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Delphine Ernotte and Katsuhiko Oku attending The History Of Sound Premiere in Cannes, France on May 21, 2025 as part of the 78th Cannes Film Festival. Photo by Aurore Marechal/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Delphine Ernotte and Katsuhiko Oku attending The History Of Sound Premiere in Cannes, France on May 21, 2025 as part of the 78th Cannes Film Festival. Photo by Aurore Marechal/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Megabank personnel shake-up

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. Senior Managing Director Takeshi Kunibe (L) and Koichi Miyata, another senior managing director of the major Japanese bank. Kunibe will succeed Masayuki Oku as president of SMBC, while Miyata will replace Teisuke Kitayama as president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., SMBC's holding company, on April 1, 2011, the two firms said Jan. 28, 2011.

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Kunibe to be appointed Sumitomo Mitsui Banking president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Takeshi Kunibe, senior managing director of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. The company is considering appointing Kunibe to succeed President Masayuki Oku, company sources said Dec. 30, 2010.

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World economy to maintain moderate growth: banking industry leader

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Bankers Association Chairman Masayuki Oku speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News. He said the world economy is likely to maintain moderate growth in 2011 although industrial countries remain plagued by various problems.

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Actress Kikukawa in event

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Rei Kikukawa (R) receives a letter from Japanese Bankers Association Chairman Masayuki Oku appointing her to a one-day post to prevent fraud via remittance to bank accounts at an event in Tokyo on July 6, 2010.

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New Nikko Cordial kicks off operations as Sumitomo Mitsui unit

TOKYO, Japan - Eiji Watanabe (2nd from L), president of Nikko Cordial Securities, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Masayuki Oku (2nd from R) and other officials shake hands in front of the new logo of Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. at its headquarters in the Kabutocho financial district in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2009. The company began operations the same day as a wholly owned unit of SMBC after the completion of the bank's acquisition of the retail brokerage house from Citigroup Inc. of the United States.

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SMFG to buy Nikko Cordial, bulk of Nikko Citigroup for 545 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. shake hands at a Tokyo hotel on May 1 after announcing they have reached an agreement that SMFG will acquire Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. and the bulk of Nikko Citigroup Ltd. for 545 billion yen. (From L) Nikko Cordial Securities President Eiji Watanabe, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Masayuki Oku, SMFG President Teisuke Kitayama, Citigroup Vice Chairman Stephen Volk, and Nikko Citi Holdings Inc. Chairman and President Douglas Peterson.

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Top banker seeks to lift barriers between banks, brokerages

TOKYO, Japan - Masayuki Oku, the new chairman of the Japanese Bankers Association, has called for the barriers between banks and brokerages to be eliminated to allow lending and securities underwriting services to be integrated to the advantage of customers. Oku made the remark in a recent interview with Kyodo News.

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Sumitomo Mitsui, S. Korea's Kookmin sign tie-up deal

SEOUL, South Korea - Masayuki Oku (L), president of Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., and Kang Chung Won, president of South Korea's Kookmin Bank, shake hands in Seoul on March 12 after signing a tie-up accord.

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Sumitomo Mitsui to be banned from selling derivatives

TOKYO, Japan - Masayuki Oku (C), chairman of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., bows in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on April 27 after the Financial Services Agency ordered Sumitomo Mitsui to stop sales of financial derivatives for six months from May 15.

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Anglo-Japanese rugby match commemorates slain diplomat Oku

LONDON, England - Japanese Ambassador to Britain Yoshiji Nogami (L) hands a trophy to the captain of a British rugby team after a match played in western London on Nov. 26 to commemorate slain Japanese diplomat Katsuhiko Oku's contribution to friendship between the two countries. The match was held between a team of Japanese businessmen and students living in Britain and a team of British graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities. Oku, who was killed in Iraq in 2003, was a rugby player when he studied at Oxford University.

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(2)Kitayama to succeed Nishikawa as SMFG president

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. Deputy President Masayuki Oku (L), who will promoted to the presidency, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on April 19 flanked by Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. Deputy President Teisuke Kitayama (R), who was named to succeed Yoshifumi Nishikawa as president. The top management reshuffle will take effect on June 29, the financial group said.

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Memorial service for slain diplomat held in London

LONDON, Britain - A memorial service is held for slain Japanese diplomat Katsuhiko Oku at the Japanese Embassy in London on Dec. 11. Oku, 45, a counselor dispatched to Iraq, was killed in northern Iraq on Nov. 29.

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(3)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi speaks at a funeral for two Japanese diplomats -- Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue -- who were killed in Iraq last weekend at Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 6. (Pool photo)

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(7)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Mourners see off two hearses carrying with coffins of the two slain Japanese diplomats, Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, leaving Aoyama Funeral Hall on Dec. 6. The two were killed in northern Iraq last week.

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(4)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi replies to questions from reporters at his official residence in Tokyo after attending a funeral at Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 6. for the two Japanese diplomats -- Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue -- who were killed in Iraq last weekend. (Pool photo)

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(1)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi attends a funeral at Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 6 for the two Japanese diplomats -- Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue -- who were killed in Iraq last weekend. The funeral was organized by the Foreign Ministry and family members of the diplomats. (Pool photo)

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(5)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Mourners pray at a funeral for Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq last weekend, at Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 6. (Pool photo)

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(2)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi offers his condolences in front of photos of the two slain Japanese diplomats -- Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue -- at Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 6. They were killed in Iraq last weekend. (Pool photo)

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(6)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - People line up to sign a book of condolences for Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, the two Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq last weekend, at Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 6.

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(2)Foreign Ministry staff bid farewell to slain diplomats

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi (2nd from R) and her staff bow to offer their silent prayers as a hearse carrying one of the bodies of two slain diplomats, Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, is driven past the Foreign Ministry building in Tokyo on Dec. 5.

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(3)Foreign Ministry staff bid farewell to slain diplomats

TOKYO, Japan - Led by a police car, a hearse carrying one of the bodies of two slain Japanese diplomats, Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, is driven past the Foreign Ministry building in Tokyo on Dec. 5 to allow them to bid farewell to the place where they once worked.

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Foreign Ministry staff bid farewell to slain diplomats

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi (R fore) and her staff bow to offer their silent prayers as hearses carrying the bodies of the two slain diplomats, Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, are driven past the Foreign Ministry building in Tokyo on Dec. 5.

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(1)Foreign Ministry staff bid farewell to slain diplomats

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Ministry staff bid farewell to the two slain diplomats, Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, as hearses carrying their bodies are driven past the Foreign Ministry building in Tokyo on Dec. 5.

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(6)Bodies of diplomats return to Japan with relatives

NARITA, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi (R) offers her condolences to Emiko Oku, wife of Japanese diplomat Katsuhiko Oku, who was killed in Iraq on Nov. 29, on her arrival at Narita airport with the coffin containing her husband's body on Dec. 4. (Pool photo)

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(3)Bodies of diplomats return to Japan with relatives

NARITA, Japan - Honor guards spread national flags over the coffins containing the bodies of two slain Japanese diplomats, Katsuhiko Oku (L) and Masamori Inoue, at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 4.

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(4)Bodies of diplomats return to Japan with relatives

NARITA, Japan - Family members watch the coffin containing the body of Katsuhiko Oku, a Japanese diplomat killed in Iraq on Nov. 29, moved from a plane on arrival at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 4.

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(1)Bodies of diplomats return to Japan with relatives

NARITA, Japan - The coffin containing the body of Katsuhiko Oku, a Japanese diplomat killed in Iraq on Nov. 29, is carried by honor guards, as his family members and relatives watch, on arrival at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 4. Oku, a counselor when he was killed, was promoted posthumously to ambassador.

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(2)Families of 2 slain diplomats view bodies in Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - Family members of the two Japanese diplomats killed in northern Iraq over the weekend head to a site to view their bodies on Dec. 2 in Kuwait. The families of Katsuhiko Oku, 45, and Masamori Inoue, 30, arrived in Kuwait earlier in the day.

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(1)Families of 2 slain diplomats view bodies in Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - Family members of the two Japanese diplomats killed in northern Iraq over the weekend head to a site to view their bodies on Dec. 2 in Kuwait. The families of Katsuhiko Oku, 45, and Masamori Inoue, 30, arrived in Kuwait earlier in the day.

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(1)Deaths of diplomats mourned

TOKYO, Japan - People register their condolences over the deaths of two Japanese diplomats, Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, in Iraq in a book opened at the Foreign Ministry on Dec. 2.

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(2)Deaths of diplomats mourned

ITAMI, Japan - Students of Itami High School offer a minute of silent prayer for Katsuhiko Oku, the Japanese diplomat who was killed in northern Iraq, at their morning gathering on Dec. 2. The school run by the Hyogo Prefectural government is Oku's alma mater.

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Book of condolences opened for slain diplomats

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese Foreign Ministry opened a book of condolences in its lobby on Dec. 1 for people wishing to express their sadness over the deaths of Japanese diplomats killed Nov. 29 in northern Iraq -- Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue.

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Site of killing of 2 Japanese diplomats

TIKRIT, northern Iraq - Local police investigators stand near the site in Tikrit, northern Iraq, on Nov. 30 where two Japanese diplomats -- 30-year-old Masamori Inoue and 45-year-old Katsuhiko Oku -- were ambushed and shot to death on Nov. 29.

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(4)2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Masamori Inoue (R), a third secretary from the Japanese Embassy in Baghdad, is seen unfolding a Japanese national flag at the embassy on May 8, 2003 when the embassy resumed business after a two-month hiatus. Inoue and Katsuhiko Oku, a counselor from the Japanese Embassy in London, were killed in an ambush in northern Iraq on Nov. 29.

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Sumitomo Mitsui cuts earnings forecast

TOKYO, April 4 Kyodo - Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. Managing Director Masayuki Oku tells a news conference April 4 that the group has cut its earnings forecast for fiscal 2002 as a result of much larger losses connected to securities holdings and bad-loan assets.

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Tourists enjoy rafting on river

KITAYAMA, Japan - Tourists experience rafting down the Kitayama River in Oku-Kumano, Wakayama Prefecture, on May 3 as the rafting season opened the same day. The event is open to the public until the end of September.

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(2)Kitayama to succeed Nishikawa as SMFG president

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. Deputy President Masayuki Oku (L), who will promoted to the presidency, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on April 19 flanked by Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. Deputy President Teisuke Kitayama (R), who was named to succeed Yoshifumi Nishikawa as president. The top management reshuffle will take effect on June 29, the financial group said. (Kyodo)

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Sumitomo Mitsui to be banned from selling derivatives

TOKYO, Japan - Masayuki Oku (C), chairman of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., bows in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on April 27 after the Financial Services Agency ordered Sumitomo Mitsui to stop sales of financial derivatives for six months from May 15. (Kyodo)

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Sumitomo Mitsui, S. Korea's Kookmin sign tie-up deal

SEOUL, South Korea - Masayuki Oku (L), president of Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., and Kang Chung Won, president of South Korea's Kookmin Bank, shake hands in Seoul on March 12 after signing a tie-up accord. (Kyodo)

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Top banker seeks to lift barriers between banks, brokerages

TOKYO, Japan - Masayuki Oku, the new chairman of the Japanese Bankers Association, has called for the barriers between banks and brokerages to be eliminated to allow lending and securities underwriting services to be integrated to the advantage of customers. Oku made the remark in a recent interview with Kyodo News. (Kyodo)

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SMFG to buy Nikko Cordial, bulk of Nikko Citigroup for 545 bil. y

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. shake hands at a Tokyo hotel on May 1 after announcing they have reached an agreement that SMFG will acquire Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. and the bulk of Nikko Citigroup Ltd. for 545 billion yen. (From L) Nikko Cordial Securities President Eiji Watanabe, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Masayuki Oku, SMFG President Teisuke Kitayama, Citigroup Vice Chairman Stephen Volk, and Nikko Citi Holdings Inc. Chairman and President Douglas Peterson. (Kyodo)

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(5)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Mourners pray at a funeral for Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq last weekend, at Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 6. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Japanese Military leaders st Shenyang, Manchuria

The Heads of the Japanese Military at the headquarters of their 'Manchurian Armies' at Mukden (now Shenyang), Manchuria following the end of the Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905). Following the Japanese victory, the Japanese concession at Mukden was one of the chief bases for Japanese economic expansion into southern Manchuria. Date: circa 1905

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The Music of General Oku

French 'comment' on General Yasukata Oku's plans to capture Lushunkou (a district in the municipality of Dalian, Liaoning province, also called Lushun City or Lushun Port, formerly known as both Port Arthur and Ryojun). Lushunkou has an excellent natural harbour, the possession and control of which became a 'casus belli' (justification for the act of war) during the Russo-Japanese War (19041905). Date: circa 1904

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The People of Okunoto

The people of Okunoto. Farmers build thousand paddy fields. Fishermen, who do not have a fishing port, make salt in pumping salt fields. There are also migrant workers and peddlers. 　 The people of Okunoto, despite the rough seas of the Sea of Japan and the poverty of their half-farming, half-fishing existence, build Senmaida rice paddies (paddies built on sloping land), people make salt the old-fashioned way, the last of the Agehama salt paddies where salt is pumped with labor, the cutting down of Asunaro forests, a tribe of fishermen turned plasterers, women peddling fish, and women peddling fish and vegetables at the morning market in Iida. Women peddling fish, women peddling fish and vegetables at the morning market in Iida, a general merchandise market held in each village 　before winter preparations, and women leaving for Kansai in search of work before winter. The film was shot on an unknown date, and was released on November 4, 1960.

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Actress Kikukawa in event

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Rei Kikukawa (R) receives a letter from Japanese Bankers Association Chairman Masayuki Oku appointing her to a one-day post to prevent fraud via remittance to bank accounts at an event in Tokyo on July 6, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Anglo-Japanese rugby match commemorates slain diplomat Oku

LONDON, England - Japanese Ambassador to Britain Yoshiji Nogami (L) hands a trophy to the captain of a British rugby team after a match played in western London on Nov. 26 to commemorate slain Japanese diplomat Katsuhiko Oku's contribution to friendship between the two countries. The match was held between a team of Japanese businessmen and students living in Britain and a team of British graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities. Oku, who was killed in Iraq in 2003, was a rugby player when he studied at Oxford University. (Kyodo)

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A road to Yumoto,Nikko

The title is The Road to Yumoto, but the exact location is unclear. If it is indeed the road to Yumoto Spa in Oku-Nikko, it may be the road along Lake Chuzenji or in the area beyond Senjogahara. The person wearing a sugegasa hat and coat could be either a traveler or a hunter.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number98‐41‐0]