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Abe, Japan business leaders

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far R) speaks during his talks with the heads of Japan's three major business lobbies -- Yasuchika Hasegawa (far L), chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Hiromasa Yonekura (2nd from L), chairman of the Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren, and Tadashi Okamura (3rd from L), chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry -- at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2013.

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Japan business lobby leaders

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, and Yasuchika Hasegawa, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, shake hands during a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 7, 2013. The heads of Japan's three major business lobbies gathered for a New Year's reception and the press conference.

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Myanmar Vice Pres. Nyan Tun meets Japan's Okamura

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Myanmar Vice President Nyan Tun (far R) holds talks with Tadashi Okamura (far L), chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, at the presidential office in the Myanmar capital of Naypyitaw on Sept. 27, 2012.

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Business leaders criticize gov't nuclear power phaseout policy

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Yasuchika Hasegawa, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, and Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, jointly hold a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2012. The leaders of the Japan's three major business groups criticized the government for setting a target of completely phasing out nuclear power, warning it will seriously affect the economy.

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Myanmar commerce minister in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar Commerce Minister Win Myint (3rd from R front) holds talks with Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman Tadashi Okamura (far L) in Tokyo on July 9, 2012.

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Yingluck in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (R) and Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, hold talks at a hotel in Tokyo on March 7, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Japan business delegation in India

NEW DELHI, India - Tadashi Okamura (L), chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry who is leading a Japanese business delegation to India, poses for photos with Indian Railways Minister Shri Dinesh Trivedi in New Delhi on Sept. 20, 2011, ahead of their meeting.

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Japan business delegation in India

NEW DELHI, India - Tadashi Okamura (R), chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, shakes hands with Amitabh Kant, chief executive officer of DMIC Development Corp., in New Delhi on Sept. 19, 2011. A Japanese business delegation led by Okamura met with top executives of DMIC Development the same day and expressed interest in participating in an Indian government project to build an industrial zone extending from New Delhi to Mumbai.

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Business leaders urge Japan to join TPP

TOKYO, Japan - Hiromasa Yonekura (L), chairman of the Japan Business Federation known as Nippon Keidanren, Tadashi Okamura (C), chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Masamitsu Sakurai, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, shake hands in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2011, after a press conference. They urged the Japanese government to join a trans-Pacific free trade agreement, backing Prime Minister Naoto Kan's resolve to promote free trade.

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Business leaders urge Japan to join Pacific FTA negotiations

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese business leaders (From L to R) -- Masamitsu Sakurai, head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Tadashi Okamura, leader of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation -- take part in a meeting hosted by the three organizations in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2010. The participants called on the government to announce its intention to join negotiations for a U.S.-backed multilateral trans-Pacific free trade agreement at an upcoming summit in Japan of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

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PM Kan meets with business leaders over surging yen

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) shakes hands with Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2010. Yonekura, along with Tadashi Okamura (2nd from L), chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Masamitsu Sakurai (L), chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, asked Kan to take decisive measures to counter the sharp rise of the yen and the recent steep fall of the stock market, including currency market intervention and faster implementation of the government's growth strategy.

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Businesses wary about economic recovery in 2010

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, and Masamitsu Sakurai, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, attend a joint news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2010.

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Businesses wary about economic recovery in 2010

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, and Masamitsu Sakurai, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, join hands after their joint news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2010.

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Gov't, employers, employees agree on Japan-style work-sharing

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, Prime Minister Taro Aso, Tsuyoshi Takagi, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, and a representative of the National Federation of Small Business Associations join hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 23 after they agreed to promote Japanese-style work-sharing to stabilize and create jobs amid the deteriorating job conditions of the global economic crisis.

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Business leaders upbeat on economy despite high oil prices, stock falls

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Masamitsu Sakurai, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, and Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, hold a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 7 following the three organizations' New Year's reception. The heads of Japan's major business lobbies expressed optimism about the outlook for the Japanese economy.

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Toshiba's Okamura to head Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. Chairman Tadashi Okamura (file photo). The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry unofficially decided March 21 to name Okamura as its next chairman to replace Nobuo Yamaguchi. Okamura will assume the post in late October for a three-year term. Yamaguchi is chairman of Asahi Kasei Corp.

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Nishida nominated as new Toshiba president

TOKYO, Japan - Atsutoshi Nishida (R), Toshiba Corp. executive officer and corporate executive vice president who was nominated as the next company president on Feb. 22, shakes hands with current President Tadashi Okamura during a news conference in Tokyo the same day.

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Canon, Toshiba to start joint venture for new flat-screen panels

TOKYO, Japan - Canon Inc. President Fujio Mitarai (2nd from L) and Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura pose at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 14 after announcing an agreement to establish a joint venture for the development, production and marketing of a new flat-screen panel called surface-conduction electron-emitter display or SED. The new company, SED Inc., will make SED panels primarily for large flat-screen televisions, with production planned to begin in 2005.

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Hitachi, Matsushita, Toshiba agree on joint LCD panel venture

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Okamura (L), president of Toshiba Corp., Etsuhiko Shoyama (C), president of Hitachi Ltd., and Kunio Nakamura, president of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., join hands during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Aug. 31. They announced the three companies will set up a joint venture to manufacture liquid crystal display panels.

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Toshiba foresees greater loss for fiscal 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 16. The company has revised its earnings projection downward for the first half of fiscal 2003 and the full year due largely to poor results in its digital products segment.

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Toshiba, Mitsubishi to integrate industrial electric business

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura (L) and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. President Tamotsu Nomakuchi give a joint press connference in Tokyo on April 18. The two firms said they will integrate their businesses in electric equipment for plants in the manufacturing industry into a fifty-fifty joint venture on Oct. 1. The integration will make the Toshiba-Mitsubishi alliance the world's third largest manufacturer of industrial electric equipment with a global share of about 6%.

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Matsushita, Toshiba to consolidate CRT business

OSAKA, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. President Kunio Nakamura (L) and Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura shake hands at a news conference in Osaka on Sept. 26. They announced an agreement to consolidate their cathode ray tube (CRT) business into a single joint venture company.

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Toshiba, Fujitsu agree on comprehensive tie-up

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Okamura (L), president of Toshiba Corp., and Naoyuki Akikusa, president of Fujitsu Ltd., shake hands at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on June 19. They announced that the two companies have agreed to form a comprehensive tie-up in semiconductor operations.

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Toshiba to terminate commodity DRAM business

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura announces at a press conference in Toshiba's head office in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Dec. 18 that the company will pull out of commodity dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips next year in a reorganization aimed at securing profitability in its semiconductor business in fiscal 2002.

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Toshiba group posts interim net, pretax losses

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura said at a news conference Oct. 26 at the Tokyo Stock Exchange that the company suffered a consolidated net loss of 123.14 billion yen in the April-September period for its first fiscal half-year loss in two years. Toshiba blamed declining profitability in the electronic devices and components business, particularly in semiconductors, for the losses.

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Toshiba to cut 17,000 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura announces in Tokyo on Aug. 27 that his company will slash 17,000 jobs, or 12% of its domestic group workforce of 144,000, by the close of the fiscal year that ends March 31, 2004 to cope with the downturn in the information technology sector.

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Matsushita, Toshiba to set up LCD firm in Singapore

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura (L) and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. President Kunio Nakamura pose at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 23. The two companies said they will set up a joint venture in Singapore in March to manufacture low-temperature polysilicon liquid crystal display (LCD) panels used in video mobile phones and other digital appliances.

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Toshiba to terminate commodity DRAM business

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura announces at a press conference in Toshiba's head office in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Dec. 18 that the company will pull out of commodity dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips next year in a reorganization aimed at securing profitability in its semiconductor business in fiscal 2002.

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Hitachi, Matsushita, Toshiba agree on joint LCD panel venture

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Okamura (L), president of Toshiba Corp., Etsuhiko Shoyama (C), president of Hitachi Ltd., and Kunio Nakamura, president of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., join hands during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Aug. 31. They announced the three companies will set up a joint venture to manufacture liquid crystal display panels. (Kyodo)

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Canon, Toshiba to start joint venture for new flat-screen panels

TOKYO, Japan - Canon Inc. President Fujio Mitarai (2nd from L) and Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura pose at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 14 after announcing an agreement to establish a joint venture for the development, production and marketing of a new flat-screen panel called surface-conduction electron-emitter display or SED. The new company, SED Inc., will make SED panels primarily for large flat-screen televisions, with production planned to begin in 2005. (Kyodo)

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Nishida to become Toshiba's new president

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. plans to appoint Atsutoshi Nishida (file phto), 61, a senior managing director, as the company's new president to succeed Tadashi Okamura, 66, who will assume the chairmanship. Toshiba Chairman Taizo Nishimuro, 69, will become an adviser to the company. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba's Okamura to head Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. Chairman Tadashi Okamura (file photo). The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry unofficially decided March 21 to name Okamura as its next chairman to replace Nobuo Yamaguchi. Okamura will assume the post in late October for a three-year term. Yamaguchi is chairman of Asahi Kasei Corp. (Kyodo)

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Business leaders upbeat on economy despite high oil prices, stoc

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Masamitsu Sakurai, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, and Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, hold a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 7 following the three organizations' New Year's reception. The heads of Japan's major business lobbies expressed optimism about the outlook for the Japanese economy. (Kyodo)

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Gov't, employers, employees agree on Japan-style work-sharing

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, Prime Minister Taro Aso, Tsuyoshi Takagi, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, and a representative of the National Federation of Small Business Associations join hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 23 after they agreed to promote Japanese-style work-sharing to stabilize and create jobs amid the deteriorating job conditions of the global economic crisis. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba, Fujitsu agree on comprehensive tie-up

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Okamura (L), president of Toshiba Corp., and Naoyuki Akikusa, president of Fujitsu Ltd., shake hands at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on June 19. They announced that the two companies have agreed to form a comprehensive tie-up in semiconductor operations.

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Nishida nominated as new Toshiba president

TOKYO, Japan - Atsutoshi Nishida (R), Toshiba Corp. executive officer and corporate executive vice president who was nominated as the next company president on Feb. 22, shakes hands with current President Tadashi Okamura during a news conference in Tokyo the same day. (Kyodo)

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Recipients of Grand Cordon of Order of Rising Sun at photo session

Recipients of Japan's Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun attend a photo session at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 8, 2015. They are (from L) Iwao Uruma, former chief of the National Police Agency, Tsuyoshi Takagi, former head of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, Tadamasa Kodaira, former chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, Tadashi Okamura, former head of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, former Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare, Kosuke Hori, former home affairs minister, former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, Etsuhiko Shoyama, former president of Hitachi Ltd., Hiromasa Yonekura, former chairman of Keidanren, Nancy Pelosi, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Yoshihito Karasawa, former president of the Japan Medical Association, and Toshitsugu Saito, former chief of the Defense Agency. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan business delegation in India

NEW DELHI, India - Tadashi Okamura (L), chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry who is leading a Japanese business delegation to India, poses for photos with Indian Railways Minister Shri Dinesh Trivedi in New Delhi on Sept. 20, 2011, ahead of their meeting. (Kyodo)

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Japan business delegation in India

NEW DELHI, India - Tadashi Okamura (R), chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, shakes hands with Amitabh Kant, chief executive officer of DMIC Development Corp., in New Delhi on Sept. 19, 2011. A Japanese business delegation led by Okamura met with top executives of DMIC Development the same day and expressed interest in participating in an Indian government project to build an industrial zone extending from New Delhi to Mumbai. (Kyodo)

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PM Kan meets with business leaders over surging yen

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) shakes hands with Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2010. Yonekura, along with Tadashi Okamura (2nd from L), chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Masamitsu Sakurai (L), chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, asked Kan to take decisive measures to counter the sharp rise of the yen and the recent steep fall of the stock market, including currency market intervention and faster implementation of the government's growth strategy. (Kyodo)

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Yingluck in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (R) and Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, hold talks at a hotel in Tokyo on March 7, 2012. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Business leaders urge Japan to join TPP

TOKYO, Japan - Hiromasa Yonekura (L), chairman of the Japan Business Federation known as Nippon Keidanren, Tadashi Okamura (C), chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Masamitsu Sakurai, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, shake hands in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2011, after a press conference. They urged the Japanese government to join a trans-Pacific free trade agreement, backing Prime Minister Naoto Kan's resolve to promote free trade. (Kyodo)

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Businesses wary about economic recovery in 2010

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, and Masamitsu Sakurai, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, join hands after their joint news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Businesses wary about economic recovery in 2010

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, and Masamitsu Sakurai, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, attend a joint news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Businesses wary about economic recovery in 2010

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L) addresses a New Year's reception of business leaders from the Japan Business Federation, Japan Association of Corporate Executives and Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2010, with Fujio Mitarai (R), chairman of the business federation, Tadashi Okamura (2nd from R), chairman of the chamber of commerce and industry, and Masamitsu Sakurai, chairman of the association of corporate executives, looking on. (Kyodo)

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Business leaders urge Japan to join Pacific FTA negotiations

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese business leaders (From L to R) -- Masamitsu Sakurai, head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Tadashi Okamura, leader of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation -- take part in a meeting hosted by the three organizations in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2010. The participants called on the government to announce its intention to join negotiations for a U.S.-backed multilateral trans-Pacific free trade agreement at an upcoming summit in Japan of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. (Kyodo)

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Rugby: All Blacks coming to Japan in Nov. 2018 for 6th test vs. Blossoms

(From L) Jamie Joseph, head coach of the Japanese national rugby team, Steve Tew, CEO of the New Zealand Rugby Union, and Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Rugby Football Union, pose during a press conference in Tokyo on May 17, 2017. Japan will play the two-time defending Rugby World Cup champions All Blacks in a test match in November 2018, the two unions announced jointly that day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba foresees greater loss for fiscal 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 16. The company has revised its earnings projection downward for the first half of fiscal 2003 and the full year due largely to poor results in its digital products segment. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba, Mitsubishi to integrate industrial electric business

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura (L) and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. President Tamotsu Nomakuchi give a joint press connference in Tokyo on April 18. The two firms said they will integrate their businesses in electric equipment for plants in the manufacturing industry into a fifty-fifty joint venture on Oct. 1. The integration will make the Toshiba-Mitsubishi alliance the world's third largest manufacturer of industrial electric equipment with a global share of about 6%. (Kyodo)

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Matsushita, Toshiba to consolidate CRT business

OSAKA, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. President Kunio Nakamura (L) and Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura shake hands at a news conference in Osaka on Sept. 26. They announced an agreement to consolidate their cathode ray tube (CRT) business into a single joint venture company. (Kyodo)