New FSA head, predecessor hold joint news conference

New FSA head, predecessor hold joint news conference

TOKYO, Japan - The newly appointed chief of the Financial Services Agency (FSA), Shoji Mori (R), and his predecessor Masaharu Hino hold a joint news conference at the FSA in Tokyo on Jan. 6.

FRC Secretary General Mori to head FSA

FRC Secretary General Mori to head FSA

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Mori (file photo), secretary general of the Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC), will replace Masaharu Hino as head of the Financial Services Agency (FSA), government sources said Dec. 13. The appointment is expected to take effect Jan. 6, when the FRC will be scrapped and merged into the Cabinet Office that will be launched and with which the FSA will be affiliated.

Softbank-led group loses rights to buy NCB

Softbank-led group loses rights to buy NCB

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Mori, secretary general of the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC), speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 31 after FRC's talks with a consortium led by leading Internet investor Softbank Corp. on the failed Nippon Credit Bank broke down. He said the consortium's priority rights to negotiate the purchase of the long-term credit bank have expired.

Upper house votes down censure motion against Mori

Upper house votes down censure motion against Mori

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Motooka (front), a member of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), explains a nonbinding motion of censure against Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (in the background) at the House of Councillors on May 31. The motion, submitted by the DPJ, the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party over Mori's remark that Japan is a divine nation centering on the emperor, was rejected by a majority vote of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partners.

Upper house votes down censure motion against Mori

Upper house votes down censure motion against Mori

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Motooka (front), a member of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), explains a nonbinding motion of censure against Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (in the background) at the House of Councillors on May 31. The motion, submitted by the DPJ, the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party over Mori's remark that Japan is a divine nation centering on the emperor, was rejected by a majority vote of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partners.

New FSA head, predecessor hold joint news conference

New FSA head, predecessor hold joint news conference

TOKYO, Japan - The newly appointed chief of the Financial Services Agency (FSA), Shoji Mori (R), and his predecessor Masaharu Hino hold a joint news conference at the FSA in Tokyo on Jan. 6.

FRC Secretary General Mori to head FSA

FRC Secretary General Mori to head FSA

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Mori (file photo), secretary general of the Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC), will replace Masaharu Hino as head of the Financial Services Agency (FSA), government sources said Dec. 13. The appointment is expected to take effect Jan. 6, when the FRC will be scrapped and merged into the Cabinet Office that will be launched and with which the FSA will be affiliated.

Softbank-led group loses rights to buy NCB

Softbank-led group loses rights to buy NCB

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Mori, secretary general of the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC), speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 31 after FRC's talks with a consortium led by leading Internet investor Softbank Corp. on the failed Nippon Credit Bank broke down. He said the consortium's priority rights to negotiate the purchase of the long-term credit bank have expired.