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Mizuho Bank

File photo taken on May 11, 2019, in Tokyo shows the logo of Mizuho Bank.

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Mizuho Bank, Rakuten signboard, logo

Mizuho Bank and Rakuten signboards and logos. (Photo taken at the joint press conference.)=November 14,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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How Chinese EV companies maintain competitive edge

STORY: How Chinese EV companies maintain competitive edge SHOOTING TIME: May 02, 2024 DATELINE: May 03, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:20 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): RONNIE LINS, Director of the China-Brazil Center for Research and Business 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): TANG JIN, Senior research officer at Japan's Mizuho Bank 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): CHRISTOPHER MUTSVANGWA, Secretary for information and publicity for Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): BARBARA FREI, Executive Vice President of Schneider Electric STORYLINE: China's advanced production capacities in the new energy sector are in high demand globally, providing a diverse range of consumer products while serving as a pivotal player in the fight against climate change. Experts in various countries have shared their views on how China maintains its competitive edge in this sector. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): RONNIE LINS, Director of the China-Brazil Center for Research and

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China's EV industry has strong competitiveness: researcher

STORY: China's EV industry has strong competitiveness: researcher SHOOTING TIME: April 11, 2024 DATELINE: April 29, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:51 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: Economy SHOTLIST: 1. various of EV industry of China 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): TANG JIN, Senior research officer, Mizuho Bank STORYLINE: During a recent interview with Xinhua, a senior research officer at Japan's Mizuho Bank spoke highly of China's EV and battery industry. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): TANG JIN, Senior research officer, Mizuho Bank "China's electric vehicle industry and China's battery industry have quite strong competitiveness in the world. One is the industrial chain advantage, as China can produce relatively inexpensive and good-performance cars. The second is that China's battery technology is also advancing by leaps and bounds, and there's also been advancement in the battery research and development technology, the growth of battery companies, battery range, battery safety, and battery performance. China's electric vehicles have adv

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Expats in Anhui hail China's economic, technological development

STORY: Expats in Anhui hail China's economic, technological development SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 2, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 3, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:28 LOCATION: HEFEI, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the event 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SIEGMUND ROBERT, Body Structure & HV-Battery Specialist, Volkswagen Anhui 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): GREGORY MACUR, Vice Principal for Early Years and Primary Years Program of Canadian International School of Hefei 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): YOSHIHISA ISHIHARA, General Manager of Hefei Branch, Mizuho Bank (China), Ltd. STORYLINE: Recently "2024 Chinese New Year Celebration for International Friends in Anhui" was held in Hefei in east China's Anhui Province. Foreign expats from different fields in Anhui attended the event. While experiencing Chinese New Year traditions, multiple attendees gave the thumbs-up to China's economic and technological development. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SIEGMUND ROBERT, Body Structure & HV-Battery Specialist, Volkswagen Anhui "Things you

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Bank signage and logos

Bank signage and logos. From the front: Resona Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.=Date:January 10, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Bank signage and logos

Bank signage and logos. From the front: Resona Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.=Date:January 10, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Japan's payments clearing system hit by glitch

Photo taken in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2023, shows signboards of (from L) Resona Bank, MUFG Bank and Mizuho Bank. Japan's nationwide payments clearing system was disrupted by a glitch the same day, affecting some fund transfers at over 10 banks including the three.

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U.S. envoy remembers Japanese 9/11 victims at Mizuho Financial

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer (C) offers flowers to the 9/11 monument at the head office of Mizuho Financial Group Inc. in memory of the bank group's 23 employees and local staff killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack on the World Trade Center in New York.

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Mizuho Bank's outgoing president

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Sato (C), president of Mizuho Bank, bows after a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2014, on his resignation following the megabank's involvement in loans to gangsters.

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Mizuho Bank's new president

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuhide Hayashi (front), deputy president of Mizuho Bank, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2014, after being named its next president. Hayashi will assume the presidency of the core banking unit of Mizuho Financial Group Inc. on April 1, succeeding Yasuhiro Sato (back), following the megabank's involvement in loans to gangsters.

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Mizuho Bank president

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2013. Earlier in the day, the Financial Services Agency ordered the megabank to suspend some of its affiliated loans between Jan. 20 and Feb. 19 over the lender's involvement in transactions with "antisocial forces."

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Mizuho Bank president

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato bows during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2013. Earlier in the day, the Financial Services Agency ordered the megabank to suspend some of its affiliated loans between Jan. 20 and Feb. 19 over the lender's involvement in transactions with "antisocial forces."

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Mizuho Bank chief in Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato attends a meeting of the House of Councillors' Committee on Financial Affairs at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2013, to testify on a scandal involving the bank over loans to members of organized crime groups.

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Mizuho releases earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Sato, president of Mizuho Bank, announces Mizuho Financial Group Inc.'s earnings for the April to September period of 2013 in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2013.

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Mizuho Bank chief summoned to Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato speaks during a meeting of the House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Affairs at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2013. Sato was summoned as an unsworn witness to the committee over a scandal involving loans to organized crime groups.

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Mizuho Bank chief summoned to Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato (3rd from L) attends a meeting of the House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Affairs at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2013. Sato was summoned as an unsworn witness to the committee over a scandal involving loans to organized crime groups.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato (far L) holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato is pictured during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Mizuho Bank scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Satoru Nishibori, a former president of Mizuho Bank, answers reporters' questions in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Oct. 10, 2013. Nishibori admitted he was informed in January 2011 of the bank's lending to organized crime groups, saying he at least made efforts to eliminate the problem.

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Aso on Mizuho's false report

NARITA, Japan - Financial services minister Taro Aso speaks with reporters at Narita airport near Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2013, before leaving for Washington to attend a meeting of Group of 20 finance chiefs. Aso said that it is "extremely regrettable" that Mizuho Bank submitted to his agency a false report on its lending to crime groups.

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Ex-Mizuho president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2013. Sato said that former President Satoru Nishibori had been aware of the bank's lending to organized crime groups since at least July 2010, reversing the bank's prior claim that senior management was not aware of the wrongdoing.

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Ex-Mizuho president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato (C) bows during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2013. Sato said that former President Satoru Nishibori had been aware of the bank's lending to organized crime groups since at least July 2010, reversing the bank's prior claim that senior management was not aware of the wrongdoing.

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Ex-Mizuho president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2013. Sato said that former President Satoru Nishibori had been aware of the bank's lending to organized crime groups since at least July 2010, reversing the bank's prior claim that senior management was not aware of the wrongdoing.

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Ex-Mizuho president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2013. Sato said that former President Satoru Nishibori had been aware of the bank's lending to organized crime groups since at least July 2010, reversing the bank's prior claim that senior management was not aware of the wrongdoing.

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Ex-Mizuho president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato (L front) holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2013. Sato said that former President Satoru Nishibori had been aware of the bank's lending to organized crime groups since at least July 2010, reversing the bank's prior claim that senior management was not aware of the wrongdoing.

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Ex-Mizuho president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato bows during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2013. Sato said that former President Satoru Nishibori had been aware of the bank's lending to organized crime groups since at least July 2010, reversing the bank's prior claim that senior management was not aware of the wrongdoing.

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Ex-Mizuho president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Satoru Nishibori, former president of Mizuho Bank. The bank's current president, Yasuhiro Sato, told a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2013, that Nishibori had been aware of the bank's lending to organized crime groups since at least July 2010, reversing the bank's prior claim that senior management was not aware of the wrongdoing.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe (C), a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., and other executives of the financial group bow after a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe (C), a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe, a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe, a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe, a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe, a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., bows in a gesture of apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe, a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., is pictured during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe, a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., bows in a gesture of apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho Bank

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the head office of Mizuho Bank in Tokyo on Sept. 27, 2013. The Financial Services Agency ordered the bank the same day to improve operations after the bank was found to have engaged in transactions with organized crime.

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Mizuho Bank to consider merging with trust bank

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato tells a press conference in Tokyo on July 1, 2013, that his bank may consider merging with Mizuho Trust & Banking Co. in April 2016 or later, once their computer systems are integrated.

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Mizuho Financial announces earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Sato, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., announces the group's earnings for financial 2012 at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on May 15, 2013.

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New Mizuho Bank head

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Mizuho Financial Group Inc. President Yasuhiro Sato. Sato will concurrently serve as head of the new Mizuho Bank to be created through the merger in July 2013 of its core group banks, sources familiar with the matter said on Jan. 21, 2013.

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Mizuho Bank replaces president

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Tsukamoto (front), president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., bows during a press conference in Tokyo on May 23, 2011. He said the company will replace Mizuho Bank President Satoru Nishibori to take responsibility for a massive computer system glitch in March.

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Mizuho group to merge retail, corporate banking units

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 18, 2011, shows the headquarters of Mizuho Bank in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Mizuho Financial Group Inc. plans to merge its two core banking units, Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Corporate Bank, following massive computer system trouble in March, sources close to the matter said the same day.

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Mizuho group to merge retail, corporate banking units

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 18, 2011, shows the headquarters of Mizuho Corporate Bank in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Mizuho Financial Group Inc. plans to merge its two core banking units, Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Corporate Bank, following massive computer system trouble in March, sources close to the matter said the same day.

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Mizuho Bank says mainstay operations back to normal

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Satoru Nishibori speaks in a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2011. Nishibori said the bank's glitch-hit computer system has returned to normal, enabling the lender to resume offering its mainstay deposit, withdrawal and transfer services following large-scale system problems that emerged about 10 days ago. He said a surge in the number of relief money transactions for victims of the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami triggered a glitch in the bank's computer system.

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Mizuho Bank resumes ATM services

TOKYO, Japan - People use the automated teller machines at a Mizuho Bank branch in Tokyo on March 22, 2011. The large bank resumed ATM services after suspending them for three days due to large-scale computer system malfunctions.

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Mizuho Bank apology

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Satoru Nishibori (C) and other bank executives bow in apology after a press conference at the head office of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on March 18, 2011. The bank has been failing to transfer customers' salaries into their accounts due to computer system malfunctions.

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Malfunction of Mizuho system

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows an automated teller machine of Mizuho Bank with its display showing the message ''Currently unable to operate'' in Tokyo on March 18, 2011. The bank the same day experienced malfunction of its computer system for the fourth straight day, failing to deposit salaries of bank account holders worth 125.6 billion yen in total.