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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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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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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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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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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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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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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).