion yen for priority policy matters and adjustments, following an instruction from Prime Minister Taro Aso. (Kyodo)

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MOF lowers economic views for all 11 regions for 2nd qtr

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Finance Minister Wataru Takeshita addresses a meeting of the chiefs of the 11 regional bureaus of the Finance Ministry at the ministry on Jan. 28. The ministry lowered its economic assessments for all of Japan's 11 regions for the October-December period from the previous three months. It adopted the word ''worsening'' in the overall assessment for the first time since comparable data became available in 1985. (Kyodo)

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Vice MOF chief Hirata to quit over shady stock trading

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Finance Minister Koichi Hirata announces his intention to resign during a press conference at the Finance Ministry on March 26. He made the announcement following the revelation of his shady stock sales earlier this month. (Kyodo)

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Vice MOF chief Hirata to quit over shady stock trading

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) and Senior Vice Finance Minister Koichi Hirata (L) attend a session of the fiscal and finance committee of the House of Councilors on March 26. Hirata announced his intention to resign later in the day following the revelation of his shady stock sales earlier this month, and Aso accepted his offer. (Kyodo)