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United plane after emergency landing

Japan Transport Safety Board officer Mitsuru Takahashi meets the press at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 14, 2025, after investigating a United Airlines Boeing 737 plane that made an emergency landing after reporting a fire alarm in its cargo hold two days earlier.

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Kewpie's initiation ceremony in 2025

Kewpie Corporation's induction ceremony for fiscal 2025. Photo shows new employees experiencing handmade mayonnaise at the induction event and President Mitsuru Takamiya (top left) cheering them on.=April 1,2025,Tokyo

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Kewpie Corporation's initiation ceremony in 2025

Kewpie Corporation's induction ceremony for fiscal 2025. Photo shows President Mitsuru Takamiya addressing the ceremony.=April 1,2025,Tokyo

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NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS President Change Press Conference

NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS President Change Press Conference. Photo shows, from left, President Mitsuru Saito and President-elect Satoshi Horikiri.=Date:November 16, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS President Change Press Conference

NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS President Change Press Conference. Photo shows, from left, President Mitsuru Saito and President-elect Satoshi Horikiri.=Date:November 16, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Gamba coach Hasegawa cited as 'Manager of Year'

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Gamba Osaka coach Kenta Hasegawa receives an award for the 2014 Manager of the Year from J-League Chairman Mitsuru Murai in Yokohama southwest of Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2014.

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New J-League chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuru Murai holds a press conference in Tokyo after becoming J-League chairman on Jan. 31, 2014. His term as head of Japanese pro soccer league lasts until March 2016.

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Van den Hurk, Lee lead Hawks to Game 2 win

FUKUOKA, Oct. 26 Kyodo - Yakult Swallows manager Mitsuru Manaka (C) is seen in the dugout during the ninth inning of a 4-0 loss to the SoftBank Hawks in Game 2 of the Japan Series at Yafuoku Dome in Fukuoka on Oct. 25, 2015. The Hawks led the best-of-seven series two games to none.

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Future sports business leaders gather for J-League class

TOKYO, May 21 Kyodo - Future sports business leaders pose with J-League Chairman Mitsuru Murai (R, front row) at the Japan Football Association in Tokyo on May 9, 2015. The occasion was the inauguration of a class titled "J-League Human Capital" to nurture future leaders in soccer and other sports businesses.

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Japan accedes to compensation pact for nuke damage

VIENNA, Austria - Mitsuru Kitano (L), permanent Japanese representative to international organizations in Vienna, Austria, shakes hands with International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano on Jan. 15, 2015, after submitting Japan's instrument of acceptance to the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage.

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Japan Basketball Association leaders to resign over sanctions

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuru Maruo, the Japan Basketball Association's acting chairman, holds a press conference in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Dec. 3, 2014, after the JBA's directors decided earlier in the day to resign following the International Basketball Federation's decision to ban Japan from international competition for the JBA's failure to merge its two competing leagues.

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JBA acting chief apologizes after failed merger results

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuru Maruo, acting president of the Japan Basketball Association, bows in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2014, a day after the JBA was banned indefinitely from playing in competitions sanctioned by the sport's world governing body FIBA.

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JBA acting chief apologizes after failed merger results

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuru Maruo, acting president of the Japan Basketball Association, hold a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2014, a day after the JBA was banned indefinitely from playing in competitions sanctioned by the sport's world governing body FIBA.

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Takeda Pharmaceutical, euglena partner on product development

TOKYO, Japan - Masashi Sugimoto (L), head of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.'s healthcare division, and Mitsuru Izumo, president of biotechnology venture euglena Co., shake hands at a press event in Tokyo on Oct. 16, 2014, announcing their partnership on product development using euglena, a genus of single-celled flagellate protists.

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Swallows name Manaka as new manager

TOKYO, Japan - New Yakult Swallows manager Mitsuru Manaka attends a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 8, 2014. Manaka succeeded Junji Ogawa, who resigned due to the cellar-dwelling club's poor results.

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J-League Chairman attends seminar in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - J-League Chairman Mitsuru Murai talks in Bangkok, Thailand, on Oct. 3, 2014, at a seminar on ways to manage a professional soccer league. Personnel from 38 Thai soccer team participated in the first such seminar overseas for the J-League.

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Swallows skipper Ogawa to step down

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 17, 2014, shows Junji Ogawa (R back), manager of the Central League's Yakult Swallows, and the team's batting coach Mitsuru Manaka (L back), watching a game against the Hanshin Tigers at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo. Ogawa, 57, told a press conference on Sept. 22 that the club has accepted his decision to resign at the end of the season due to the cellar-dwelling club's poor results. Manaka, 43, is a strong candidate to take over.

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U.S. insurance firm moves some HQ functions to Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Mitsuru Imoto (C), president of MassMutual Life Insurance Co., poses with Gov. Hiroshi Ogawa (2nd from L) of Fukuoka Prefecture and Fukuoka Mayor Soichiro Takashima in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on June 26, 2014, at a press conference to announce a plan to move some headquarters functions of the U.S. firm's Japanese subsidiary from Tokyo in August as part of disaster preparedness.

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Isuzu, euglena chiefs show off biodiesel fuel

TOKYO, Japan - Susumu Hosoi (L), president of Isuzu Motors Ltd., and Mitsuru Izumo, president of euglena Co., show off biodiesel fuel for automobiles in Tokyo on June 25, 2014.

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J-League, Ritsumeikan Univ. sign alliance

OSAKA, Japan - J-League Chairman Mitsuru Murai (L) and Toyoomi Nagata, chairman of the Ritsumeikan Trust Board of Trustees, hold a signed agreement on May 26, 2014 in Kyoto, western Japan, on wide-ranging cooperation, including the cultivation of human resources in sports management, players' second careers, regional development and international exchange.

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Aeon, Marubeni agree to integrate 3 food supermarket chains

TOKYO, Japan - Leaders of the Aeon retail group, Marubeni Corp. and two food supermarket chains pose in Tokyo on May 19, 2014, after announcing their agreement to integrate three supermarket chains. From R: Aeon Co. President Motoya Okada, Marubeni Senior Executive Vice President Mitsuru Akiyoshi, Maruetsu Inc. President Makoto Ueda and Kasumi Co. Chairman Hiromasa Kohama.

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Racist banner at J-League game

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuru Murai, chairman of the J-League, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 13, 2014, to announce Urawa Reds will be punished for failing to remove a racist banner from Saitama Stadium until after the game against Sagan Tosu on March 8.

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Japan lawmaker holds trade talks with U.S. official

WASHINGTON, United States - Mitsuru Sakurai (C), a House of Councillors member from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, holds a press conference in Washington on April 10, 2012, after holding talks with Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis. Sakurai said Marantis has urged Japan to demonstrate willingness to dispel U.S. concerns in three sectors -- automobiles, insurance and beef -- before its formal entry into trans-Pacific free trade talks is approved.

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Chinese Premier Wen visits disaster-hit Fukushima

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks about Mitsuru Sato, a Japanese man who helped evacuate 20 Chinese trainees before being killed in the March 11 tsunami in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, during his visit to the disaster-hit city of Natori in the prefecture on May 21, 2011. Wen praised Sato for helping others regardless of nationality.

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1 climber found dead by rescuers in Gifu mountains

TAKAYAMA, Japan - Rescue workers carry a body recovered from Mt. Okuhotaka to a vehicle in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, on Jan. 4, 2010. The body was later identified as that of Mitsuru Honjo, a 58-year-old geological researcher from Kobe. Honjo went climbing on Mt. Okuhotaka with two other climbers from the city on Dec. 29, but their alpine club reported them missing to police Jan. 2.

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Events held to commemorate 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - Mitsuru Takeba, who lost his 1-year-old daughter in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, talks to his 2-year-old daughter Mii about the quake in front of candles in about 7,000 bamboo lanterns lit to commemorate the 6,434 victims at a memorial service held in Kobe on Jan. 17 to mark the 14th anniversary of the quake.

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Sanyo Electric to bolster lithium ion battery output

OSAKA, Japan - Sanyo Electric Co. Board Director Mitsuru Honma says in an interview with Kyodo News on June 4 that the company will bolster output of lithium ion batteries for use in personal computers and other electronics gadgets to grab a 35 percent global market share in fiscal 2007 to next March 31, up from 29 percent in fiscal 2006.

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Ramadhani claims victory at Lake Biwa Marathon

OTSU, Japan - Mitsuru Kubota, the top Japanese runner at the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon on March 4, touches the tape in 2 hours, 12 minutes, 50 seconds. He was 2 minutes, 7 seconds behind the winner, Samson Ramadhani of Tanzania.

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Sanyo to form joint venture with Taiwan's Quanta in October

OSAKA, Japan - Mitsuru Honma (L), a director of Sanyo Electric Co., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Aug. 11 about a joint venture with Taiwan's Quanta Computer Inc. to launch their strategic global alliance for television operations.

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Sumo elder Futagoyama dies

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo elder Futagoyama (file photo), a former ozeki and the father of former grand champions Takanohana and Wakanohana, died of mouth cancer at a Tokyo hospital on May 30, his family said. He was 55. Futagoyama, whose real name is Mitsuru Hanada, had been receiving treatment at the hospital since the fall of 2003 for a type of cancer that afflicts the region between the tongue and gums at the base of the mouth.

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(2)Ex-meat packer chairman gets 7 years in prison on beef fraud

OSAKA, Japan - Prosecutors walk into the Osaka District Court on May 27 to attend the trial of Mitsuru Asada, former chairman of meat packer Hannan Corp., who was indicted for swindling the government out of more than 5 billion yen by abusing a state beef buyback program established to calm concerns over mad cow disease. The court sentenced Asada to seven years in prison.

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(2)Ban on Kyoto farm shipments over bird flu lifted

KYOTO, Japan - Poultry farmer Mitsuru Matsutani in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, began selling eggs again on April 13 after the Kyoto prefectural government lifted a ban at April 12 midnight on shipments of chickens and eggs by poultry farms located within 5 kilometers of a farm where an outbreak of bird flu occurred in February.

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Kintetsu Buffaloes back down from sale of naming rights

OSAKA, Japan - Mitsuru Nagai (L), president of the Pacific League baseball club Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes, speaks to reporters at a hotel in Osaka on Feb. 5 about the team's withdrawal of its plan to sell its naming rights from the 2005 season. Kintetsu had planned to sell the rights for 3.6 billion yen a year over a five-year period.

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'Canadian Academy' provides haven for returnees' kids

TOKYO, Japan - Arisa Angela Fukasaku (C), a 22-year-old teacher at ''Canadian Academy Setagaya,'' talks with her pupils. The academy is unique among private schools in Japan, serving as a haven for children of Japanese who have returned from abroad. By Mitsuru Sakai

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Manaka hits three-run homer

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Swallows outfielder Mitsuru Manaka hits a three-run homer off Hiroshima Toyo Carp starter Ken Takahashi with two outs in the bottom of fifth inning at Jingu Ball Park on April 4. Yakult shut out Hiroshima 4-0.

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(1)Honda 4th in men's figure skating

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Takeshi Honda jumps during his performance in the men's figure skating event of the 2002 Winter Olympics at the Salt Lake Ice Center on Feb. 14. Honda came in 4th, earning Japan's highest finish ever in men's figure skating, surpassing the eighth-place performances of Nobuo Sato at the 1964 Innsbruck (Austria) Games and Mitsuru Matsumura in Lake Placid (the U.S.) in 1980.

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Manaka hits two-run homer

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Swallows outfielder Mitsuru Manaka watches the ball after hitting a two-run homer off Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes relief pitcher Isao Koda with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning in Game 3 of the best-of-seven Japan Series at Jingu Stadium on Oct. 23.

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Mizuho executive announces downward revision of earnings+

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuru Machida, managing executive officer of Mizuho Holdings Inc., speaks at a news conference at the Bank of Japan's head office Sept. 15, announcing that Mizuho will revise downward its earnings projection due to the failure of debt-saddled supermarket chain operator Mycal Corp.

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Manaka hits solo home run

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Swallows outfielder Mitsuru Manaka is greeted by his coach after blasting a solo homer off Yomiuri Giants starter Chung Min Chul in the top of the third inning at Tokyo Dome on Aug. 12.

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Football: New J-League chairman Nonomura

New J-League football chairman Yoshikazu Nonomura (L) bumps fists with his predecessor Mitsuru Murai after taking up the post in Tokyo on March 15, 2022. (Pool photo)

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Football: J-League awards ceremony

Vissel Kobe's Andres Iniesta (L) receives a plaque from J-League Chairman Mitsuru Murai (R) after being named to the Best Eleven team during the awards ceremony in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2021.

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Manaka hits three-run homer

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Swallows outfielder Mitsuru Manaka hits a three-run homer off Hiroshima Toyo Carp starter Ken Takahashi with two outs in the bottom of fifth inning at Jingu Ball Park on April 4. Yakult shut out Hiroshima 4-0.

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(1)Ex-meat packer chairman gets 7 years in prison on beef fraud

OSAKA, Japan - Mitsuru Asada (file photo), former chairman of meat packer Hannan Corp., was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Osaka District Court on May 27 for swindling the government out of more than 5 billion yen by abusing a state beef buyback program established to calm concerns over mad cow disease. (yodo)

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(2)Ex-meat packer chairman gets 7 years in prison on beef fraud

OSAKA, Japan - Prosecutors walk into the Osaka District Court on May 27 to attend the trial of Mitsuru Asada, former chairman of meat packer Hannan Corp., who was indicted for swindling the government out of more than 5 billion yen by abusing a state beef buyback program established to calm concerns over mad cow disease. The court sentenced Asada to seven years in prison. (Kyodo)

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Sanyo to form joint venture with Taiwan's Quanta in October

OSAKA, Japan - Mitsuru Honma (L), a director of Sanyo Electric Co., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Aug. 11 about a joint venture with Taiwan's Quanta Computer Inc. to launch their strategic global alliance for television operations. (Kyodo)

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Ramadhani claims victory at Lake Biwa Marathon

OTSU, Japan - Mitsuru Kubota, the top Japanese runner at the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon on March 4, touches the tape in 2 hours, 12 minutes, 50 seconds. He was 2 minutes, 7 seconds behind the winner, Samson Ramadhani of Tanzania. (Kyodo)

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Sanyo Electric to bolster lithium ion battery output

OSAKA, Japan - Sanyo Electric Co. Board Director Mitsuru Honma says in an interview with Kyodo News on June 4 that the company will bolster output of lithium ion batteries for use in personal computers and other electronics gadgets to grab a 35 percent global market share in fiscal 2007 to next March 31, up from 29 percent in fiscal 2006. (Kyodo)

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Mizuho executive announces downward revision of earnings+

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuru Machida, managing executive officer of Mizuho Holdings Inc., speaks at a news conference at the Bank of Japan's head office Sept. 15, announcing that Mizuho will revise downward its earnings projection due to the failure of debt-saddled supermarket chain operator Mycal Corp.

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Manaka hits solo home run

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Swallows outfielder Mitsuru Manaka is greeted by his coach after blasting a solo homer off Yomiuri Giants starter Chung Min Chul in the top of the third inning at Tokyo Dome on Aug. 12.

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Sumo elder Futagoyama dies

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo elder Futagoyama (file photo), a former ozeki and the father of former grand champions Takanohana and Wakanohana, died of mouth cancer at a Tokyo hospital on May 30, his family said. He was 55. Futagoyama, whose real name is Mitsuru Hanada, had been receiving treatment at the hospital since the fall of 2003 for a type of cancer that afflicts the region between the tongue and gums at the base of the mouth. (Kyodo)