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Victims, Mitsui settle fight over cadmium pollution

TOYAMA, Japan - Kunihiro Takagi (R), leader of a sufferers' group, and Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. President Sadao Senda shake hands, holding documents of agreement, in Toyama, Japan, on Dec. 17, 2013. The compensation issue over one of Japan's four major pollution-caused disease cases reached a complete settlement, as sufferers of cadmium poisoning, known as "Itai-Itai Disease," and the company responsible signed an agreement on it.

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Tsunekage to chair board of Mitsui-Sumitomo holding company

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo shows Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. President Hitoshi Tsunekage, who will chair the board of the new Mitsui-Sumitomo Trust holding company in April 2011.

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Police launch probe into Mitsui over data fabrication

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department officers enter the head office of Mitsui & Co. to search for evidence in connection with the company's alleged fabrication of test data on a diesel particulate filter.

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Managing officer Yasunaga named as new Mitsui president

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Yasunaga, a 54-year-old Mitsui & Co. managing officer who will become the company's new president in April, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2015.

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Forced labor lawsuit against Japanese firms

BEIJING, China - Photo taken in February 2014 in front of the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court shows a group of Chinese who filed a lawsuit against Mitsubishi Materials Corp. and Nippon Coke & Engineering Co., formerly known as Mitsui Mining Co., seeking compensation and a public apology for forced labor in Japan during World War II. The court has decided to take up the lawsuit against the two Japanese companies, a plaintiff lawyer said March 18, 2014.

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Arrest over bribery allegations

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigators head to the office of the Mitsui & Co. group's pension fund in Tokyo on Dec. 5, 2013. Police the same day arrested a former executive of the Mitsui group and an employee of Deutsche Bank AG's investment banking arm in Tokyo over an alleged bribery case.

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Kawasaki Heavy, Mitsui Engineering start integration talks

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 22, 2013, shows the building housing the headquarters of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. and Mitsui Engineering have started preliminary talks on possible integration of their businesses, sources familiar with the matter said the same day.

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Kawasaki Heavy, Mitsui Engineering start integration talks

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 22, 2013, shows the Tokyo Headquarters of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Kawasaki Heavy and Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. have started preliminary talks for possible integration of their businesses, sources familiar with the matter said the same day.

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Mitsui opens office in Myanmar capital

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Masami Iijima, president of Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co., speaks during a ceremony to commemorate the opening of its office in Myanmar's capital Naypyitaw on June 7, 2012.

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APEC business leaders hope for regional free trade zone

TOKYO, Japan - Gempachiro Aihara (R), chairman of a business advisory body to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and counselor of Mitsui & Co., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 14, 2010. The forum called on APEC leaders to recommit themselves to creating a region-wide free trade zone.

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Brazil unveils railway bid procedure, Japan firms plan shinkansen bid

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows a model of a Japanese shinkansen bullet train which would be introduced to Brazil if a consortium of Japanese firms led by Mitsui & Co. wins a tender by the Brazilian government for a railway project. It would be the first time the Japanese train system has been introduced outside Asia.

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Sumitomo Trust-Chuo Mitsui merger good chance to show presence

TOKYO, Japan - Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Tanabe speaks during a recent interview with Kyodo News on the merger of his bank and Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. A giant trust banking group is to be created through the management integration of the two trust banks in April 2011.

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Sumitomo Trust, Chuo Mitsui to merge into Japan's top trust bank

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. President Hitoshi Tsunekage (L) and Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Tanabe shake hands at a press conference in a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 6, 2009, during which they announced a management integration plan for April 2011 that will create Japan's largest trust bank.

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Mitsui & Co. to promote senior managing director Iijima as president

TOKYO, Japan - Masami Iijima, senior executive managing officer of Mitsui & Co., will be promoted as president of the Japanese major trading house April 1. Iijima, 58, has been in charge of steel materials and other metals operations during most of his career at the major trading house and now heads the resources and energy division.

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Mitsui Engineering unveils biomass-run power facility

CHIBA, Japan - The biomass power station of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, in a photo taken May 29. The power plant, with a capacity to generate 50,000 kilowatts of power an hour, was opened to the press on May 29.

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Mitsui, M'bishi, Shell cede majority stake in Sakhalin-2 to Gazprom

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki speaks at a press conference on Dec. 22 on a deal made by Mitsui & Co., Mitsubishi Corp. and the Royal Dutch/Shell group with Russian state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom concerning their Sakhalin-2 oil and natural gas development project. Shiozaki said, ''Since our country relies on foreign energy sources...it is important for the project to progress smoothly to provide energy stably to Japan,'' adding ''We want the Russian side to act in a responsible manner.''

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High-end 'honkaku shochu' makes its debut in New York

NEW YORK, United States - A man (L) tries ''honkaku shochu,'' or ''authentic'' shochu, a spirit with over 500 years of history in Japan since its initial introduction from Thailand, as it makes its debut in New York City on Nov. 21 as importer Mitsui & Co. announced the receipt of its official U.S. import license.

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Police arrest ex-Mitsui officials over gas data fabrication

TOKYO, Japan - Yasunori Yokote (R), senior executive managing officer at Mitsui & Co., apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo on June 14 after police arrested two former Mitsui employees and a former official of a Mitsui subsidiary on suspicion of fabricating test data to obtain official approval for a diesel particulate filter.

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Nippon Steel group named to lead Mitsui Mining reconstruction

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsui Mining Co. President Taro Yamaho (R) speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 16 after the state-backed Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan named a Japanese consortium led by Nippon Steel Corp. to sponsor the reconstruction of the ailing mining firm. The consortium, which includes trading house Sumitomo Corp. and Daiwa Securities SMBC Principal Investment Co., an investment arm of Daiwa Securities Group Inc., has competed for the sponsorship with U.S. investment fund WL Ross & Co.

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Mitsui admits to falsifying data on diesel filter

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsui & Co. President Shoei Utsuda (C) and other officials apologize in Tokyo on Nov. 22 for the company's use of false data to receive approval for a filter to remove particulate matter from diesel engine exhaust.

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Mitsui Engineering succeeds in test operation of NGH plant

ICHIHARA, Japan - Photo shows a test plant Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. built in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, for reducing natural gas to a sherbet-like state and then returning it to a gaseous form, a process that will reduce transportation and storage costs. The company said Feb. 10 it has succeeded in the test operation of the plant, which is capable of producing 600 kilograms of natural gas hydrate (NGH), a chemically stable crystalline substance that resembles sherbet, a day.

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New Mitsui president vows change in company mentality

TOKYO, Japan - Shoei Utsuda (R), who will become the new president of trading company Mitsui & Co., speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 9 about a series of scandals at the firm. Utsuda said he will push forward with reform to change the attitude of Mitsui employees and prevent further scandals.

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(1)Mitsui president offers apology

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsui & Co. President Shinjiro Shimizu bows at a news conference Sept. 4 to offer an apology for a series of scandals involving the major trading house. He said the company's top managers, including himself, will resign on Sept. 30 to take responsibility.

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(2)Mitsui president offers apology

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsui & Co. President Shinjiro Shimizu bows at a news conference Sept. 4 to offer an apology for a series of scandals involving the major trading house. ''I hope the new management will restore public confidence in our company by making it more transparent,'' said Shimizu, who is resign on Sept. 30 to take responsibility.

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Mitsui announces top management reshuffles over scandals

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsui & Co. said Sept. 4 Nobuo Ohashi (top L), a vice president, will become the new chairman to replace Shigeji Ueshima (bottom L) and Shoei Utsuda (top R), a senior managing director, will succeed Shinjiro Shimizu (bottom R) as president. The reshuffles, which will take effect Sept. 30, were decided at the firm's extraordinary board meeting.

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Utsuda to succeed Shimizu as Mitsui head after scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsui & Co. decides on Sept. 3 to promote its senior executive managing officer, Shoei Utsuda (file photo), to be its president to succeed Shinjiro Shimizu, who is resigning over a bribery scandal.

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Mongolian official denies taking bribes from Mitsui & Co.

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Tsegmid Sukhbaatar, a director general-level official in charge of power and energy management at Mongolia's Infrastructure Ministry, told Kyodo News in Ulan Bator on Aug. 29 he had never received bribes from Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co. in connection with a Japanese government-financed power project.

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Mitsui bribes Mongolian official to win aid contract

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the head office of major trading house Mitsui & Co. in Tokyo, which bribed a ranking Mongolian government official in 2001 to secure orders for a Japanese government-financed power project. Sources close to the case said Aug. 28 employees of Mitsui, including Yusuke Shimazaki, 39, offered more than 1 million yen to a director general-level official in charge of power and energy management at Mongolia's Infrastructure Ministry.

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5 workers die refurbishing Okayama copper refinery

OKAYAMA, Japan - Photo shows a copper refinery in Tamano, Okayama Prefecture, of a Mining & Smelting Co. affiliate, where five workers died July 25 after they were buried under bricks while refurbishing a converter. Mitsui Mining & Smelting said the accident occurred when the cylindrical steel-covered converter, one of three at the site, collapsed.

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Mitsui offices searched in bid-rigging case

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors walk into the head office of Mitsui & Co. in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on July 4, one day after the arrest of three Mitsui employees on suspicion of rigging bids for a power project on Russian-held Kunashiri Island in 2000.

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Prosecutors search Mitsui official's house

URAYASU, Japan - Prosecutors searched the house of Masahide Iino, head of a Mitsui & Co. industry project team, in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on July 3. Iino was arrested earlier in the day along with two other Mitsui employees on suspicion of interfering in the bidding process for a government-funded power project on Russian-held Kunashiri Island in 2000.

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Mitsui executive apologizes for employees' arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Jun Tashiro (L), vice president of Mitsui & Co., apologizes at the Tokyo head office July 3 over the arrest of three employees on suspicion of interfering in the bidding process for a government-funded power project on Russian-held Kunashiri Island in 2000.

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(2)Senior Mitsui officials arrested in bid-rigging case

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 25, 2002, shows a government-funded power generation facility on Russian-held Kunashiri Island. On July 3, prosecutors arrested senior officials of Mitsui & Co. for allegedly interfering in the bidding process for the facility.

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(1)Senior Mitsui officials arrested in bid-rigging case

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Tokyo head office of Mitsui & Co. Senior Mitsui officials were arrested July 3 for allegedly interfering in the bidding for a government-funded power project on Russian-held Kunashiri Island in 2000.

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DPJ-backed candidate wins Gifu mayoral election

GIFU, Japan - Shigemitsu Hosoe (L), a former employee of trading firm Mitsui & Co, celebrates his victory in the Gifu mayoral election Feb. 24. Hosoe, backed by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) defeated five other candidates to become the city's first mayor who is a private citizen from outside the public sector.

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Former Mitsui & Co. President Yahiro dies at 86

TOKYO, Japan - Toshikuni Yahiro (file photo), former chairman and president of Mitsui & Co., died of a stroke on Oct. 27. He was 86. He became Mitsui chairman in 1985 and stepped down in 1990 to serve in senior advisory positions. He left Mitsui in 1998.

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(4)Terrorist attack

NARITA, Japan - Relatives and colleagues of the employees at Chuo Mitsui Trust & Banking Co. who went missing in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York prepare to leave Narita airport, east of Tokyo, for the U.S. city on Sept. 15.

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Former Sumitomo Bank President Ibe dies at 92

OSAKA, Japan - File photo shows Kyonosuke Ibe, a former president of Sumitomo Bank, a predecessor to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., who died April 16 at 92. Ibe was known for his role in arranging the 1976 absorption of financially troubled trading house Ataka Corp. by C. Ito & Co., now Itochu Corp., and bailing out ailing automaker Toyo Kogyo Co., now Mazda Motor Corp., in the 1970s.

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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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Chuo Mitsui Trust launched, new sign unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - Chuo Mitsui Trust & Banking Co. unveils its new sign at its branch in Tokyo's downtown Shimbashi district. The bank, created through the April 1 merger of Mitsui Trust & Banking Co. and Chuo Trust & Banking Co., opens for business April 3.

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Mitsui revises FY 2015 outlook to 1st net loss since its founding

Mitsui & Co. President Tatsuo Yasunaga attends a press conference in Tokyo on March 23, 2016, as the trading house forecast its first group net loss since its founding in 1947, the result of impairment losses from big declines in mineral and energy prices. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mitsui revises FY 2015 outlook to 1st net loss since its founding

Mitsui & Co. President Tatsuo Yasunaga attends a press conference in Tokyo on March 23, 2016, as the trading house forecast its first group net loss since its founding in 1947, the result of impairment losses from big declines in mineral and energy prices. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mitsui & Co. announces entry into Italian food business

Mitsui & Co. announces in Tokyo on June 15, 2015, that the major trading house is starting a retail, dining and import wholesale business for Italian food and ingredients in the Asia-Pacific region. Managing Officer Shin Hatori (2nd from R) attended the press conference. Mitsui, together with Kichiri & Co. and Eataly Distribuzione S.R.L., established Eataly Asia Pacific Co. to begin the business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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World's 1st diesel engine to use methanol developed

Photo taken in the western Japan city of Tamano shows the world's first diesel engine for large vessels that uses methanol as fuel. Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. developed it as part of efforts to comply with environmental regulations, and unveiled it to reporters on June 17, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mitsui's new president eager to gear up nonresource business

Tatsuo Yasunaga, new president of Mitsui & Co., is interviewed by Kyodo News at the company headquarters in Tokyo's Marunouchi district on April 21, 2015. During the interview, the 54-year-old head of the major Japanese trading house expressed eagerness to gear up its business in nonresource sectors in Asia, aiming to diversify its revenue base amid resource price falls around the globe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mitsui's new president eager to gear up nonresource business

Tatsuo Yasunaga, new president of Mitsui & Co., is interviewed by Kyodo News at the company headquarters in Tokyo's Marunouchi district on April 21, 2015. During the interview, the 54-year-old head of the major Japanese trading house expressed eagerness to gear up its business in nonresource sectors in Asia, aiming to diversify its revenue base amid resource price falls around the globe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fallen crane kills one at machinery maker's plant

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the scene where a man was killed after a large crane fell on him at Mitsui E&S Machinery Co.'s plant in Oita, southwestern Japan, on May 13, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fallen crane kills one at machinery maker's plant

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the scene where a man was killed after a large crane fell on him at Mitsui E&S Machinery Co.'s plant in Oita, southwestern Japan, on May 13, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fallen crane kills one at machinery maker's plant

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the scene where a man was killed after a large crane fell on him at Mitsui E&S Machinery Co.'s plant in Oita, southwestern Japan, on May 13, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fallen crane kills one at machinery maker's plant

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the scene where a man was killed after a large crane fell on him at Mitsui E&S Machinery Co.'s plant in Oita, southwestern Japan, on May 13, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Victims, Mitsui settle fight over cadmium pollution

Tsunekage to chair board of Mitsui-Sumitomo holding company

Police launch probe into Mitsui over data fabrication

Managing officer Yasunaga named as new Mitsui president

Forced labor lawsuit against Japanese firms

Arrest over bribery allegations

Kawasaki Heavy, Mitsui Engineering start integration talks

Kawasaki Heavy, Mitsui Engineering start integration talks

Mitsui opens office in Myanmar capital

APEC business leaders hope for regional free trade zone

Brazil unveils railway bid procedure, Japan firms plan shinkansen bid

Sumitomo Trust-Chuo Mitsui merger good chance to show presence

Sumitomo Trust, Chuo Mitsui to merge into Japan's top trust bank

Mitsui &amp; Co. to promote senior managing director Iijima as president

Mitsui Engineering unveils biomass-run power facility

Mitsui, M'bishi, Shell cede majority stake in Sakhalin-2 to Gazprom

High-end 'honkaku shochu' makes its debut in New York

Police arrest ex-Mitsui officials over gas data fabrication

Nippon Steel group named to lead Mitsui Mining reconstruction

Mitsui admits to falsifying data on diesel filter

Mitsui Engineering succeeds in test operation of NGH plant

New Mitsui president vows change in company mentality

(1)Mitsui president offers apology

(2)Mitsui president offers apology

Mitsui announces top management reshuffles over scandals

Utsuda to succeed Shimizu as Mitsui head after scandal

Mongolian official denies taking bribes from Mitsui &amp; Co.

Mitsui bribes Mongolian official to win aid contract

5 workers die refurbishing Okayama copper refinery

Mitsui offices searched in bid-rigging case

Prosecutors search Mitsui official's house

Mitsui executive apologizes for employees' arrest

(2)Senior Mitsui officials arrested in bid-rigging case

(1)Senior Mitsui officials arrested in bid-rigging case

DPJ-backed candidate wins Gifu mayoral election

Former Mitsui &amp; Co. President Yahiro dies at 86

(4)Terrorist attack

Former Sumitomo Bank President Ibe dies at 92

(1)New banks, nonlife insurers kick off operations

Chuo Mitsui Trust launched, new sign unveiled

Mitsui revises FY 2015 outlook to 1st net loss since its founding

Mitsui revises FY 2015 outlook to 1st net loss since its founding

Mitsui &amp; Co. announces entry into Italian food business

World's 1st diesel engine to use methanol developed

Mitsui's new president eager to gear up nonresource business

Mitsui's new president eager to gear up nonresource business

Fallen crane kills one at machinery maker's plant

Fallen crane kills one at machinery maker's plant

Fallen crane kills one at machinery maker's plant

Fallen crane kills one at machinery maker's plant

Mitsui & Co. to promote senior managing director Iijima as president

Mongolian official denies taking bribes from Mitsui & Co.

Former Mitsui & Co. President Yahiro dies at 86

Mitsui & Co. announces entry into Italian food business