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5th anniv. of deadly Amagasaki train accident

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Shojiro Nanya (R), former chairman of West Japan Railway Co., and Takeshi Kakiuchi (L), former president of the company, offer flowers on the fifth anniversary of a deadly accident involving the company's train in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. A total of 107 people were killed in the incident.

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Kakiuchi to become JR West president April 1

OSAKA, Japan - Takeshi Kakiuchi (R), vice president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Feb. 17. He will be promoted to president April 1, replacing Shojiro Nanya (L), who will become chairman.

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Dead soldier's photos returned to brother after 58 years

KOCHI, Japan - Shojiro Oguri and his wife look at photos in Kochi on Jan. 17 that belonged to his brother Toshio, a soldier killed in the Mariana Islands in 1944. The photos were kept by late U.S. Marine Jack M. Fluitt of Louisiana and returned to Oguri by Fluitt's son Michael.

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JR West not to appeal fatal train crash case to top court

OSAKA, Japan - Shojiro Nanya (L), president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks at a news conference Dec. 30 in Osaka's Kita Ward about the company's decision not to appeal to the Supreme Court a ruling by the Osaka High Court ordering it and a small railway firm to compensate the families of nine of 42 people killed in a fatal train crash in Shiga Prefecture in 1991.

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Arai-Gumi, Konoike agree on capital, operational tie-up

OSAKA, Japan - Shojiro Hanafusa, president of midsize general contractor Arai-Gumi Ltd., speaks at a press conference at the Osaka Securities Exchange on Aug. 30 about the company's rehabilitation plan involving a tie-up with Konoike Construction Co.

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JR West head gives instructions to tunnel inspectors

OKAYAMA, Japan - Shojiro Nanya, president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), gives instructions to workers on the night of Nov. 12 before they start full-fledged inspections of tunnels on the Sanyo Shinkansen line linking Osaka with Fukuoka. JR West is inspecting all 142 tunnels along the line in an effort to prevent the recurrence of recent accidents in which concrete slabs fell from the wall of the Fukuoka and Kitakyushu tunnels, railway officials said.

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JR West's president speaks after inspecting tunnel

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Shojiro Nanya, president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks to reporters Oct. 16 at Kokura Station in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, after inspecting a tunnel on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line where a block of concrete weighing 226 kilograms fell from the wall Oct. 9.

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JR West head vows to review tunnel inspection manuals

OSAKA, Japan - The president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), Shojiro Nanya, speaks at a news conference at JR West's Osaka head office Oct. 10. He pledged to review JR West's tunnel inspection manuals in the wake of Saturday's fall of a large concrete block in the Kitakyushu Tunnel in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on the Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train line linking Osaka with Fukuoka.

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Arai-Gumi, Konoike agree on capital, operational tie-up

OSAKA, Japan - Shojiro Hanafusa, president of midsize general contractor Arai-Gumi Ltd., speaks at a press conference at the Osaka Securities Exchange on Aug. 30 about the company's rehabilitation plan involving a tie-up with Konoike Construction Co. (Kyodo)

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JR West not to appeal fatal train crash case to top court

OSAKA, Japan - Shojiro Nanya (L), president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks at a news conference Dec. 30 in Osaka's Kita Ward about the company's decision not to appeal to the Supreme Court a ruling by the Osaka High Court ordering it and a small railway firm to compensate the families of nine of 42 people killed in a fatal train crash in Shiga Prefecture in 1991. (Kyodo)

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JAEA chief briefs science minister on plan to improve Monju safety

Shojiro Matsuura (L), president of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, reports to science and technology minister Hakubun Shimomura on a plan to improve the safety of its Monju prototype fast breeder reactor at the latter's office in Tokyo on March 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mizuho Bank extends Islamic finance to Japan-Malaysia paint maker

Shojiro Mizoguchi (L), CEO of Mizuho Bank (Malaysia) Berhad, exchanges Islamic finance contract documents with Tan Seng Yang, managing director of Japanese-Malaysian paint manufacturing joint venture Sime Kansai Paints Sdn. Bhd., at a signing ceremony in Kuala Lumpur on June 21, 2018. (NNA/Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man in news: New chief of Osaka University

Shojiro Nishio, new president of Osaka University, speaks in an interview in the western Japanese city on June 30, 2015. He assumed the 18th presidency of the Japanese national university on Aug. 26. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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5th anniv. of deadly Amagasaki train accident

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Shojiro Nanya (R), former chairman of West Japan Railway Co., and Takeshi Kakiuchi (L), former president of the company, offer flowers on the fifth anniversary of a deadly accident involving the company's train in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. A total of 107 people were killed in the incident. (Kyodo)

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Goto Shojiro

Goto Shojiro==Date:Early Meiji, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Kakiuchi to become JR West president April 1

OSAKA, Japan - Takeshi Kakiuchi (R), vice president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Feb. 17. He will be promoted to president April 1, replacing Shojiro Nanya (L), who will become chairman. (Kyodo)

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Dead soldier's photos returned to brother after 58 years

KOCHI, Japan - Shojiro Oguri and his wife look at photos in Kochi on Jan. 17 that belonged to his brother Toshio, a soldier killed in the Mariana Islands in 1944. The photos were kept by late U.S. Marine Jack M. Fluitt of Louisiana and returned to Oguri by Fluitt's son Michael. (Kyodo)

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JR West head gives instructions to tunnel inspectors

OKAYAMA, Japan - Shojiro Nanya, president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), gives instructions to workers on the night of Nov. 12 before they start full-fledged inspections of tunnels on the Sanyo Shinkansen line linking Osaka with Fukuoka. JR West is inspecting all 142 tunnels along the line in an effort to prevent the recurrence of recent accidents in which concrete slabs fell from the wall of the Fukuoka and Kitakyushu tunnels, railway officials said.

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JR West's president speaks after inspecting tunnel

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Shojiro Nanya, president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks to reporters Oct. 16 at Kokura Station in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, after inspecting a tunnel on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line where a block of concrete weighing 226 kilograms fell from the wall Oct. 9.

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JR West head vows to review tunnel inspection manuals

OSAKA, Japan - The president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), Shojiro Nanya, speaks at a news conference at JR West's Osaka head office Oct. 10. He pledged to review JR West's tunnel inspection manuals in the wake of Saturday's fall of a large concrete block in the Kitakyushu Tunnel in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on the Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train line linking Osaka with Fukuoka.