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Hokkaido Bank opens office in Vladivostok, Russia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Yoshihiro Sekihachi (L), president of the Hokkaido Bank Ltd., attends a ceremony for the opening of the Sapporo-based bank's representative office in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on March 18, 2014.

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Animals in Shiretoko

SAPPORO, Japan - A northern fox appears from a bank by a snow-covered road on the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on May 4, 2013.

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Yunus receives honorary doctorate from Hokkaido Univ.

SAPPORO, Japan - Muhammad Yunus (L), founder of the Grameen Bank and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is awarded an honorary doctorate from Hokkaido University in Sapporo on Sept. 29, 2009.

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North Pacific Bank, Sapporo Bank to merge next Oct.

SAPPORO, Japan - North Pacific Bank President Tyuzo Yokouchi speaks at a press conference in Sapporo on Jan. 12. He said his bank and Sapporo Bank, both the banking subsidiaries of Sapporo Hokuyo Holdings Inc., will officially merge, possibly on Oct. 14, 2008. Yokouchi will become president of the post-merger bank, which will rank sixth among Japanese regional banks.

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(1)Hokuriku Bank, Hokkaido Bank to merge in FY 2004

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Bank President Tsuneo Fujita speaks at a news conference at his office in Sapporo on May on an agreement with Hokuriku Bank to integrate their businesses under a joint holding company in fiscal 2004. The merger will creatie Japan's second largest regional bank in terms of deposits after the Bank of Yokohama.

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(2)Ex-Takugin presidents acquitted over shady loans

SAPPORO, Japan - Sadamasa Kawatani, former president of failed Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, is surrounded by reporters after the Sapporo District Court on Feb. 27 acquitted him in a case involving the bank's shady loans to a local business group.

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North Pacific Bank, Sapporo Bank to merge next Oct.

SAPPORO, Japan - North Pacific Bank President Tyuzo Yokouchi speaks at a press conference in Sapporo on Jan. 12. He said his bank and Sapporo Bank, both the banking subsidiaries of Sapporo Hokuyo Holdings Inc., will officially merge, possibly on Oct. 14, 2008. Yokouchi will become president of the post-merger bank, which will rank sixth among Japanese regional banks. (Kyodo)

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North Pacific Bank, Central Pacific Bank sign MOU

Junji Ishii (R), president of North Pacific Bank Ltd. based in Sapporo, and John Dean, executive chair of the Hawaii-based financial institution Central Pacific Financial Corp. and its primary subsidiary Central Pacific Bank, hold a memorandum of understanding after their signing ceremony in the northern Japanese city on Aug. 21, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido bank, Beijing's investment body seal deal

Vice President Masahiro Sasahara of Hokkaido Bank (L) shakes hands with Zhao Xin Xin, deputy director of the Beijing Investment Promotion Bureau, in Sapporo on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on June 15, 2015, after concluding a bilateral economic cooperation agreement, the first such deal for a Japanese regional bank. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yunus receives honorary doctorate from Hokkaido Univ.

SAPPORO, Japan - Muhammad Yunus (L), founder of the Grameen Bank and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is awarded an honorary doctorate from Hokkaido University in Sapporo on Sept. 29, 2009. (Kyodo)

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Ex-bankers sentenced to prison terms over bad loans

SAPPORO, Japan - The Sapporo High Court sentenced Hiroshi Yamauchi (L in file photo) and Sadamasa Kawatani (C), two former Hokkaido Takushoku Bank presidents, to two-and-a-half years in prison each on Aug. 31 for irresponsibly extending loans that led to the Sapporo-based bank's collapse in 1997. Yoichi Nakamura (R), the former head of a Sapporo-based resort hotel developer, received 18 months in prison. (Kyodo)

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Former Head Office Building of North Pacific Bank

View of the former head office building of the North Pacific Bank along Odori Park, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, from the roof of Sapporo City Hall. It has now moved to the Odori Bisse building across the park.

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(1)Hokuriku Bank, Hokkaido Bank to merge in FY 2004

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Bank President Tsuneo Fujita speaks at a news conference at his office in Sapporo on May on an agreement with Hokuriku Bank to integrate their businesses under a joint holding company in fiscal 2004. The merger will creatie Japan's second largest regional bank in terms of deposits after the Bank of Yokohama. (Kyodo)

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(2)Ex-Takugin presidents acquitted over shady loans

SAPPORO, Japan - Sadamasa Kawatani, former president of failed Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, is surrounded by reporters after the Sapporo District Court on Feb. 27 acquitted him in a case involving the bank's shady loans to a local business group. (Kyodo)

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(1)Ex-Takugin presidents acquitted over shady loans

SAPPORO, Japan - Hiroshi Yamauchi, former president of failed Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, leaves the Sapporo District Court on Feb. 27. Yamauchi was acquitted in a case involving the bank's shady loans to a business group. (Kyodo)

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Two former bank chiefs arrested

Hiroshi Yamauchi (C), former president of the collapsed Hokkaido Takushoku Bank (Takugin), is flanked by policemen as he leaves his home in Sapporo on March 2. Yamauchi was arrested later in the day along with one of his former colleagues on suspicion of breach of trust by causing massive losses to the bank through illegal loans. ==Kyodo