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3 Japan Post group firms to go public as early as Oct.: pres.

KANAZAWA, Japan, June 17 Kyodo - Taizo Nishimuro (L), president and CEO of Japan Post Holdings Co., speaks in a meeting of the Japan Post group's labor union in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on June 17, 2015. He said that Japan Post and its banking and insurance arms will be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October or November.

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Japan Post to list shares along with banking, insurance arms

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro, president of Japan Post Holdings Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2014. The company said it will list its shares sometime after the middle of the next fiscal year starting in April, together with those of its banking and insurance arms, in one of the biggest stock listings in the country.

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Sino-Japanese ties very important: China's Li

BEIJING, China - Taizo Nishimuro (L), president of Japan Post Holdings Co. who heads the New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st Century on the Japanese side, talks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Dec. 4, 2014. The committee, an advisory body to the two governments, held a formal meeting for the first time since October 2011. (Pool photo by Yomiuri Shimbun)

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Sino-Japanese ties very important: China's Li

BEIJING, China - Taizo Nishimuro, president of Japan Post Holdings Co. who heads the New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st Century on the Japanese side, speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Dec. 4, 2014, after talks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.

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Nishimuro addresses meeting of Japan-China expert panel

BEIJING, China - Japan Post Holdings Co. President Taizo Nishimuro addresses a meeting of the New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st Century, the first gathering in over three years, as head of the Japanese side at Beijing's Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on Dec. 3, 2014.

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Japan-China panel of experts hold 1st meeting in 3 yrs

BEIJING, China - Japan Post Holdings Co. President Taizo Nishimuro (L) and former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan shake hands at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Dec. 3, 2014. They represented each side of the New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st Century, which is expected to formulate a set of proposals for improved bilateral ties. The formal meeting was held for the first time in more than three years. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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New Japan-China friendship panel's informal meeting

NAGASAKI, Japan - The New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st Century holds an informal meeting in Nagasaki City on June 5, 2014, with the attendance of Taizo Nishimuro (2nd from L), president of Japan Post Holding Co., and Former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan (2nd from R).

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New Japan-China friendship panel's informal meeting

NAGASAKI, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro, president of Japan Post Holdings Co., addresses an informal meeting of the New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st Century on June 5, 2014, in Nagasaki City.

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New Japan-China friendship panel's informal meeting

NAGASAKI, Japan - Former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan (R) and Taizo Nishimuro, president of Japan Post Holdings Co., shake hands before the start of an informal meeting of the New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st Century in Nagasaki City on June 5, 2014.

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Japan Post chief Nishimuro

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro, president of Japan Post Holdings Co., holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 26, 2014. Nishimuro said Japan Post has agreed with China Post Group to enhance cooperation in delivering goods for online shopping.

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Japan Post to invest 1.3 tril. yen over 3 years

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro, president of Japan Post Holdings Co., briefs reporters on the company's three-year business plan in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2014. Nishimuro said Japan Post Holdings will invest 1.3 trillion yen over a three-year period from April to enhance its business base in preparation for its initial public offering planned in spring 2015.

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Japan Post to invest 1.3 tril. yen over 3 years

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro, president of Japan Post Holdings Co., briefs reporters on the company's three-year business plan in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2014. Nishimuro said Japan Post Holdings will invest 1.3 trillion yen over a three-year period from April to enhance its business base in preparation for its initial public offering planned in spring 2015.

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Japan Post to launch new education insurance

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro, president of Japan Post Holdings Co., holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 24, 2014, after the government gave Japan Post Insurance Co. approval to launch a new savings-oriented education insurance product.

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Japan Post to launch new education insurance

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro, president of Japan Post Holdings Co., holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 24, 2014, after the government gave Japan Post Insurance Co. approval to launch a new savings-oriented education insurance product.

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Japan Post, Aflac expand ties

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post Holdings Co. President Taizo Nishimuro (R) and Aflac Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Amos sign documents on their expanded business collaboration in Tokyo on July 26, 2013. Japan Post Group said it will expand ties with American Family Life Assurance Co. to sharply increase sales outlets handling the U.S. insurer's cancer policies and jointly develop cancer insurance products.

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Japan Post, Aflac expand ties

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post Holdings Co. President Taizo Nishimuro (R) and Aflac Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Amos join hands after a press conference in Tokyo on July 26, 2013. Japan Post Group said it will expanded business collaboration with American Family Life Assurance Co. to sharply increase sales outlets handling the U.S. insurer's cancer policies and jointly develop cancer insurance products.

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Japan Post new president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Taizo Nishimuro. Japan Post Holdings Co. on May 22, 2013, announced a plan to appoint former Toshiba Corp. Chairman Nishimuro, who currently serves as chairman of a committee to oversee progress in the privatization of the postal system, as its president to replace Atsuo Saka.

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Nishimuro tapped as Japan Post head

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows Atsuo Saka (L), president of Japan Post Holdings Co., and Taizo Nishimuro, a former head of Toshiba Corp. The government is considering replacing Saka with Nishimuro in June 2013, only six months after Saka assumed the post at the state-owned firm, government sources said May 10.

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Japan-China friendship committee meeting

BEIJING, China - Former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan (R) and adviser to the board of Toshiba Corp. Taizo Nishimuro, who head the Chinese and Japanese delegations of the New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st Century, an advisory panel to the two governments, smile during the opening ceremony of a meeting by the panel on Oct. 23, 2011, at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. The panel meets through Oct. 25. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan-China friendship committee meeting

BEIJING, China - Former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan (R) and adviser to the board of Toshiba Corp. Taizo Nishimuro, who head the Chinese and Japanese delegations to the New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st Century, an advisory panel to the two governments, exchange words during the opening ceremony of a meeting of the panel on Oct. 23, 2011, at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. The panel meets through Oct. 25. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Fiscal panel urges Japan to renew pledge on debt cuts

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro (L), chairman of the Fiscal System Council, submits a set of proposals to Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on June 3.

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Panel calls for maximum spending cuts in FY 2008 budget

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro (R), chairman of the Fiscal System Council, submits a recommendation to Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 19. The recommendation calls for ''maximum spending cuts'' in compiling the fiscal 2008 state budget in areas such as social security as part of efforts to put its debt-ridden finances in order.

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China's Asia Media makes TSE debut

TOKYO, Japan - Cui Jianping, chief executive officer of China's Asia Media Co., rings a bell during a ceremony to mark the company's debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Mothers market for start-up companies at the TSE in Tokyo on April 26, with TSE President Taizo Nishimuro looking on.

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Ex-IRCJ head Saito named as TSE president

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. said at a press conference on March 27 that it has appointed Atsushi Saito (in file photo), former president of the just-disbanded Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan, as its new president to replace Taizo Nishimuro, who will become the bourse's chairman.

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LEAD:Ex-IRCJ head Saito named as TSE president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Atsushi Saito, former president of the just-disbanded Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan, who was appointed March 27 as president of Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. Saito, 67, replaces Taizo Nishimuro, who will become the bourse's chairman.

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TSE found no evidence of organized accounting fraud at Nikko Cordial

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange President Taizo Nishimuro, testifying at a parliamentary panel, says the exchange has decided to keep Nikko Cordial Corp. listed on its first section as it has failed to find any evidence that the securities firm committed accounting fraud in an organized way.

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TSE OKs continued listing of Nikko Cordial despite accounting fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange President Taizo Nishimuro briefs reporters on March 12 on the TSE's decision to keep Nikko Cordial Corp., Japan's third-largest brokerage group, listed on the Tokyo bourse despite its falsification of financial statements.

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TSE OKs continued listing of Nikko Cordial despite accounting fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange President Taizo Nishimuro briefs reporters on March 12 on the TSE's decision to keep Nikko Cordial Corp., Japan's third-largest brokerage group, listed on the Tokyo bourse despite its falsification of financial statements.

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TSE, LSE ink cooperation accord

LONDON, Britain - Chris Gibson-Smith (L), chairman of the London Stock Exchange, Clara Furse (C), CEO of the LSE, and Taizo Nishimuro, president of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, shake hands at the LSE in central London on Feb. 23. The two exchanges signed an agreement aimed at enhancing their international presence through cooperation over access arrangements and development of new products.

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TSE, NYSE close to reaching tie-up accord, Nishimuro says

NEW YORK, United States - Tokyo Stock Exchange President Taizo Nishimuro (R) New York Stock Exchange Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Thain pose for a photo in New York on Jan. 30. Nishimuro said that the two exchanges are ''very close'' to reaching agreement to form an alliance.

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TSE, NYSE announce tie-up accord, eye cross-shareholdings

NEW YORK, United States - John Thain (L), chief executive officer of the New York Stock Exchange Group Inc., and Taizo Nishimuro, president of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, shake hands during a press conference in New York on Jan. 31. They announced that the two exchanges have agreed to cooperate in various fields, including jointly developing trading systems and investment products, and consider a possible capital alliance.

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Tokyo stocks end 2006 with 4th year of growth

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. President Taizo Nishimuro (1st L, front), Financial Services Minister Yuji Yamamoto (2nd L, front) and White Sox infielder Tadahito Iguchi (4th L, front) attend the traditional year-ending session at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Dec. 29. Tokyo stocks ended 2006 with a fourth straight year of growth.

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TSE-KRX alliance eyes system link, partial cross shareholdings

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Taizo Nishimuro (L) and his counterpart of South Korea's Korea Exchange (KRX) Lee Young Tak shake hands in Tokyo on July 7 after TSE and KRX announced a comprehensive alliance agreement with an eye to a possible integration of trading systems and partial cross shareholdings in the future.

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Japanese, Chinese bourse officials hold 1st meeting in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. President Taizo Nishimuro and Li Jiange, deputy director of the Development Research Center of China's State Council, pose for photos at a meeting of top officials of Japanese and Chinese bourses held in Tokyo on May 18.

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Japanese, Chinese bourse officials hold 1st meeting in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. President Taizo Nishimuro speaks at the first meeting of top officials of Japanese and Chinese bourses held at a Tokyo hotel on May 18. The participants agreed to enhance cooperation amid an acceleration of mergers among exchange operators in the United States and Europe.

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Nishimuro announces Livedoor's delisting

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange President Taizo Nishimuro tells a press conference in Tokyo on March 13 that the bourse will delist Livedoor Co. stock. The announcement came after the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission filed a fresh criminal complaint against the Internet company as well as against former President Takafumi Horie and four others over alleged securities law violations.

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TSE presents to FSA plan to prevent trading system glitches

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro, president and chairman of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 31 after submitting to the Financial Agency the TSE's plan to rectify the inadequacies of its computer system.

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TSE to limit Livedoor stock's trading hours to 1.5 hours from Wed.

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange President Taizo Nishimuro tells a press conference on Jan. 24 that the bourse limit daily trading hours for the stock of scandal-plagued Livedoor Co. to 1.5 hours to prevent a continuing flood of sell orders from disrupting the entire Tokyo bourse.

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TSE to beef up capacity of trading system next week

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange President Taizo Nishimuro answers questions from reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 20 after meeting with Financial Services Minister Kaoru Yosano to report a TSE plan to beef up the capacity of its computerized trading system next week.

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TSE to delay start of afternoon trading by 30 minutes

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro, president of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 18 about the TSE's decision to delay the start of afternoon trading by 30 minutes to 1 p.m. from Jan. 19 ''for the time being.''

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TSE halts all stock trading due to soaring orders

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange President Taizo Nishimuro tells an urgently convened news conference on Jan. 18. that the bourse will suspended trading in all listed shares at 2:40 p.m. as soaring orders from investors have reached its computer system's processing capacity.

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TSE halts all stock trading due to soaring orders

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange President Taizo Nishimuro (C) speaks at an urgently convened news conference at the exchange on Jan. 18. The TSE suspended trading in all listed shares at 2:40 p.m. as soaring orders from investors have reached its computer system's processing capacity. This is the first time the bourse has launched such an emergency measure.

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TSE to build new computer system in 2008

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro, chairman and president of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo at the TSE.

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Nishimuro doubles as TSE president after Tsurushima resigns

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange Chairman Taizo Nishimuro speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 20. Nishimuro will double as TSE president for the time being after President Takuo Tsurushima resigned to take responsibility for serious problems with the TSE's computer system that roiled the market recently.

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Nishimuro seeks to make TSE best bourse in Asia

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro, who is set to become the first chairman of Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. on June 27, speaks at a press conference at the TSE building on June 22. He said that Japan's largest bourse is making efforts for going public so it can secure its place as Asia's best stock market.

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TSE needs to be best in Asia, says Nishimuro

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro, who is set to become the first chairman of Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. next week, shakes hands with TSE President Takuo Tsurushima at the TSE building on June 22. Nishimuro said that Japan's largest bourse is making efforts for going public so it can secure its place as Asia's best stock market.

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Toshiba Chairman Nishimuro to become chairman of TSE in June

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. Chairman Taizo Nishimuro (in file photo) is scheduled to become the chairman of Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. in June, the TSE said April 19. The TSE created the post of chairman in the process of setting up a new management team after company President Masaaki Tsuchida died in January 2004.

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Ujiie nominated to chair Japan-U.S. Business Council

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan-U.S. Business Council said March 24 that Junichi Ujiie (file photo), chairman of Nomura Holdings Inc., is expected to assume the chairmanship of the grouping of leading Japanese and U.S. industrialists in November, succeeding Taizo Nishimuro.

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Japan, U.S. business leaders to discuss China next year

WASHINGTON, United States - Toshiba Corp. Chairman Taizo Nishimuro (L), who co-chaired the two-day Japan-U.S. Business Conference in Washington, speaks at a news conference after the meeting at a Washington hotel on Nov. 3. The business leaders agreed to discuss issues related to China as a major topic at their next annual meeting in Tokyo in November 2004.

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Business chiefs call for Japan, U.S., China dialogues

TOKYO, Japan - GE Japan President Mark Norbom (L) shakes hands with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) after handing him a report urging his government to take the initiative to launch economic dialogues among Japan, the United States and China. Standing between them is Toshiba Corp. Chairman Taizo Nishimuro, who along with Norbom attended a joint economic dialogue meeting between Japan and the United States in Washington, where the report was adopted.