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Hidankyo representative at Nagasaki rally

Shigemitsu Tanaka, a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, prays at the cenotaph marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki ahead of a gathering to report on the prize in the southwestern Japan city on Dec. 24, 2024.

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Hidankyo representative at Nagasaki rally

Shigemitsu Tanaka, a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, delivers a speech in front of the cenotaph marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki during a gathering to report on the prize in the southwestern Japan city on Dec. 24, 2024.

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Hidankyo representative returns from Oslo

Shigemitsu Tanaka (C), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, holds a press conference in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 13, 2024, after returning from Oslo, where he attended the award ceremony on Dec. 10.

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Nobel Peace Prize exhibition in Oslo

Toshiyuki Mimaki (2nd from L), Shigemitsu Tanaka (3rd from L) and Terumi Tanaka (4th from L, front), all representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, look at an exhibit at the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition about the group at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo on Dec. 12, 2024.

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Nobel Peace Prize exhibition in Oslo

(From L) Terumi Tanaka, Shigemitsu Tanaka and Toshiyuki Mimaki, representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, attend the opening of the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition about the group at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo on Dec. 12, 2024, with Kjersti Flogstad (far R), executive director of the center.

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2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner Hidankyo

Toshiyuki Mimaki (far R), Shigemitsu Tanaka (2nd from R) and Terumi Tanaka (L), representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors, meet Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store (C, L) in Oslo on Dec. 11, 2024, a day after the group received the Nobel Peace Prize. (Pool photo)

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2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner Hidankyo

(From R) Toshiyuki Mimaki, Shigemitsu Tanaka and Terumi Tanaka, representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors, pose for photos with Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store in Oslo on Dec. 11, 2024, a day after the group received the Nobel Peace Prize. (Pool photo)

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

(From R) Toshiyuki Mimaki, Shigemitsu Tanaka and Terumi Tanaka, representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, pose during the award ceremony on Dec. 10, 2024, in Oslo.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

(From R) Toshiyuki Mimaki, Shigemitsu Tanaka and Terumi Tanaka, representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, pose during the award ceremony on Dec. 10, 2024, in Oslo.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

(From L) Terumi Tanaka, Shigemitsu Tanaka and Toshiyuki Mimaki, representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, attend the award ceremony on Dec. 10, 2024, in Oslo.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

(From R, front row) Shigemitsu Tanaka, Toshiyuki Mimaki and Terumi Tanaka, representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, pose for photos with fellow delegation members ahead of the award ceremony on Dec. 10, 2024, in Oslo.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

(From R, front row) Shigemitsu Tanaka, Toshiyuki Mimaki and Terumi Tanaka, representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, pose for photos ahead of the award ceremony on Dec. 10, 2024, in Oslo.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Terumi Tanaka (2nd from R), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, poses for a photo with other Hidankyo representatives Toshiyuki Mimaki (far L) and Shigemitsu Tanaka (2nd from L) after attending a press conference held on Dec. 9, 2024, in Oslo, Norway, ahead of the award ceremony on Dec. 10. Standing at the far right is Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Terumi Tanaka (2nd from R), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, poses for a photo with other Hidankyo representatives Toshiyuki Mimaki (far L) and Shigemitsu Tanaka (2nd from L) after attending a press conference held on Dec. 9, 2024, in Oslo, Norway, ahead of the award ceremony on Dec. 10. Standing at the far right is Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

(from L) Terumi Tanaka, Toshiyuki Mimaki and Shigemitsu Tanaka, all representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, get interviewed by the media upon their arrival at an airport near Oslo on Dec. 8, 2024. They will attend the award ceremony on Dec. 10.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

(from L) Terumi Tanaka, Toshiyuki Mimaki and Shigemitsu Tanaka, all representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, pose for a photo upon arriving in an airport near Oslo on Dec. 8, 2024. They will attend the award ceremony on Dec. 10.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

(from L) Terumi Tanaka, Toshiyuki Mimaki and Shigemitsu Tanaka, all representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, meet the press upon arriving in an airport near Oslo on Dec. 8, 2024. They will attend the award ceremony on Dec. 10.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

(from L) Terumi Tanaka, Toshiyuki Mimaki and Shigemitsu Tanaka, all representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, meet the press upon arriving in an airport near Oslo on Dec. 8, 2024. They will attend the award ceremony on Dec. 10.

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Hidankyo rally ahead of Nobel Peace Prize ceremony

Shigemitsu Tanaka (3rd from L, front row) of the atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, which won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, poses during a pep rally in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 4, 2024, before attending the award ceremony in Oslo on Dec. 10.

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Hidankyo rally ahead of Nobel Peace Prize ceremony

Shigemitsu Tanaka of the atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, which won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks during a pep rally in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 4, 2024, before attending the award ceremony in Oslo on Dec. 10.

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Project to collect witnesses of nuke-bomb survivors

Shigemitsu Tanaka, the 83-year-old head of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, speaks during video shoot in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 18, 2024, for a project gathering witness testimonies of atomic bomb survivors ahead of the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 2025.

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Project to collect witnesses of nuke-bomb survivors

Shigemitsu Tanaka, the 83-year-old head of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, speaks during video shoot in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 18, 2024, for a project gathering witness testimonies of atomic bomb survivors ahead of the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 2025.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Shigemitsu Tanaka, the 83-year-old head of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, sheds a tear during a press conference in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Shigemitsu Tanaka, the 83-year-old head of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, sheds a tear during a press conference in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Shigemitsu Tanaka, the 83-year-old head of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, sheds a tear during a press conference in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Shigemitsu Tanaka, the 83-year-old head of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, speaks during a press conference in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Shigemitsu Tanaka, the 83-year-old head of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, speaks during a press conference in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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S. Korean court turns down arrest warrant for Lotte Group chairman

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 29 Kyodo - Undated photo shows Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong Bin. The Seoul Central District Court on Sept. 29, 2016 dismissed an arrest warrant request by state prosecutors for the 61-year-old business tycoon, also known by the Japanese name Akio Shigemitsu, on charges of embezzlement and breach of trust, according to local media.

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Ex-envoy's kin unveils hidden WWII classified telegrams

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuko Ichihara (L), a niece of the wife of a late Japanese diplomat, shows the bounded volume of classified diplomatic telegrams from World War II that she found while sorting out belongings of a deceased relative in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2014. The documents secretly kept by Ryuji Takeuchi, Japan's ambassador to the United States after the war, shows that Japan's wartime foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China.

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Japan's wartime foreign minister mulled ending China war

TOKYO, Japan - A page from among classified telegrams circulated among Japanese diplomats during World War II is photographed on Aug. 14, 2014. The documents newly discovered by a relative of a former Japanese ambassador showed that then Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China.

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File photo of Japan's WWII foreign minister Shigemitsu

TOKYO, Japan - An undated file photo of Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan's foreign minister during World War II. Classified telegrams discovered by a relative of a former Japanese diplomat showed that Shigemitsu in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China.

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Lotte Marines' celebration

FUKUOKA, Japan - (From R) Lotte Marines acting owner Akio Shigemitsu, club president Ryuzo Setoyama and manager Norifumi Nishimura are dunked with a barrel of sake in celebration after their club clinched a berth in the Japan Series at a Fukuoka hotel on Oct. 19, 2010.

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Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ starts merged operation

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuo Kuroyanagi (L), president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Chairman Shigemitsu Miki (C), and Vice President Takamune Okihara cut the tape during a ceremony marking the start of merged operations at the bank's head office in Tokyo on Jan. 4. The bank made its debut on Jan. 1 with the merger of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and UFJ Bank.

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Lotte ties up with team from China league

BEIJING, China - The Lotte Marines of Japan's Pacific League and the Lotte Giants of the Korean Baseball Organization signed a three-way business tie-up agreement with the Beijing China Hope Stars of the Chinese baseball league on March 23 in Beijing. Lotte acting owner Akio Shigemitsu (R) shows off the Chinese team uniform after the signing.

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(2)Mitsubishi Tokyo, UFJ announce merger accord

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Mitsubishi Tokyo Bank Chairman Shigemitsu Miki, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi, UFJ Holdings Inc. President Ryosuke Tamakoshi and UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara give a joint press conference in Tokyo after signing a memorandum of understanding to launch negotiations with the aim of integrating their operations during the first half of fiscal 2005. The deal will create the world's biggest banking group with total assets of 190 trillion yen, topping the 135 trillion yen of Mizuho Financial Group Inc.

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Mitsubishi Tokyo, UFJ announce merger accord

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara, UFJ Holdings President Ryosuke Tamakoshi, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi and Mitsubishi Tokyo Bank Chairman Shigemitsu Miki pose for photos after announcing an agreement on their management integration at a press conference in Tokyo on July 16.

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Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial returns to black in FY 2003

TOKYO, Japan - Shigemitsu Miki (C), president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., briefs reporters on the group's earnings report for fiscal 2003 at the head office of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on May 24.

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MTFG's Miki to give presidency to Kuroyanagi

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Shigemitsu Miki (L) tells a press conference on April 28 he will hand over the presidency to board director Nobuo Kuroyanagi (R) as of June 29.

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Kuroyanagi set to head Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi

TOKYO, Japan - The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi plans to promote Vice President Nobuo Kuroyanagi (file photo) to replace President Shigemitsu Miki, who will become chairman, bank sources said Feb. 27.

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MTFG back into black

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. (MTFG) President Shigemitsu Miki announces at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 25 his group has regained profitability on a half-year basis amid the improved business climate for the financial industry. MTFG reported a group net profit of 301.88 billion yen for the April-September period, a turnaround from a year-earlier loss of 188.10 billion yen.

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Valentine unveiled as new Lotte manager

TOKYO, Japan - Akio Shigemitsu (L), owner of the Chiba Lotte Marines, puts a team cap on new manager Bobby Valentine during a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 3. Valentine, former manager of the New York Mets, signed a three-year deal with the Pacific League baseball club.

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Bankers assoc. chief hopes for no negative impact from Resona

TOKYO, Japan - Shigemitsu Miki, chairman of the Japanese Bankers Association, tells reporters in Tokyo on May 20 that he hopes the government's decision to inject public funds into Resona Bank will noot adversely affect other banks' efforts to get along on their own.

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Top banker denies need to inject public funds into banks

TOKYO, Japan - Shigemitsu Miki, new chairman of the Japanese Bankers Association, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on April 22. He came out against calls for injecting public funds into financially weak banks to protect Japan's financial system.

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Top bankers criticize Takenaka's bank policy

TOKYO, Japan - The heads of Japan's four major banking groups criticize Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka's bank policy in Diet testimony Dec. 3. The House of Councillors Financial Affairs Committee summoned as unsworn witnesses (from R to L) Terunobu Maeda, president of Mizuho Holdings Inc., Shigemitsu Miki, president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., Masashi Teranishi, president of UFJ Bank, and Yoshifumi Nishikawa, president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.

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MTFG net loss nearly doubles in fiscal 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. (MTFG) President Shigemitsu Miki said in Tokyo on Nov. 25 that his banking group chalked up a consolidated net loss of 188.10 billion yen in the first half of fiscal 2002, nearly double that of 96.83 billion yen a year earlier.

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Top bankers call for careful approach in corporate revival

TOKYO, Nov. 15 Kyodo - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (standing) testifies to the House of Representatives Financial Affairs Committee in the Diet in Tokyo on Nov. 15. Mizuho Holdings Inc. President Terunobu Maeda sits at Nishikawa's left and UFJ Bank President Masashi Teranishi at Nishikawa's right. At right is Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Shigemitsu Miki.

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Mitsubishi Securities launched as 4th biggest brokerage

TOKYO, Japan - Akio Utsumi (L), president of Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corp., Nobuo Nakazawa (2nd from L), president of Mitsubishi Securities Co., Masamichi Yamada, chairman of Mitsubishi Securities Co. (2nd from R) and Shigemitsu Miki, president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi cut a tape at a ceremony to launch Mitsubishi Securities in Tokyo's Marunouchi district on Sept. 2.

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IMF revises upward Japan's 2002 growth estimate to minus 0.5%

WASHINGTON, United States - Shigemitsu Sugisaki (file photo), Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said in an interview with Kyodo News on July 22 IMF now expects Japan's economy to contract 0.5% in 2002, an upward revision from its April projection of a 1.0% shrinkage.

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DPJ-backed candidate wins Gifu mayoral election

GIFU, Japan - Shigemitsu Hosoe (L), a former employee of trading firm Mitsui & Co, celebrates his victory in the Gifu mayoral election Feb. 24. Hosoe, backed by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) defeated five other candidates to become the city's first mayor who is a private citizen from outside the public sector.

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(2)New banks, nonlife insurers kick off operations

TOKYO, Japan - Shigemitsu Miki (L), president of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., and its chairman Akio Utsumi, cut a ribbon at a ceremony in Tokyo on April 2 to mark the launch of the company, a merged body of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Co. and Nippon Trust Bank. Mitsubishi-Tokyo is one of three megabank groups which began operations the same day.