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Nisshin Oillio Group signage and logo

Nisshin Oillio Group signage and logo=May 7,2025,Tokyo

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Nisshin Oillio Group signage and logo

Nisshin Oillio Group signage and logo=May 7,2025,Tokyo

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Appearance of the Nisshin Oillio Group

Appearance of the Nisshin Oillio Group=May 7,2025,Tokyo

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Nisshin Oillio Group signage and logo

Nisshin Oillio Group signage and logo=May 7,2025,Tokyo

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Nisshin Oillio Group signage and logo

Nisshin Oillio Group signage and logo=May 7,2025,Tokyo

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New whaling factory ship

The Kangei Maru, the world's only whaling factory ship, prepares to depart from its home port in Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on May 21, 2024, for its inaugural whaling voyage. The ship, operated by Kyodo Senpaku Co., was completed in March 2024, following the retirement of the Nisshin Maru in 2023.

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New whaling factory ship

The Kangei Maru, the world's only whaling factory ship, departs from its home port in Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on May 21, 2024, for its inaugural whaling voyage. The ship, operated by Kyodo Senpaku Co., was completed in March 2024, following the retirement of the Nisshin Maru in 2023.

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New whaling factory ship

A priest prays during a ceremony inside the Kangei Maru, the world's only whaling factory ship, in Shimonoseki, western Japan, on March 29, 2024. The ship was completed the same day and delivered to commercial whaling operator Kyodo Senpaku Co., following the retirement of its predecessor, Nisshin Maru, in November 2023.

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New whaling factory ship

Hideki Tokoro, president of commercial whaling operator Kyodo Senpaku Co., meets the press in Shimonoseki, western Japan, on March 29, 2024, after Kangei Maru, the world's only whaling factory ship, was delivered to his company earlier in the day, following the retirement of its predecessor, Nisshin Maru, in November 2023.

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New whaling factory ship

The Kangei Maru, the world's only whaling factory ship, is seen berthed at a dock in Shimonoseki, western Japan, on March 29, 2024, following its completion earlier in the day. The ship was delivered to commercial whaling operator Kyodo Senpaku Co., following the retirement of its predecessor, Nisshin Maru, in November 2023.

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World's only whaling factory ship retires

The Nisshin Maru, the world's only whaling factory ship, enters the port in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 4, 2023, for a retirement ceremony following its last operation.

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Baseball: Amateur prospect Matsumoto

Meijo University sidearm pitcher Ryoto Matsumoto, an amateur prospect player in Japanese baseball, poses in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on March 5, 2023.

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Baseball: Amateur prospect Matsumoto

Meijo University sidearm pitcher Ryoto Matsumoto, an amateur prospect player in Japanese baseball, plays catch in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on March 5, 2023.

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Factory ship of Japanese whaling fleet returns home

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - The factory ship Nisshin Maru of the Japanese whaling fleet anchors at Shimonoseki Port in Yamaguchi Prefecture on April 14 after returning from the Antarctic Ocean. The fleet's five other vessels involved in what the Japanese government claims is scientific research had already returned to Shimonoseki as of April 13.

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Japan firm demonstrates cassette tape player for cars

NAGOYA, Japan - Beat-Sonic Inc., a Japanese audio equipment maker based in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, demonstrates on Oct. 10, 2014, a cassette tape player for use in cars developed to meet demand from consumers wishing to listen to music stored on old tapes. The device can play reproduce music from USB memory sticks and SD cards.

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Japanese firm develops cassette tape player for cars

NAGOYA, Japan - Beat-Sonic Inc., a Japanese audio equipment maker based in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, puts on sale on Oct. 10, 2014, a cassette tape player for use in cars to meet demand from consumers wishing to listen to music stored on old tapes. The device can also play music from USB memory sticks and SD cards.

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Research whaling ship Nisshin Maru returns to Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese research whaling vessel Nisshin Maru is docked at a pier at the Port of Tokyo.

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Japan's research whaling

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Japanese research whaling ship the Yushin Maru No. 2 leaves Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Dec. 7, 2013. Two Japanese whaling ships and a surveillance ship left the port the same day to join the mother vessel Nisshin Maru and hunt up to 935 Antarctic minke whales and up to 50 fin whales through March.

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Japan's research whaling

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Japanese research whaling ship the Yushin Maru leaves Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Dec. 7, 2013. Two Japanese whaling ships and a surveillance ship left the port the same day to join the mother vessel Nisshin Maru and hunt up to 935 Antarctic minke whales and up to 50 fin whales through March.

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Whaling fleet returns from Antarctic

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Japan's three-ship whaling fleet -- (from front) the mother ship Nisshin Maru, the Yushin Maru No. 2 and the Yushin Maru. The fleet returned to the port of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on April 7, 2013, after completing the season's research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean.

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Whaling fleet returns from Antarctic

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Photo shows the mother ship Nisshin Maru of Japan's three-ship whaling fleet, which returned to the port of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on April 7, 2013, after completing the season's research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean.

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Whaling fleet returns from Antarctic

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Photo shows the bow of the mother ship Nisshin Maru of Japan's three-ship whaling fleet, which returned to the port of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on April 7, 2013, after completing the season's research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean. Marks are seen on the bow of the Nisshin Maru, which was rammed by vessels of antiwhaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

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Whaling fleet returns home

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Nisshin Maru, the mother ship of the Japanese whaling fleet that went to the Antarctic Ocean, moored at Tokyo port after returning from a three-month whaling expedition.

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Whaling fleet returns home

TOKYO, Japan - The Nisshin Maru, the mother ship of the Japanese whaling fleet that went to the Antarctic Ocean, is moored at Tokyo port after returning from a three-month whaling expedition.

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Nissin Foods' 2nd cup noodle museum

YOKOHAMA, Japan - People look at a display of cup noodles in Nissin Foods Holdings Co.'s Cupnoodles Museum in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on Sept. 16, 2011. The facility, Nisshin Foods' second food entertainment spot after a similar popular theme museum in Osaka Prefecture, was shown to reporters before its opening the following day.

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Nissin Foods' 2nd cup noodle museum

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Visitors play at Nissin Foods Holdings Co.'s Cupnoodles Museum in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on Sept. 16, 2011. The museum, Nisshin Foods' second food entertainment spot after a similar popular theme museum in Osaka Prefecture, was shown to reporters before its opening the following day.

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Japan whalers return home

TOKYO, Japan - The Nisshin Maru, leading vessel of Japan's whaling convoy, returns to a Tokyo pier from the Antarctic Ocean on March 21, 2011. The whalers were forced to halt so-called research whaling after obstruction by the antiwhaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

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Sea Shepherd forces Japan to halt this season's whaling

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Japanese research whaling mother ship Nisshin Maru entering Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture in April 2009. Japan said on Feb. 18, 2011, it had halted its research whaling for the current season in the Antarctic Ocean because of obstructive actions by the Sea Shepherd antiwhaling group.

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Nisshin Seifun's Shoda to give up chairmanship

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Nisshin Seifun Group Inc. Chairman Osamu Shoda, grandson of founder Teiichiro Shoda, who will give up the chairmanship on June 25. The 66-year-old industrialist, younger brother of Empress Michiko and second-eldest son of Hidesaburo Shoda, will assume honorary chairmanship without the right of representation, the company said.

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Lead ship of whaling fleet returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Tomoyuki Ogawa (R), captain of the Nisshin Maru, the lead ship of Japan's whaling fleet, and Hajime Ishikawa (C), leader of Japan's whaling expedition for so-called scientific research purposes, attend a news conference in Tokyo on April 15. The ship returned home earlier in the day after completing a five-month expedition in the Antarctic Ocean that was hampered by violent protests by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-whaling group.

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Lead ship of whaling fleet returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The 8,044-ton Nisshin Maru, the lead ship of a Japanese whaling fleet, returns to Oi Marine Products Wharf in Tokyo's Ota Ward on April 15 after completing a five-month research mission in the Antarctic Ocean. The six-vessel fleet caught a total of 551 whales during the mission, only 60 percent of an initially planned 900 whales due to acts of sabotage by anti-whaling activists.

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Japanese research whaling fleet leaves for Antarctic Ocean

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - The Nisshin Maru, the mother ship of Japan's six-vessel whaling fleet, leaves Shimonoseki Port, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 18 on an expedition to the Antarctic Ocean that operators say is intended to undertake research on whales. It is the 21st whaling expedition carried out by the Institute of Cetacean Research, which began research whaling in 1987.

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Fire hits Japanese whaling ship in Antarctica, 1 missing: report

SYDNEY, Australia - A fire broke out on Feb. 15 on a Japanese whaling ship, the Nisshin Maru (file photo taken in September 1996 at Tokyo's Oi pier), in Antarctic waters, leaving one person missing, local media reported. The 8,030-ton ship is part of an Institute of Cetacean Research fleet the Japanese government has tasked with undertaking what it calls research whaling.

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Clinton receives honorary doctorate

NAGOYA, Japan - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton receives an honorary doctorate at Aichi Gakuin University (AGU) from AGU President Tadataka Koide at the Nisshin Campus near Nagoya on Nov. 19.

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Whaling research vessel leaves for Antarctic

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - People bid farewell to the Japanese whaling research vessel Nisshin Maru, which left Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture for the Antarctic on Nov. 7. The research team will capture up to 440 minke whales to collect data and make a report to the International Whaling Commission, before returning to Japan next April

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Tokio Marine to take one-third stake in Nisshin Fire

TOKYO, Japan - Michio Noda (L), president of Nisshin Fire & Marine Insurance Co., and Kunio Ishihara, president of Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co., shake hands at a news conference at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on Feb. 13 after announcing a business and capital alliance.

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Nobel laureate Noyori evaded taxes on 32 mil. yen

NAGOYA, Japan - Nobel chemistry laureate Ryoji Noyori speaks to reporters in front of his house in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, on April 23 about reports he evaded takes on 32 million yen in income in the seven years through 2000.

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2 ships return to Nagasaki after 'research whaling'

NAGASAKI, Japan - The 7,575-ton Nisshin Maru, along with the 368-ton No. 2 Kyoshin Maru, returns to Shin Nagasaki port in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on April 4 after completing what the government calls ''research whaling'' in the Antarctic Ocean in an operation that started last November.

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Blast at chemical plant in Gunma Pref. kills 3

OJIMA, Japan - An aerial photo shows a chemical plant in Ojima, Gunma Prefecture, that went up in flames after an explosion June 10. The blast gutted the plant operated by Tokyo-based Nisshin Chemical Co., killing three people and injuring more than 20.

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Logo mark of the Nisshin OilliO Group

Logo = Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, March 6, 2018. Nissin Oillio Group Headquarters, Credit: The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Japanese research whaling fleet leaves for Antarctic Ocean

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - The Nisshin Maru, the mother ship of Japan's six-vessel whaling fleet, leaves Shimonoseki Port, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 18 on an expedition to the Antarctic Ocean that operators say is intended to undertake research on whales. It is the 21st whaling expedition carried out by the Institute of Cetacean Research, which began research whaling in 1987. (Kyodo)

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Lead ship of whaling fleet returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The 8,044-ton Nisshin Maru, the lead ship of a Japanese whaling fleet, returns to Oi Marine Products Wharf in Tokyo's Ota Ward on April 15 after completing a five-month research mission in the Antarctic Ocean. The six-vessel fleet caught a total of 551 whales during the mission, only 60 percent of an initially planned 900 whales due to acts of sabotage by anti-whaling activists. (Kyodo)

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Nisshin Seifun's Shoda to give up chairmanship

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Nisshin Seifun Group Inc. Chairman Osamu Shoda, grandson of founder Teiichiro Shoda, who will give up the chairmanship on June 25. The 66-year-old industrialist, younger brother of Empress Michiko and second-eldest son of Hidesaburo Shoda, will assume honorary chairmanship without the right of representation, the company said. (Kyodo)

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2 ships return to Nagasaki after 'research whaling'

NAGASAKI, Japan - The 7,575-ton Nisshin Maru, along with the 368-ton No. 2 Kyoshin Maru, returns to Shin Nagasaki port in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on April 4 after completing what the government calls ''research whaling'' in the Antarctic Ocean in an operation that started last November.

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Baseball: Fighters extend win streak to 11

Nippon Ham Fighters pitcher Luis Mendoza throws seven effective innings to help the team extend its winning streak to 11 games with an 8-3 victory over the Rakuten Eagles at Shonai Bank & Nisshin Seiyaku Stadium in Nakayama, Yamagata Prefecture, on July 5, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Research whaling ships return home

Family members of a crew member of the Nisshin Maru, the 8,145-ton mother ship of a whaling fleet, welcome its return at a port in the western Japan city of Shimonoseki. The vessel completed so-called research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Research whaling ships return home

Photo taken March 24, 2016, shows Nisshin Maru, the 8,145-ton mother ship of a whaling fleet, returning to a port in the western Japan city of Shimonoseki, after completing so-called research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nippon Steel to buy Nisshin Steel in response to China slowdown

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. President Kosei Shindo (L) and Nisshin Steel Co. President Toshinori Miki attend a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2016. Nippon Steel said it will buy Nisshin Steel in an attempt to address falling demand and price competition amid China's economic slowdown. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nippon Steel to buy Nisshin Steel in response to China slowdown

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. President Kosei Shindo (L) and Nisshin Steel Co. President Toshinori Miki shake hands before attending a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2016. Nippon Steel said it will buy Nisshin Steel in an attempt to address falling demand and price competition amid China's economic slowdown. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nippon Steel to buy Nisshin Steel in response to China slowdown

Combined photo shows the building (L) housing the headquarters of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. and that housing the headquarters of Nisshin Steel Co. Nippon Steel, Japan's biggest steelmaker, is set to buy Nisshin Steel, the fourth-largest player in the domestic market, sources close to the matter said Feb. 1, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo