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Hiroshima survivor writer encourages Fukushima children

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Children books writer Masamoto Nasu shake hands with students at Nakahata Elementary School in the town of Yabuki, Fukushima Prefecture on July 12, 2011. Nasu, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, encouraged the children not to live in irrational fear of the radiation released by the nearby Fukushima Daiichi Power Station, badly damaged by explosions after an earthquake and tsunami in March.

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Car, electrical firms OK pay hikes, Toyota meets union request

TOYOTA, Japan - Masamoto Azuma, chairman of the Toyota Motor Workers' Union, speaks at a press conference in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on March 15 after the labor union and management agreed on a 1,000 yen rise in basic monthly pay as well as a seniority-based annual pay hike of 6,900 yen.

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Japan firms struggling with post-bubble economic reality

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank Pesident Masamoto Yashiro responds to questions at the Diet on failed Sogo Co.'s issues in August 2000.

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Ohashi picked as new president of Kawasaki Heavy

TOKYO, Japan - Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. has picked Managing Director Tadaharu Ohashi (in file photo) as its new president to succeed Masamoto Tazaki, who will assume the chairmanship, company officials said on Feb. 15.

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Shinsei Bank's next president meets press

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank Vice Chairman Thierry Porte, who will become its new president in June next year, holds a news conference at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on Dec. 6. Porte will succeed Masamoto Yashiro.

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Shinsei Bank buys into UFJ's consumer finance unit Aplus

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank President Masamoto Yashiro (R) and Aplus President Junji Sugiyama (L) hold a press conference in a Tokyo hotel Sept. 3 on Shinsei purchasing a 67% equity stake in Aplus, a struggling consumer finance affiliate of the UFJ Holdings Inc. banking group, for 35 billion yen later this month.

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Shinsei Bank proves popular on TSE debut

TOKYO, Japan - Masamoto Yashiro (C), president of Shinsei Bank, and two other bank executives smile at a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) on Feb. 19 after the bank's stock attracted great attention on its first day of trading on the TES's main section.

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Shinsei Bank fetches initial price of 872 yen on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank President Masamoto Yashiro (R) rings a bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on Feb. 19 in a ceremony to mark the listing of the bank's stock on the market. Its initial price was quoted at 872 yen, 66% higher than the publicly offered price.

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Shinsei Bank's Yashiro named 2002 ACCJ person of year

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank Chairman and CEO Masamoto Yashiro speaks March 26 after being named by the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) its 2002 Person of the Year for actively promoting foreign direct investment and becoming a ''stellar role model'' for up-and-coming Japanese executives.''

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Toyota's core union not to demand basic pay raise

NAGOYA, Japan - Masamoto Azuma, chairman of the Toyota Motor Wokers' Union, speaks at a press conference in the town of Fujioka, Aichi Prefecture, on Jan. 7 about the union's decision to abandon a plan seeking a basic monthly wage hike at this spring's labor-management wage talks.

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(2)Toyota Motor, union agree on no pay-scale hikes

TOYOTA, Japan - Masamoto Azuma, chairman of the Toyota Motor Corp. workers union, speaks at a news conference March 13 following conclusion of annual spring wage talks March 13. The union accepted the management's offer for no monthly wage hikes, apart from a regularly scheduled seniority-based monthly hike of 6,500 yen.

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Kawasaki Heavy, Suzuki Motor to tie up in motorcycles, ATVs+

TOKYO, Japan - Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki (L) and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. President Masamoto Tazaki shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 29. They announced their two companies will tie up in the development and production of a wide variety of motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs).

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IHI, Kawasaki Heavy to merge shipbuilding operations

TOKYO, Japan - Toshifumi Takei, president of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. (IHI), and Masamoto Tazaki, president of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., shake hands in Tokyo on April 3 as they announced integration of their shipbuilding operations into an equally owned venture to be formed on Oct. 1, 2002.

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Shinsei to forgive loan to troubled builder Hazama

TOKYO, Japan - Masamoto Yashiro, chairman and chief executive officer of Shinsei Bank, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on Aug. 10. Yashiro said the bank will forgive a loan to financially troubled contractor Hazama Corp. Shinsei, formerly the nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, caused a stir in June when it refused to give up claims on loans to ailing department-store operator Sogo Co.

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Reps of New LTCB Partners meet press

TOKYO, Japan - New LTCB Partners CV representatives Masamoto Yashiro (L) and Timothy Collins (R) shake hands before holding a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 28 as the Japanese government announced the same day that New LTCB Partners, an investor group led by U.S. investment house Ripplewood Holdings LLC, is the most preferred candidate to acquire all the operations of the nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB).

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Shinsei Bank buys into UFJ's consumer finance unit Aplus

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank President Masamoto Yashiro (R) and Aplus President Junji Sugiyama (L) hold a press conference in a Tokyo hotel Sept. 3 on Shinsei purchasing a 67% equity stake in Aplus, a struggling consumer finance affiliate of the UFJ Holdings Inc. banking group, for 35 billion yen later this month. (Kyodo)

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Ohashi picked as new president of Kawasaki Heavy

TOKYO, Japan - Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. has picked Managing Director Tadaharu Ohashi (in file photo) as its new president to succeed Masamoto Tazaki, who will assume the chairmanship, company officials said on Feb. 15. (Kyodo)

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Shinsei Bank's next president meets press

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank Vice Chairman Thierry Porte, who will become its new president in June next year, holds a news conference at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on Dec. 6. Porte will succeed Masamoto Yashiro. (Kyodo)

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Children's book author talks about A-bomb experience

Masamoto Nasu, a children's book author, discusses the tragedy of war on June 5, 2015. Nasu believes it is his lifelong mission to relate his experience of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, and its aftermath. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Children's book author talks about A-bomb experience

Masamoto Nasu, a children's book author, discusses the tragedy of war on June 5, 2015. Nasu believes it is his lifelong mission to relate his experience of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, and its aftermath. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Cubs video coordinator making most of American journey

Chicago Cubs video coordinator Naoto Masamoto speaks to Kyodo News on Dec. 6, 2016 at the baseball winter meetings in National Harbor, Maryland. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan firms struggling with post-bubble economic reality

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank Pesident Masamoto Yashiro responds to questions at the Diet on failed Sogo Co.'s issues in August 2000. (Kyodo)

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Car, electrical firms OK pay hikes, Toyota meets union request

TOYOTA, Japan - Masamoto Azuma, chairman of the Toyota Motor Workers' Union, speaks at a press conference in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on March 15 after the labor union and management agreed on a 1,000 yen rise in basic monthly pay as well as a seniority-based annual pay hike of 6,900 yen. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima survivor writer encourages Fukushima children

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Children books writer Masamoto Nasu shake hands with students at Nakahata Elementary School in the town of Yabuki, Fukushima Prefecture on July 12, 2011. Nasu, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, encouraged the children not to live in irrational fear of the radiation released by the nearby Fukushima Daiichi Power Station, badly damaged by explosions after an earthquake and tsunami in March. (Kyodo)

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(2)Toyota Motor, union agree on no pay-scale hikes

TOYOTA, Japan - Masamoto Azuma, chairman of the Toyota Motor Corp. workers union, speaks at a news conference March 13 following conclusion of annual spring wage talks March 13. The union accepted the management's offer for no monthly wage hikes, apart from a regularly scheduled seniority-based monthly hike of 6,500 yen.

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Soldier's nephew in Japan receives second WWII flag

Hisashi Abe, 80, speaks in Yokohama, Japan, on Aug. 22, 2018, in front of a Japanese flag that was carried by his late uncle into battle during World War II. Abe received Masamoto Abe's second "good luck flag," signed by the soldier's friends and family, two years after the first was returned in 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shinsei Bank proves popular on TSE debut

TOKYO, Japan - Masamoto Yashiro (C), president of Shinsei Bank, and two other bank executives smile at a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) on Feb. 19 after the bank's stock attracted great attention on its first day of trading on the TES's main section. (Kyodo)

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Shinsei Bank fetches initial price of 872 yen on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank President Masamoto Yashiro (R) rings a bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on Feb. 19 in a ceremony to mark the listing of the bank's stock on the market. Its initial price was quoted at 872 yen, 66% higher than the publicly offered price. (Kyodo)

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Shinsei Bank's Yashiro named 2002 ACCJ person of year

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank Chairman and CEO Masamoto Yashiro speaks March 26 after being named by the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) its 2002 Person of the Year for actively promoting foreign direct investment and becoming a ''stellar role model'' for up-and-coming Japanese executives.'' (Kyodo)

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Toyota's core union not to demand basic pay raise

NAGOYA, Japan - Masamoto Azuma, chairman of the Toyota Motor Wokers' Union, speaks at a press conference in the town of Fujioka, Aichi Prefecture, on Jan. 7 about the union's decision to abandon a plan seeking a basic monthly wage hike at this spring's labor-management wage talks. (Kyodo)

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Kawasaki Heavy, Suzuki Motor to tie up in motorcycles, ATVs+

TOKYO, Japan - Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki (L) and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. President Masamoto Tazaki shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 29. They announced their two companies will tie up in the development and production of a wide variety of motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs).

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IHI, Kawasaki Heavy to merge shipbuilding operations

TOKYO, Japan - Toshifumi Takei, president of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. (IHI), and Masamoto Tazaki, president of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., shake hands in Tokyo on April 3 as they announced integration of their shipbuilding operations into an equally owned venture to be formed on Oct. 1, 2002.

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Shinsei to forgive loan to troubled builder Hazama

TOKYO, Japan - Masamoto Yashiro, chairman and chief executive officer of Shinsei Bank, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on Aug. 10. Yashiro said the bank will forgive a loan to financially troubled contractor Hazama Corp. Shinsei, formerly the nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, caused a stir in June when it refused to give up claims on loans to ailing department-store operator Sogo Co.

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New LTCB chief vows to revive int'l operations

TOKYO, Japan - Masamoto Yashiro, new president of the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB), meets reporters in Tokyo on March 3. He pledged the bank will be back in the international financial business in two to three years. The LTCB was sold March 1 by the government for 1 billion yen to New LTCB Partners CV, an Amsterdam-based international financial consortium led by Ripplewood Holdings LLC of the United States.

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LTCB seeks taxpayers' money for capital base

TOKYO, Japan - Masamoto Yashiro, president of the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB), arrives at the office of the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC) on March 3 to file a formal request for an injection of taxpayers' money to strengthen the bank's capital bases. LTCB, which New LTCB Partners CV. (NLP), a group of financial companies led by U.S. fund Ripplewood Holdings LLC, has just bought from the government, is seeking 240 billion yen in public funds.

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New LTCB to open as FRC approves agreement

TOKYO, Japan - The Financial Reconstruction Commission on Feb. 9 approved the final agreement on the sale of the nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB) to an international consortium led by U.S. fund Ripplewood Holdings LLC. The new LTCB begins operations March 2. Among the signatories to the agreement were Masamoto Yashiro (third from R), as representative of New LTCB Partners, LTCB President Takashi Anzai (second from L), Noboru Matsuda (third from L), governor of Deposit Insurance Corp. (DIC), which owns LTCB's 2.4 billion common shares, Ripplewood founder Timothy Collins (second from R), and Christopher Flowers (R), former head of the Goldman Sachs Financial Institutions Group. At left is Keiji Matsuda, deputy governor of DIC.

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Reps of New LTCB Partners meet press

TOKYO, Japan - New LTCB Partners CV representatives Masamoto Yashiro (L) and Timothy Collins (R) shake hands before holding a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 28 as the Japanese government announced the same day that New LTCB Partners, an investor group led by U.S. investment house Ripplewood Holdings LLC, is the most preferred candidate to acquire all the operations of the nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB).