Mariners' Ichiro selected as team MVP

Mariners' Ichiro selected as team MVP

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners Ichiro Suzuki receives the team MVP award at Safeco Field in Seattle prior to a game against the Oakland Athletics on Oct. 1, 2010. It was his fifth time receiving the award, bestowed by local media, having also won it in 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2009.

Mariners' Ichiro selected as team MVP

Mariners' Ichiro selected as team MVP

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners Ichiro Suzuki responds to cheers from the crowd as he is named team MVP at Safeco Field in Seattle prior to a game against the Oakland Athletics on Oct. 1, 2010. It was his fifth time receiving the award, bestowed by local media, having also won it in 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2009.

Hoya, Pentax to merge next Oct. to enhance medical operations

Hoya, Pentax to merge next Oct. to enhance medical operations

TOKYO, Japan - Fumio Urano (R), president of camera manufacturer Pentax Corp., and Hiroshi Suzuki, chief executive officer of leading optical glassmaker Hoya Corp., shake hands after their joint press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 21. They announced that the two companies will merge on Oct. 1, 2007.

Major seafood firms Maruha, Nichiro to merge in October

Major seafood firms Maruha, Nichiro to merge in October

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuhiko Tanaka (L), president of Nichiro Corp., and Yuji Igarashi, president of Maruha Group Inc., shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 11. They announced that the two companies will integrate their operations under a holding company on Oct. 1, 2007.

Japan Post's Takahashi likely to head OTC postal service firm

Japan Post's Takahashi likely to head OTC postal service firm

TOKYO, Japan - The government is eyeing Toshihiro Takahashi (file photo), currently vice president of Japan Post and a former Toyota Motor Corp. managing director, to assume the post of president of a postal company that will manage over-the-counter services of post offices across Japan from Oct. 1, 2007, sources familiar with the matter said Jan. 14.

Bills enacted to privatize Japan Post from Oct. 2007

Bills enacted to privatize Japan Post from Oct. 2007

TOKYO, Japan - The House of Councillors vote a set of bills to privatize Japan Post into laws at a plenary session on Oct. 14, allowing Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to realize his long-standing initiative beginning Oct. 1, 2007.

Takenaka expresses intent to delay postal privatization

Takenaka expresses intent to delay postal privatization

TOKYO, Japan - Postal privatization minister Heizo Takenaka enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 13. Takenaka told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that he plans to delay the start of privatizing Japan's postal services by half a year to Oct. 1, 2007.