Press Conference on the Resignation of the Top Management of the Three Japan Post Group Companies

Press Conference on the Resignation of the Top Management of the Three Japan Post Group Companies

Mitsuhiko Uehira, President and Representative Executive Officer of JPI, at a press conference regarding the improper sale of insurance by JPI. (December 27, 2019, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun/Communications Images

Press Conference on the Resignation of the Top Management of the Three Japan Post Group Companies

Press Conference on the Resignation of the Top Management of the Three Japan Post Group Companies

(From right) Mitsuhiko Uehira, Director and Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO of JPI, Masatsugu Nagato, Director and Representative Executive Officer, Japan Post, and Kunio Yokoyama, Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer, Japan Post, at a press conference regarding the improper sale of insurance by JPI. (From right to left: Mitsuhiko Uehira, President and Representative Executive Officer, Japan Post; Masasugu Nagato, President and Representative Executive Officer, Japan Post; Kunio Yokoyama, President and Representative Executive Officer, Japan Post.

Police set up dementia detection system for senior drivers

Police set up dementia detection system for senior drivers

Mitsuhiko Yamamoto, an inspector of the Oita prefectural police in southwestern Japan, shows on Feb. 10, 2015, a letter of commendation given by the National Policy Agency chief for creating a system to help local doctors detect dementia among senior drivers at an early stage. Under the system, police can urge those diagnosed as suffering from dementia to return their licenses and reduce the potential number of traffic accidents. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Holdings Co. President Masatsugu Nagato (C), Japan Post Insurance Co. President Mitsuhiko Uehira (R) and Japan Post Co. President Kunio Yokoyama attend a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2019. Japan Post Holdings announced the three will resign to take responsibility for the scandal involving a huge number of faulty sales of insurance products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan names new envoys to Tunisia, Djibouti, Namibia

Japan names new envoys to Tunisia, Djibouti, Namibia

Mitsuhiko Okada (L), president of the Overseas Coastal Area Development Institute of Japan, is named ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, while Hideyuki Sakamoto, consul general in Frankfurt, Germany, is appointed as new envoy to Namibia on June 26, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Holdings Co. President Masatsugu Nagato (C), Japan Post Insurance Co. President Mitsuhiko Uehira (R) and Japan Post Co. President Kunio Yokoyama attend a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2019. Japan Post Holdings announced the three will resign to take responsibility for the scandal involving a huge number of faulty sales of insurance products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Holdings Co. President Masatsugu Nagato (C), Japan Post Insurance Co. President Mitsuhiko Uehira (R) and Japan Post Co. President Kunio Yokoyama attend a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2019. Japan Post Holdings announced the three will resign to take responsibility for the scandal involving a huge number of faulty sales of insurance products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Holdings Co. President Masatsugu Nagato (C), Japan Post Insurance Co. President Mitsuhiko Uehira (R) and Japan Post Co. President Kunio Yokoyama attend a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2019. Japan Post Holdings announced the three will resign to take responsibility for the scandal involving a huge number of faulty sales of insurance products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Holdings Co. President Masatsugu Nagato (C), Japan Post Insurance Co. President Mitsuhiko Uehira (R) and Japan Post Co. President Kunio Yokoyama bow at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2019. Japan Post Holdings announced the three will resign to take responsibility for the scandal involving a huge number of faulty sales of insurance products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Holdings Co. President Masatsugu Nagato (C), Japan Post Insurance Co. President Mitsuhiko Uehira (R) and Japan Post Co. President Kunio Yokoyama attend a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2019. Japan Post Holdings announced the three will resign to take responsibility for the scandal involving a huge number of faulty sales of insurance products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Holdings Co. President Masatsugu Nagato (C), Japan Post Insurance Co. President Mitsuhiko Uehira (R) and Japan Post Co. President Kunio Yokoyama attend a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2019. Japan Post Holdings announced the three will resign to take responsibility for the scandal involving a huge number of faulty sales of insurance products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo