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Press Conference by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and OpenAI

Press conference by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and OpenAI. photo shows (from left) Tadashi Yamamoto, Managing Executive Officer of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, and Tadao Nagasaki, President of OpenAI Japan.=November 12,2025,Tokyo

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Press Conference by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and OpenAI

Press conference by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and OpenAI. photo shows (from left) Tadashi Yamamoto, Managing Executive Officer of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, and Tadao Nagasaki, President of OpenAI Japan.=November 12,2025,Tokyo

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Press Conference by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and OpenAI

Press conference by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and OpenAI. photo shows (from left) Tadashi Yamamoto, Managing Executive Officer of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, and Tadao Nagasaki, President of OpenAI Japan.=November 12,2025,Tokyo

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Crown princess visits museum on art island

Japanese architect Tadao Ando (far R) guides Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (2nd from R) and her daughter Princess Kako at Benesse House Museum, designed by Ando, on Naoshima, an island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa, known for its many contemporary installations.

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Crown princess visits museum on art island

Japanese architect Tadao Ando guides Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (C) and her daughter Princess Kako at Benesse House Museum, designed by Ando, on Naoshima, an island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa, known for its many contemporary installations.

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Crown princess visits museum on art island

Japanese architect Tadao Ando guides Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (C) and her daughter Princess Kako at Benesse House Museum, designed by Ando, on Naoshima, an island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa, known for its many contemporary installations.

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Crown princess visits museum on art island

Japanese architect Tadao Ando guides Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (C) and her daughter Princess Kako at Benesse House Museum, designed by Ando, on Naoshima, an island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa, known for its many contemporary installations.

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Crown princess visits museum on art island

Japanese architect Tadao Ando guides Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (C) and her daughter Princess Kako at Benesse House Museum, designed by Ando, on Naoshima, an island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa, known for its many contemporary installations.

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KOTO ARTIST

KOTO ARTIST,Tadao Sawai==Date:Dec, 1973, Place:JAPAN, (Credit:INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE/Kyodo News Images)

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Public lavatory in Tokyo's Shibuya

File photo taken on May 28, 2023, shows a public lavatory designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward that featured in the movie "Perfect Days" directed by Wim Wenders of Germany. Japanese actor Koji Yakusho was named Best Actor at this year's Cannes film festival for his role as the lavatory's janitor in the film.

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Giant panda Xiang Xiang

Tadao Futatsugi, honorary chairman of the Ueno Tourism Federation, holds a stuffed panda doll with a label bearing Xiang Xiang's name at a coffee shop he owns in Tokyo on Feb. 14, 2023.

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France decorates architect Ando

TOKYO, Japan - Architect Tadao Ando gives a speech at the official residence of the French ambassador to Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2013, wearing the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres medal after receiving the decoration from the French government.

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State ruled not responsible for hepatitis C

SENDAI, Japan - Chiyoko Komatsu, whose husband Tadao died after being administered tainted blood products, is moved to tears during a press conference in Sendai on Sept. 7. The Sendai District Court found the government not responsible for the case involving Komatsu and five other people.

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Photographer reveals reality on Fukushima farm

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 14, 2014 shows Tadao Mitome, a photographer who published a photo book titled "3/11 Fukushima: Hibaku no Bokujo (Stock Farm Exposed to Radiation)," documenting a farm in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, and dying horses there.

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Nitten scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Tadao Terasaka, chief director of the prestigious Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, speaks during the opening ceremony of the 45th Nitten exhibition at the National Art Center, Tokyo, on Nov. 1, 2013. The organization decided the previous day to cancel their selection of top prizes for the year in the wake of reports that screening of artworks was manipulated in one of the five categories in the past.

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5 elderly bee hunters contributing to field over 5 decades

FUKUI, Japan - (From L) Chizuko Nozaka, Tadao Murota and Hideyoshi Kurokawa gather near Lake Kitagata in Awara, northern Fukui Prefecture, on April 5, 2013, to collect bees as part of their research into the insect's habitat. Including the three, five people now in their 70s to 90s have been chasing and collecting bees for more than half a century since the 1950s.

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Mexican univ. building designed by Japan architect Ando

LOS ANGELES, United States - Photo taken April 24, 2013, shows a new building designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando at the University of Monterrey in northern Mexico. The inauguration ceremony for the six-story building was held the same day.

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Mexican univ. building designed by Japan architect Ando

LOS ANGELES, United States - Japanese architect Tadao Ando (L) receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Monterrey in northern Mexico on April 24, 2013. An inauguration ceremony was held the same day for a six-story university building Ando designed.

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Museum on architect Ando

OSAKA, Japan - Architect Tadao Ando (2nd from L) cuts the tape at the opening ceremony of Ando Museum, a museum dedicated to his works, on Naoshima, an island in Kagawa Prefecture, on March 9, 2013.

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Museum on architect Ando

OSAKA, Japan - Architect Tadao Ando tours Ando Museum, a museum dedicated to his works, on Naoshima, an island in Kagawa Prefecture, on March 9, 2013.

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Main stadium for Tokyo 2020 bid

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese architect Tadao Ando in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 2012, explains works that won awards in the design competition for Tokyo's new National Stadium that will be used as the main venue for the 2020 Olympics if the city wins the right to stage the Games. Britain's Zaha Hadid Architects have won the competition.

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Kyushu Electric president meets gov't official

TOKYO, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Toshio Manabe is surrounded by reporters in Tokyo on July 8, 2011. Prior to his press conference, Manabe visited senior vice minister Tadao Matsushita and conveyed his apology for a scandal. The utility is under fire after companies linked to it ordered their employees to post online comments in favor of the resumption of the utility's two nuclear reactors for a local cable television program aimed at seeking support for their resumption.

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Scholarship fund for children affected by March 11 disaster

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Masatoshi Koshiba, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, architect Tadao Ando and Fast Retailing Co. President Tadashi Yanai attend a press conference at the education ministry in Tokyo on May 18, 2011. They and others established a scholarship foundation the same day for children affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Yamada Denki's 1st Chinese outlet in Shenyang

SHENYANG, China - Tadao Ichimiya, president of Yamada Denki Co., speaks at a press conference in Shenyang, China, on Dec. 9, 2010, the eve of the opening of the first outlet in China operated by the Japanese consumer electronics retailer. Ichimiya said the company plans to open a total of five stores in China within three years.

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Architect Ando receives Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - Architect Tadao Ando (R front) receives the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito (L) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2010. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) also attended the award ceremony held on Culture Day, a national holiday. (Pool photo)

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Recipients of Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - Recipients of the Order of Culture (from L) architect Tadao Ando, stage director Yukio Ninagawa, medieval historian Haruko Wakita, Nobel laureate chemist Akira Suzuki, nuclear physicist Akito Arima, Nobel laureate chemist Eiichi Negishi and fashion designer Issey Miyake pose for a photo session at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2010, a national holiday, Culture Day. They received the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito.

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Peruvian faces 8-year term for killing Japanese man

LIMA, Peru - Ricardo Sanchez is on trial on Oct. 6, 2010, at the Lima high court in which he was sentenced to 8 years in prison for killing Japanese man Tadao Kimura in 2001 in Japan. It is the first case in which Peru's judicial authorities have punished one of its citizens at the request of the Japanese government as the two countries have not signed an extradition treaty for criminals.

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Ethnologist Umesao dies at 90

TOKYO, Japan - Ethnologist Tadao Umesao (file photo), founding head of the National Museum of Ethnology who was renowned for a range of unique dissertations and books on civilizations based on field work, died of old age at his home in Osaka Prefecture on July 3, 2010. He was 90.

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Farmer happy with his glove-shaped radish

TOTTORI, Japan - Tadao Nakajima, a 62-year-old farmer from Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, looks happy with a radish shaped like a baseball glove at his farm on Jan. 12. A long-time baseball fan, Nakajima said, ''We've been growing radishes for many years, but this is the first time we've had one like this.''

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Entrusting stockholdings of BOJ officials one option: Noda

TOKYO, Japan - Newly appointed Bank of Japan Policy Board member Tadao Noda speaks at a press conference at the central bank head office on June 19. He said that entrusting stockholdings to trust banks will be one option in boosting transparency in senior BOJ officials' financial assets.

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Japan's Kuroda elected ADB president

MANILA, Philippines - Haruhiko Kuroda (in an undated file photo), Japan's former vice minister of finance for international affairs, has been elected president of the Asian Development Bank by the ADB's Board of Governors, the bank announced on Nov. 18. Kuroda, 60, will start his term Feb. 1, succeeding Tadao Chino, who announced his resignation in August.

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Preview of 'the Snow Show' held in Finland

ROVANIEMI, Finland - Objects to be displayed at the Snow Show in Kemi and Rovaniemi, northern Finland, are seen in a preview on Feb. 10, two days before the official opening. The objects were made from snow and ice by pairs of architects and artists, including Japanese architect Tadao Ando and modern artist Tatsuo Miyajima.

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ADB head urges Japan to spearhead Asia economic integration

MANILA, Philippines - Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Tadao Chino speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Manila on Dec. 18. Chino said Japan should lead the way in pressing ahead with economic integration in Asia.

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Ando, Hood, Gromov awarded Kyoto Prize

KYOTO, Japan - French mathematician Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (L), U.S. biologist Leroy Edward Hood (C) and Japanese architect Tadao Ando (L) are awarded the 2002 Kyoto Prize, an annual international prize for contribution to science and the arts, by Inamori Foundation at a ceremony in Kyoto on Nov. 10.

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Winners of 2002 Kyoto Prize

KYOTO, Japan - Acclaimed Japanese architect Tadao Ando (top left), U.S. biologist Leroy Edward Hood (top right) and French mathematician Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (lower left) have been named winners of 2002 Kyoto Prize in recognition of their contributions to mankind's scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment, the Inamori Foundation, the awarding body, said June 21.

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Ex-LDP heavyweight Murakami quits Diet over KSD scandal

TOKYO, Japan - A post bearing the name of Masakuni Murakami, a senior member of the Liberal Democratic Party, lies on its side Feb. 26 at his seat in the House of Councillors in Tokyo. A plenary session of the upper house endorsed his resignation the same day. Murakami allegedly received 50 million yen in cash in 1996 from Tadao Koseki, head of KSD, a scandal-tainted mutual aid foundation.

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Shirakawa, 5 others awarded Order of Culture by emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel laureate Hideki Shirakawa (Far L) and five others sit in a photo session Nov. 3 at the Imperial Palace after they were awarded this year's Order of Culture by Emperor Akihito. Next to Shirakawa is leather craftswoman Fukuko Okubo, 81, followed by calligrapher Kason Sugioka, 87, actress Isuzu Yamada, 83, sinologist Tadao Ishikawa, 78, and organic chemist Ryoji Noyori, 62. At the ceremony, which started at 10:30 a.m., the emperor decorated each of the recipients, who then received a certificate from Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.

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Nobel laureate Shirakawa gets cultural order

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show the six winners of this year's Order of Culture named Oct. 24. (Upper, from L to R) sinologist Tadao Ishikawa, leather craftswoman Fukuko Okubo and Nobel laureate Hideki Shirakawa, (lower, from L to R) calligrapher Kason Sugioka, organic chemist Ryoji Noyori and actress Isuzu Yamada. They will receive their order from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace on Culture Day on Nov. 3.

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Tadao Ando exhibition in Beijing

The opening ceremony of an exhibition of Japanese architect Tadao Ando's designs is held in Beijing on Oct. 11, 2021, as part of its world tour.

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Tadao Ando exhibition in Beijing

The opening ceremony of an exhibition of Japanese architect Tadao Ando's designs is held in Beijing on Oct. 11, 2021, as part of its world tour.

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KSD's Koseki gets suspended term for bribery

TOKYO, Japan - Tadao Koseki (L), founder and former head of KSD, a government-authorized foundation for small businesses, enters the Tokyo District Court on March 26 to hear the ruling in his bribery case. The court sentenced him to a three-year prison term, suspended for five years, for bribing former Labor Minister Masakuni Murakami and Takao Koyama, former member of the House of Councillors.

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Entrusting stockholdings of BOJ officials one option: Noda

TOKYO, Japan - Newly appointed Bank of Japan Policy Board member Tadao Noda speaks at a press conference at the central bank head office on June 19. He said that entrusting stockholdings to trust banks will be one option in boosting transparency in senior BOJ officials' financial assets. (Kyodo)

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Former Asian Development Bank chief Chino dies at 74

TOKYO, Japan - Former Asian Development Bank President Tadao Chino (file photo) died of liver failure on July 17, his family said. He was 74.

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Ando, Hood, Gromov awarded Kyoto Prize

KYOTO, Japan - French mathematician Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (L), U.S. biologist Leroy Edward Hood (C) and Japanese architect Tadao Ando (L) are awarded the 2002 Kyoto Prize, an annual international prize for contribution to science and the arts, by Inamori Foundation at a ceremony in Kyoto on Nov. 10. (Kyodo)

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ADB head urges Japan to spearhead Asia economic integration

MANILA, Philippines - Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Tadao Chino speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Manila on Dec. 18. Chino said Japan should lead the way in pressing ahead with economic integration in Asia. (Kyodo)

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Architect Ando receives Isamu Noguchi Award in N.Y.

Japanese architect Tadao Ando gives a speech after receiving the Isamu Noguchi Award in a ceremony held at the late sculptor Noguchi's museum in New York on May 10, 2016. American visual artist and sculptor Elyn Zimmerman is another recipient of the award, which is presented annually to two artists who share Noguchi's sense of innovation and cultural exchange. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Late Umesao's house in Kyoto opens as gallery

Mayao Umesao (C), a potter and the second son of the late ethnologist Tadao Umesao, talks to visitors at the opening of the gallery "rondokreanto" in Kyoto on Aug. 29, 2015. He turned his father's house, once called "Umesao Salon," into the gallery. (Kyoto) ==Kyodo

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Late Umesao's house in Kyoto opens as gallery

Photos taken by the late ethnologist Tadao Umesao are displayed at his house, once called "Umesao Salon," in Kyoto on Aug. 29, 2015. His son turned the two-story wooden house into a gallery. Umesao, who died in 2010 at age 90, purchased the house in 1949 and lived there until he became the first director general of the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka Prefecture in 1974. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Architects Ando, Hadid

Japanese architect Tadao Ando (L) and Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid (C) are shown in a file photo taken in March 2013 in Tokyo during the ceremony to award Hadid the top prize in a competition to design the new National Stadium in the Japanese capital. Ando chose her design as chairman of the design competition committee. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Architect Ando attends press conference over stadium issue

Renowned architect Tadao Ando attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 16, 2015, as public criticism over the soaring cost for the construction of the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is growing. Ando chose its design as chair of the design competition committee. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo