Japan, S. Korea business leaders to cooperate for FTA

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.

46th Japan-Korea Business Conference in Tokyo

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.

Japan, S. Korea business leaders meet in Seoul

Japan, S. Korea business leaders meet in Seoul

Mikio Sasaki (R), head of the Japan-Korea Economic Association, and Kim Yoon, chairman of the Korea-Japan Economic Association, give a joint press conference in Seoul on May 14, 2015, after a two-day meeting closing with a joint statement to strengthen cooperation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japanese business leader meets S. Korean deputy premier in Seoul

Japanese business leader meets S. Korean deputy premier in Seoul

Japan-Korea Economic Association head Mikio Sasaki (L) shakes hands with South Korean Deputy Prime Minister Choi Kyung Hwan, who doubles as strategy and finance minister, in Seoul on May 12, 2015, ahead of a two-day meeting of Japanese and South Korean businesspeople from May 13. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japanese business leader meets S. Korean foreign minister in Seoul

Japanese business leader meets S. Korean foreign minister in Seoul

Japan-Korea Economic Association head Mikio Sasaki (L) shakes hands with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se in Seoul on May 12, 2015, ahead of a two-day conference of Japanese and South Korean businesspeople from May 13. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Daiei to sell stake in Lawson to Mitsubishi

Daiei to sell stake in Lawson to Mitsubishi

TOKYO, Jan. 17 Kyodo - (From L to R) Kenji Fujiwara, president of Lawson Inc., Isao Nakauchi, president of Daiei Inc., and Mikio Sasaki, president of Mitsubishi Corp., shake hands at a news conference Jan. 17 following an agreement on the sale of part of the Daiei group's stake in Lawson to Mitsubishi. The sale is part of efforts by Japan's biggest supermarket chain operator to pay off debts.