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Seibu Group's Signboard and Logo

Seibu Group's Signboard and Logo=September 1,2025,Tokyo

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Seibu Group's Signboard and Logo

Seibu Group's Signboard and Logo=September 1,2025,Tokyo

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Seibu Group's Signboard and Logo

Seibu Group's Signboard and Logo=September 1,2025,Tokyo

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US: Strong Winter Storm Brings Blizzard Conditions To Sierra Nevada 3

A strong winter storm hit the Sierra Nevada on Friday, March 1, bringing heavy snow and high winds. Blizzard Warnings were issued for the area, including Lake Tahoe and eastern Nevada. The Sierra Avalanche Center warned that the danger of avalanches was high. Yosemite National Park and many ski resorts in the region announced they were closing at least for the day.

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Seibu returns to Tokyo Stock Exchange after 10-year hiatus

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Goto (L), president of Seibu Holdings Inc., poses with Akira Kiyota, president of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, after the company's relisting on the TSE's First Section on April 23, 2014. The railway and retail business group was delisted in 2004 for shady accounting statements and other irregularities.

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Seibu dept. store's Yurakucho outlet closes

TOKYO, Japan - Officials and employees bow to customers as the Seibu Yurakucho department store in Tokyo closes on Dec. 25, 2010. The store, once a flagship outlet of the former Saison retail group, closed after 26 years as its business has faltered in the face of stiff competition from luxury and casual fashion brands in the country's prime shopping district.

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Seibu group to pull out of ice hockey amid economic crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Yukihiro Watanabe, president of Prince Hotels Inc., a parent company of the Seibu Prince Rabbits ice hockey team, speaks about the team's elimination at a new conference in Tokyo on Dec. 19.

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Seibu group to spend 20 bil. yen on makeover of Prince Hotels

TOKOROZAWA, Japan - Takashi Goto, president of Seibu Holdings Inc., holder of the Seibu group, speaks at a press conference at the company head office in Tokorozawa near Tokyo on March 27. He said the company will spend a total of 20 billion yen in fiscal 2006 and 2007 to renovate the group's Price Hotels chain.

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Seibu Railway shareholders OK plan to reorganize group operations

TOKOROZAWA, Japan - President Takashi Goto (C) and other management members of Seibu Railway Co. bow to shareholders at the beginning of an extraordinary shareholders general meeting in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, on Dec. 21. The meeting endorsed a plan to reorganize the company's group operations under a holding firm, a move that will end control of the railway and resort conglomerate by Kokudo Corp. and business tycoon Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, who has received a suspended prison term for insider trading and falsifying statements.

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2 Tsutsumi brothers to launch bid for Seibu Railway

TOKYO, Japan - Seiji Tsutsumi (L) and Yuji Tsutsumi, the two members of the Seibu group founding family will offer to buy Seibu Railway Co. in a bid to thwart efforts by Takashi Goto, the current president of the railway firm, to move the group toward a holding company structure, sources close to the matter said on Oct. 31. Goto is working with Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, former chairman of Kokudo Corp., to restructure the Seibu group.

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Seibu Railway looks to Cerberus to turn group around

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Goto (L), president of Seibu Railway Co., speaks to reporters at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 18 about a decision to choose U.S. investment fund Cerberus Group and Nikko Principal Investments Japan Ltd. as the main providers of fresh capital for Kokudo Corp., the core firm of the Seibu group.

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Seibu group to set up holding company for reconstruction

TOKYO, Japan - Seibu Railway Co. President Takashi Goto (L) speaks at a press conference in a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 10. He said the Seibu group has chosen to reconstruct itself under a holding company, deviating from an earlier plan for the railway firm to absorb other key group members.

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Tsutsumi accepts Seibu group reform plan

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiyuki Ono, president of Kokudo Corp., reads out a statement by Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, former Kokudo chairman, during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 25. In the statement, Tsutsumi said he has accepted a restructuring plan for the Seibu Railway Co. group that will split up Kokudo and dilute Tsutsumi's influence in the conglomerate.

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Seibu Railway group advisory panel meets to work out reforms

TOKYO, Japan - Ken Moroi, an adviser to Taiheiyo Cement Corp. who heads the five-member advisory panel of the Seibu Railway Co. group, looks through papers at a Tokyo hotel as the panel holds its first meeting to make a reform plan for the group. The panel was set up after a scandal involving the railway operator's false financial statements.

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(2)Yoshiaki Tsutsumi resigns from all posts

TOKYO, Japan - Kokudo Corp. Chairman Yoshiaki Tsutsumi bows his head at a press conference Oct. 13. Tsutsumi resigned from all the posts he held in the company and Seibu Railway Co.'s group firms to take responsibility for revising Seibu Railway's financial statements. Tsutsumi, also the owner of the Seibu Lions professional baseball club, intends to resign from the post as well after the end of the Japan Series in which the team will compete later in October.

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30,000 fans mark 1st anniversary of rocker's death

Some 30,000 people crowd the Seibu Dome in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, on May 2 to see an exhibition organized by fan clubs for Hideto Matsumoto, a member of the rock group ''X Japan'' known by his stage name Hide. Matsumoto, then 33, hanged himself in his Tokyo condominium exactly one year ago.

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Logo mark of Ikebukuro PARCO

The first PARCO store, Ikebukuro PARCO, opened on November 23, 1969, and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in November 2019 (February 13, 2019, Minami-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo; credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Logo mark of Ikebukuro PARCO

The first PARCO store, Ikebukuro PARCO, opened on November 23, 1969, and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in November 2019 (February 13, 2019, Minami-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo; credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Logo mark of Ikebukuro PARCO

The first PARCO store, Ikebukuro PARCO, opened on November 23, 1969, and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in November 2019 (February 13, 2019, Minami-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo; credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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(2)Yoshiaki Tsutsumi resigns from all posts

TOKYO, Japan - Kokudo Corp. Chairman Yoshiaki Tsutsumi bows his head at a press conference Oct. 13. Tsutsumi resigned from all the posts he held in the company and Seibu Railway Co.'s group firms to take responsibility for revising Seibu Railway's financial statements. Tsutsumi, also the owner of the Seibu Lions professional baseball club, intends to resign from the post as well after the end of the Japan Series in which the team will compete later in October. (Kyodo)

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Seibu Railway group advisory panel meets to work out reforms

TOKYO, Japan - Ken Moroi, an adviser to Taiheiyo Cement Corp. who heads the five-member advisory panel of the Seibu Railway Co. group, looks through papers at a Tokyo hotel as the panel holds its first meeting to make a reform plan for the group. The panel was set up after a scandal involving the railway operator's false financial statements. (Kyodo)

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Tsutsumi accepts Seibu group reform plan

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiyuki Ono, president of Kokudo Corp., reads out a statement by Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, former Kokudo chairman, during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 25. In the statement, Tsutsumi said he has accepted a restructuring plan for the Seibu Railway Co. group that will split up Kokudo and dilute Tsutsumi's influence in the conglomerate. (Kyodo)

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Seibu group to set up holding company for reconstruction

TOKYO, Japan - Seibu Railway Co. President Takashi Goto (L) speaks at a press conference in a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 10. He said the Seibu group has chosen to reconstruct itself under a holding company, deviating from an earlier plan for the railway firm to absorb other key group members. (Kyodo)

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2 Tsutsumi brothers to launch bid for Seibu Railway

TOKYO, Japan - Seiji Tsutsumi (L) and Yuji Tsutsumi, the two members of the Seibu group founding family will offer to buy Seibu Railway Co. in a bid to thwart efforts by Takashi Goto, the current president of the railway firm, to move the group toward a holding company structure, sources close to the matter said on Oct. 31. Goto is working with Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, former chairman of Kokudo Corp., to restructure the Seibu group. (Kyodo)

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Seibu Railway shareholders OK plan to reorganize group operation

TOKOROZAWA, Japan - President Takashi Goto (C) and other management members of Seibu Railway Co. bow to shareholders at the beginning of an extraordinary shareholders general meeting in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, on Dec. 21. The meeting endorsed a plan to reorganize the company's group operations under a holding firm, a move that will end control of the railway and resort conglomerate by Kokudo Corp. and business tycoon Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, who has received a suspended prison term for insider trading and falsifying statements. (Kyodo)

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Seibu group to spend 20 bil. yen on makeover of Prince Hotels

TOKOROZAWA, Japan - Takashi Goto, president of Seibu Holdings Inc., holder of the Seibu group, speaks at a press conference at the company head office in Tokorozawa near Tokyo on March 27. He said the company will spend a total of 20 billion yen in fiscal 2006 and 2007 to renovate the group's Price Hotels chain. (Kyodo)

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Seibu group to pull out of ice hockey amid economic crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Yukihiro Watanabe, president of Prince Hotels Inc., a parent company of the Seibu Prince Rabbits ice hockey team, speaks about the team's elimination at a new conference in Tokyo on Dec. 19. (Kyodo)

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Seibu Railway looks to Cerberus to turn group around

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Goto (L), president of Seibu Railway Co., speaks to reporters at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 18 about a decision to choose U.S. investment fund Cerberus Group and Nikko Principal Investments Japan Ltd. as the main providers of fresh capital for Kokudo Corp., the core firm of the Seibu group. (Kyodo)

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Tsutsumi gets 30-month suspended term in Seibu share case

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, who had led the railway and resort conglomerate Seibu Railway Co. group and was once listed as the world's richest man, was sentenced to 30 months in prison, suspended for four years, on Oct. 27 due to his role in a high-stake Seibu share financial scandal. Photo shows Tsutsumi entering the Tokyo District Court the same day. (Kyodo)

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Seibu dept. store's key Yurakucho outlet to close

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the adjoining buildings of the Seibu Yurakucho department store in Tokyo hours before the outlet's closure on Dec. 25, 2010. The store, once a flagship outlet of the former Saison retail group, is closing after 26 years as its business has faltered in the face of stiff competition from luxury and casual fashion brands in the country's prime shopping district. (Kyodo)

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Seibu dept. store's Yurakucho outlet closes

TOKYO, Japan - Officials and employees bow to customers as the Seibu Yurakucho department store in Tokyo closes on Dec. 25, 2010. The store, once a flagship outlet of the former Saison retail group, closed after 26 years as its business has faltered in the face of stiff competition from luxury and casual fashion brands in the country's prime shopping district. (Kyodo)

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Sogo department in Tokushima, western Japan

Photo taken Aug. 27, 2020, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Sogo department store in Tokushima, western Japan. Its parent company Seven & i Holdings Co. closed on Aug. 31 four Seibu and Sogo department stores, including the Tokushima store, as part of the group's restructuring plans.

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Sogo department in Kobe, western Japan

Photo taken Aug. 27, 2020, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Sogo department store in Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan. Its parent company Seven & i Holdings Co. closed on Aug. 31 four Seibu and Sogo department stores, including the Kobe store, as part of the group's restructuring plans.

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Seibu department in Otsu, western Japan

Photo taken Aug. 27, 2020, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Seibu department store in Otsu in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan. Its parent company Seven & i Holdings Co. closed on Aug. 31 four Seibu and Sogo department stores, including the Otsu store, as part of the group's restructuring plans.

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30,000 fans mark 1st anniversary of rocker's death

Some 30,000 people crowd the Seibu Dome in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, on May 2 to see an exhibition organized by fan clubs for Hideto Matsumoto, a member of the rock group ''X Japan'' known by his stage name Hide. Matsumoto, then 33, hanged himself in his Tokyo condominium exactly one year ago.