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Japanese film director Mikio Naruse

Photo taken in September 1962 shows Japanese film director Mikio Naruse.

Press Conference by SOMPO Holdings and Sompo Japan

Press conference by SOMPO Holdings and Sompo Japan. Photo from left to right: Mikio Okumura, President of SOMPO Holdings; Kengo Sakurada, Representative Executive Officer and Chairman of SOMPO Holdings Group CEO. =Date:January 26, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Press Conference by SOMPO Holdings and Sompo Japan

Press conference by SOMPO Holdings and Sompo Japan. Photo from left to right: Mikio Okumura, President of SOMPO Holdings; Kengo Sakurada, Representative Executive Officer and Chairman of SOMPO Holdings Group CEO. =Date:January 26, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Five companies, including Govmates, reach basic agreement to support business reform of small and medium-sized local governments.

Five companies, including Govmates, reach basic agreement to support business reform of small and medium-sized local governments. From right to left: Mikio Beppu, President of Gabermates; Norihiko Koshida, Director and Executive Officer of AltiusLink; Yoshiki Numano, Managing Executive Officer of Dai Nippon Printing; Tomoki Kosaka, Senior Executive Officer of Dentsu International Information Service; Takeyuki Ishii, Chief Business Officer of RPA Technologies=Date:November 7, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Five companies, including Govmates, reach basic agreement to support business reform of small and medium-sized local governments.

Five companies, including Govmates, reach basic agreement to support business reform of small and medium-sized local governments. From right to left: Mikio Beppu, President of Gabermates; Norihiko Koshida, Director and Executive Officer of AltiusLink; Yoshiki Numano, Managing Executive Officer of Dai Nippon Printing; Tomoki Kosaka, Senior Executive Officer of Dentsu International Information Service; Takeyuki Ishii, Chief Business Officer of RPA Technologies=Date:November 7, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Five companies, including Govmates, reach basic agreement to support business reform of small and medium-sized local governments.

Five companies, including Govmates, reach basic agreement to support business reform of small and medium-sized local governments. From right to left: Mikio Beppu, President of Gabermates; Norihiko Koshida, Director and Executive Officer of AltiusLink; Yoshiki Numano, Managing Executive Officer of Dai Nippon Printing; Tomoki Kosaka, Senior Executive Officer of Dentsu International Information Service; Takeyuki Ishii, Chief Business Officer of RPA Technologies=Date:November 7, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Ex-LDP upper house heavyweight Mikio Aoki dies at 89

Photo taken in April 2000 shows then Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight Mikio Aoki speaking at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo as chief Cabinet secretary. Aoki, who was elected to the House of Councillors a total of four times from 1986 onwards before retiring from politics in 2010, died on June 11, 2023 at age 89.

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Ex-LDP upper house heavyweight Mikio Aoki dies at 89

Former Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight Mikio Aoki, known to have held strong influence while head of the party's caucus in the House of Councillors, is pictured in January 2000 in Tokyo. Aoki, who was elected to the upper house a total of four times from 1986 onwards before retiring from politics in 2010, died on June 11, 2023 at age 89.

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Aoki resigns as LDP upper house chief

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Aoki, the head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's House of Councillors caucus, emerges from a meeting of LDP executives at the party headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 1. Aoki later resigned from the post to take responsibility for the party's crushing defeat in the upper house election on July 29.

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Sharp forecasts bigger losses for FY 08

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks about his company's current and future business in Tokyo on April 8. He said the Osaka-based Japanese electronics maker anticipates bigger losses for just-ended fiscal 2008, while planning to strengthen its output of large-sized liquid crystal display televisions and panels amid signs that demand is returning.

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Japan teen wins int'l ballet competition

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Photo shows Haruo Niyama (C), a 17-year-old Japanese boy, who won an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 1, 2014, for teenagers aiming to dance professionally. At left is Sae Maeda, who was second, and at right is Mikio Kato, who was sixth in the competition.

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Athletes prepare for 2020 Tokyo Paralympics

OSAKA, Japan, Jan. 2 Kyodo - Japanese athlete Mikio Ikeda, a men's 4x100 meter relay bronze medalist at the World Para Athletics Championships in London in July 2017, trains in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Oct. 4, 2017, to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.

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Okinawa governor race begins

NAHA, Japan - Mikio Shimoji, 53, former state minister in charge of the privatization of postal services, who is running for governor of Okinawa, makes a speech in Naha, the capital city of Japan's southernmost prefecture on Oct. 30, 2014, the first day of official campaigning for a closely watched election on Nov. 16, in which the controversial transfer of a key U.S. military base will take center stage.

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Candidates for Okinawa gubernatorial race hold debate

NAHA, Japan - Candidates for the Okinawa gubernatorial election pose after an open debate in Naha, Japan, on Oct. 17, 2014. From L: Former Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga, Mikio Shimoji, former minister in charge of privatization of postal services, Shokichi Kina, a former House of Councillors member, and incumbent Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima.

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TEPCO ordered to pay damages over evacuee's suicide

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Mikio Watanabe (C) heads for the Fukushima District Court in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima with a picture of his late wife Hamako on Aug. 26, 2014. The court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay 49 million yen in damages over the suicide of Hamako, who was forced to evacuate from her home by the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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TEPCO ordered to pay damages over evacuee's suicide

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Mikio Watanabe (L), holding a picture of his late wife Hamako, answers reporters' questions outside the Fukushima District Court in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima on Aug. 26, 2014, after the court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay 49 million yen in damages over the suicide of Hamako. The couple was forced to evacuate from their home by the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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TEPCO ordered to pay damages over evacuee's suicide

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Mikio Watanabe heads for the Fukushima District Court in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima with a picture of his late wife Hamako on Aug. 26, 2014. The court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay 49 million yen in damages over the suicide of Hamako, who was forced to evacuate her home by the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Hiroshima mayor poses with A-bomb survivors

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (2nd from R) poses with A-bomb survivors Ryukei Omoto (L), Mikio Miura (2nd from L) and Toshiko Tanaka at the city hall in Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 4, 2014, before reading out Hiroshima's Peace Declaration, including reference to their experiences, at the 69th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing in World War II on Aug. 6.

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Japan, S. Korea business leaders to cooperate for FTA

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Sasaki (R), chairman of the Japan-Korea Economic Association and his South Korean counterpart Kim Yoon shake hands after the Japan-Korea Business Conference, a two-day meeting of Japanese and South Korean business leaders, in Tokyo on May 15, 2014. The business leaders pledged to cooperate in realizing a bilateral free trade agreement in the joint statement.

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46th Japan-Korea Business Conference in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Sasaki, chairman of the Japan-Korea Economic Association, speaks at the 46th Japan-Korea Business Conference in Tokyo on May 14, 2014. Sasaki requested a Japan-ROK summit meeting.

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Japan envoy backs Myanmar's nation building

YANGON, Myanmar - Photo taken July 2, 2013, in Yangon shows Mikio Numata, Japanese ambassador to Myanmar who assumed the post in November 2012. Numata was assigned as director general of the Consular Affairs Bureau at the Foreign Ministry in 2011, becoming the first non-career-track official to have been promoted to an executive position at the ministry.

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Lessons from 2011 quake to create safer evacuation

KAMAISHI, Japan - Mikio Yamazaki, a district welfare commissioner in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on May 3, 2013, describes how he guided other residents toward evacuation shelters after the ground shook on the afternoon of March 11, 2011, at the former site of his shop in the city.

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Group of nonpartisan lawmakers visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Postal privatization minister Mikio Shimoji (C back) is pictured at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2012. Lawmakers of a nonpartisan group, including Shimoji and another Cabinet minister, visited the Shinto shrine dedicated to the war-dead on the occasion of its fall festival.

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Japan Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Shimoji, Japan's new postal privatization minister, enters Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's office in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2012, as Noda reshuffled his Cabinet.

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Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (2nd from R) and other ruling coalition leaders meet in Tokyo on June 4, 2012, to discuss a Cabinet reshuffle to take place later in the day. Others in photo are Azuma Koshiishi (R), secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan led by Noda, Shozaburo Jimi (2nd from L), head of the coalition partner People's New Party, and Mikio Shimoji (L), PNP secretary general.

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PNP sacks party head, policy chief

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Shimoji (L), secretary general of the People's New Party, and Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi (C), the sole Cabinet minister from the PNP, hold a press conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on the evening of April 5, 2012, after the party's decision to dismiss its chief Shizuka Kamei and policy chief Akiko Kamei. The decision comes after the two asserted the PNP should leave the ruling coalition due to their opposition to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's key policy goal of a sales tax hike.

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Coalition partner chief Kamei against sales tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei, head of the People's New Party, junior coalition partner of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, speaks at a PNP lawmakers' meeting at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on March 28, 2012, expressing opposition to a hike in the sales tax rate. PNP Secretary General Mikio Shimoji is seen at the back.

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Sharp names director Okuda as president

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Okuda (R), executive managing officer of Sharp Corp., and Mikio Katayama, president of the company, shake hands after holding a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on March 14, 2012. The Japanese electronics maker said the same day that Okuda will replace Katayama, on April 1. Katayama will step aside to become chairman.

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Sharp names director Okuda as president

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Okuda (R), executive managing officer of Sharp Corp., answers a reporter's question during a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on March 14, 2012. The Japanese electronics maker said the same day that Okuda will replace its current president, Mikio Katayama (L), on April 1. Katayama will step aside to become chairman.

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Sharp names director Okuda as president

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Okuda (R), executive managing officer of Sharp Corp., answers a reporter's question during a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on March 14, 2012. The Japanese electronics maker said the same day that Okuda will replace its current president, Mikio Katayama (L), on April 1. Katayama will step aside to become chairman.

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Sharp names director Okuda as president

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Okuda, executive managing officer of Sharp Corp., holds a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on March 14, 2012. The Japanese electronics maker said the same day that Okuda will replace its current president, Mikio Katayama, on April 1.

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Whistling proficiency test

FUKUI, Japan - Mikio Mori, associate professor of the graduate school at University of Fukui, demonstrates a whistling proficiency test that he developed in the city of Fukui, on the Sea of Japan, on Nov. 14, 2011.

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Sharp President Katayama

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks at a press conference on the company's earnings prospects in Tokyo on June 3, 2011. Sharp said the same day it expects its group net profit to fall 69.1 percent in fiscal 2011 from the previous year to 6 billion yen due to temporarily suspended operations at plants making large LCD panels, and impact from the March earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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'Sakura' trees in Lithuania to honor wartime Japan diplomat

VILNIUS, Lithuania - Japanese Ambassador to Lithuania Miyoko Akashi (2nd from L) and Mikio Sugiyama (L) and Kazuo Kawashima (3rd from L) of the Gifu Cherry Blossoms Group, and others plant cherry blossom trees at Chiune Sugihara Park in Vilnius, Lithuania, on May 3, 2011. Some 500 people took part in an event to plant cherry blossom trees in honor of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, a native of Gifu, who saved thousands of Jewish refugees from the Nazis in the wartime period by issuing them transit visas.

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Sharp to double Chinese retail outlets for Aquos LCD TVs

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on May 17, 2010. Katayama unveiled a business strategy of doubling the number of retail outlets in China for its Aquos liquid crystal display television sets to about 10,000 by the end of this year.

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Sharp to double Chinese retail outlets for Aquos LCD TVs

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on May 17, 2010. Katayama unveiled a business strategy of doubling the number of retail outlets in China for its Aquos liquid crystal display television sets to about 10,000 by the end of this year.

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LDP bigwig Aoki won't run in upper house election, may retire

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Mikio Aoki (file photo) has told executives of the main opposition party's Shimane prefectural chapter that he does not intend to run in the prefectural district of the House of Councillors election this summer due to poor health, a senior chapter member said on May 15, 2010. Regarded as an influential member of the upper house during the LDP's long rule, Aoki served as chief Cabinet secretary from 1999 to 2000 in the governments of prime ministers Keizo Obuchi and Yoshiro Mori.

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LDP bigwig Aoki won't run in upper house election, may retire

MATSUE, Japan - Kazuhiko Aoki, the eldest son and secretary of veteran Liberal Democratic Party upper house member Mikio Aoki, speaks about his father's intention not to run in the House of Councillors election this summer due to poor health in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, on May 15, 2010. Regarded as an influential member of the upper house during the LDP's long rule, Mikio Aoki served as chief Cabinet secretary from 1999 to 2000 in the governments of prime ministers Keizo Obuchi and Yoshiro Mori.

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Ex-farm minister quits as lawmaker for manipulating voting

TOKYO, Japan - Former Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi leaves a news conference at the Diet in Tokyo on April 2, 2010, after speaking about his resignation from the House of Councillors. Wakabayashi, of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, has been under fire for pressing the voting button for fellow lawmaker Mikio Aoki, who was absent from a house plenary vote to approve the budget for public broadcaster NHK.

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Ex-farm minister quits as lawmaker for manipulating voting

TOKYO, Japan - Former Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi speaks at a news conference at the Diet in Tokyo on April 2, 2010, after resigning from the House of Councillors to take the blame for manipulating a parliamentary vote. Wakabayashi, of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, has been under fire for pressing the voting button for fellow lawmaker Mikio Aoki, who was absent from a house plenary vote to approve the budget for public broadcaster NHK.

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Upper house veteran Aoki votes by himself

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Aoki, a veteran member of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, presses the voting button during a plenary session of the House of Councillors on April 2, 2010. Fellow LDP member Masatoshi Wakabayashi quit as a legislator the same day after it was revealed he had pushed Aoki's voting button during votes on 10 bills when Aoki was absent from the chamber.

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Ex-farm minister quits as lawmaker for manipulating voting

TOKYO, Japan - Former Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi speaks at a news conference at the Diet in Tokyo on April 2, 2010, after resigning from the House of Councillors to take the blame for manipulating a parliamentary vote. Wakabayashi, of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, has been under fire for pressing the voting button for fellow lawmaker Mikio Aoki, who was absent from a house plenary vote to approve the budget for public broadcaster NHK.

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Ex-farm minister Wakabayashi offers to quit as lawmaker

TOKYO, Japan - Former Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi speaks to reporters at the Diet building in Tokyo on April 2, 2010, after submitting to House of Councillors President Satsuki Eda a letter of resignation as a lawmaker. Wakabayashi, of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, has been under fire for pressing the voting button for fellow lawmaker Mikio Aoki, who was absent from a house plenary vote to approve the budget for public broadcaster NHK.

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Ex-farm minister Wakabayashi offers to quit as lawmaker

TOKYO, Japan - Former Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi speaks to reporters at the Diet building in Tokyo on April 2, 2010, after submitting to House of Councillors President Satsuki Eda a letter of resignation as a lawmaker. Wakabayashi, of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, has been under fire for pressing the voting button for fellow lawmaker Mikio Aoki, who was absent from a house plenary vote to approve the budget for public broadcaster NHK.

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DPJ partners oppose reclamation option

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Shimoji (L), People's New Party Diet affairs chief, Kantoku Teruya (C), head of the Social Democratic Party's Diet affairs, and Tomoko Abe(R), the policy chief of the SDP, comes out of a meeting with Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano on March 31, 2010, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo. The three representing the junior partners of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan opposed a prospective proposal to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station to an area to be reclaimed from the sea off a U.S. Navy facility in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture.

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DPJ partners oppose reclamation option

TOKYO, Japan - People's New Party Diet affairs chief Mikio Shimoji speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office on March 31, 2010, after meeting with Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano. Shimoji said he opposed a prospective proposal to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station to an area to be reclaimed from the sea off a U.S. Navy facility in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture.

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LDP upper house veteran Aoki to seek reelection

MATSUE, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight Mikio Aoki speaks about his intention to seek reelection to the House of Councillors this summer at a news conference on Jan. 18, 2010, in Matsue, the capital of Shimane Prefecture where he has been elected four times to a six-year term.

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Court ruling favors preservation of landmark scenery

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Mikio Oi (R), representative of a group of plaintiffs, and Hideko Matsui (L), representative of the residents in western Japan, speak at a press conference at the Hiroshima Bar Association building on Oct. 1, 2009, after winning a lawsuit at the Hiroshima District Court seeking to block a public works project they fear will spoil the scenery in a fishing district known for old historical buildings and facilities.

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Court ruling favors preservation of landmark scenery

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Mikio Oi (R), representative of a group of plaintiffs, and Hideko Matsui (L), representative of the residents in western Japan, celebrate at the Hiroshima Bar Association building on Oct. 1, 2009, after winning a lawsuit at the Hiroshima District Court seeking to block a public works project they fear will spoil the scenery in a fishing district known for old historical buildings and facilities.

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Sharp sinks into red in FY08 on stock loss

OSAKA, Japan - Mikio Katayama (R), president of Sharp Corp., briefs reporters on the company's earnings report for fiscal 2008 at a news conference in Osaka on April 27.