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Japan: Wildfire Erupts In Nanyo, Yamagata 2

A forest fire broke out in Nanyo, Yamagata on Saturday, May 4 and continued to spread on the 6th. Approximately 95 hectares of forest have been burned as of writing. One man was reported with burns on his leg along with damage on buildings in the area.

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Japan scholar serves seaweed soup at tasting event in Russia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Koji Miyauchi (L), lecturer at Nihon University's College of Bioresource Sciences in Fujisawa, west of Tokyo, serves seaweed soup to participants in a tasting event held in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept. 19, 2014, by Japanese and Russian researchers to promote the use of seaweed in dishes in the country.

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Orix chairman shows lettuce at artificially lit factory

OSAKA, Japan - Orix Corp. Chairman Yoshihiko Miyauchi (L) shows lettuce on June 17, 2014, grown at an agricultural factory using artificial light in Yabu, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan. The factory was built by remodeling an elementary school gymnasium in a joint project between Orix Real Estate Corp., an Orix Corp. unit, and the Yabu city government.

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Orix names Inoue as president

TOKYO, Japan - Financial services firm Orix Corp. vice president Makoto Inoue (R) speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2010, after the company named him as next president and chief operating officer, effective Jan. 1. Yoshihiko Miyauchi (L) will remain as Orix group chief executive officer.

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Rabbit station master in Yamagata

YAMAGATA, Japan - Ai Matsuyama, a staffer at Miyauchi Station of Yamagata Railway Co., holds rabbit station master Motchi-i at the station in Nanyo, Yamagata Prefecture, on Nov. 20, 2010. The company ran a special train the same day featuring pictures of the white rabbit and two brown rabbits, Ten and Peter, it also designated as special staffers of the station.

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Orix's Miyauchi denies special treatment for BOJ Gov. Fukui

TOKYO, Japan - Orix Corp. Chairman Yoshihiko Miyauchi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on June 29. Miyauchi said that neither he nor his company has ever given special treatment to Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui in connection with Fukui's personal investments.

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Prosecutors grill Livedoor's Horie over alleged financial fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie (C) speaks to reporters at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2005, flanked by Chief Financial Officer Ryoji Miyauchi. Prosecutors began questioning Horie on Jan. 23 for allegedly spreading false financial information to deceive investors.

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Prosecutors set to question Livedoor's Horie over alleged fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie (L) and Chief Financial Officer Ryoji Miyauchi pose for photos during a press conference they held at the the Tokyo Stock Exchange in June 2004. Prosecutors are expected to soon question the two Livedoor executives over a series of alleged fraudulent practices apparently designed to expand their business, investigative sources said Jan. 19.

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Baseball owners agree on new amateur draft system

TOKYO, Japan - Orix Buffaloes owner Yoshihiuko Miyauchi speaks at a press conference following a meeting of 12 Japanese professional baseball owners at a Tokyo hotel on July 19. Miyauchi, who chaired the meeting, said that the owners approved the introduction of a new amateur draft system that will see high school players picked separately from other draft choices, including collegiate and corporate league players. The new system calls for the 12 Central and Pacific League teams to get together in early October to select high school players before meeting again in mid-November for the selection of other players.

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(3)Owners keep 2 leagues, OK Orix-Kintetsu merger

TOKYO, Japan - Kintetsu Buffaloes owner Wa Tashiro, Yomiuri Giants owner Takuo Takihana, Japanese pro baseball commissioner Yasuchika Negoro, Orix BluWave owner Yoshihiko Miyauchi (from left to right) attend a press conference in a Tokyo hotel Sept. 8 after the owners of Japan's 12 professional ballclubs approved the Orix-Kintestu merger and decided to keep the two-league system.

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4 arrested over Softbank extortion with leaked client data

TOKYO, Japan - Ken Miyauchi, vice president of Softbank BB Corp., a co-operator of Yahoo BB Internet connection service, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 24 about client data leakage from Yahoo BB.

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Panel calls for outsourcing public services

TOKYO, Japan - Orix Corp. Chairman Yoshihiko Miyauchi (L), who heads a government advisory panel, the Council for Regulatory Reform, presents a report on updating Japan's three-year deregulation program to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the premier's office Dec. 12. The program features proposals that public services be outsourced to the private sector.

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Panel calls for 'special regulatory reform zones'

TOKYO, July 23 Kyodo - Orix Corp. Chairman Yoshihiko Miyauchi (L), who chairs the government Council for Regulatory Reform, speaks at a news conference July 23 on his panel's report which called for ''special regulatory reform zones'' to promote Japan's deregulatory efforts and help reinvigorate the slumping economy.

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Panel proposes Foreign Ministry reforms

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshihiko Miyauchi (R), chief of a Foreign Ministry reform panel, on July 22 hands Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi a report on proposals to reform the ministry. The panel suggested the ministry select 20% of Japan's ambassadors from outside the bureaucracy.

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Miyauchi pledges to make recommendations in short period of time

TOKYO, Japan - Orix Corp. Chairman Yoshihiko Miyauchi, who heads an advisory panel for Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, speaks with the media following the first meeting of the panel March 6. He said his panel will work to make effective recommendations within a short period of time. The 13-member panel includes from the private sector, the media and academia as well as former diplomats.

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Gov't urged to seek deregulation in 6 priority areas

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (C) leafs through a report submitted by Yoshihiko Miyauchi (R), chairman of the Council for Regulatory Reform, at his official residence Dec. 11, as administrative reform minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) looks on. The report called for an early deregulation in six priority areas to build a consumer-friendly society and revive the faltering economy.

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Deregulation panel begins talks on review plan

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuteru Ishihara, administrative reform and deregulation minister, is in talks with Yoshihiko Miyauchi, chairman of the government's Council for Regulator Reform, on Nov. 21, 2001. The advisory panel is set to submit a blueprint for reviewing the ongoing three-year deregulation plans to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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New deregulation panel to compile basic plan by end of July

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi poses with Orix Corp. Chairman Yoshihiko Miyauchi (L), the head of his new advisory panel on deregulation, at the start of the panel's inaugural meeting May 11. The Council for Regulatory Reform agreed to draw up a basic policy on regulatory reforms and reach a decision on which areas they will target by the end of July.

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Panel proposes further deregulation

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshihiko Miyauchi (C), chairman of the Regulatory Reform Committee, a government advisory panel, shakes hands with Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R) on Dec. 12 after handing him a report recommending further deregulation measures including the dismantling of the current holding company structure of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) and letting stock companies run hospitals.

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NCB begins operations under new owners

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Credit Bank (NCB) opens Sept. 4 for its first official day of business under the ownership of a consortium led by Internet investor Softbank Corp., following 21 months of state control that ended Sept. 1. The new management is expected to adopt a plan to rename the institution Aozora Bank in January 2001. Aozora means ''blue sky'' in Japanese. Photo shows new NCB executives (from L to R) of Kokei Higuchi, president of Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co., Masayoshi Son, president of Softbank Corp., Tadayo Homma, a former executive director of the Bank of Japan, who is expected to become president of the new bank, and Yoshihiko Miyauchi, chairman of Orix Corp.

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Orix to list on NYSE

Yoshihiko Miyauchi (C), president of Orix Corp., joins a ''taiko'' drum performance to celebrate his company's listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wednesday Sept. 16. Orix, the largest leasing firm in Japan, became the country's first company since 1994 to list on the NYSE. Richard Grasso (second from R), chairman of the NYSE, also joined the performance outside the NYSE building.

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SoftBank Listing Press Conference

SoftBank President Ken Miyauchi at a press conference after listing on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, December 19, 2018, at the conference venue at Bellesalle Shiodome, Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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SoftBank Listing Press Conference

SoftBank President Ken Miyauchi at a press conference after listing on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, December 19, 2018, at the conference venue at Bellesalle Shiodome, Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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SoftBank Listing Press Conference

SoftBank President Ken Miyauchi at a press conference after listing on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, December 19, 2018, at the conference venue at Bellesalle Shiodome, Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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SoftBank listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange

SoftBank listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) on December 19, 2018. Ken Miyauchi, SoftBank's president, is on the left in the photo; credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Deregulation panel begins talks on review plan

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuteru Ishihara, administrative reform and deregulation minister, is in talks with Yoshihiko Miyauchi, chairman of the government's Council for Regulator Reform, on Nov. 21, 2001. The advisory panel is set to submit a blueprint for reviewing the ongoing three-year deregulation plans to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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Gov't urged to seek deregulation in 6 priority areas

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (C) leafs through a report submitted by Yoshihiko Miyauchi (R), chairman of the Council for Regulatory Reform, at his official residence Dec. 11, as administrative reform minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) looks on. The report called for an early deregulation in six priority areas to build a consumer-friendly society and revive the faltering economy.

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Miyauchi pledges to make recommendations in short period of time

TOKYO, Japan - Orix Corp. Chairman Yoshihiko Miyauchi, who heads an advisory panel for Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, speaks with the media following the first meeting of the panel March 6. He said his panel will work to make effective recommendations within a short period of time. The 13-member panel includes from the private sector, the media and academia as well as former diplomats.

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(3)Owners keep 2 leagues, OK Orix-Kintetsu merger

TOKYO, Japan - Kintetsu Buffaloes owner Wa Tashiro, Yomiuri Giants owner Takuo Takihana, Japanese pro baseball commissioner Yasuchika Negoro, Orix BluWave owner Yoshihiko Miyauchi (from left to right) attend a press conference in a Tokyo hotel Sept. 8 after the owners of Japan's 12 professional ballclubs approved the Orix-Kintestu merger and decided to keep the two-league system. (Kyodo)

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Baseball owners agree on new amateur draft system

TOKYO, Japan - Orix Buffaloes owner Yoshihiuko Miyauchi speaks at a press conference following a meeting of 12 Japanese professional baseball owners at a Tokyo hotel on July 19. Miyauchi, who chaired the meeting, said that the owners approved the introduction of a new amateur draft system that will see high school players picked separately from other draft choices, including collegiate and corporate league players. The new system calls for the 12 Central and Pacific League teams to get together in early October to select high school players before meeting again in mid-November for the selection of other players. (Kyodo)

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Livedoor's Horie indicted

TOKYO, Japan - Former Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie (L, file photo) and three other former executives of the company, including former Chief Financial Officer Ryoji Miyauchi (R, file photo), were indicted Feb. 13 on charges that they spread false financial information related to a takeover of a publisher in 2004 in violation of the Securities and Exchange Law, prosecution sources said. (Kyodo)

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Orix's Miyauchi denies special treatment for BOJ Gov. Fukui

TOKYO, Japan - Orix Corp. Chairman Yoshihiko Miyauchi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on June 29. Miyauchi said that neither he nor his company has ever given special treatment to Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui in connection with Fukui's personal investments. (Kyodo)

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Panel calls for 'special regulatory reform zones'

TOKYO, July 23 Kyodo - Orix Corp. Chairman Yoshihiko Miyauchi (L), who chairs the government Council for Regulatory Reform, speaks at a news conference July 23 on his panel's report which called for ''special regulatory reform zones'' to promote Japan's deregulatory efforts and help reinvigorate the slumping economy.

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SoftBank, Sumitomo Life to tie up in developing insurance program

(From L) Adrian Gore, chief executive of South African insurer Discovery Ltd., Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. President Masahiro Hashimoto and SoftBank Group Co. President Ken Miyauchi pose for a photo on July 21, 2016, during a press conference in Tokyo. They announced that SoftBank and Sumitomo will tie up in developing a new insurance program offering lower premiums to more-health-conscious policyholders by making use of Softbank's information and communication technology. Sumitomo Life will join hands with Discovery, which has already rolled out a similar insurance program, in developing the new scheme. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Business leader calls for whistle-blowing channels for corporate governance

Yoshihiko Miyauchi, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Directors, talks about corporate governance in the wake of Toshiba Corp.'s accounting scandal at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Aug. 18, 2015. Miyauchi stressed the need to ensure third-party channels such as law firms through which whistle-blowers can provide inside information. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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SoftBank earnings announcement

SoftBank Corp. President Ken Miyauchi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2021, over its earnings result for the period from April 2020 to December.

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SoftBank earnings announcement

SoftBank Corp. President Ken Miyauchi (L) and Chief Technology Officer Junichi Miyakawa shake hands at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2021, over the company's earnings result for the period from April 2020 to December. Miyakawa is set to succeed the presidency from Miyauchi on April 1.

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Woman "squid painter" holds exhibition in northern Japan

Yuka Miyauchi, a painter from southwestern Japan's Kagoshima city who specializes in drawing squid, shows a piece of her artwork painted with squid ink during an exhibition in Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture, on Nov. 13, 2015. The northern Japanese city is famous for fresh squid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Woman painter specializes in drawing squid

Yuka Miyauchi, a painter from southwestern Japan's Kagoshima city who specializes in drawing squid, talks about her artwork at an exhibition in Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture, on Nov. 10, 2015. The northern Japanese city is famous for fresh squid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Horie, Miyauchi face showdown in court over Livedoor case

TOKYO, Japan - Former Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie (L) arrives at the Tokyo District Court on Sept. 15 to face a showdown with former Livedoor Chief Financial Officer Ryoji Miyauchi, once seen as Horie's right-hand man, in court over who played the central role in the Internet firm's alleged securities law violations. (Kyodo)

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Court battle begins over Livedoor case

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Miyauchi (R), former Chief Financial Officer of Livedoor Co., arrives at the Tokyo District Court on May 26 as the trial began for four former Livedoor Co. group executives indicted on accounting fraud charges. Miyauchi admitted at the first court hearing that he took part in accounting manipulations at the once high-flying Internet company. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Livedoor finance chief Miyauchi given 20-month prison term

TOKYO, Japan - Former Livedoor Co. Chief Financial Officer Ryoji Miyauchi arrives at the Tokyo District Court in central Tokyo on March 22 to hear the court's ruling on him. Miyauchi was sentenced to 20 months in prison for his role in accounting fraud and other securities law violations by the Internet and financial services company. (Kyodo)

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Prosecutors grill Livedoor's Horie over alleged financial fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie (C) speaks to reporters at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2005, flanked by Chief Financial Officer Ryoji Miyauchi. Prosecutors began questioning Horie on Jan. 23 for allegedly spreading false financial information to deceive investors. (Kyodo)

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Prosecutors set to question Livedoor's Horie over alleged fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie (L) and Chief Financial Officer Ryoji Miyauchi pose for photos during a press conference they held at the the Tokyo Stock Exchange in June 2004. Prosecutors are expected to soon question the two Livedoor executives over a series of alleged fraudulent practices apparently designed to expand their business, investigative sources said Jan. 19. (Kyodo)

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Mt. Fuji seen from Numakawa,Tagonoura

Mt.Fuji viewed from the mouth of the Numa River in the port of Tagonoura. Numa River starts flowing from Miyauchi (presently Fujinomiya city) and flows into the sea at Tagonoura. The white sail of a boat is seen. The boat may be a ferry, since passengers can be seen.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number4‐21‐0]

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Rabbit station master in Yamagata

YAMAGATA, Japan - Ai Matsuyama, a staffer at Miyauchi Station of Yamagata Railway Co., holds rabbit station master Motchi-i at the station in Nanyo, Yamagata Prefecture, on Nov. 20, 2010. The company ran a special train the same day featuring pictures of the white rabbit and two brown rabbits, Ten and Peter, it also designated as special staffers of the station. (Kyodo)

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More Japanese men relish joy of homemaking

TOKYO, Japan - Scenes from ''Katarue'' (http://katarue.com/), a blog run by Takatoshi Miyauchi, a 31-year-old househusband in Tokyo to chronicle his day-to-day activities in comic strips in hopes of networking with people in similar situations. The wife says in the top frame, ''I didn't know how much pressure being the breadwinner of the family can involve,'' and continues to say in the bottom frame, ''Phew, I'm tired.'' The husband says to himself in his heart, ''A little bit of a sense of superiority feeling, 'now you know how tough being a man is,' and a little bit of a sense of guilt feeling, 'I'm sorry to have made you feel that way'.'' (Kyodo)

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More Japanese men relish joy of homemaking

TOKYO, Japan - Takatoshi Miyauchi, a 31-year-old househusband in Tokyo, prepares a meal while looking after his younger daughter on Jan. 19, 2011. As the public perceptions of traditional gender roles shift, more and more Japanese men have become willing to take on homemaking, while some are trying to start their lives anew at home after having been burned out by excessively demanding jobs. (Kyodo)

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Japan scholar serves seaweed soup at tasting event in Russia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Koji Miyauchi (L), lecturer at Nihon University's College of Bioresource Sciences in Fujisawa, west of Tokyo, serves seaweed soup to participants in a tasting event held in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept. 19, 2014, by Japanese and Russian researchers to promote the use of seaweed in dishes in the country. (Kyodo)

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Orix chairman shows lettuce at artificially lit factory

OSAKA, Japan - Orix Corp. Chairman Yoshihiko Miyauchi (L) shows lettuce on June 17, 2014, grown at an agricultural factory using artificial light in Yabu, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan. The factory was built by remodeling an elementary school gymnasium in a joint project between Orix Real Estate Corp., an Orix Corp. unit, and the Yabu city government. (Kyodo)