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Press Conference on the Change of President of Marubeni Corporation

Marubeni president change press conference. Photo shows from right to left: President-elect Masayuki Omoto and President Masumi Kakinoki.=November 27,2024,Tokyo

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Press Conference on the Change of President of Marubeni Corporation

Marubeni president change press conference. Photo shows from right to left: President-elect Masayuki Omoto and President Masumi Kakinoki.=November 27,2024,Tokyo

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Press Conference on the Change of President of Marubeni Corporation

Marubeni president change press conference. Photo shows Masayuki Omoto, President-Elect.=November 27,2024,Tokyo

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Baseball: Premier12

Japan's Masayuki Kuwahara scores on a sacrifice fly by Shota Morishita in the first inning of a Group B game against Taiwan at the Premier12 baseball tournament on Nov. 16, 2024, in Taipei.

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Paris Paralympics: Boccia

Grigorios Polychronidis of Greece releases a ball from a ramp during a men's boccia BC3 individual preliminary round Pool D match against Japan's Masayuki Arita at the Paris Paralympics on Aug. 30, 2024, at South Paris Arena in the French capital.

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Fujii defends Meijin title

Shogi prodigy Sota Fujii (L) reviews his match against Masayuki Toyoshima after defending the most prestigious Meijin title by beating him in Game 5 of the best-of-seven series in Monbetsu in Hokkaido, northern Japan. With his first defense of Meijin, Fujii, who holds all eight shogi titles, has won or defended all 22 title matches he has fought.

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Fujii defends Meijin title

Sota Fujii, who holds all eight shogi titles, poses with a bouquet of flowers after defending the most prestigious Meijin title 4-1 in a best-of-seven series against Masayuki Toyoshima in Monbetsu in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on May 27, 2024. With his first defense of Meijin, Fujii has won or defended all 22 title matches he has fought.

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Fujii defends Meijin title

Shogi prodigy Sota Fujii (L) reviews his match against Masayuki Toyoshima after defending the most prestigious Meijin title by beating him in Game 5 of the best-of-seven series in Monbetsu in Hokkaido, northern Japan. With his first defense of Meijin, Fujii, who holds all eight shogi titles, has won or defended all 22 title matches he has fought.

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Fujii defends Meijin title

Sota Fujii, who holds all eight shogi titles, poses with a bouquet of flowers after defending the most prestigious Meijin title 4-1 in a best-of-seven series against Masayuki Toyoshima in Monbetsu in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on May 27, 2024. With his first defense of Meijin, Fujii has won or defended all 22 title matches he has fought.

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Sumitomo Corporation President Change Press Conference

Sumitomo Corporation President Change Press Conference. Shingo Ueno, President-Elect and CEO and Masayuki Hyodo, incoming Chairman of the Board of Directors.=Date:December 22, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Sumitomo Corporation President Change Press Conference

Sumitomo Corporation President Change Press Conference. Shingo Ueno, President-Elect and CEO and Masayuki Hyodo, incoming Chairman of the Board of Directors.=Date:December 22, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Baseball: Eagles to release pitcher Anraku over workplace abuse

Masayuki Morii, president of the Pacific League's Rakuten Eagles, speaks at a press conference in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 30, 2023, after the team released pitcher Tomohiro Anraku for his pattern of abusive behavior toward teammates.

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Fujii becomes 1st shogi player ever to hold all 8 titles

Masayuki Kawamoto, mayor of the Aichi Prefecture city of Seto, the hometown of shogi player Sota Fujii, claps his hands on Oct. 12, 2023, in front of a drop curtain celebrating him clinching his eighth title, Oza, the previous day to become the first player in shogi history to hold all eight shogi titles simultaneously.

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Fujii moves toward 8th title

Sota Fujii, holder of seven of shogi's eight titles, poses after winning his match against Masayuki Toyoshima in Osaka on Aug. 4, 2023. The victory made the 21-year old eligible to face off against Takuya Nagase, holder of Oza, the only shogi title not yet in Fujii's hands, in the best-of-five series starting in late August.

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Fujii moves toward 8th title

Sota Fujii, holder of seven of shogi's eight titles, meets the press after winning his match against Masayuki Toyoshima in Osaka on Aug. 4, 2023. The victory made the 21-year old eligible to face off against Takuya Nagase, holder of Oza, the only shogi title not yet in Fujii's hands, in the best-of-five series starting in late August.

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Fujii moves toward 8th title

Sota Fujii, holder of seven of shogi's eight titles, reviews his match against Masayuki Toyoshima in Osaka on Aug. 4, 2023. His victory made the 21-year old eligible to face off against Takuya Nagase, holder of Oza, the only shogi title not yet in Fujii's hands, in the best-of-five series starting in late August.

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Fujii moves toward 8th title

Sota Fujii (R), holder of seven of shogi's eight titles, reviews his match against Masayuki Toyoshima in Osaka on Aug. 4, 2023. His victory made the 21-year old eligible to face off against Takuya Nagase, holder of Oza, the only shogi title not yet in Fujii's hands, in the best-of-five series starting in late August.

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Fujii moves toward 8th title

Sota Fujii (L), holder of seven of shogi's eight titles, reviews his match against Masayuki Toyoshima in Osaka on Aug. 4, 2023. His victory made the 21-year old eligible to face off against Takuya Nagase, holder of Oza, the only shogi title not yet in Fujii's hands, in the best-of-five series starting in late August.

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Japanese researcher explains website for whistleblowers

TOKYO, Japan - Masayuki Hatta, a full-time lecturer at Surugadai University in Saitama Prefecture in eastern Japan, explains about the "whistleblowing.jp" website he developed at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2014. The site, aimed at starting operations in 2015, uses the Tor anonymity software to protect the identity of a whistleblower and passes on the information in encrypted form to registered journalists and news media of a leaker's choice.

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Kankeiren promotes Japanese biz way

OSAKA, Japan - Masayuki Matsushita (C), vice chairman of Panasonic Corp., exchanges opinions with executives of business groups and companies from 11 Asian countries, including ASEAN members, in Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 19, 2014. The meeting was organized by the Kansai Economic Federation to enhance the understanding of Japanese way of management.

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Kakefu hits single from Egawa in Giants-Tigers old timers' game

SENDAI, Japan - Former Hanshin Tigers slugger Masayuki Kakefu hits a single from his old nemesis former Yomiuri Giants ace Suguru Egawa during an old timers' game between the popular Japanese professional baseball clubs at Kobo Stadium Miyagi in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 16, 2014.

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Japan NPO member for Palestine children speaks in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM, Jerusalem - Masayuki Teshima, a member of a Japanese nonprofit organization supporting Palestinian children, speaks at an office in East Jerusalem in October 2014.

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J3 soccer team to offer donors local seafood in return

TOTTORI, Japan - Masayuki Okano, general manager of J-League Division 3 soccer club Gainare Tottori, shows on Oct. 19, 2014, a red snow crab and an assortment of dried fish as examples of local seafood products from the central Japan prefecture that will be offered as perks for donations in the financially strapped team's new fundraising campaign.

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Giant youth FW Hatanaka to join Tottori top team

TOTTORI, Japan - Gainare Tottori's youth team forward Makito Hatanaka (2nd from R), who stands 203cm, and General Manager Masayuki Okano (far L) attend a press conference on Sept. 30, 2014, in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture. Hatanaka will join the J3 club's top team from the next season and become the tallest Japanese J-League player.

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Fukui promotes 'don' rice bowl dishes to attract tourists

FUKUI, Japan - Masayuki Nosaka, a restaurant owner and chairman of the "Fuku don project" committee, poses with rice bowl dishes in Fukui, western Japan, on Sept. 29, 2014. The project aims to promote the prefecture's rice bowl dishes and attract tourists.

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Japanese chef produces crab-based 'bento' boxed lunches

SENDAI, Japan - Masayuki Okuda (C), a chef of Italian dishes, shows off crab-based "bento" boxed lunches developed with a seafood-processing company in this file photo taken on June 22, 2014, in Sendai in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi that was hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Bushiroad's Singapore unit chief speaks to local employee

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Masayuki Goto (L), president of Japanese card game maker Bushiroad Inc.'s Singapore unit, speaks with a local employee in December 2013.

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Professional shogi player beats computer program

OSAKA, Japan - Masayuki Toyoshima, a professional player of shogi, or Japanese chess, plays against the computer program "YSS" in Osaka on March 29, 2014, with an industrial robotic arm moving the shogi pieces based on instructions from the program. Toyoshima scored the first win by a pro shogi player in the third of five matches in this year's human- versus-computer series.

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Balentien at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Swallows slugger Wladimir Balentien (C) apologizes over his arrest in Florida on domestic violence charges at a press conference at the Swallows' team office in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2014. At left is club president Tsuyoshi Kinugasa, while team official Masayuki Okumura is on the right.

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NHK thanked for economic boost from hit drama 'Amachan'

TOKYO, Japan - Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso (L) presents Masayuki Matsumoto (R), president of public broadcaster NHK, with a certificate of gratitude on Jan. 23, 2014, at the NHK Broadcasting Center in Tokyo in appreciation of economic and social benefits brought about by NHK's hit drama "Amachan." Aired in 2013, the drama revolved around the traditional culture of "ama" women divers and the rebuilding of northeastern Japan hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami

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Leakage of highly radioactive water at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Masayuki Ono, a Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman, announces at a news conference at the company's head office in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2013, that an estimated 300 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from one of the water storage tanks at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, making it the worst leakage incident from such containers.

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Leakage of highly radioactive water at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Masayuki Ono (R), a Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman, bows in a gesture of apology at the outset of a news conference at the company's head office in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2013. The press conference was held to announce that an estimated 300 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from one of the water storage tanks at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, making it the worst leakage incident from such containers.

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'Famicom' turns 30 years old

KYOTO, Japan - Masayuki Uemura, adviser for Nintendo Co. who developed "Famicom," or the Family Computer video game console, holds "Donkey Kong" software that can be played on the console during an interview with Kyodo News in Kyoto on July 10, 2013. The Japanese game company shipped 61.91 million units of the console since launching it 30 years ago on July 15, 1983.

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TEPCO restores spent fuel pool cooling system

TOKYO, Japan - Masayuki Ono (R), spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co., holds a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on March 19, 2013. TEPCO said it has resumed cooling the spent fuel pools of the Nos. 1, 3 and 4 reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a day after the key system was suspended due to a suspected problem with a power switchboard.

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WBA flyweight title match

KAWASAKI, Japan - WBA flyweight champion Juan Carlos Reveco of Argentina (R) punches ninth-ranked Japanese challenger Masayuki Kuroda during the fifth round of a WBA flyweight match at Kawasaki's Todoroki Arena in Kanagawa Prefecture on Feb. 27, 2013. Reveco won by unanimous decision.

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Kuroda before WBA title match

KAWASAKI, Japan - Ninth-ranked WBA flyweight Masayuki Kuroda (R) of Japan is pictured during an open practice session in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 20, 2013, before he faces WBA flyweight champion Juan Carlos Reveco of Argentina in a title match in Japan on Feb. 27.

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Kuroda before WBA title match

KAWASAKI, Japan - Ninth-ranked WBA flyweight Masayuki Kuroda (L) of Japan is pictured during an open practice session in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 20, 2013, before he faces WBA flyweight champion Juan Carlos Reveco of Argentina in a title match in Japan on Feb. 27.

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Tokyo International Film Festival

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Japanese actor Koji Yakusho, actress Tamiyo Kusakari and her husband and film director Masayuki Suo stand on the green carpet, made of materials recycled from plastic bottles, in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Oct. 20, 2012, as the 25th Tokyo International Film Festival kicks off.

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Hug of Switzerland wins Oita int'l wheelchair marathon

OITA, Japan - Marcel Hug of Switzerland (L) and Japan's Masayuki Higuchi (R) race in the 31st Oita International Wheelchair Marathon in Oita, southwest Japan, on Oct. 30, 2011. Hug captured his second consecutive title in the race while Higuchi finished second.

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Dolphin hunt in Taiji

TAIJI, Japan - Masayuki Miyoshi, a fisherman from Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, holds binoculars used for the traditional dolphin hunt on Jan. 29, 2011. He said he uses bigger binoculars to compete better with younger fishermen.

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NHK to cancel annual sumo charity

TOKYO, Japan - NHK President Masayuki Matsumoto speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2011, announcing that the public broadcaster decided to cancel its annual ''Fukushi Ozumo'' charity event due to a match-fixing scandal. He also said NHK will study whether to scrap live coverage of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in March.

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Megabank personnel shake-up

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. Senior Managing Director Takeshi Kunibe (L) and Koichi Miyata, another senior managing director of the major Japanese bank. Kunibe will succeed Masayuki Oku as president of SMBC, while Miyata will replace Teisuke Kitayama as president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., SMBC's holding company, on April 1, 2011, the two firms said Jan. 28, 2011.

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NHK's new president Matsumoto

TOKYO, Japan - Masayuki Matsumoto, a former vice chairman of Central Japan Railway Co., speaks during a press conference at public broadcaster NHK's head office in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2011, after assuming his new post as president of NHK. Matsumoto is the second person in a row to be selected from a private organization to assume the top post of Japan Broadcasting Corp.

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JR Tokai vice chairman named as new NHK chief

NAGOYA, Japan - Masayuki Matsumoto, vice chairman of Central Japan Railway Co., speaks at a press conference in Nagoya after he was named as next president of public broadcaster NHK on Jan. 15, 2011. He will assume a three-year term at NHK on Jan. 25, succeeding Shigeo Fukuchi.

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Kunibe to be appointed Sumitomo Mitsui Banking president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Takeshi Kunibe, senior managing director of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. The company is considering appointing Kunibe to succeed President Masayuki Oku, company sources said Dec. 30, 2010.

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World economy to maintain moderate growth: banking industry leader

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Bankers Association Chairman Masayuki Oku speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News. He said the world economy is likely to maintain moderate growth in 2011 although industrial countries remain plagued by various problems.

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Economy minister Naoshima in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam - Japanese economy minister Masayuki Naoshima (L) talks with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the prime minister's office in Hanoi on Aug. 25, 2010. Naoshima pitched Japan's nuclear power technology to help Japanese companies secure orders from the Southeast Asian country.

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Economy minister Naoshima in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam - Japan's economy minister Masayuki Naoshima (R) and Vietnamese Science and Technology Minister Hoang Van Phong shake hands in Vietnam on Aug. 24, 2010. Naoshima tried to sell Japanese nuclear power technology for Japanese firms to win orders from the Southeast Asian country.

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Tea for war dead

HAKODATE, Japan - Former Urasenke-clan tea master Sen Genshitsu (R) and sculptor Masayuki Nagare (L) dedicate tea to the souls of the World War II dead in the town of Nanae, Hokkaido, on Aug. 24, 2010.

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APEC concludes meeting, calls for more jobs, structural reform

BEPPU, Japan - Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Masayuki Naoshima (2nd from R in front row), who jointly chaired the APEC Growth Strategy High-Level Policy Round Table with national policy minister Satoshi Arai (2nd L in front row), speaks at a press conference after the conclusion of the meeting in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, on Aug. 8, 2010. The chair's statement affirmed the necessity to promote the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship.