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Deep sea exploration vessel Chikyu

NAGOYA, Japan - Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp. unveils to the press the deep sea exploration vessel Chikyu at Shimizu port in Shizuoka Prefecture on Feb. 10, 2012, ahead of its departure Feb. 12 for Pacific waters off central Japan where it will conduct preparatory drilling for the world's first seabed methane hydrate production tests in early 2013.

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Japanese touch panel developers awarded French medal of honor

OSAKA, Japan - Keizo Wada (R) and Tadashi Shimizu (L), who jointly founded the Osaka-based touch panel maker Digital Electronics Corp., pose with Henri Lachmann, chairman of the supervisory board of Schneider Electric, in Osaka on Dec. 1, 2011. The French government on the same day bestowed the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor medals to Wada and Shimizu, who developed the industrial touch panel in 1988. Digital Electronics is an arm of France's Schneider Electric.

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FTC searches major contractors over Nagoya bid-rigging case

NAGOYA, Japan - Fair Trade Commission investigators walk to the Nagoya branch office of Shimizu Corp. on Jan. 24 to search for evidence of suspected rigging of bids in a subway project ordered by the Nagoya municipal government.

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Contractors suspected of rigging bids for Nagoya highway project

NAGOYA, Japan - Major Japanese construction companies are suspected of rigging bids not only for Nagoya's subway extension but for the city's highway construction project (in photo), financed by the Nagoya Expressway Public Corp., informed sources said Jan. 23. Obayashi Corp. and Shimizu Corp. were among the contractors that led the joint ventures.

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Toyota Tsusho, Tomen announce merger

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Tsusho Corp. President Junzo Shimizu (L) and Tomen Corp. President Mahito Kageyama shake hands in Nagoya on Oct. 28 after announcing a broad agreement to merge into the sixth-largest trading house in Japan on April 1.

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Shimizu receives award from NEC, will not have surgery

TOKYO, Japan - Olympic silver medalist Hiroyasu Shimizu receives flowers and a special award from his employer, NEC Corp., on Feb. 28. Shimuzu said he would not undergo surgery for a sore lower back that may have cost him the gold medal at the just-concluded Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.

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Tokyu Corp. to streamline group hotel operations

TOKYO, Japan - Flanked by Yozo Inagaki, president of Tokyu Hotel Chain Co., Tokyu Corp. President Shinobu Shimizu (R) speaks at a news conference Dec. 27. The leading railway firm said it will streamline the group's hotel business in a stock-swap deal that will make Tokyu Hotel Chain a wholly owned subsidiary.

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Japanese expats return from Indonesia on chartered plane

Expatriates of Shimizu Corp. and their family members arrive at Narita airport near Tokyo on July 14, 2021, on a plane from Indonesia chartered by the major Japanese general contractor amid a surge of highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant cases in the Southeast Asian country.

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Japanese expats return from Indonesia on chartered plane

Expatriates of Shimizu Corp. and their family members arrive at Narita airport near Tokyo on July 14, 2021, on a plane from Indonesia chartered by the major Japanese general contractor amid a surge of highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant cases in the Southeast Asian country.

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Toyota Tsusho, Tomen announce merger

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Tsusho Corp. President Junzo Shimizu (L) and Tomen Corp. President Mahito Kageyama shake hands in Nagoya on Oct. 28 after announcing a broad agreement to merge into the sixth-largest trading house in Japan on April 1. (Kyodo)

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Contractors suspected of rigging bids for Nagoya highway project

NAGOYA, Japan - Major Japanese construction companies are suspected of rigging bids not only for Nagoya's subway extension but for the city's highway construction project (in photo), financed by the Nagoya Expressway Public Corp., informed sources said Jan. 23. Obayashi Corp. and Shimizu Corp. were among the contractors that led the joint ventures. (Kyodo)

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Team researches how to make concrete on the moon

TOKYO, Japan - An artist's impression of a lunar excavator. (Illustration courtesy of Shimizu Corp.) (Kyodo)

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FTC searches major contractors over Nagoya bid-rigging case

NAGOYA, Japan - Fair Trade Commission investigators walk to the Nagoya branch office of Shimizu Corp. on Jan. 24 to search for evidence of suspected rigging of bids in a subway project ordered by the Nagoya municipal government. (Kyodo)

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Japan firms organize donations in U.S. for quake-hit homeland

AUSTIN, United States - Hidemi Tsuji (L) and Ryo Shimizu (R) of Ubiquitous Entertainment Inc. and Takahito Iguchi of Tonchidot Corp. at their booth at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, on March 15, 2011. ''I can't find words to encourage those in Japan right now, I just hope they can get back to life as usual soon,'' said Tsuji. (Kyodo)

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Shimizu receives award from NEC, will not have surgery

TOKYO, Japan - Olympic silver medalist Hiroyasu Shimizu receives flowers and a special award from his employer, NEC Corp., on Feb. 28. Shimuzu said he would not undergo surgery for a sore lower back that may have cost him the gold medal at the just-concluded Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.

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Deep sea exploration vessel Chikyu

NAGOYA, Japan - Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp. unveils to the press the deep sea exploration vessel Chikyu at Shimizu port in Shizuoka Prefecture on Feb. 10, 2012, ahead of its departure Feb. 12 for Pacific waters off central Japan where it will conduct preparatory drilling for the world's first seabed methane hydrate production tests in early 2013. (Kyodo)

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CORRECTED Japanese touch panel developers awarded French medal of

OSAKA, Japan - CORRECTING LEFT AND RIGHT INDICATION OF RECIPIENTS Keizo Wada (R) and Tadashi Shimizu (L), who jointly founded the Osaka-based touch panel maker Digital Electronics Corp., pose with Henri Lachmann, chairman of the supervisory board of Schneider Electric, in Osaka on Dec. 1, 2011. The French government on the same day bestowed the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor medals to Wada and Shimizu, who developed the industrial touch panel in 1988. Digital Electronics is an arm of France's Schneider Electric. (Kyodo)

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Shimizu Corp.

The photo taken Dec. 18, 2017 shows Shimizu Corp. headquarters in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese contractor Shimizu HQ

Photo taken on Dec. 18, 2017, shows the headquarters of Japanese major contractor Shimizu Corp. in Tokyo. Prosecutors raided Shimizu the same day over alleged antitrust violations in connection with construction tenders for the maglev ultra high-speed train line. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan names new ambassadors to Greece, El Salvador, Georgia

Undated combined photo shows (from L) Tadaharu Uehara, an adviser to Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Kazuyoshi Higuchi, a senior official of Sumitomo Corp., and Yasuhiro Shimizu, a former chief of the Secretariat of the Nuclear Regulation Authority. The Japan government on June 20, 2017 appointed Uehara, Higuchi and Shimizu as ambassadors to Georgia, El Salvador and Greece, respectively. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyu Corp. to streamline group hotel operations

TOKYO, Japan - Flanked by Yozo Inagaki, president of Tokyu Hotel Chain Co., Tokyu Corp. President Shinobu Shimizu (R) speaks at a news conference Dec. 27. The leading railway firm said it will streamline the group's hotel business in a stock-swap deal that will make Tokyu Hotel Chain a wholly owned subsidiary.

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Former Shimizu execs get suspended terms for bribery

TOKYO, - Teruzo Yoshino (R), former chairman, and Hiroyuki Koyama, former vice chairman, of Shimizu Corp. walk down to the Tokyo District Court on Sept. 12 to attend their trial. The court sentenced them and another former Shimizu executive to suspended jail terms for giving 10 million yen in bribes to the Ibaraki governor in 1992. The three defendants appealed the ruling later.