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Tennis: Japan Open

Naomi Osaka of Japan plays against her compatriot Wakana Sonobe in a women's singles first-round match at the Japan Open tennis championships at Morita Tennis Center Utsubo in the western Japan city of Osaka on Oct. 13, 2025.

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Tennis: Japan Open

Naomi Osaka of Japan signs autographs after beating her compatriot Wakana Sonobe in a women's singles first-round match at the Japan Open tennis championships at Morita Tennis Center Utsubo in the western Japan city of Osaka on Oct. 13, 2025.

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Tennis: Japan Open

Naomi Osaka acknowledges the crowd after beating her compatriot Wakana Sonobe in a women's singles first-round match at the Japan Open tennis championships at Morita Tennis Center Utsubo in the western Japan city of Osaka on Oct. 13, 2025.

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Tennis: Japan Open

Naomi Osaka of Japan plays against her compatriot Wakana Sonobe in a women's singles first-round match at the Japan Open tennis championships at Morita Tennis Center Utsubo in the western Japan city of Osaka on Oct. 13, 2025.

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Tennis: Japan Open

Naomi Osaka of Japan plays against her compatriot Wakana Sonobe in a women's singles first-round match at the Japan Open tennis championships at Morita Tennis Center Utsubo in the western Japan city of Osaka on Oct. 13, 2025.

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Tennis: Japan Open

Naomi Osaka of Japan plays against her compatriot Wakana Sonobe in a women's singles first-round match at the Japan Open tennis championships at Morita Tennis Center Utsubo in the western Japan city of Osaka on Oct. 13, 2025.

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Tennis: Australian Open

Wakana Sonobe of Japan plays against Kristina Penickova of the United States in the junior girls' singles final at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan. 25, 2025.

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Tennis: Australian Open

Wakana Sonobe (L) of Japan poses with the victor's trophy with second-placed Kristina Penickova of the United States after their junior girls' singles final at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan. 25, 2025.

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Tennis: Australian Open

Wakana Sonobe of Japan poses with the victor's trophy after winning the junior girls' singles title at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan. 25, 2025.

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Tennis: Australian Open

Wakana Sonobe of Japan kisses the victor's trophy after winning the junior girls' singles title at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan. 25, 2025.

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Tennis: Australian Open

Wakana Sonobe of Japan reacts after defeating Kristina Penickova of the United States in the junior girls' singles final at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan. 25, 2025.

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Tennis: Australian Open

Wakana Sonobe of Japan plays against Kristina Penickova of the United States in the junior girls' singles final at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan. 25, 2025.

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Tennis: Australian Open

Wakana Sonobe of Japan poses with the victor's trophy after winning the junior girls' singles title at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan. 25, 2025.

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Tennis: Australian Open

Wakana Sonobe of Japan poses with the victor's trophy after winning the junior girls' singles title at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan. 25, 2025.

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Tennis: Australian Open

Wakana Sonobe of Japan celebrates with the victor's trophy after winning the junior girls' singles title at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan. 25, 2025.

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BOJ board members to publish personal assets

TOKYO, Japan - Former Supreme Court Justice Itsuo Sonobe, who heads a Bank of Japan panel, tells reporters on July 5 that the panel plans to recommend the central bank require all nine Policy Board members, including the governor and two deputy governors, to publish their personal assets under new internal regulations. The panel came up with the plan amid a scandal over BOJ Governor Toshihiko Fukui's private investments.

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Panel to recommend ban on BOJ execs' investment in private funds

TOKYO, Japan - Itsuo Sonobe, a former Supreme Court justice who heads a Bank of Japan advisory panel set up to review the central bank's internal rules, speaks to reporters at the BOJ's head office in Tokyo on June 30.

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New president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp.

TOKYO, Japan - Rolf Eckrodt, who was installed as president and chief executive officer of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) on June 28, replacing Takashi Sonobe, who has become chairman.

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Mitsubishi Motors back in black for 1st time in 3 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Rolf Eckrodt (C), vice president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC), and Takashi Sonobe (R), MMC's president and chief executive officer, speak at a news conference in Tokyo on May 13 about the company's financial results for fiscal 2001. Eckrodt will replace Sonobe as the automaker's president and chief executive officer.

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DaimlerChrysler's Eckrodt to head MMC

TOKYO, Japan - DaimlerChrysler AG's representative at its partner Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC), Rolf Eckrodt (file photo), will take over the presidency of the Japanese carmaker from Takashi Sonobe, MMC sources said on March 26. Eckrodt, 59, chief operating officer at MMC since January 2001, will succeed Sonobe pending approval by an MMC shareholders' meeting in late June.

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MMC posts record 278 bil. yen group net loss

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) president Takashi Sonobe (L), and executive vice president Rolf Eckrodt hold a news conference in Tokyo on May 18. They said MMC registered a record consolidated net loss of 278.14 billion yen for fiscal 2000, sinking into the red for the second straight year on lower sales and extraordinary losses including those related to a scandal over its cover-up of recalls.

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M'bishi Motors to cut 9,500 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Sonobe (L), president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC), and Vice President Rolf Eckrodt, who was dispatched to work with the troubled Japanese carmaker by DaimlerChrysler AG, announce the company's major restructuring plan at a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 26. Under the plan, MMC, hit hard by cover-up scandals involving vehicle defects, will cut some 9,500 jobs, or 14% of its group workforce, by 2003 and close down its key Oe plant in Nagoya.

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DaimlerChrysler's Eckrodt assumes MMC vice presidency

TOKYO, Japan - Flanked by Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) President Takashi Sonobe (L), Rolf Eckrodt of DaimlerChrysler AG speaks at a news conference following his appointment as MMC's vice president and chief operating officer. Eckrodt, who currently heads the DaimlerChrysler group's railway systems division, becomes MMC's second-in-command after Sonobe.

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MMC head to quit after DaimlerChrysler equity purchase

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) announces Sept. 8 the resignation of its president over a cover-up scandal and a revision to its alliance pact with DaimlerChrysler AG. The fourth-largest Japanese automaker said Vice President Takashi Sonobe (L) will replace Katsuhiko Kawasoe as president Nov. 1, after DaimlerChrysler buys a 34% stake in MMC in October in a deal that newly allows the German-U.S. firm to raise its stake three years later without approval from the MMC board. Photo was taken at a news conference held at MMC's head office in Tokyo's Minato Ward on the afetrnoon of Sept. 8.

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Mitsubishi's Kawasoe announces resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) President Katsuhiko Kawasoe officially announces his resignation Sept. 8 at the Ministry of Transport in Tokyo amid a scandal centering on revelations the automaker hid customer complaints and recalls of defective vehicles from the government for decades. He is expected to be replaced by MMC Vice President Takashi Sonobe.

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Memorial service held for curry-poisoning victims

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Residents in the western Japan city of Wakayama hold a memorial service on July 20 for four people killed in a curry poisoning case in the city's Sonobe district a year ago. In a park near the spot of the July 25 incident, about 40 people place flowers before a small altar and offered silent players for then local community leader Takatoshi Taninaka and three others. The four people died and the others fell ill after eating curry poisoned with arsenic which was served at a local community summer festival. Former insurance saleswoman Masumi Hayashi, 37, was arrested last October and subsequently indicted on charges of murder and attempted murder in the case.

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Panel to recommend ban on BOJ execs' investment in private funds

TOKYO, Japan - Itsuo Sonobe, a former Supreme Court justice who heads a Bank of Japan advisory panel set up to review the central bank's internal rules, speaks to reporters at the BOJ's head office in Tokyo on June 30. (Kyodo)

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BOJ board members to publish personal assets

TOKYO, Japan - Former Supreme Court Justice Itsuo Sonobe, who heads a Bank of Japan panel, tells reporters on July 5 that the panel plans to recommend the central bank require all nine Policy Board members, including the governor and two deputy governors, to publish their personal assets under new internal regulations. The panel came up with the plan amid a scandal over BOJ Governor Toshihiko Fukui's private investments. (Kyodo)

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Memorial service held for curry-poisoning victims

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Residents in the western Japan city of Wakayama hold a memorial service on July 20 for four people killed in a curry poisoning case in the city's Sonobe district a year ago. In a park near the spot of the July 25 incident, about 40 people place flowers before a small altar and offered silent players for then local community leader Takatoshi Taninaka and three others. The four people died and the others fell ill after eating curry poisoned with arsenic which was served at a local community summer festival. Former insurance saleswoman Masumi Hayashi, 37, was arrested last October and subsequently indicted on charges of murder and attempted murder in the case.

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Going down the Hozu River

A yakata boat descending Hozu River is seen from the northern bank. The Kyoto Railway Company tracks and a tunnel are visible on the right. People took the approximately 16km boat ride from Hozu Town in Kameoka to Togetsu Bridge in Arashiyama. The river boats that carried lumber and goods from Tanba Kameoka to Kyoto were converted to leisure boats at the end of the Meiji Period when the Kyoto Railway was established. This photograph was taken sometime after August 1899, when the line between Kyoto and Sonobe opened.==Date:1904, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number98‐11‐0]

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The Katsura River

Hozugawa Valley looking upstream. The topography suggests that this was taken from the valley at the west entrance of Asahi Tunnel on the former Japan National Railroad San'in Line, facing northwest. Mt. Ushimatsu is visible in the centre. Since no railroad tracks are visible, the photograph was probably taken before the opening of Sagano-Sonobe Line of Kyoto Railway in August 1899. Taken by Tamamura Kozaburo.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number68‐13‐0]

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Hozu River

The iron bridge of Kyoto Railway Company is seen from a boat going down Hozu River. Hozu Gorge, also called Arashi Gorge, is a 13km stretch from around Hozu Bridge in Kameoka to Togetsu Bridge in Arashiyama. This is a scenic point where rapids and unusual rock formations can be enjoyed. Tributaries such as Kiyotaki River flow into the V-shaped gorge at an altitude of 400 meters. This photograph was taken sometime after August 1899, when the Kyoto Railway Company line between Saga and Sonobe opened.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number46‐107‐0]

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Poultry farm chief sent to prosecutors over bird flu

KYOTO, Japan - Hideaki Asada, 41, president of Asada Nosan Co., is escorted by police officers as he leaves a police station in the town of Sonobe, Kyoto Prefecture, on April 2. Police handed Asada over to prosecutors for failing to report an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, to authorities in February. (Kyodo)

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MMC posts record 278 bil. yen group net loss

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) president Takashi Sonobe (L), and executive vice president Rolf Eckrodt hold a news conference in Tokyo on May 18. They said MMC registered a record consolidated net loss of 278.14 billion yen for fiscal 2000, sinking into the red for the second straight year on lower sales and extraordinary losses including those related to a scandal over its cover-up of recalls.

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M'bishi Motors to cut 9,500 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Sonobe (L), president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC), and Vice President Rolf Eckrodt, who was dispatched to work with the troubled Japanese carmaker by DaimlerChrysler AG, announce the company's major restructuring plan at a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 26. Under the plan, MMC, hit hard by cover-up scandals involving vehicle defects, will cut some 9,500 jobs, or 14% of its group workforce, by 2003 and close down its key Oe plant in Nagoya.

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DaimlerChrysler's Eckrodt assumes MMC vice presidency

TOKYO, Japan - Flanked by Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) President Takashi Sonobe (L), Rolf Eckrodt of DaimlerChrysler AG speaks at a news conference following his appointment as MMC's vice president and chief operating officer. Eckrodt, who currently heads the DaimlerChrysler group's railway systems division, becomes MMC's second-in-command after Sonobe.

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MMC head to quit after DaimlerChrysler equity purchase

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) announces Sept. 8 the resignation of its president over a cover-up scandal and a revision to its alliance pact with DaimlerChrysler AG. The fourth-largest Japanese automaker said Vice President Takashi Sonobe (L) will replace Katsuhiko Kawasoe as president Nov. 1, after DaimlerChrysler buys a 34% stake in MMC in October in a deal that newly allows the German-U.S. firm to raise its stake three years later without approval from the MMC board. Photo was taken at a news conference held at MMC's head office in Tokyo's Minato Ward on the afetrnoon of Sept. 8.

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Mitsubishi's Kawasoe announces resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) President Katsuhiko Kawasoe officially announces his resignation Sept. 8 at the Ministry of Transport in Tokyo amid a scandal centering on revelations the automaker hid customer complaints and recalls of defective vehicles from the government for decades. He is expected to be replaced by MMC Vice President Takashi Sonobe.

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Vice President Sonobe to replace Kawasoe as MMC president

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) plans to name Vice President Takashi Sonobe (file photo), 59, to succeed President Katsuhiko Kawasoe as DaimlerChrysler AG has refused to send a top manager to replace Kawasoe, an MMC source says in Tokyo on Sept. 2. MMC, shaken by a scandal involving cover-ups of customer complaints, will formally disclose the management reshuffle by the end of this month after the Transport Ministry announces punishment over the scandal, according to the source.