Three Economic Organizations 2025 New Year's Celebration Party

Three Economic Organizations 2025 New Year's Celebration Party

New Year's Celebration Party for the Three Economic Organizations in 2025. Photo shows, from left, Ken Kobayashi, President of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI); Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, guest of honor; Takeshi Niinami, Representative Director of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Doyukai); and Masakazu Tokura, Chairman of Keidanren.=January 7,2025,Imperial Hotel Tokyo (Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)

Japan PM Ishiba holds talks with business leaders

Japan PM Ishiba holds talks with business leaders

Takeshi Niinami (L), chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Ken Kobayashi (R), chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Masakazu Tokura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, meet the press at the premier's office in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2024, after holding talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

Japan PM Ishiba holds talks with business leaders

Japan PM Ishiba holds talks with business leaders

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (far R) holds talks with (from far L) Takeshi Niinami, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Ken Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Masakazu Tokura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, at the premier's office in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2024.

Japan PM Ishiba holds talks with business leaders

Japan PM Ishiba holds talks with business leaders

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from R) receives a letter of requests from Takeshi Niinami (far L), chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Ken Kobayashi (far R), chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Masakazu Tokura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, at the premier's office in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2024.

Debate for LDP presidential race

Debate for LDP presidential race

Candidates contesting the leadership race of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party -- (from L) economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, former Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, Digital Minister Taro Kono, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba and LDP Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi -- pose for a photo as they hold debate at Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Sept. 14, 2024, ahead of the Sept. 27 election.

Debate for LDP presidential race

Debate for LDP presidential race

Candidates contesting the leadership race of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party -- (from L) economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, former Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, Digital Minister Taro Kono, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba and LDP Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi -- pose for a photo as they hold debate at Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Sept. 14, 2024, ahead of the Sept. 27 election.

Japan LDP leadership election

Japan LDP leadership election

The nine candidates running in the upcoming leadership election of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party -- (from L) economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, former Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, Digital Minister Taro Kono, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba and the party's secretary general Toshimitsu Motegi -- pose for a photo ahead of a joint press conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 13.

Japan LDP leadership election

Japan LDP leadership election

The nine candidates running in the leadership election of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, to be held on Sept. 27, 2024 -- (front row, from L) economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, former Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, Digital Minister Taro Kono, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba and the party's secretary general Toshimitsu Motegi -- attend an event to deliver their policy speeches at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 12. Official campaigning for the election to choose the successor to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began the same day.

Japan LDP leadership election

Japan LDP leadership election

Combined photo shows the nine candidates running in the leadership election of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, (from top L) Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi and economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, (from middle L) former Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, (from bottom L) the party's secretary general Toshimitsu Motegi, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Digital Minister Taro Kono. Official campaigning for the Sept. 27, 2024, election to choose the successor to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began on Sept. 12.

Japan's Uemura hugs coach after finishing 4th in women's moguls

Japan's Uemura hugs coach after finishing 4th in women's moguls

SOCHI, Russia - A teary-eyed Aiko Uemura (R) of Japan hugs her coach Shigeru Kobayashi after finishing fourth in the Winter Olympics women's moguls final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 8, 2014. The five-time Olympic freestyle skier fell just short of winning her first Olympic medal.

Pitcher Kobayashi, in 1978 trade row, dies

Pitcher Kobayashi, in 1978 trade row, dies

TOKYO, Japan - This May 1979 file photo shows Shigeru Kobayashi, a pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers, pitching against the Yomiuri Giants at Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo. Kobayashi, who moved to the Tigers from the Giants in a controversial trade involving star pitcher Suguru Egawa the previous year, died Jan. 17, 2010.

Pitcher Kobayashi, in 1978 trade row, dies

Pitcher Kobayashi, in 1978 trade row, dies

TOKYO, Japan - This May 1979 file photo shows Shigeru Kobayashi, a pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers, pitching against the Yomiuri Giants at Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo. Kobayashi, who moved to the Tigers from the Giants in a controversial trade involving star pitcher Suguru Egawa the previous year, died Jan. 17, 2010. (Kyodo)