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Recipients of Japanese decorations

Recipients of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, (from L) former Japanese Environment Minister Sakihito Ozawa, former Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Nobuaki Koga, former United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Rashed Abdullah Alnuaimi and retired U.S. Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, who served concurrently as head of the U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, attend a photo session after a ceremony of conferment at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2024.

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Japan PM Abe pledges to spread benefit of economic recovery

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) shakes hands with Nobuaki Koga, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation also known as Rengo, at a May Day gathering at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on April 26, 2014, after ending his speech. Abe is the first prime minister from the Liberal Democratic Party since 2001 to attend the May Day event hosted by Rengo.

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Japan PM Abe pledges to spread benefit of economic recovery

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) delivers a speech at a May Day gathering in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on April 26, 2014, with Nobuaki Koga (2nd from L), president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation also known as Rengo, listening to him. Abe is the first prime minister from the Liberal Democratic Party since 2001 to attend the May Day event hosted by Rengo.

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Putin meets APEC union leaders

MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin (L front) attends a meeting with union leaders from some Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum members at his official residence in the suburbs of Moscow on Sept. 3, 2012. On the far right is Nobuaki Koga, head of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo.

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Annual wage talks start in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Business Federation Chairman Hiromasa Yonekura (R) speaks as Japan's annual round of wage negotiations started on Jan. 25, 2012. Yonekura and Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Nobuaki Koga met in Tokyo to discuss labor conditions for the year from April.

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Kimono designer turns to iPad to save dying tradition

KYOTO, Japan - Designer Nobuaki Tomita holds an iPad in a case made of kimono belt fabric in Kyoto, western Japan, on Dec. 18, 2011.

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Rengo labor group shifts to opposing nuclear power

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Koga, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation known as Rengo, speaks during its convention at the Tokyo International Forum in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2011. The leader of Japan's largest labor organization, also the largest supporter of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, said it is necessary to ultimately aim for a society that does not rely on nuclear power, a turnaround from the organization's previous stance of promoting the construction of nuclear power plants.

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Outgoing nuclear agency chief

TOKYO, Japan - Outgoing Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency chief Nobuaki Terasaka speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 10, 2011. He said the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant showed Japan's nuclear regulation was inadequate, but insisted he did his best to deal with the world's worst nuclear accident in 25 years.

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Agency sought to manipulate symposiums on nuclear power

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Terasaka (R), head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, holds a press conference in Tokyo on July 29, 2011. Chubu Electric Power Co. said the Japanese government's nuclear safety agency asked the utility to have local residents pitch questions favoring the firm's pluthermal nuclear power generation project at a symposium in 2007. Other utilities also said similar attempts were made by the agency when public meetings on nuclear power generation were held.

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Agency sought to manipulate symposiums on nuclear power

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Terasaka, head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, holds a press conference in Tokyo on July 29, 2011. Chubu Electric Power Co. said the Japanese government's nuclear safety agency asked the utility to have local residents pitch questions favoring the firm's pluthermal nuclear power generation project at a symposium in 2007. Other utilities also said similar attempts were made by the agency when public meetings on nuclear power generation were held.

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Spring wage talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Nobuaki Koga speaks during a meeting to discuss labor conditions with Japan Business Federation Chairman Hiromasa Yonekura in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2011, as this spring's labor-management wage negotiations began.

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Spring wage talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Business Federation Chairman Hiromasa Yonekura speaks during a meeting to discuss labor conditions with Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Nobuaki Koga in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2011, as this spring's labor-management wage negotiations began.

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Kan attends labor federation's New Year party

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Nobuaki Koga raise ''masu'' boxes during a toast at a New Year gathering organized by the labor union association at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2011.

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Kan attends labor federation's New Year party

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Nobuaki Koga (L), Prime Minister Naoto Kan (2nd from L), New Party Nippon leader Yasuo Tanaka (R) and Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima (2nd from R) break the cover of a sake barrel using wooden hammers during a toast at a New Year gathering organized by the labor union association at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2011.

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Kan meets union leader

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) meets Nobuaki Koga (front), leader of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, Japan's largest labor union association known as Rengo, in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2010.

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Japan Postal union demands passage of postal reform bill

CHIBA, Japan - Japan Post Holdings Co. President Jiro Saito (R) and Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Nobuaki Koga attend a national convention of the Japan Postal Group Union in the city of Chiba on June 9, 2010. The postal union called for the enactment of the postal reform bill to scale back postal privatization during the current Diet session.

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Hatoyama wants to move forward with reform

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks during a meeting with Nobuaki Koga, chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 5, 2010. Hatoyama said he wants to move forward with reform despite his plunging approval rating.

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Hatoyama wants to move forward with reform

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R), speaks during a meeting with Nobuaki Koga (3rd from L), chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation and others, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 5, 2010. Hatoyama said he wants to move forward with reform despite his plunging approval rating.

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Major manufacturers to implement automatic annual pay hikes

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Koga (L), chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, and Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, on March 17, 2010, speak after most major Japanese manufacturers offered the same day to resume automatic annual pay hikes this year as demanded by their trade unions. Such pay hikes were frozen last year amid the global recession. Their offer came at the peak of annual spring labor-management wage bargaining.

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Hankyu Hanshin Department Store's central Kyoto outlet to close

KYOTO, Japan - Nobuaki Nitta, president of Hankyu Hanshin Department Stores Inc., speaks about a plan to close the company's major outlet in central Kyoto's Shijo Kawaramachi area at a news conference in Kyoto on Jan. 28, 2010. The Shijo Kawaramachi Hankyu store, which opened in 1976, will be closed down around this fall.

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Annual wage talks begin with focus on pay hikes

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Koga (standing), chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, addresses a meeting with Japanese business leaders, including Fujio Mitarai (R), chairman of the Japan Business Federation, in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2010. The meeting heralded the start of annual spring wage negotiations between labor unions and management.

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Prime Minister Hatoyama attends Rengo's New Year party

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (3rd from R) toasts with Nobuaki Koga (3rd from L), president of the Japan Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, at a New Year's party organized by Japan's largest labor union association at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2010.

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Moore meets Japan labor union leader

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore (L) and Nobuaki Koga, leader of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, the country's largest labor union confederation, speak during a discussion session at a Tokyo hotel Dec. 2, 2009. Moore was on his first trip to Japan to promote his latest work ''Capitalism.''

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Nippon Keidanren and Rengo heads agree on efforts for employment

TOKYO, Japan - Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, addresses a meeting with Nobuaki Koga, chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, also known as Rengo, and other Rengo executives at Keidanren Kaikan hall in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2009. The heads of the two organizations agreed to make efforts to maintain employment.

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Nippon Keidanren and Rengo heads agree on efforts for employment

TOKYO, Japan - Fujio Mitarai (R), chairman of the Japan Business Federation, addresses a meeting with Nobuaki Koga, chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, also known as Rengo, and other Rengo executives at Keidanren Kaikan hall in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2009. The heads of the two organizations agreed to make efforts to maintain employment.

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Japan's biggest labor body selects Koga as new leader

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Koga speaks at a news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2009, after being elected as the new president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, Japan's largest labor organization known as Rengo.

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Koga chosen as new Rengo president

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Koga, chosen as the new president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, also known as Rengo, addresses the organization's regular convention in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2009.

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Koga chosen as new Rengo president

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Koga (standing), secretary general of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, also known as Rengo, is chosen as its new president to succeed Tsuyoshi Takagi (front) at a regular convention in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2009.

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Sanyo offers to repair 880,000 microwave/electric ovens

OSAKA, Japan - Nobuaki Matsuoka (L), president of Sanyo Consumer Electronics Co., a subsidiary of Sanyo Electric Co., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on June 20 about the company's plan to repair some 880,000 microwave/electric ovens free of charge after three ovens caught on fire.

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Hankyu, Hanshin department stores to integrate under holding firm

OSAKA, Japan - Hanshin Department Stores Ltd. President Hideo Nishikawa (L), Hankyu Department Stores Inc. Chairman Shunichi Sugioka (C) and Hankyu Department Stores President Nobuaki Nitta (R) pose for a photo at an Osaka hotel on March 26. They announced that the two Osaka-based department store chain operators will integrate operations on Oct. 1 under a holding firm to be formed from what is now Hankyu Department Stores.

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Japan's Tanaka named as U.N. undersecretary general

NEW YORK, United States - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on March 17 named Nobuaki Tanaka (file photo), Japanese ambassador to Pakistan, as undersecretary general for disarmament affairs.

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Gov't failed to collect 43 bil. yen in taxes: audit board

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) receives the fiscal 2003 audit of state finances from Board of Audit Commissioner Nobuaki Morishita at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 9. The government wasted or failed to collect about 43 billion yen in taxes in the year, the second-largest sum on record following 51 billion yen in fiscal 1980.

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Naka no match for champion Bredahl in WBA title fight

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Japan's Nobuaki Naka hangs his head after losing a unanimous decision to world champion Johnny Bredahl of Denmark in a World Boxing Association bantamweight title match on March 13. Naka, currently ranked eighth in the world, saw his record fall to 17 wins, including 11 knockouts, one loss, and two draws after failing in his first crack at winning a world title fight.

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Naka gets title shot against WBA bantamweight champ

OSAKA, Japan - Japan's Nobuaki Naka, currently eighth in the World Boxing Association bantamweight rankings at 53.42 kilograms, poses at his gym in Amagasaki, west of Osaka, on Feb. 12. Boxing officials said Naka will take on world champion Johnny Bredahl of Denmark in Copenhagen in March.

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Labor union proposes expanding discretionary labor system

NAGOYA, Japan - Nobuaki Koga, chairman of the Japanese Electrical Electronic & Information Union (Denki Rengo) addresses his union's convention in Nagoya on July 3. He proposed a significant expansion of a labor system in which employees work at their own pace.

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Columnist Hanaoka abandons bid for Nagano governorship

NAGANO, Japan - Former Sankei Shimbun editorial writer Nobuaki Hanaoka (L) shakes hands with lawyer Keiko Hasegawa at the Nagano prefectural government head office in the city of Nagano on Aug. 14 after his announcement to retreat from the Nagano gubernatorial election. Hanaoka, who had earlier this month announced his intention to run in the Sept. 1 election, said he will give full support to Hasegawa to run against former Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka.

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Hanaoka speaks about candidacy in Nagano governor poll

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Hanaoka, former Sankei Shimbun editorial writer, speaks about his candidacy in the Sept. 1 gubernatorial election in Nagano Prefecture at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo on Aug. 12.

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Emperor, empress attend New Year's lecture

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko (both at center left) listen to a lecture by Nobuaki Kumagai, professor emeritus in electronic communication at Osaka University, in an annual New Year's lecture at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan 10. Other lecturers were Tatsuo Nishida, professor emeritus in linguistics at Kyoto University and Kumao Toyoshima, head of Sumitomo Hospital and an expert on oncology and virology.(Pool photo)

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Japan's new vice finance minister meets the press

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's newly appointed Vice Finance Minister Nobuaki Usui expresses his determination July 8 to restore lost trust in the Finance Ministry in the wake of a string of bribery and other scandals. Photo shows Usui (R) shaking hands with his predecessor Koji Tanami at a press conference at the ministry.

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Commendation Ceremony for Koichi Mizushima of Toshiba

On April 19, Toshiba awarded a special prize to Koichi Mizushima, 78, executive fellow of Toshiba Corporation, for his contribution to the development of lithium-ion batteries. In the announcement of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Akira Yoshino, an honorary fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation, and John Goodnough, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, U.S., who collaborated with Mr. Mizushima, were chosen to receive the prize, but Mr. Mizushima, who was expected to win the prize simultaneously, did not. Chairman Nobuaki Kurumatani said, "I am very proud of Mr. Mizushima's achievement. The University of Tokyo has announced that it will award Mizushima with the University of Tokyo President's Special Award. Shiro Saito, Executive Vice President, said, "Mr. Mizushima is still active as a researcher. From right to left: Chairman Kurumatani, Executive Fellow Mizushima, and Mr. Mizushima's wife, Ms. Kimiko, on November 19, 2019.

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Gov't failed to collect 43 bil. yen in taxes: audit board

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) receives the fiscal 2003 audit of state finances from Board of Audit Commissioner Nobuaki Morishita at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 9. The government wasted or failed to collect about 43 billion yen in taxes in the year, the second-largest sum on record following 51 billion yen in fiscal 1980. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Tanaka named as U.N. undersecretary general

NEW YORK, United States - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on March 17 named Nobuaki Tanaka (file photo), Japanese ambassador to Pakistan, as undersecretary general for disarmament affairs. (Kyodo)

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Hankyu, Hanshin department stores to integrate under holding fir

OSAKA, Japan - Hanshin Department Stores Ltd. President Hideo Nishikawa (L), Hankyu Department Stores Inc. Chairman Shunichi Sugioka (C) and Hankyu Department Stores President Nobuaki Nitta (R) pose for a photo at an Osaka hotel on March 26. They announced that the two Osaka-based department store chain operators will integrate operations on Oct. 1 under a holding firm to be formed from what is now Hankyu Department Stores. (Kyodo)

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Sanyo offers to repair 880,000 microwave/electric ovens

OSAKA, Japan - Nobuaki Matsuoka (L), president of Sanyo Consumer Electronics Co., a subsidiary of Sanyo Electric Co., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on June 20 about the company's plan to repair some 880,000 microwave/electric ovens free of charge after three ovens caught on fire. (Kyodo)

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Hanaoka speaks about candidacy in Nagano governor poll

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Hanaoka, former Sankei Shimbun editorial writer, speaks about his candidacy in the Sept. 1 gubernatorial election in Nagano Prefecture at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo on Aug. 12. (Kyodo)

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Kozu elected as new Rengo chief

Rikio Kozu addresses a general meeting of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2015. Kozu was elected as its new chief to replace Nobuaki Koga. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rengo to pick new president

Combination photo shows Rikio Kozu (L), secretary general of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, and Naoto Omi, chairman of the Japanese Federation of Textile, Chemical, Food, Commercial, Service and General Worker's Unions, or UA Zensen. It was reported on June 24, 2015, that the largest trade union of Japan is considering appointing Kozu as its new chief to replace the retiring Nobuaki Koga, and Omi as the secretary general. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rengo chief Koga to step down

Nobuaki Koga, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation known as Rengo, meets with reporters on June 3, 2015, in Morioka, Japan. During the central committee meeting in the northeastern Japanese city, he said he will resign in October when the 10-year milestone of his service at the confederation comes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rengo chief Koga to step down

Photo shows Nobuaki Koga, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation known as Rengo. Koga said on June 3, 2015, he will resign in October when the 10-year milestone of his service at the confederation comes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese designer holds kimono show in Italy

Japanese kimono designer Nobuaki Tomita (L) adjusts the kimono on a woman for a kimono show at a museum in Biella, northern Italy, on May 15, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo