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Daiwa Asset Management "iFreeETF JPX Prime 150" listing ceremony

Daiwa Asset Management "iFreeETF JPX Prime 150" listing ceremony. Photo shows, from left, Mr. Kanta Komatsu, President of Daiwa Asset Management, and Mr. Moriyuki Iwanaga, President of TSE.=Date:January 24, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Daiwa Asset Management "iFreeETF JPX Prime 150" listing ceremony

Daiwa Asset Management "iFreeETF JPX Prime 150" listing ceremony. Photo shows, from left, Mr. Kanta Komatsu, President of Daiwa Asset Management, and Mr. Moriyuki Iwanaga, President of TSE.=Date:January 24, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Prefectures demand higher portion of sales tax revenue

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato speaks during a news conference at the Ehime prefectural office on July 23. Kato unveiled a proposal drawn up by prefectural governors across the nation that calls for the portion of total revenue distributed to local authorities from the 5 percent consumption tax levy to be raised from the current one-fifth.

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Kako wins Ehime election

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato, backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its junior partner the New Komeito party, and the tiny opposition Social Democratic Party, speaks at a Matsuyama hotel in Ehime Prefecture on Jan. 21 as it appeared certain he would win a third term in the gubernatorial election.

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260 people sue Ehime governor over history textbook

MATSUYAMA, Japan - People arrive at the Matsuyama District Court in Matsuyama on March 30 to file a lawsuit seeking around 13 million yen in compensation and an apology from Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato and others over the prefectural education board's adoption of a controversial history textbook. About 260 people, including South Koreans and Chinese, join the lawsuit.

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Ehime, Hawaii become sister states

HONOLULU, United States - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (R) and Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle sign an agreement in Honolulu on Nov. 21 to become sister states, with the hopes of deepening exchanges after the fatal accident in 2001 when a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine struck a Japanese fisheries training ship off Hawaii.

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Ehime governor visits Hawaii monument for Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato and prefectural officials place flowers and pray before a monument in Honolulu, Hawaii, to the nine Japanese killed in February 2001, when their fisheries training ship was struck by a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine off Hawaii.

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Ex-U.S. sub captain apologizes to Ehime Maru accident victims

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Local media on Dec. 12 received a faxed letter from the former skipper of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, retired Cmdr. Scott Waddle (file photo), apologizing to victims of last year's fatal collision off Hawaii between the sub and the Japanese high school fisheries training ship Ehime Maru. Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato also received a letter from Waddle earlier this month.

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Kato leaves for Hawaii for funeral of Ehime Maru victims

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato speaks to reporters at Matsuyama airport, Ehime Prefecture, on Oct. 24 before leaving for Hawaii to attend a funeral for five Japanese whose bodies were recovered from their sunken ship Ehime Maru.

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Koizumi to discuss Ehime Maru redress with Bush

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) talks with Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on June 15. In the talks, Koizumi promised to ask U.S. President George W. Bush to deal sincerely with compensation demands over the February collision between the Japanese high school training ship Ehime Maru and U.S. nuclear submarine Greenville off Hawaii.

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Okawa visits Kato over ship disaster

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Earl Okawa (L), executive director of the Japan-America Society in Hawaii, meets with Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (R) at the prefectural government office in Matsuyama on May 31. Okawa told Kato he is grieved over the tragedy of the Ehime Maru, which belonged to Uwajima Fisheries High School in the western Japan prefecture.

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U.S. commander meets with Ehime governor

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Rear Adm. Robert Chaplin (R), commander of the U.S. Navy in Japan, meets with Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato in Matsuyama on April 20 to explain a Navy court's decision not to recommend courts-martial for officers on a submarine that sank a fisheries training ship from the prefecture.

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Kin of Ehime Maru victims want monument built in Hawaii

TOKYO, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (R) bows to Foreign Minister Yohei Kono when he visits the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on April 13. Kato conveyed to Kono the wishes of the families of victims of the Feb. 9 sinking of a Japanese ship by a U.S. Navy submarine off Hawaii that a monument be built in the U.S. state in memory of the nine lost at sea.

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Hawaii-born Akebono makes goodwill visit to Ehime Pref.

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Hawaii-born retired champion sumo wrestler Akebono (R) meets Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato at the Ehime prefectural government building in Matsuyama on April 9. Akebono visited the prefecture and expressed sympathy on behalf of Hawaiian Gov. Benjamin Cayetano to the people of Ehime Prefecture, still mourning February's sinking of the fisheries training vessel Ehime Maru by a U.S. submarine.

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U.S. special envoy Fallon apologizes to Ehime governor

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Adm. Willian Fallon (R), a special U.S. envoy to Japan, meets with Moriyuki Kato, governor of Ehime Prefecture, at the prefectural government head office on March 1. Fallon apologized to Kato for the Feb. 9 sinking of the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru by the U.S. submarine Greeneville off Hawaii. The Ehime Maru belongs to Uwajima Fisheries High School run by the prefecture.

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Ehime Gov. Kato to demand trawler off Hawaii be raised

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (L) prepares to leave Matsuyama airport Feb. 20 to travel to Hawaii to directly ask U.S. authorities to raise the trawler Ehime Maru. The 499-ton training ship from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture sank off Oahu Island in the Feb. 9 collision with the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville.

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Ehime governor demands U.S. raise ship sunken in sub collision

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato being surrounded by a number of reporters Feb. 11 after he asked Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to demand the United States immediately raise a Japanese ship sunken by a U.S. submarine in a collision on Feb. 9. ''The captain of the ship has said many of the missing people are likely confined in the ship,'' Kato told reporters after meeting Mori at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo.

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260 people sue Ehime governor over history textbook

MATSUYAMA, Japan - People arrive at the Matsuyama District Court in Matsuyama on March 30 to file a lawsuit seeking around 13 million yen in compensation and an apology from Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato and others over the prefectural education board's adoption of a controversial history textbook. About 260 people, including South Koreans and Chinese, join the lawsuit. (Kyodo)

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Kako wins Ehime election

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato, backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its junior partner the New Komeito party, and the tiny opposition Social Democratic Party, speaks at a Matsuyama hotel in Ehime Prefecture on Jan. 21 as it appeared certain he would win a third term in the gubernatorial election. (Kyodo)

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Ehime, Hawaii become sister states

HONOLULU, United States - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (R) and Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle sign an agreement in Honolulu on Nov. 21 to become sister states, with the hopes of deepening exchanges after the fatal accident in 2001 when a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine struck a Japanese fisheries training ship off Hawaii. (Kyodo)

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Ehime governor visits Hawaii monument for Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato and prefectural officials place flowers and pray before a monument in Honolulu, Hawaii, to the nine Japanese killed in February 2001, when their fisheries training ship was struck by a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine off Hawaii. (Kyodo)

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Ex-U.S. sub captain apologizes to Ehime Maru accident victims

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Local media on Dec. 12 received a faxed letter from the former skipper of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, retired Cmdr. Scott Waddle (file photo), apologizing to victims of last year's fatal collision off Hawaii between the sub and the Japanese high school fisheries training ship Ehime Maru. Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato also received a letter from Waddle earlier this month. (Kyodo)

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Kato leaves for Hawaii for funeral of Ehime Maru victims

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato speaks to reporters at Matsuyama airport, Ehime Prefecture, on Oct. 24 before leaving for Hawaii to attend a funeral for five Japanese whose bodies were recovered from their sunken ship Ehime Maru.

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Koizumi to discuss Ehime Maru redress with Bush

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) talks with Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on June 15. In the talks, Koizumi promised to ask U.S. President George W. Bush to deal sincerely with compensation demands over the February collision between the Japanese high school training ship Ehime Maru and U.S. nuclear submarine Greenville off Hawaii.

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Okawa visits Kato over ship disaster

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Earl Okawa (L), executive director of the Japan-America Society in Hawaii, meets with Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (R) at the prefectural government office in Matsuyama on May 31. Okawa told Kato he is grieved over the tragedy of the Ehime Maru, which belonged to Uwajima Fisheries High School in the western Japan prefecture.

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U.S. commander meets with Ehime governor

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Rear Adm. Robert Chaplin (R), commander of the U.S. Navy in Japan, meets with Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato in Matsuyama on April 20 to explain a Navy court's decision not to recommend courts-martial for officers on a submarine that sank a fisheries training ship from the prefecture.

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Hawaii-born Akebono makes goodwill visit to Ehime Pref.

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Hawaii-born retired champion sumo wrestler Akebono (R) meets Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato at the Ehime prefectural government building in Matsuyama on April 9. Akebono visited the prefecture and expressed sympathy on behalf of Hawaiian Gov. Benjamin Cayetano to the people of Ehime Prefecture, still mourning February's sinking of the fisheries training vessel Ehime Maru by a U.S. submarine.

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Hawaii-born Akebono makes goodwill visit to Ehime Pref.

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Hawaii-born retired champion sumo wrestler Akebono (R) meets Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato at the Ehime prefectural government building in Matsuyama on April 9. Akebono visited the prefecture and expressed sympathy on behalf of Hawaiian Gov. Benjamin Cayetano to the people of Ehime Prefecture, still mourning February's sinking of the fisheries training vessel Ehime Maru by a U.S. submarine.

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U.S. special envoy Fallon apologizes to Ehime governor

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Adm. Willian Fallon (R), a special U.S. envoy to Japan, meets with Moriyuki Kato, governor of Ehime Prefecture, at the prefectural government head office on March 1. Fallon apologized to Kato for the Feb. 9 sinking of the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru by the U.S. submarine Greeneville off Hawaii. The Ehime Maru belongs to Uwajima Fisheries High School run by the prefecture.

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Ehime governor seeks apology from sub's commanding officer

HONOLULU, United States - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (2nd from L) speaks with Adm. Dennis Blair, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, in Honolulu on Feb. 21. Kato wants an apology from Cmdr. Scott Waddle, the commanding officer of the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville, who was relieved of duty after the submarine hit and sank the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru off Oahu Island on Feb. 9. The photo was provided by the U.S. Navy.

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Ehime Gov. Kato to demand trawler off Hawaii be raised

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (L) prepares to leave Matsuyama airport Feb. 20 to travel to Hawaii to directly ask U.S. authorities to raise the trawler Ehime Maru. The 499-ton training ship from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture sank off Oahu Island in the Feb. 9 collision with the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville.

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Ehime governor demands U.S. raise ship sunken in sub collision

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato being surrounded by a number of reporters Feb. 11 after he asked Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to demand the United States immediately raise a Japanese ship sunken by a U.S. submarine in a collision on Feb. 9. ''The captain of the ship has said many of the missing people are likely confined in the ship,'' Kato told reporters after meeting Mori at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo.