Google Japan President Okumura

Google Japan President Okumura

Google Japan President Shinji Okuyama gives an interview to Kyodo News in Tokyo on June 19, 2024.

Cannes film festival

Cannes film festival

Japanese film director Hiroshi Okuyama (L) speaks to the audience at the screening of his film "My Sunshine" at the Cannes International Film Festival on May 19, 2024, in Cannes, southern France. On the far right is actor Sosuke Ikematsu, who played one of the main characters.

Cannes film festival

Cannes film festival

Japanese film director Hiroshi Okuyama (R) poses for a photo with actor Sosuke Ikematsu (2nd from L), and other cast members of his film "My Sunshine" on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival on May 19, 2024, in Cannes, southern France.

Annual Cannes Film Festival - My Sunshine Photocall - Cannes DN

Annual Cannes Film Festival - My Sunshine Photocall - Cannes DN

Sosuke Ikematsu, Keitatsu Koshiyama, Kiara Nakanishi and Hiroshi Okuyama attend the My Sunshine Photocall at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 20, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by David NIVIERE ABACAPRESS.COM

Cannes - My Sunshine Photocall

Cannes - My Sunshine Photocall

Hiroshi Okuyama attends the "My Sunshine" Photocall at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 20, 2024 in Cannes, France Photo by Shootpix/ABACAPRESS.COM

Cannes - My Sunshine Photocall

Cannes - My Sunshine Photocall

Sosuke Ikematsu, Keitatsu Koshiyama, Kiara Nakanishi and Hiroshi Okuyama attend the "My Sunshine" Photocall at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 20, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by Shootpix/ABACAPRESS.COM

Cannes - My Sunshine Photocall

Cannes - My Sunshine Photocall

Sosuke Ikematsu, Keitatsu Koshiyama, Kiara Nakanishi and Hiroshi Okuyama attend the "My Sunshine" Photocall at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 20, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by Shootpix/ABACAPRESS.COM

Cannes - My Sunshine Photocall

Cannes - My Sunshine Photocall

Sosuke Ikematsu, Keitatsu Koshiyama, Kiara Nakanishi and Hiroshi Okuyama attend the "My Sunshine" Photocall at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 20, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by Shootpix/ABACAPRESS.COM

Cannes - My Sunshine Photocall

Cannes - My Sunshine Photocall

Sosuke Ikematsu, Keitatsu Koshiyama, Kiara Nakanishi and Hiroshi Okuyama attend the "My Sunshine" Photocall at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 20, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by Shootpix/ABACAPRESS.COM

Cannes - My Sunshine Photocall

Cannes - My Sunshine Photocall

Sosuke Ikematsu, Keitatsu Koshiyama, Kiara Nakanishi and Hiroshi Okuyama attend the "My Sunshine" Photocall at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 20, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by Shootpix/ABACAPRESS.COM

Cannes - Horizon: An American Saga Screening

Cannes - Horizon: An American Saga Screening

Keitatsu Koshiyama, Kiara Nakanishi, Hiroshi Okuyama and Sosuke Ikematsu attend the Horizon: An American Saga Red Carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by David Niviere/ABACAPRESS.COM

Annual Cannes Film Festival - Horizon Red Carpet - Cannes DN

Annual Cannes Film Festival - Horizon Red Carpet - Cannes DN

Keitatsu Koshiyama, Kiara Nakanishi, Hiroshi Okuyama and Sosuke Ikematsu attend the Horizon: An American Saga Red Carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by David NIVIERE ABACAPRESS.COM

Photo exhibit at U.N. on 2011 disaster recovery

Photo exhibit at U.N. on 2011 disaster recovery

NEW YORK, United States - Kiyoshi Murakami (L), representative of nonprofit organization Aid TAKATA which serves as a liaison council for supporting Iwate Prefecture's Rikuzentakata, Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama (C), and Fumihiko Imamura, director of Tohoku University's International Research Institute of Disaster Science, stand in front of photo panels on the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster displayed at the U.N. headquarters in New York on July 9, 2014.

Sendai mayor explains photos on 2011 disaster at U.N.

Sendai mayor explains photos on 2011 disaster at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama explains photographs and graphics on the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan and ensuing recovery efforts exhibited at the United Nations headquarters in New York on July 9, 2014. The third U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction will be held next March in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.

Sochi figure skating winner Hanyu visits hometown mayor

Sochi figure skating winner Hanyu visits hometown mayor

SENDAI, Japan - Sochi Olympics men's figure skating gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu (L) receives a "shield of kudos" from Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama on Feb. 26, 2014, at the city hall for his achievement at the Winter Games in Russia. Hanyu's success lifted the spirits of many people in Sendai, his hometown, as well as other areas in northeastern Japan that were devastated in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami catastrophe.

UNESCO register adds archive of pre-modern Japan mission

UNESCO register adds archive of pre-modern Japan mission

SENDAI, Japan - Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama answers a reporter's question at the Sendai city hall in Miyagi Prefecture on June 19, 2013. A collection of materials about Keicho Mission, a 17th century mission sent under the order of Sendai feudal lord Date Masamune to the Vatican and Spain, has been selected for the UNESCO Memory of the World registry, the Japanese education ministry said the same day.

China's Tang presents stuffed panda to Sendai mayor

China's Tang presents stuffed panda to Sendai mayor

SENDAI, Japan - China's former Foreign Minister and State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan (R), who currently heads the China-Japan Friendship Association, presents Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama with a stuffed panda as a gift at the Sendai city offices in Miyagi Prefecture on April 27, 2012, during his visit to northeastern Japan's biggest city that was hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster. Okuyama, who is planning to borrow giant pandas from China for the city zoo and bring cheer to Sendai's children, told Tang she looks forward to seeing real pandas in Sendai one day.

KDDI to open foothold in quake-hit Sendai

KDDI to open foothold in quake-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Tadashi Onodera (C), chairman of KDDI Corp., poses with Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama (R) in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2011. The operator of ''au'' mobile phone services said the same day it will set up a foothold in the city to register and manage subscribers' data as part of its efforts to create employment in the northeastern Japan region ravaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Japan quake-hit city desires pandas to be leased

Japan quake-hit city desires pandas to be leased

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (L) and Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama shake hands at the Sendai city offices in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2011. The mayor of the city, which was hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, reiterated in a meeting with the ambassador the city's request for China to lease giant pandas to the city-run Yagiyama Zoological Park to cheer up local children affected by the disaster. The city made the request to the Chinese government earlier.

Amazon Japan Pres. Cheung, Sendai Mayor Okuyama

Amazon Japan Pres. Cheung, Sendai Mayor Okuyama

SENDAI, Japan - Jasper Cheung (L), president of Amazon Japan K.K., shakes hands with Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama at the Sendai city office on the afternoon of Sept. 27, 2011. The Japanese unit of U.S.-based Internet commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. said the same day it will open a call center in the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, which was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in March 2012.

China ambassador thanks Sendai for supporting Chinese

China ambassador thanks Sendai for supporting Chinese

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (L) hands Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama a certificate of appreciation at the city office on April 15, 2011. Cheng thanked the city for helping Chinese survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami who were in the northeastern Japan city at the time, and handed over money donated by Chinese companies.

DPJ-backed candidate wins Sendai mayoral election

DPJ-backed candidate wins Sendai mayoral election

SENDAI, Japan - Opposition-backed Emiko Okuyama celebrates with her supporters after winning the Sendai mayoral election defeating five contenders in Sendai on July 26.

Japanese soprano Yumi Okuyama in Ulan Bator

Japanese soprano Yumi Okuyama in Ulan Bator

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Dressed in traditional Mongolian costume, Japanese soprano Yumi Okuyama (L) performs at a concert at the National Opera Theater in Ulan Bator on Dec. 12 as part of events to mark the 35th anniversary of the establishment of Japanese-Mongolian diplomatic relations. At her right is a Mongolian singer who sang a duet with Okuyama.

FSA orders ChuoAoyama to suspend part of auditing services

FSA orders ChuoAoyama to suspend part of auditing services

TOKYO, Japan - Akio Okuyama, chairman and chief executive officer of ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of Japan's leading auditing firms, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on May 10 after the Financial Services Agency issued a business suspension order to the company due to its failure to prevent an earnings falsification scandal at Kanebo Ltd.

All but 1 of ChuoAoyama's executive partners steps down

All but 1 of ChuoAoyama's executive partners steps down

TOKYO, Japan - Akio Okuyama, chief executive partner of the auditing firm ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers apologizes at a press conference Oct. 3. The company said 10 of its 11 executive partners have stepped down from their positions to take responsibility for the indictment of three of the company's auditors for helping Kanebo Ltd. falsify its financial statements. Okuyama will stay in his post.

Ex-yokozuna Kagamisato dies at 80

Ex-yokozuna Kagamisato dies at 80

TOKYO, Japan - Former yokozuna Kagamisato (file photo) died from blood poisoning at a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 29. He was 80. Kagamisato, whose real name was Kiyoji Okuyama, was promoted to sumo's top rank of grand champion in 1953. He won the Emperor's Cup four times but decided to bring his career to an end after failing to notch double-digit wins in the New Year meet in 1958.

Onodera to head KDDI

Onodera to head KDDI

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows KDDI Corp. Executive Vice President Tadashi Onodera, who on April 10 was appointed president of Japan's second largest telecommunications operator, succeeding Yusai Okuyama. Subject to formal approval at a board meeting in late June, the appointment is part of changes in KDDI's management team which will be reduced to less than 15 from the current 52.

Merged DDI, dubbed KDDI, begins operations

Merged DDI, dubbed KDDI, begins operations

TOKYO, Japan - Yusai Okuyama (4th from L), president of a newly created company resulting from a merger of long-distance phone carrier DDI Corp., international carrier KDD Corp. and mobile phone operator IDO Corp., joins hands with other company executives at a ceremony Oct. 2 in Tokyo to unveil the new corporate logotype. The three officially merged the previous day under DDI's banner, becoming Japan's second-largest telecom. The new DDI is dubbed KDDI.

Japan's three telecom firms to merge next Oct.

Japan's three telecom firms to merge next Oct.

TOKYO, Japan - DDI Corp., IDO Corp. and KDD Corp. announced they have agreed to merge into a single company Oct. 1 next year. DDI is a long-distance carrier belonging to the Kyocera Corp. group, while IDO is a mobile phone operator affiliated with Toyota Motor Corp. KDD is Japan's largest international telecom carrier, in which Toyota is a major shareholder. Posing at a news conference in a Tokyo hotel Dec. 16 are (from L to R) Kyocera President Yasuo Nishiguchi, Kyocera Honorary Chairman Kazuo Inamori, KDD President Tadashi Nishimoto, DDI President Yusai Okuyama, IDO President Satoshi Nakagawa, Toyota Chairman Hiroshi Okuda and Toyota President Fujio Cho.

Japanese singer featured in Mongolia opera

Japanese singer featured in Mongolia opera

Japanese soprano Yumi Okuyama (L) takes a practice session before performing a Mongolian opera at Mongolia's National Opera Theater in Ulan Bator on March 13 to mark the 25th anniversary of cultural exchanges between Japan and Mongolia. Okuyama, who sang in Mongolian, is the first foreign singer to perform in a Mongolian opera.

Japan Day celebrated at Milan expo with Tohoku parade

Japan Day celebrated at Milan expo with Tohoku parade

Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama makes a speech ahead of the "Tohoku Revitalization Parade" at Expo Milano on July 11, 2015, designated as Japan Day at the international fair in Milan, Italy. The Tohoku region in northeastern Japan was devastated by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

U.N. forum adopts 7 goals to mitigate disaster risks

U.N. forum adopts 7 goals to mitigate disaster risks

Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama (L), Japan's minister for disaster management Eriko Yamatani (C) and Margareta Wahlstroem, the U.N. secretary general's special representative for disaster risk reduction, attend a press conference on March 19, 2015, in the northeastern Japan city of Sendai, after participants in the U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction there agreed on seven global goals to mitigate the risks and damage of disasters. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Designer sees new bullet trains as climax of his accomplishments

Designer sees new bullet trains as climax of his accomplishments

Kiyoyuki Okuyama, designer of the new E7 and W7 series of bullet trains for the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on March 10, 2015, four days before the start of the new train service connecting Tokyo with Kanazawa on the Sea of Japan coast via Nagano, central Japan. He described the new train designs as the climax of his accomplishments. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hyogo gov., Sendai mayor attend disaster prevention symposium

Hyogo gov., Sendai mayor attend disaster prevention symposium

Hyogo Gov. Toshizo Ido (L) and Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama (R) flank Margareta Wahlstrom, U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction, at a symposium on the creation of disaster-resistant cities in the northeastern Japan city of Sendai on March 17, 2015. The event was part of a U.N. disaster reduction conference being held there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sendai mayor expresses hopes for March world disaster forum

Sendai mayor expresses hopes for March world disaster forum

Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama speaks in an interview on Feb. 5, 2015, expressing hopes to use the March 14-18 U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in the northeastern Japan city to share lessons from the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Designer shakes up cost-conscious market with quality products

Designer shakes up cost-conscious market with quality products

TOKYO, Japan - TOKYO, Japan - K.O 7 original sports car, one of the products in the Ken Okuyama collection, is on display at an exhibit at Mitsukoshi Ltd.'s flagship department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi district on Aug. 12. (Kyodo)

Designer shakes up cost-conscious market with quality products

Designer shakes up cost-conscious market with quality products

TOKYO, Japan - Photo of Japanese industrial and car designer Ken Okuyama, who won fame as the first non-Italian to design a car for Italy's Ferrari. Photo was provided by Ken Okuyama Design. (Kyodo)

FSA orders ChuoAoyama to suspend part of auditing services

FSA orders ChuoAoyama to suspend part of auditing services

TOKYO, Japan - Akio Okuyama, chairman and chief executive officer of ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of Japan's leading auditing firms, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on May 10 after the Financial Services Agency issued a business suspension order to the company due to its failure to prevent an earnings falsification scandal at Kanebo Ltd. (Kyodo)

Japanese soprano Yumi Okuyama in Ulan Bator

Japanese soprano Yumi Okuyama in Ulan Bator

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Dressed in traditional Mongolian costume, Japanese soprano Yumi Okuyama (L) performs at a concert at the National Opera Theater in Ulan Bator on Dec. 12 as part of events to mark the 35th anniversary of the establishment of Japanese-Mongolian diplomatic relations. At her right is a Mongolian singer who sang a duet with Okuyama. (Kyodo)

All but 1 of ChuoAoyama's executive partners steps down

All but 1 of ChuoAoyama's executive partners steps down

TOKYO, Japan - Akio Okuyama, chief executive partner of the auditing firm ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers apologizes at a press conference Oct. 3. The company said 10 of its 11 executive partners have stepped down from their positions to take responsibility for the indictment of three of the company's auditors for helping Kanebo Ltd. falsify its financial statements. Okuyama will stay in his post. (Kyodo)

Japan quake-hit city desires pandas to be leased

Japan quake-hit city desires pandas to be leased

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (L) and Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama shake hands at the Sendai city offices in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2011. The mayor of the city, which was hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, reiterated in a meeting with the ambassador the city's request for China to lease giant pandas to the city-run Yagiyama Zoological Park to cheer up local children affected by the disaster. The city made the request to the Chinese government earlier. (Kyodo)

Asakusa Kannon Shrine seen from the twelve-level Ryounkaku,Asakusa

Asakusa Kannon Shrine seen from the twelve-level Ryounkaku,Asakusa

Sensoji Temple seen from Ryounkaku. There are many photographs of Ryounkaku, but few photographs were taken from that building. Kannon-do is in the centre, with the five-story pagoda and Niomon (gate) to the right. The area in front and to the left of Kannon-do was commonly called Okuyama. Street performers made presentations there. The building in the left foreground is Hana Yashiki (Flower House). The five-story Okuyamakaku (Ho'okaku) is visible. This was probably taken soon after the construction of Ryounkaku in 1890.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number55‐38‐3]

Amazon Japan Pres. Cheung, Sendai Mayor Okuyama

Amazon Japan Pres. Cheung, Sendai Mayor Okuyama

SENDAI, Japan - Jasper Cheung (L), president of Amazon Japan K.K., shakes hands with Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama at the Sendai city office on the afternoon of Sept. 27, 2011. The Japanese unit of U.S.-based Internet commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. said the same day it will open a call center in the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, which was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in March 2012. (Kyodo)

China's Tang presents stuffed panda to Sendai mayor

China's Tang presents stuffed panda to Sendai mayor

SENDAI, Japan - China's former Foreign Minister and State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan (R), who currently heads the China-Japan Friendship Association, presents Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama with a stuffed panda as a gift at the Sendai city offices in Miyagi Prefecture on April 27, 2012, during his visit to northeastern Japan's biggest city that was hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster. Okuyama, who is planning to borrow giant pandas from China for the city zoo and bring cheer to Sendai's children, told Tang she looks forward to seeing real pandas in Sendai one day. (Kyodo)

China ambassador thanks Sendai for supporting Chinese

China ambassador thanks Sendai for supporting Chinese

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (L) hands Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama a certificate of appreciation at the city office on April 15, 2011. Cheng thanked the city for helping Chinese survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami who were in the northeastern Japan city at the time, and handed over money donated by Chinese companies. (Kyodo)

Photo exhibit at U.N. on 2011 disaster recovery

Photo exhibit at U.N. on 2011 disaster recovery

NEW YORK, United States - Kiyoshi Murakami (L), representative of nonprofit organization Aid TAKATA which serves as a liaison council for supporting Iwate Prefecture's Rikuzentakata, Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama (C), and Fumihiko Imamura, director of Tohoku University's International Research Institute of Disaster Science, stand in front of photo panels on the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster displayed at the U.N. headquarters in New York on July 9, 2014. (Kyodo)

Sendai mayor explains photos on 2011 disaster at U.N.

Sendai mayor explains photos on 2011 disaster at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama explains photographs and graphics on the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan and ensuing recovery efforts exhibited at the United Nations headquarters in New York on July 9, 2014. The third U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction will be held next March in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

KDDI to open foothold in quake-hit Sendai

KDDI to open foothold in quake-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Tadashi Onodera (C), chairman of KDDI Corp., poses with Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama (R) in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2011. The operator of ''au'' mobile phone services said the same day it will set up a foothold in the city to register and manage subscribers' data as part of its efforts to create employment in the northeastern Japan region ravaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

Japanese film wins best cinematography award in Stockholm

Japanese film wins best cinematography award in Stockholm

Japanese director Hiroshi Okuyama wins the best cinematography award for his film "Jesus" at the Stockholm Film Festival on Nov. 16, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japanese film wins best cinematography award in Stockholm

Japanese film wins best cinematography award in Stockholm

Japanese director Hiroshi Okuyama wins the best cinematography award for his film "Jesus" at the Stockholm Film Festival on Nov. 16, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo