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SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) Announce Takeover Bid

SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) at a press conference regarding the tender offer. Photo shows, from left to right; C&F Logistics HD President Hiromasa Aya, SGHD President Hidekazu Matsumoto, and Sagawa Express President Masahide Kimura. ＝May 31, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

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SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) Announce Takeover Bids

SG Holdings Co., Ltd. and Chilled & Frozen Logistics Holdings Co., Ltd. (C&F Holdings) at the press conference regarding the tender offer. Photo shows, from right to left are Masahide Kimura, director of SGHD; Hidekazu Matsumoto, president of SGHD; Hiromasa Aya, president of C&F Logistics HD; and Akihiro Muto, senior managing director of C&F Logistics HD. ＝May 31, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

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Weather panel sees August climate as abnormal

TOKYO, Japan - Masahide Kimoto, professor at the University of Tokyo's Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute and head of a meteorological analysis panel at the Japan Meteorological Agency, meets reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2014, following the panel's conclusion that Japan's weather conditions in August were abnormal.

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Maker of "3-D ads" in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 6, 2013 shows Masahide Nakamura, president of Pop Kougei Co., together with one of his sculptures for "3-D ads" at the company in Yao, Osaka Prefecture.

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Maker of "3-D ads" in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 7, 2014 shows a green dragon sculpture in Osaka's Chuo Ward above a ramen shop in the Dotombori district, the first so-called "3-D" ad created by Masahide Nakamura, president of Pop Kougei Co.

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Maker of "3-D ads" in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 6, 2013 shows Masahide Nakamura, president of Pop Kougei Co., surrounded by sculptures for his "3-D ads" at the company in Yao, Osaka Prefecture.

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Award-winning Fukushima village head

GENEVA, Switzerland - Photo taken Sept. 2, 2013 in Geneva shows Masahide Matsumoto, mayor of Katsurao village in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, the winner of the 2013 Green Star Award, a U.N.-sponsored disaster response award.

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Anti-U.S. base ad in Washington Post

WASHINGTON, United States - Photo shows an opinion advertisement that the Japanese peace group Juco Network placed in the April 28, 2010, issue of The Washington Post, protesting a plan to build a relocation site for the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture. Former Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota was among some 90 signatories.

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Japanese major leagues begin preseason training

WINTER HAVEN, United States - Cleveland Indians right-hander Masahide Kobayashi (C) stretches the muscles with teammates during the club's spring training in Winter Haven, Florida, on Feb. 16. (MLB)

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Marines win Interleague baseball series

KOSHIEN, Japan - Chiba Lotte Marines manager Bobby Valentine (L) and closer Masahide Kobayashi hold the trophy their team won in the 2006 Interleague Baseball Series at Koshien Stadium on June 20.

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(4)Japan baseball preseason games

CHIBA, Japan - Lotte Marines closer Masahide Kobayashi pitches a perfect inning by fanning all three batters he faced in a preseason game against the Yomiuri Giants at Chiba Marine Stadium on March 17.

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Prosecutors search Mitsui official's house

URAYASU, Japan - Prosecutors searched the house of Masahide Iino, head of a Mitsui & Co. industry project team, in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on July 3. Iino was arrested earlier in the day along with two other Mitsui employees on suspicion of interfering in the bidding process for a government-funded power project on Russian-held Kunashiri Island in 2000.

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Ex-Okinawa Gov. Ota announces candidacy in upper house race

NAHA, Japan - Former Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota (R), along with Takako Doi (L), leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), holds a press conference in Naha on April 17. Ota, 75, who served two four-year terms as governor, said he will run in this July's House of Councillors election in the proportional representation section on the SDP ticket.

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Marines win Interleague baseball series

KOSHIEN, Japan - Chiba Lotte Marines manager Bobby Valentine (L) and closer Masahide Kobayashi hold the trophy their team won in the 2006 Interleague Baseball Series at Koshien Stadium on June 20. (Kyodo)

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Japanese major leagues begin preseason training

WINTER HAVEN, United States - Cleveland Indians right-hander Masahide Kobayashi (C) stretches the muscles with teammates during the club's spring training in Winter Haven, Florida, on Feb. 16. (MLB) (Kyodo)

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Nago mayor expresses opposition to security bills

Photo taken July 6, 2015, in Naha, the capital of Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa, shows a meeting of a House of Representatives panel to hear opinions on national security bills. Among the witnesses -- (from L) Ishigaki Mayor Yoshitaka Nakayama, Tomokazu Takamine, former president of the Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper in Okinawa, Nanjo Mayor Keishun Koja, former Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota and Nago Mayor Susumu Inamie. Inamie expressed his opposition to the bills, saying they are "extremely dangerous as they could increase people's anxiety and change Japan's way of being." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former Okinawa Gov. Ota recalls Battle of Okinawa in WWII

Former Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota talks in Naha, the capital of the southwestern Japanese prefecture, on April 6, 2015, about the 1945 Battle of Okinawa in the closing days of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ichiro goes deep off Kobayashi, Seattle falls to Cleveland

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki hit a two-run homer off countryman Masahide Kobayashi in the bottom ninth inning of a game against the Cleveland Indians at Safeco Field in Seattle on July 19. Ichiro went 2-for-5 but the Mariners lost 9-6 to the Indians. (Kyodo)

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Okinawa awaits verdict on info disclosure suit

HAEBARU, Japan - Former Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota talks about the importance of information disclosure at his office in Naha on April 2, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Anti-U.S. base ad in Washington Post

WASHINGTON, United States - Photo shows an opinion advertisement that the Japanese peace group Juco Network placed in the April 28, 2010, issue of The Washington Post, protesting a plan to build a relocation site for the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture. Former Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota was among some 90 signatories. (Kyodo)

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Weather panel sees August climate as abnormal

TOKYO, Japan - Masahide Kimoto, professor at the University of Tokyo's Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute and head of a meteorological analysis panel at the Japan Meteorological Agency, meets reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2014, following the panel's conclusion that Japan's weather conditions in August were abnormal. (Kyodo)

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Troubled nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Japan

Masahide Kimura (R) of a group seeking to block operations of nuclear power plants in Japan, hands a protest letter to an employee of the Nuclear Regulation Authority near the building housing the organization in Tokyo on May 13, 2020. People in support of Kimura's group staged a rally in front of the building the same day following the authority's decision to endorse a trouble-plagued fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as safe in light of the tougher safety standards introduced in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe at memorial service for former Gov. Ota

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a prefectural memorial ceremony for former Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on July 26, 2017. Ota, who strived to resolve problems arising from the presence of U.S. military bases in the island prefecture, died of pneumonia in June aged 92. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa mourns death of former Gov. Ota

Okinawa residents mourn the death of former Gov. Masahide Ota at a memorial service in Ginowan, Japan, on July 26, 2017. Ota, who strived to resolve problems arising from the presence of U.S. military bases in the island prefecture, died of pneumonia in June aged 92. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former Okinawa Gov. Ota, who tackled U.S. base issues, dies at 92

File photo taken in January 1996 shows then Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto meeting for talks over problems arising from the presence of U.S. military bases in the island prefecture. Ota died of pneumonia and respiratory failure on June 12, 2017, the same day he had turned 92. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former Okinawa Gov. Ota, who tackled U.S. base issues, dies at 92

Photo taken in September 1996 shows Masahide Ota, who as Okinawa governor strived to resolve problems arising from the presence of U.S. military bases in the island prefecture. Ota died of pneumonia and respiratory failure on June 12, 2017, the same day he had turned 92. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former Okinawa Gov. Ota, who tackled U.S. base issues, dies at 92

Photo taken in November 2015 shows former Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota, who strived to resolve problems arising from the presence of U.S. military bases in the island prefecture during his two terms as governor from 1990. Ota died of pneumonia and respiratory failure on June 12, 2017. He had turned 92 the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(4)Japan baseball preseason games

CHIBA, Japan - Lotte Marines closer Masahide Kobayashi pitches a perfect inning by fanning all three batters he faced in a preseason game against the Yomiuri Giants at Chiba Marine Stadium on March 17. (Kyodo)

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Prosecutors search Mitsui official's house

URAYASU, Japan - Prosecutors searched the house of Masahide Iino, head of a Mitsui & Co. industry project team, in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on July 3. Iino was arrested earlier in the day along with two other Mitsui employees on suspicion of interfering in the bidding process for a government-funded power project on Russian-held Kunashiri Island in 2000.

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Ex-Okinawa Gov. Ota announces candidacy in upper house race

NAHA, Japan - Former Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota (R), along with Takako Doi (L), leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), holds a press conference in Naha on April 17. Ota, 75, who served two four-year terms as governor, said he will run in this July's House of Councillors election in the proportional representation section on the SDP ticket.