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Asahi Shimbun president to resign over retraction of news stories

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Tadakazu Kimura, president of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. The Asahi said Nov. 14, 2014, that Kimura will resign as of Dec. 5 to take responsibility for its retraction of a couple of articles.

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Asahi Shimbun admits error in Fukushima plant chief testimony report

TOKYO, Japan - Tadakazu Kimura, president of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, holds a press conference at the newspaper's Tokyo headquarters on Sept. 11, 2014. Kimura said the daily's controversial report on the testimony of the late chief of the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant contained errors and it will retract the May 20 article.

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Expoland files for court protection

OSAKA, Japan - Tadakazu Shimizu, president of The Expoland amusement park, speaks at a press conference in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 29 as the park filed for bankruptcy protection with the Osaka District Court.

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Bridgestone forecasts extra loss following recall

TOKYO, Japan - Tadakazu Harada, vice president of Bridgestone Corp., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 10. He said the company expects an extraordinary loss of 37.2 billion yen on a consolidated basis this business year in connection with the recall of some 6.5 million tires by its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary.

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Expoland files for court protection

OSAKA, Japan - Tadakazu Shimizu, president of The Expoland amusement park, speaks at a press conference in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 29 as the park filed for bankruptcy protection with the Osaka District Court. (Kyodo)

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Asahi chief to resign over retraction of news stories

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Masataka Watanabe, an Asahi Shimbun director, who will assume the presidency of the major Japanese daily after President Tadakazu Kimura resigns on Dec. 5, 2014, to take responsibility for the paper's retraction of some articles. (Kyodo)

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Asahi Shimbun president to resign over retraction of news stories

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Tadakazu Kimura, president of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. The Asahi said Nov. 14, 2014, that Kimura will resign as of Dec. 5 to take responsibility for its retraction of a couple of articles. (Kyodo)

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Asahi Shimbun chief to step down

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 15, 2014, shows Japan's Asahi Shimbun President Tadakazu Kimura. It was reported that he plans to announce his resignation in mid-November in the face of criticism over the newspaper's past reports about sex slaves and the Fukushima nuclear crisis. (Kyodo)

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Asahi Shimbun admits error in Fukushima plant chief testimony report

TOKYO, Japan - Tadakazu Kimura, president of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, holds a press conference at the newspaper's Tokyo headquarters on Sept. 11, 2014. Kimura said the daily's controversial report on the testimony of the late chief of the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant contained errors and it will retract the May 20 article. (Kyodo)

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Osaka gubernatorial election

Tadakazu Konishi, a former vice governor of Osaka Prefecture, campaigns in the city of Osaka on March 21, 2019, in the Osaka gubernatorial election to be held on April 7. Official campaigning for unified local elections started across Japan with results expected to impact the House of Councillors election in the summer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High court lightens prison terms for ex-Green Cross execs

OSAKA, Japan - File photos show (from L to R) Renzo Matsushita, 81, and Tadakazu Suyama, 74. The Osaka High Court on Aug. 21 overturned district court sentences against the two former presidents of defunct Green Cross Corp., which sold HIV-tainted blood products in the 1980s, and gave them shorter prison terms. (Kyodo)

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Bridgestone forecasts extra loss following recall

TOKYO, Japan - Tadakazu Harada, vice president of Bridgestone Corp., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 10. He said the company expects an extraordinary loss of 37.2 billion yen on a consolidated basis this business year in connection with the recall of some 6.5 million tires by its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary.

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3 former Green Cross heads handed jail terms

TOKYO, Japan - Three former presidents of Green Cross Corp. enter the Osaka District Court on Feb. 24, to hear the court's ruling on the company's sale of HIV-tainted blood products in the 1980s. The three are (from front), Renzo Matsushita, 79, Tadakazu Suyama, 72, and Takehiko Kawano, 69. The court sentenced them to jail terms of between 16 months and two years.