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Saori Minami

Saori Minami=Date: November 2, 1971, Place: Japan

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Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura on the set of the movie “Abashiri Prison”=Date : December 10, 1971, Place : Sounkyo, Hokkaido

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Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tomisaburo Wakayama=Place: Akasaka, Japan

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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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MUFG's net profit tops 1 tril. yen, Mizuho logs record profit

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi speaks at a press conference on May 22 on the group's business results for fiscal 2005. The world's largest banking group reported more than 1 trillion yen ($8.87 billion) in consolidated net profit for the year, which saw Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. merged with UFJ Holdings Inc.

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MTFG's Kuroyanagi to become bankers' association head next April

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese Bankers Association on Sept. 20 selected Nobuo Kuroyanagi (file photo), president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., as the next chairman who will replace current head Terunobu Maeda.

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Tokyo-Mitsubishi, UFJ delay merger

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuo Kuroyanagi (R), president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., and UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara hold a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 12. They announced the postponement of the merger of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and UFJ Bank for three months to Jan. 1.

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Mitsubishi Tokyo suffers 39.7% fall in net profit for FY 2004

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi tells a press conference on May 25 that group net profit fell 39.7 percent in fiscal 2004 from a year earlier to 338.42 billion yen due to growing bad-loan disposal costs.

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(2)MTFG, UFJ set merger ratio at 1 to 0.62

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi (L) and UFJ Holdings Inc. President Ryosuke Tamakoshi pose at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 18. A new company to be formed through their merger on Oct. 1 will be named Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and rank top in the world in terms of assets.

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(1) MTFG, UFJ set merger ratio at 1 to 0.62

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi (L) shows off the symbol mark of a new banking group to be formed through a merger between his group and UFJ Holdings Inc. on Oct. 1 at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 18. Seated to his right is UFJ Holdings President Ryosuke Tamakoshi.

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Mitsubishi Tokyo's group net profit drops 43% in fiscal 2004 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 24. The company said its group net profit dropped 43.1 percent in the fiscal first half from a year earlier to 171.68

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UFJ Holdings to incur 780 bil. yen interim net loss

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Holdings Inc. President Ryosuke Tamakoshi (L) speaks as UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara listens at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 10. UFJ Holdings said it expects to book a group net loss of 780 billion yen in the April-September first half of fiscal 2004 as it will clean up its books before its planned merger with Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. in October 2005.

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UFJ, Mitsubishi Tokyo ink basic accord to merge Oct. 1, 2005

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Holdings Inc. President Ryosuke Tanmakoshi (L) and Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi pose for photos at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 12 after signing a basic merger agreement that would clear the way for them to create the largest financial group in the world in October 2005.

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(2)UFJ, Mitsubishi Tokyo ink basic accord to merge Oct. 1, 2005

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Holdings Inc. President Ryosuke Tamakoshi (L) speaks as Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi listens at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 12. They signed a basic merger agreement that would create the world's largest financial group in October 2005.

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UFJ admits falsifying dossiers on borrowers' business conditions

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara (C), flanked by is aides, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 28. The bank, a key arm of UFJ Holdings Inc. at the center of a row over its merger plan with Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., admitted it had systemically falsified documents on the business conditions of its large corporate borrowers and submitted them to the Financial Services Agency.

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(2)Mitsubishi Tokyo, UFJ announce merger accord

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Mitsubishi Tokyo Bank Chairman Shigemitsu Miki, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi, UFJ Holdings Inc. President Ryosuke Tamakoshi and UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara give a joint press conference in Tokyo after signing a memorandum of understanding to launch negotiations with the aim of integrating their operations during the first half of fiscal 2005. The deal will create the world's biggest banking group with total assets of 190 trillion yen, topping the 135 trillion yen of Mizuho Financial Group Inc.

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Mitsubishi Tokyo, UFJ announce merger accord

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara, UFJ Holdings President Ryosuke Tamakoshi, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi and Mitsubishi Tokyo Bank Chairman Shigemitsu Miki pose for photos after announcing an agreement on their management integration at a press conference in Tokyo on July 16.

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UFJ proposes merger to M'bishi Tokyo, to be top banking group

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara (in left file photo) has made a formal merger proposal to Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi (in right file photo) during their meeting in Tokyo, UFJ said on July 14. The deal would create the world's largest banking group in terms of assets.

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Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial returns to black in FY 2003

TOKYO, Japan - Shigemitsu Miki (C), president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., briefs reporters on the group's earnings report for fiscal 2003 at the head office of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on May 24.

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MTFG's Miki to give presidency to Kuroyanagi

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Shigemitsu Miki (L) tells a press conference on April 28 he will hand over the presidency to board director Nobuo Kuroyanagi (R) as of June 29.

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MTFG back into black

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. (MTFG) President Shigemitsu Miki announces at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 25 his group has regained profitability on a half-year basis amid the improved business climate for the financial industry. MTFG reported a group net profit of 301.88 billion yen for the April-September period, a turnaround from a year-earlier loss of 188.10 billion yen.

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Top bankers criticize Takenaka's bank policy

TOKYO, Japan - The heads of Japan's four major banking groups criticize Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka's bank policy in Diet testimony Dec. 3. The House of Councillors Financial Affairs Committee summoned as unsworn witnesses (from R to L) Terunobu Maeda, president of Mizuho Holdings Inc., Shigemitsu Miki, president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., Masashi Teranishi, president of UFJ Bank, and Yoshifumi Nishikawa, president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.

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MTFG net loss nearly doubles in fiscal 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. (MTFG) President Shigemitsu Miki said in Tokyo on Nov. 25 that his banking group chalked up a consolidated net loss of 188.10 billion yen in the first half of fiscal 2002, nearly double that of 96.83 billion yen a year earlier.

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Top bankers call for careful approach in corporate revival

TOKYO, Nov. 15 Kyodo - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (standing) testifies to the House of Representatives Financial Affairs Committee in the Diet in Tokyo on Nov. 15. Mizuho Holdings Inc. President Terunobu Maeda sits at Nishikawa's left and UFJ Bank President Masashi Teranishi at Nishikawa's right. At right is Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Shigemitsu Miki.

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Mitsubishi Tokyo to post interim net loss of 70 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Tadahiko Fujino (L), managing director of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., one of Japan's largest banking groups, speaks at a news conference Sept. 28. Fujino said his group expects to book a consolidated net loss of 70 billion yen in the first half of fiscal 2001 which ends Sept. 30.

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MTFG revises downward its group net balance projection

TOKYO, Japan - Tadahiko Fujino (L), senior managing director of the Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG), and Tatsunori Imagawa, managing director of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, speak at a press conference in Tokyo on April 5. MTFG downgraded its consolidated net balance projection for fiscal 2000 to a 137 billion yen loss, down sharply from the earlier released estimate of a 130 billion yen profit, due to higher-than-expected loan-loss charges.

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(2)New banks, nonlife insurers kick off operations

TOKYO, Japan - Shigemitsu Miki (L), president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., and its chairman Akio Utsumi, cut a ribbon at a ceremony in Tokyo on April 2 to mark the launch of the company, a merged body of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Co. and Nippon Trust Bank. Mitsubishi-Tokyo is one of three megabank groups which began operations the same day.

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(1)New banks, nonlife insurers kick off operations

TOKYO, Japan - Hideo Ogasawara, president of UFJ Holding Inc., a holding firm of Sanwa Bank, Tokai Bank and Toyo Trust & Banking Co., speaks at the company's opening ceremony in Tokyo on April 2. Three new megabank groups -- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., formed by the merger of Sumitomo Bank and Sakura Bank, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., a merged body of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Co. and Nippon Trust Bank, as well as UFJ Holdings Inc. -- began operations the same day.

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Welfide, Mitsubishi-Tokyo Pharmaceuticals to merge

OSAKA, Japan - Shinichiro Iida (L), president of Welfide Corp., and Ryuichi Tomizawa, president of Mitsubishi-Tokyo Pharmaceuticals Inc., shake hands at a news conference in Osaka on Nov. 1 after announcing an agreement to start talks on merging on an equal basis Oct. 1 next year, a move which would create the seventh largest pharmaceutical firm in Japan.

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Mitsubishi group banks name head of holding firm

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show (from L to R) Shigemitsu Miki, president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, and Akio Utsumi, president of Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corp. The two banks and Nippon Trust Bank are due to integrate their operations next April by inaugurating a holding company, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. Miki has been tentatively named president and Utsumi chairman of the holding company.

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UFJ, Mitsubishi Tokyo ink basic accord to merge Oct. 1, 2005

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Holdings Inc. President Ryosuke Tan\makoshi (L) and Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi pose for photos at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 12 after signing a basic merger agreement that would clear the way for them to create the largest financial group in the world in October 2005. (Kyodo)

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(2)UFJ, Mitsubishi Tokyo ink basic accord to merge Oct. 1, 2005

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Holdings Inc. President Ryosuke Tamakoshi (L) speaks as Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi listens at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 12. They signed a basic merger agreement that would create the world's largest financial group in October 2005. (Kyodo)

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UFJ Holdings to incur 780 bil. yen interim net loss

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Holdings Inc. President Ryosuke Tamakoshi (L) speaks as UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara listens at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 10. UFJ Holdings said it expects to book a group net loss of 780 billion yen in the April-September first half of fiscal 2004 as it will clean up its books before its planned merger with Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. in October 2005. (Kyodo)

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Mitsubishi Tokyo's group net profit drops 43% in fiscal 2004 1st

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 24. The company said its group net profit dropped 43.1 percent in the fiscal first half from a year earlier to 171.68 (Kyodo)

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(1) MTFG, UFJ set merger ratio at 1 to 0.62

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi (L) shows off the symbol mark of a new banking group to be formed through a merger between his group and UFJ Holdings Inc. on Oct. 1 at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 18. Seated to his right is UFJ Holdings President Ryosuke Tamakoshi. (Kyodo)

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(2)MTFG, UFJ set merger ratio at 1 to 0.62

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi (L) and UFJ Holdings Inc. President Ryosuke Tamakoshi pose at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 18. A new company to be formed through their merger on Oct. 1 will be named Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and rank top in the world in terms of assets. (Kyodo)

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Mitsubishi Tokyo suffers 39.7% fall in net profit for FY 2004

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi tells a press conference on May 25 that group net profit fell 39.7 percent in fiscal 2004 from a year earlier to 338.42 billion yen due to growing bad-loan disposal costs. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo-Mitsubishi, UFJ delay merger

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuo Kuroyanagi (R), president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., and UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara hold a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 12. They announced the postponement of the merger of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and UFJ Bank for three months to Jan. 1. (Kyodo)

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MTFG's Kuroyanagi to become bankers' association head next April

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese Bankers Association on Sept. 20 selected Nobuo Kuroyanagi (file photo), president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., as the next chairman who will replace current head Terunobu Maeda. (Kyodo)

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MUFG's net profit tops 1 tril. yen, Mizuho logs record profit

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi speaks at a press conference on May 22 on the group's business results for fiscal 2005. The world's largest banking group reported more than 1 trillion yen ($8.87 billion) in consolidated net profit for the year, which saw Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. merged with UFJ Holdings Inc. (Kyodo)

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MTFG net loss nearly doubles in fiscal 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. (MTFG) President Shigemitsu Miki said in Tokyo on Nov. 25 that his banking group chalked up a consolidated net loss of 188.10 billion yen in the first half of fiscal 2002, nearly double that of 96.83 billion yen a year earlier. (Kyodo)

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(2)New banks, nonlife insurers kick off operations

TOKYO, Japan - Shigemitsu Miki (L), president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., and its chairman Akio Utsumi, cut a ribbon at a ceremony in Tokyo on April 2 to mark the launch of the company, a merged body of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Co. and Nippon Trust Bank. Mitsubishi-Tokyo is one of three megabank groups which began operations the same day.

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(1)New banks, nonlife insurers kick off operations

TOKYO, Japan - Hideo Ogasawara, president of UFJ Holding Inc., a holding firm of Sanwa Bank, Tokai Bank and Toyo Trust & Banking Co., speaks at the company's opening ceremony in Tokyo on April 2. Three new megabank groups -- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., formed by the merger of Sumitomo Bank and Sakura Bank, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., a merged body of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Co. and Nippon Trust Bank, as well as UFJ Holdings Inc. -- began operations the same day.

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UFJ admits falsifying dossiers on borrowers' business conditions

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara (C), flanked by is aides, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 28. The bank, a key arm of UFJ Holdings Inc. at the center of a row over its merger plan with Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., admitted it had systemically falsified documents on the business conditions of its large corporate borrowers and submitted them to the Financial Services Agency. (Kyodo)

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Mitsubishi Tokyo, UFJ announce merger accord

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara, UFJ Holdings President Ryosuke Tamakoshi, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi and Mitsubishi Tokyo Bank Chairman Shigemitsu Miki pose for photos after announcing an agreement on their management integration at a press conference in Tokyo on July 16. (Kyodo)

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(2)Mitsubishi Tokyo, UFJ announce merger accord

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Mitsubishi Tokyo Bank Chairman Shigemitsu Miki, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi, UFJ Holdings Inc. President Ryosuke Tamakoshi and UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara give a joint press conference in Tokyo after signing a memorandum of understanding to launch negotiations with the aim of integrating their operations during the first half of fiscal 2005. The deal will create the world's biggest banking group with total assets of 190 trillion yen, topping the 135 trillion yen of Mizuho Financial Group Inc. (Kyodo)

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UFJ proposes merger to M'bishi Tokyo, to be top banking group

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara (in left file photo) has made a formal merger proposal to Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi (in right file photo) during their meeting in Tokyo, UFJ said on July 14. The deal would create the world's largest banking group in terms of assets. (Kyodo)

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Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial returns to black in FY 2003

TOKYO, Japan - Shigemitsu Miki (C), president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., briefs reporters on the group's earnings report for fiscal 2003 at the head office of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on May 24. (Kyodo)

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MTFG's Miki to give presidency to Kuroyanagi

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Shigemitsu Miki (L) tells a press conference on April 28 he will hand over the presidency to board director Nobuo Kuroyanagi (R) as of June 29. (Kyodo)

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MTFG back into black

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. (MTFG) President Shigemitsu Miki announces at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 25 his group has regained profitability on a half-year basis amid the improved business climate for the financial industry. MTFG reported a group net profit of 301.88 billion yen for the April-September period, a turnaround from a year-earlier loss of 188.10 billion yen. (Kyodo)