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Cannes - Nicolas Seydoux Conference At The Plage des Palmes

Nicolas Seydoux, President of Gaumont, the president of the association for the fight against audiovisual piracy, and the vice-president of the supervisory board of Arte France, during a conference at the Plage des Palmes on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by Cyril Chateau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cannes - Nicolas Seydoux Conference At The Plage des Palmes

Nicolas Seydoux, President of Gaumont, the president of the association for the fight against audiovisual piracy, and the vice-president of the supervisory board of Arte France, during a conference at the Plage des Palmes on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by Cyril Chateau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cannes - Nicolas Seydoux Conference At The Plage des Palmes

Nicolas Seydoux, President of Gaumont, the president of the association for the fight against audiovisual piracy, and the vice-president of the supervisory board of Arte France, during a conference at the Plage des Palmes on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by Cyril Chateau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cannes - Nicolas Seydoux Conference At The Plage des Palmes

Nicolas Seydoux, President of Gaumont, the president of the association for the fight against audiovisual piracy, and the vice-president of the supervisory board of Arte France, during a conference at the Plage des Palmes on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by Cyril Chateau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cannes - Nicolas Seydoux Conference At The Plage des Palmes

Nicolas Seydoux, President of Gaumont, the president of the association for the fight against audiovisual piracy, and the vice-president of the supervisory board of Arte France, during a conference at the Plage des Palmes on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by Cyril Chateau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cannes - Nicolas Seydoux Conference At The Plage des Palmes

Nicolas Seydoux, President of Gaumont, the president of the association for the fight against audiovisual piracy, and the vice-president of the supervisory board of Arte France, during a conference at the Plage des Palmes on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by Cyril Chateau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cannes - Nicolas Seydoux Conference At The Plage des Palmes

Nicolas Seydoux, President of Gaumont, the president of the association for the fight against audiovisual piracy, and the vice-president of the supervisory board of Arte France, during a conference at the Plage des Palmes on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by Cyril Chateau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cannes - Nicolas Seydoux Conference At The Plage des Palmes

Nicolas Seydoux, President of Gaumont, the president of the association for the fight against audiovisual piracy, and the vice-president of the supervisory board of Arte France, during a conference at the Plage des Palmes on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in Cannes, France. Photo by Cyril Chateau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan, Indonesia hold joint anti-piracy drill

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Photo taken Feb. 14, 2013, shows a scene from an antipiracy drill jointly held by Japan and Indonesia in waters off Jakarta.

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MSDF vessel guards commercial ship off Somalia

TOKYO, Japan - A vessel of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (front) guards a Japanese cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia against piracy in June 2009. Japan plans to send a senior Self-Defense Forces officer to serve as the commander of the multinational antipiracy operations in the Gulf of Aden.

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Armed guards allowed on vessels to combat piracy

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese Diet enacts a bill on Nov. 13, 2013, to allow security guards to carry rifles aboard Japanese-registered vessels to counter piracy in waters off Somalia and elsewhere, when it cleared the House of Councillors at the Diet building in Tokyo. The legislation is the first Japanese law to authorize private citizens to carry and use firearms.

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PIPA protest in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Protesters participate in a rally against the Protect IP Act, an online anti-piracy bill, in New York on Jan. 18, 2012.

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Wikipedia blacks out English site

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo's Higashishimbashi district on Jan. 18, 2012, shows the website of Wikipedia, which began blacking out its English-language site for 24 hours at 12 a.m. (2 p.m. at Japan time) the same day in protest at proposed U.S. legislation to stop online piracy.

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PM Kan meets next IMO chief Sekimizu

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Koji Sekimizu, incoming chief of the International Maritime Organization, shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 20, 2011. Sekimizu vowed to tackle piracy in the Indian Ocean during a press conference at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism the same day.

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Japan-Djibouti leaders talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh shake hands at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 20, 2010. Guelleh promised Kan that his government will continue to extend cooperation to Japan's Self-Defense Forces in fighting piracy in waters off Somalia.

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Anpanman bootleg

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows a T-shirt bearing the images of illegally redesigned characters of the popular animation series Anpanman that Osaka's Naniwa Police Station unveiled on Dec. 6, 2010, following their crackdown on a case of alleged piracy.

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Japan, China ink memo to fight copyright piracy

TOKYO, Japan - Hideo Tamai (L), commissioner of Japan's Cultural Affairs Agency, shakes hands with a senior official of China's State Copyright Bureau in Tokyo on March 15, 2010. The two exchanged signed documents committing both countries to fighting copyright piracy through regular talks and personnel exchange.

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Japan to provide patrol boats to Indonesia to fight piracy

TOKYO, Japan - Two Japanese coast guard patrol boats maneuver in Tokyo Bay on Oct. 15, displaying their capabilities to Indonesian diplomats and officials aboard the vessels. Japan will provide three newly built patrol boats of the same model to Indonesia, probably in November, under an official development assistance agreement reached by the two countries in 2003. The aid is part of Japan's efforts to help Indonesia fight piracy in the Malacca Strait, Japanese officials said.

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Japan, Malaysia, Thailand hold anti-piracy exercise

LANGKAWI, Malaysia - Malaysian special forces members slide down from a helicopter on the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Yashima, role-playing as a hijacked cargo ship, during an anti-piracy exercise in the Andaman Sea on Feb. 2.

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Malaysia, Indonesia urged to ratify pact to fight sea piracy

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Yoshiaki Ito, executive director the ReCAAP Information Sharing Center, a newly inaugurated intergovernmental anti-piracy center in Singapore, expresses hope on Nov. 29 that Malaysia and Indonesia will join multilateral efforts to combat piracy in the Strait of Malacca by ratifying a pact initiated by Japan.

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Indonesia, Japan conclude patrol boat accord

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Shin Ebihara (L) signs diplomatic notes, along with an Indonesian official, on Tokyo's provision of three patrol boats to fight piracy and deter terrorism in the Malacca Strait.

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Indonesia, Japan cancel signing on donation of patrol boats

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Shin Ebihara leaves the Indonesian Foreign Ministry on June 14 after the Indonesian government and the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta canceled a planned signing of diplomatic notes over Tokyo's grant for Jakarta to procure three patrol boats from Japan to fight terrorism, piracy and weapons proliferation.

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Japan asks S.E. Asian nations to help free piracy abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura speaks to reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on March 15 about three crew members of a Japanese tugboat abducted by pirates in the Malacca Strait.

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Sony to launch PlayStation 2 in China

BEIJING, China - Sony China Chairman Hiroshi Shoda (2nd from R) announces in Beijing on Nov. 28 that Sony Corp. will release its popular PlayStation 2 game console (C) in China on Dec. 20 in defiance of rampant piracy plaguing the potentially huge market.

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Japan, Philippine coast guards conduct anti-piracy exercise

MANILA, Philippines - Japanese and Philippine coast guards conduct joint drills in Manila Bay on Oct. 31 as part of efforts to improve readiness to deal with pirates in Asian sea lanes. In the photo, a coast guard vessel (back) and helicopter rush to the rescue of a Japanese ship (fore) under a simulated attack by pirates.

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Japan, China agree on full maritime cooperation

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuhiko Nawano (R), head of the Japan Coast Guard, and Zhao Yongji, China's vice public security minister, shake hands in Tokyo on Oct. 29 after agreeing to strengthen cooperation in investigating transnational sea crimes such as piracy.

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Seminar to prevent maritime crime starts in Kitakyushu

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - A seminar to combat maritime crimes such as piracy and smuggling begins on Oct. 15 in Kitakyushu, western Japan, with 11 maritime patrol officials from nine Asian countries attending. Participating countries in this year's seminar are India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong, and seminar members will receive technical training from Japan Coast Guard officials and others.

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Coast guard heads from four nations meet in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - National coast guard chiefs from Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States begin their first meeting in Tokyo on Dec. 20 to discuss how to crack down on the smuggling of drugs and guns and piracy in the northwestern Pacific. China was also invited to the meeting but canceled before it began, organizers said. The conference will release a joint statement Dec. 21 on crime-control collaboration in the region's waters.

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H.K. movie stars march against piracy

Movie star Jackie Chan (4th from L in front row) and other leading figures in the Hong Kong entertainment industry rally March 17 to demand further steps to combat piracy and protect intellectual property rights. They later marched to the Hong Kong government office.

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File-sharing software creator pleads not guilty to piracy

KYOTO, Japan - Isamu Kaneko, creator of a program for anonymous file-sharing over the Internet, enters the Kyoto District Court building Sept. 1 for his first court hearing on a charge of developing the Winny peer-to-peer file-sharing program knowing it would facilitate Internet piracy. He later pleaded not guilty to the charge. Kaneko, 34, is the first person in Japan to stand trial for creating software that can be used for the unauthorized reproduction of movies and video games over the Internet. (Kyodo)

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Japan asks S.E. Asian nations to help free piracy abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura speaks to reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on March 15 about three crew members of a Japanese tugboat abducted by pirates in the Malacca Strait. (Kyodo)

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Indonesia, Japan cancel signing on donation of patrol boats

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Shin Ebihara leaves the Indonesian Foreign Ministry on June 14 after the Indonesian government and the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta canceled a planned signing of diplomatic notes over Tokyo's grant for Jakarta to procure three patrol boats from Japan to fight terrorism, piracy and weapons proliferation. (Kyodo)

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Indonesia, Japan conclude patrol boat accord

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Shin Ebihara (L) signs diplomatic notes, along with an Indonesian official, on Tokyo's provision of three patrol boats to fight piracy and deter terrorism in the Malacca Strait. (Kyodo)

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APEC ministers begin 2nd day talks with focus on piracy, investm

HANOI, Vietnam - Foreign and trade ministers from 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum economies begin their second-day annual talks in Hanoi on Nov. 16 to discus issues such as protecting intellectual property, liberalizing and facilitating investment, and energy security. (Kyodo)

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APEC ministers begin 2nd day talks with focus on piracy, investm

HANOI, Vietnam - Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso (L) chats with Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Akira Amari during the second-day meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Hanoi on Nov. 16. (Kyodo)

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Seminar to prevent maritime crime starts in Kitakyushu

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - A seminar to combat maritime crimes such as piracy and smuggling begins on Oct. 15 in Kitakyushu, western Japan, with 11 maritime patrol officials from nine Asian countries attending. Participating countries in this year's seminar are India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong, and seminar members will receive technical training from Japan Coast Guard officials and others.

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Anti-piracy in Manila Bay

MANILA, Philippines -- A multilateral anti-piracy naval exercise in action off Manila on March 7, with a Japanese ship used as target for hijacking. (Kyodo)

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Japan, Filipino coast guards conduct joint anti-piracy training

Photo taken July 13, 2016, shows a vessel of the Philippine Coast Guard (front) conducting joint anti-piracy training with the Japan Coast Guard's patrol vessel Tsugaru in waters off Manila. Captain Katsushi Murase of Tsugaru said the Philippines is an important partner of Japan and that such combined exercises are necessary. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, Filipino coast guards conduct joint anti-piracy training

Photo taken July 13, 2016, shows a vessel of the Philippine Coast Guard (front) conducting joint anti-piracy training with the Japan Coast Guard's patrol vessel Tsugaru in waters off Manila. Captain Katsushi Murase of Tsugaru said the Philippines is an important partner of Japan and that such combined exercises are necessary. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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MSDF Rear Adm. Ito, commander of multinational antipiracy forces

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Rear Admiral Hiroshi, commander of the Combined Task Force 151, sits in the commander's chair in Manama, Bahrain, on July 27, 2015. The multinational forces carry out counter piracy operations off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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MSDF Rear Adm. Ito heads multinational anti-piracy forces

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Rear Admiral Hiroshi Ito (C), commander of the Combined Task Force 151 carrying out counter piracy operations, attends a meeting in Manama, Bahrain, on July 27, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese commander of multinational antipiracy operations

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Rear Admiral Hiroshi Ito, who will be dispatched as a commander of the Combined Task Force 151 to carry out counter piracy operations off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden, talks in an interview at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on April 16, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Portuguese PM meets with Japanese emperor

Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho (R) meets with Japan's Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on March 27, 2015. Coelho agreed with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the same day to increase bilateral cooperation in the fields of maritime security, including measures to combat piracy, as well as trade and investment. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, Portugal vow to cooperate in maritime security, trade

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho attend a joint press conference following their meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 27, 2015. The leaders agreed during their meeting to increase cooperation in the fields of maritime security, including measures to combat piracy, as well as trade and investment. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, Portugal vow to cooperate on maritime security, trade

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) shakes hands with Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 27, 2015. The leaders agreed during their meeting to increase cooperation in the fields of maritime security, including measures to combat piracy, as well as trade and investment. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police seize devices used to post Japanese comic series on piracy site

Photo taken at a police station in Kyoto, western Japan, on Nov. 13, 2015, shows computers and other confiscated devices allegedly used to post the popular Japanese comic series "One Piece" on a pirate website abroad. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese publishers to fight against comic piracy in Thailand

Samples of comic books to be sold at stores in Thailand by the Japan Manga Alliance, established by publishing giants Kadokawa Corp., Kodansha Ltd., Shueisha Inc. and Shogakukan Inc. along with animation goods retailer Animate Co., are shown at a news conference announcing the launch of the joint venture in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2015. The group hopes their presence in Bangkok will help terminate pirated versions in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese publishers to fight against comic piracy in Thailand

Animation goods retailer Animate Co. officer Shingo Kunieda (R) speaks during a press conference announcing the establishment of the Japan Manga Alliance in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2015. The joint venture, joined by publishing giants Kadokawa Corp., Kodansha Ltd., Shueisha Inc. and Shogakukan Inc., aims to open shop in Thailand in an effort to terminate pirated versions in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Piracy off Somalia down sharply: EU Naval Force commander

Major Gen. Martin Smith, operation commander for the European Union Naval Force Somalia, which aims to prevent piracy and armed robbery off the coast of Somalia and in the Indian Ocean, meets the press in Northwood, Britain, in January 2015. He said the operation is successfully destroying the pirates' business model. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, Malaysia, Thailand hold anti-piracy exercise

LANGKAWI, Malaysia - Malaysian special forces members slide down from a helicopter on the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Yashima, role-playing as a hijacked cargo ship, during an anti-piracy exercise in the Andaman Sea on Feb. 2. (Kyodo)