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Japan Mobility Show 2025 Special Session

Japan Mobility Show 2025, Special Session. photo shows (from left): Akira Matsunaga, JAMA Vice Chairman and Managing Director; Toshihiro Mibe, Vice Chairman; Koji Sato, Vice Chairman; MC Kiyoka Sudo; Masanori Katayama, Chairman; Toshihiro Suzuki, Vice Chairman; Ivan Espinosa, Vice Chairman; Motofumi Shitara, Vice Chairman.=October 30,2025,Tokyo

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Japan Mobility Show 2025 Special Session

Japan Mobility Show 2025, Special Session. photo shows (from left): Akira Matsunaga, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association; Toshihiro Mibe, Vice Chairman; Koji Sato, Vice Chairman; Masanori Katayama, Chairman; Toshihiro Suzuki, Vice Chairman; Ivan Espinosa, Vice Chairman; Motofumi Shitara, Vice Chairman.=October 30,2025,Tokyo

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CALCIO - Amichevole - ACF Fiorentina vs Japan University FA

Japan University FA's Matsunaga during ACF Fiorentina vs Japan University FA, Friendly football match in Bagno a Ripoli (FI), Italy, August 14 2025

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CALCIO - Amichevole - ACF Fiorentina vs Japan University FA

ACF Fiorentina's defender Pietro Comuzzo against Japan University FA's Matsunaga during ACF Fiorentina vs Japan University FA, Friendly football match in Bagno a Ripoli (FI), Italy, August 14 2025

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Rugby: Japan vs. Wales

Japan's Takuro Matsunaga (R) scores a try in the first half of a rugby test match against Wales in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on July 5, 2025.

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Rugby: Japan vs. Wales

Japan's Takuro Matsunaga (R) scores a try in the first half of a rugby test match against Wales in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on July 5, 2025.

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Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc. March press conference.

Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc. March press conference. Photo shows (from right to left) Motofumi Shitara, Vice President; Makoto Uchida, Vice President; Toshihiro Suzuki, Vice President; Masanori Katayama, Chairman; Koji Sato, Vice President; Toshihiro Mibe, Vice President; and Akira Matsunaga, Vice President.=March 19,2025,Tokyo

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Literary award winners in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, July 18 Kyodo - Michi Ichiho, Sanzo K. Matsunaga and Aki Asahina pose with their award-winning books during a press conference in Tokyo on July 17, 2024. Matsunaga and Asahina won the Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors, while Ichiho won the Naoki Prize for popular fiction. (Kyodo)

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Literary award winner in Japan

Author Sanzo K. Matsunaga speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 17, 2024, after winning the Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors.

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Literary award winners in Japan

(From L) Michi Ichiho, Sanzo K. Matsunaga and Aki Asahina pose with their award-winning books during a press conference in Tokyo on July 17, 2024. Matsunaga and Asahina won the Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors, while Ichiho won the Naoki Prize for popular fiction.

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Literary award winners in Japan

(From L) Michi Ichiho, Sanzo K. Matsunaga and Aki Asahina pose with their award-winning books during a press conference in Tokyo on July 17, 2024. Matsunaga and Asahina won the Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors, while Ichiho won the Naoki Prize for popular fiction.

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Japan donates vehicles to Ukraine

(From L) Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine Kuninori Matsuda, Ukrainian Healthcare Minister Viktor Liashko and Hideki Matsunaga, head of the Japan International Cooperation Agency office in Ukraine, pose for a photo in Kyiv on May 24, 2024, during a ceremony involving the donation of 20 vehicles for medical workers and five ultrasound scanners to the war-torn country.

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Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) May Press Conference

Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) May Press Conference Photo shows (from right to left) Tsuneji Sato, Vice Chairman; Toshihiro Suzuki, Vice Chairman; Yoshihiro Hidaka, Vice Chairman; Masanori Katayama, Chairman; Toshihiro Mibe, Vice Chairman; Makoto Uchida, Vice Chairman; and Akira Matsunaga, Vice Chairman.=May 23, 2024, in Tokyo

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Jet ski lost in tsunami returned to owner

IWAKI, Japan - Tomomune Matsunaga, an evacuee of the 2011 disaster, smiles on Nov. 10, 2014, in the northeastern Japan city of Iwaki, as his jet ski, which was lost in the tsunami but recently found on an atoll off Hawaii, was returned to him.

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Baseball proponents vow to reinstate sport as Olympic game

TOKYO, Japan - Some participants in Olympic baseball games in the past 30 years vow to make efforts to reinstate baseball as an official Olympic event in a talk show at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2014. The event, held to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Japan's win in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics as a demonstration event, was joined by (from L) former player Katsumi Hirosawa, and former managers Masatake Yamanaka, Reiichi Matsunaga, Yoshinobu Suzuki, Katsuji Kawashima and Kozo Otagaki.

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Matsunaga, ex-ambassador to U.S., dies at 88

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in 1996 shows Nobuo Matsunaga who served as the Japanese ambassador to the United States in the 1980s. Matsunaga died of heart failure at a hospital in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2011, at the age of 88.

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Court rejects demand for immediate opening of Isahaya Bay dike gates

NAGASAKI, Japan - Hidenori Matsunaga, who led a group of 41 fishermen in Nagasaki and Saga prefectures in a lawsuit filed against the central government, is pictured during their gathering in Nagasaki on June 27, 2011, after the Nagasaki District Court rejected their demand for an immediate opening of two floodgates at the Isahaya Bay dike in the Ariake Sea. The fishermen claimed the shutting of the floodgates affected tidal currents and led to reduced fish catches.

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Austrian group opens facility for children, foster parents

FUKUOKA, Japan - Miki Matsunaga (L), who will be one of the foster parents at Children's Village Fukuoka, shows visitors around the facility on its opening day on March 31, 2010, in Fukuoka. The Japan branch of SOS Kinderdorf, an Austria-based nongovernmental organization, set up the first facility for children and adults who will become their foster parents in the country.

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Cejudo of U.S. wins men's 55-kg wrestling at Olympics

BEIJING, China - Japan's Tomohiro Matsunaga, silver medalist in the men's freestyle wrestling 55-kilogram category, closes his eyes during the medal ceremony at the Beijing Olympic Games on Aug. 19.

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Cejudo of U.S. wins men's 55-kg wrestling at Olympics

BEIJING, China - Medalists in the men's freestyle wrestling 55-kilogram category pose for photos during the medal ceremony at the Beijing Olympic Games on Aug. 19. (From L to R) Silver medalist Tomohiro Matsunaga of Japan, gold medalist Henry Cejudo of the United States, bronze medalist Radoslav Velikov of Bulgaria and bronze medalist Besik Kudukhov of Russia.

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Japan's Matsunaga takes men's 55-kg wrestling silver

BEIJING, China - Japanese wrestler Tomohiro Matsunaga (L) loses to Henry Cejudo (R) of the United States in the men's freestyle 55-kilogram category final of the Beijing Olympics on Aug. 19.

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Japan's Matsunaga takes men's 55-kg wrestling silver

BEIJING, China - Japanese wrestler Tomohiro Matsunaga (L) looks dejected after losing to Henry Cejudo (R) of the United States in the men's freestyle 55-kilogram category final of the Beijing Olympics on Aug. 19.

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Japan's Matsunaga takes men's 55-kg wrestling silver

BEIJING, China - Japanese wrestler Tomohiro Matsunaga (top) fights in the men's freestyle 55-kilogram category final of the Beijing Olympics against Henry Cejudo (bottom) of the United States on Aug. 19. Matsunaga lost to Cejudo, gaining the silver medal.

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Japan's Matsunaga takes men's 55-kg wrestling silver

BEIJING, China - Japanese wrestler Tomohiro Matsunaga (top) fights in the men's freestyle 55-kilogram category final of the Beijing Olympics against Henry Cejudo (bottom) of the United States on Aug. 19. Matsunaga lost to Cejudo, gaining the silver medal.

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Japan's Matsunaga takes men's 55-kg wrestling silver

BEIJING, China - Japanese wrestler Tomohiro Matsunaga (front) faces positive action from Henry Cejudo (in background) of the United States during the men's freestyle 55-kilogram category final of the Beijing Olympics on Aug. 19. Matsunaga lost to Cejudo, gaining the silver medal.

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Japan vs. China in inaugural WBC

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's infielder Nobuhiko Matsunaga (R) reaches home base in the second inning of a game against China in the inaugural World Baseball Classic on March 3. At left is China's catcher Wang Wei.

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Obuchi vows efforts for world free of nuclear weapons

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (C) vows July 26 to make efforts toward realizing a world free of nuclear weapons. Photo shows Obuchi receiving at his office a proposal adopted July 25 by an international forum of experts on nuclear disarmament from Nobuo Matsunaga (R), former Japanese ambassador to the U.S., along with Yasushi Akashi, former U.N. undersecretary general. Matsunaga and Akashi co-chaired the Tokyo forum.

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Matsunaga meets Greenspan

U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan (R) shakes hands with Japanese Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga prior to their talks at the Ministry of Finance on Tuesday July 14. Matsunaga told Greenspan Japan's financial reform will remain on track despite the upcoming change of the prime minister.

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Bridge bank plan unveiled

Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga (L) answers questions by reporters Thursday July 2 after announcing the Japanese government's bridge bank plan aimed to salvage the country's financial system that has been mired by massive bad loans. Masaharu Hino (R), chief of the newly created Financial Supervisory Agency, assists Matsunaga during the briefing session at the Prime Minister's official residence.

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Emergency deputies meeting held

Deputies of the finance ministers and central bankers fromthe Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized countries and 11 Asia-Pacific economies pose before photographers in Tokyo on June 20 before an emergency meeting to seek ways to stabilize foreign exchange markets. U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers is at right and Japanese Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga is fourth from right.

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Matsunaga, Summers meet in Tokyo

Japanese Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga (R) meets U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers in Tokyo on June 19 to exchange views on the global economy, the yen-dollar exchange rate and Japan's prolonged economic slump.

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Supplementary budget enacted

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (R), Finance Minster Hikaru Matsunaga (L) bow to members of the upper house who voted into law a 4.6 trillion yen fiscal 1998 supplementary budget Wednesday June 17. This pave the way for long-awaited full-scale implementation of the latest government economic stimulus package worth 16.65 trillion yen.

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New finance minister assumes post

New Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga (R) takes over duties at the Finance Ministry on Feb. 2 from Hiroshi Mitsuzuka who stepped down from the post last week to take responsibility for a bribery scandal involving two financial inspectors at the ministry.

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New finance minister meets press

Japan's new Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga meets the press at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Jan. 30 and vows to do his utmost to enforce official discipline and recover public trust in the ministry. Matsunaga succeeded Hiroshi Mitsuzuka who stepped down from the post Jan. 28 to take the blame for a bribery scandal involving two financial inspectors at the ministry.

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IAAF World Athletics Championships 2022

Daisuke Matsunaga of Japan during the final of men's 35 kilometres race walk at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on July 24, 2022. LEHTIKUVA / VESA MOILANEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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5-year jail term finalized for 90-yr-old over fatal crash

Takuya Matsunaga, whose wife and daughter were killed in a car accident in Tokyo's Ikebukuro area in 2019, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2021. A five-year prison term was finalized the same day for a 90-year-old former top bureaucrat found guilty over the fatal crash.

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5-year jail term finalized for 90-yr-old over fatal crash

Takuya Matsunaga, whose wife and daughter were killed in a car accident in Tokyo's Ikebukuro area in 2019, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2021. A five-year prison term was finalized the same day for a 90-year-old former top bureaucrat found guilty over the fatal crash.

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Ruling on fatal Tokyo car crash

Takuya Matsunaga (2nd from L), whose wife and daughter were killed when a car hit them at a crosswalk in Tokyo's Ikebukuro area in April 2019, walks to the Tokyo District Court on Sept. 2, 2021. Later in the day, the court sentenced 90-year-old former top bureaucrat Kozo Iizuka to five years in prison for negligence over the car accident. (Pool photo)

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Ruling on fatal Tokyo car crash

Takuya Matsunaga, whose wife and daughter were killed when a car hit them at a crosswalk in Tokyo's Ikebukuro area in April 2019, walks to the Tokyo District Court on Sept. 2, 2021. Later in the day, the court sentenced 90-year-old former top bureaucrat Kozo Iizuka to five years in prison for negligence over the car accident. (Pool photo)

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Japan vs. China in inaugural WBC

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's infielder Nobuhiko Matsunaga (R) reaches home base in the second inning of a game against China in the inaugural World Baseball Classic on March 3. At left is China's catcher Wang Wei. (Kyodo)

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Matsunaga wins men's 55-kilogram freestyle class

TOKYO, Japan - Tomohiro Matsunaga celebrates after winning the men's 55-kilogram freestyle class at the Asian wresting championships in Jeju, South Korea, on March 19. (Kyodo)

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Nobuo Matsunaga

Nobuo Matsunaga Former Japanese Minister 02 March 1995 Date: 02-Mar-1995

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On mission to save pottery, Fukushima native sets eyes on global markets

Takeshi Matsunaga holds a cup sold under the "KACHI-UMA" series of Obori Soma ware, a traditional craft in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, at a pottery in Nishigo in the prefecture on April 5, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Late actor Takakura's exhibition held in Kitakyushu, southwest Japan

Takeshi Matsunaga, head of the Matsunaga Library in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, holds a letter written by the late actor Ken Takakura on Jan. 18, 2015, at the library displaying more than 130 items related to Takakura. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese firms eye aging Thai population to expand elderly business

Japan's leading wheelchair maker, Matsunaga Manufactory Co., operates a flagship shop for wheelchairs as well as various equipment and goods for the elderly at Japanese department store Isetan Bangkok, shown in this file photo taken on July 7, 2017. (NNA/Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cejudo of U.S. wins men's 55-kg wrestling at Olympics

BEIJING, China - Medalists in the men's freestyle wrestling 55-kilogram category pose for photos during the medal ceremony at the Beijing Olympic Games on Aug. 19. (From L to R) Silver medalist Tomohiro Matsunaga of Japan, gold medalist Henry Cejudo of the United States, bronze medalist Radoslav Velikov of Bulgaria and bronze medalist Besik Kudukhov of Russia. (Kyodo)

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Cejudo of U.S. wins men's 55-kg wrestling at Olympics

BEIJING, China - Japan's Tomohiro Matsunaga, silver medalist in the men's freestyle wrestling 55-kilogram category, closes his eyes during the medal ceremony at the Beijing Olympic Games on Aug. 19. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Matsunaga takes men's 55-kg wrestling silver

BEIJING, China - Japanese wrestler Tomohiro Matsunaga (L) looks dejected after losing to Henry Cejudo (R) of the United States in the men's freestyle 55-kilogram category final of the Beijing Olympics on Aug. 19. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Matsunaga takes men's 55-kg wrestling silver

BEIJING, China - Japanese wrestler Tomohiro Matsunaga (top) fights in the men's freestyle 55-kilogram category final of the Beijing Olympics against Henry Cejudo (bottom) of the United States on Aug. 19. Matsunaga lost to Cejudo, gaining the silver medal. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Matsunaga takes men's 55-kg wrestling silver

BEIJING, China - Japanese wrestler Tomohiro Matsunaga (L) loses to Henry Cejudo (R) of the United States in the men's freestyle 55-kilogram category final of the Beijing Olympics on Aug. 19. (Kyodo)