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Clarivate Citation Laureate Award Press Conference

Clarivate Citation Laureate Press Conference. photo shows, from right: Kenji Samukawa, former Director and Director-General of the National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute; Masayasu Kojima, Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor at Kurume University.=September 25,2025,Japan

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Clarivate Citation Laureate Award Press Conference

Clarivate Citation Laureate Press Conference. photo shows (from right) Kenji Samukawa, former Director and Director-General of the National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute (center), and Masayasu Kojima, Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor at Kurume University (right).=September 25,2025,Japan

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Clarivate Citation Laureate Award Press Conference

Clarivate Citation Laureate Press Conference. photo shows (from right) Kenji Samukawa, former Director and Director-General of the National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute (center), and Masayasu Kojima, Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor at Kurume University (right).=September 25,2025,Japan

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Clarivate Citation Laureate Award Press Conference

Clarivate Citation Laureate Press Conference. photo shows, from right: Kenji Samukawa, former Director and Director-General of the National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute; Masayasu Kojima, Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor at Kurume University.=September 25,2025,Japan

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107 lawmakers from 4 parties join group on decentralization

TOKYO, Japan - Masayasu Kitagawa (2nd from R), a former governor of Mie Prefecture, who heads a group consisting of the governors of 13 prefectures, municipal chiefs and experts, speaks during a joint meeting with a multiparty group of 107 lawmakers from four parties, including both ruling and opposition parties, at a Tokyo hotel on March 3. The two groups aim to promote decentralization.

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Sumitomo Mitsui, Goldman, Daiwa to form corporate revival firm

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Masanori Mochida, president of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Yoshifumi Nishikawa, president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., and Masayasu Oi, president of Daiwa Securities SMBC Principal Investments Co., shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8. Sumitomo Mitsui will set up a joint company with Goldman and Daiwa in November to help revive troubled companies.

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Mie Gov. Kitagawa won't seek reelection

TSU, Japan - Mie Gov. Masayasu Kitagawa speaks at a press conference in the prefectural government office in Tsu on Nov. 25 about his intention not to seek a third four-year term next spring. Kitagawa is the first governor in Japan to introduce an administrative assessment system.

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Nissan's Ghosn chosen as one of six 'most ideal fathers'

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn (2nd from R), a father of four, was one of six men chosen as ''most ideal fathers'' in a contest in Tokyo on June 5 ahead of Father's Day on June 17. Japan Men's Fashion Unity also gave the 20th Yellow Ribbon Award to (from L to R) Yasuhiko Okudera, a former pro soccer player and current Yokohama athletic club head, actor Naoki Hosaka, Yoshiharu Habu, a master of ''shogi'' Japanese chess, Heizo Takenaka, minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, and Mie Gov. Masayasu Kitagawa (R).

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107 lawmakers from 4 parties join group on decentralization

TOKYO, Japan - Masayasu Kitagawa (2nd from R), a former governor of Mie Prefecture, who heads a group consisting of the governors of 13 prefectures, municipal chiefs and experts, speaks during a joint meeting with a multiparty group of 107 lawmakers from four parties, including both ruling and opposition parties, at a Tokyo hotel on March 3. The two groups aim to promote decentralization. (Kyodo)

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Sumitomo Mitsui, Goldman, Daiwa to form corporate revival firm

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Masanori Mochida, president of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Yoshifumi Nishikawa, president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., and Masayasu Oi, president of Daiwa Securities SMBC Principal Investments Co., shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8. Sumitomo Mitsui will set up a joint company with Goldman and Daiwa in November to help revive troubled companies. (Kyodo)

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Japanese writer Hosaka gives interview

Nonfiction writer Masayasu Hosaka speaks in an interview on Jan. 28, 2015. Referring to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's upcoming statement for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Hosaka said it should be consistent with the statements issued by prime minister Tomiichi Murayama on the 50th and by Junichiro Koizumi on the 60th anniversaries of the war's end. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mie Gov. Kitagawa won't seek reelection

TSU, Japan - Mie Gov. Masayasu Kitagawa speaks at a press conference in the prefectural government office in Tsu on Nov. 25 about his intention not to seek a third four-year term next spring. Kitagawa is the first governor in Japan to introduce an administrative assessment system. (Kyodo)

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Nissan's Ghosn chosen as one of six 'most ideal fathers'

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn (2nd from R), a father of four, was one of six men chosen as ''most ideal fathers'' in a contest in Tokyo on June 5 ahead of Father's Day on June 17. Japan Men's Fashion Unity also gave the 20th Yellow Ribbon Award to (from L to R) Yasuhiko Okudera, a former pro soccer player and current Yokohama athletic club head, actor Naoki Hosaka, Yoshiharu Habu, a master of ''shogi'' Japanese chess, Heizo Takenaka, minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, and Mie Gov. Masayasu Kitagawa (R).

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Mie governor crushes nuclear plant project

TSU, Japan - Mie Gov. Masayasu Kitagawa announces Feb. 22 that construction plans for a nuclear plant in his prefecture should go back to the drawing board. Kitagawa made the statement at a prefectural assembly meeting, referring to a Chubu Electric Power Co. project. Chubu Electric Power later said it will drop the project to build the Ashihama nuclear plant between the towns of Nanto and Kisei due to opposition from the local people.