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Shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings

Entrepreneur Takafumi Horie heads to the venue of a general shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings Inc. in Tokyo on June 25, 2025, following a sexual misconduct scandal involving popular TV host Masahiro Nakai and a female employee at a television network subsidiary.

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Shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings

Entrepreneur Takafumi Horie heads to the venue of a general shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings Inc. in Tokyo on June 25, 2025, following a sexual misconduct scandal involving popular TV host Masahiro Nakai and a female employee at a television network subsidiary.

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TEPCO files for safety assessments of 2 idled reactors

TOKYO, Japan - Takafumi Anegawa (R), managing executive officer of Tokyo Electric Power Co., submits applications for state safety assessments of the Nos. 6 and 7 nuclear reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant in Niigata Prefecture to an official of the Nuclear Regulation Authority in Tokyo on Sept. 27, 2013. TEPCO joined moves by four other utilities in Japan seeking to reactivate atomic power plants to improve their business conditions.

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TEPCO files for safety assessments of 2 idled reactors

TOKYO, Japan - Takafumi Anegawa, managing executive officer of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaks with reporters after submitting applications for state safety assessments of the Nos. 6 and 7 nuclear reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant in Niigata Prefecture to the Nuclear Regulation Authority in Tokyo on Sept. 27, 2013. TEPCO joined moves by four other utilities in Japan seeking to reactivate atomic power plants to improve their business conditions.

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Tokyo, Osaka bourses integrate

TOKYO, Japan - Akira Kiyota (R), president of Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc., answers a reporter's question at the TSE in the capital's Nihombashi Kabutocho district on July 16, 2013, after the bourse began trading. To the left is Takafumi Sato, president of Tokyo Stock Exchange Regulation. The Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges integrated the trading of shares at the TSE the same day, making it the world's third-largest exchange by number of listed companies.

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Lessons from 2011 quake to create safer evacuation

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Maya Momma shares memories of her husband Takafumi on April 30, 2013, in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture. Takafumi went missing while performing his duties as a volunteer fireman after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Ex-Livedoor head Horie released on parole

TOKYO, Japan - Former Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 27, 2013, after being paroled from prison having served 21 months of a 30-month sentence for accounting fraud.

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Ex-Livedoor head Horie released on parole

TOKYO, Japan - Former Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie bows at a press conference in Tokyo on March 27, 2013, after being paroled from prison having served 21 months of a 30-month sentence for accounting fraud.

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Japanese wins world cocktail title

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in May 2010 shows Takafumi Yamada, a Japanese bartender who won the World Cocktail Championship in Poland on Nov. 9, 2011, with an original cocktail on the theme of reconstruction from the March 11 disaster in Japan. Yamada said he created the vodka-based cocktail, Great Sunrise, in hope that ''a wonderful sunrise will shine all over Japan.''

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Ex-Livedoor chief Horie

TOKYO, Japan - Takafumi Horie, former president of Internet firm Livedoor Co., answers reporters' questions as he appeared at the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office on June 20, 2011, for procedures to imprison him over accounting fraud

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Ex-Livedoor execs ordered to pay 7.6 bil. yen in compensation

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs speak at a press conference after the Tokyo District Court on May 21 ordered Livedoor Co., now LDH Corp., Takafumi Horie, the founder and former president of Livedoor, and other former Livedoor executives to pay about 7.63 billion yen in compensation for stock losses they caused the company through securities law violations.

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High court upholds 2 1/2-yr term for Livedoor founder Horie

TOKYO, Japan - A group of lawyers for Takafumi Horie, the founder of the Livedoor Co. group, enter the Tokyo High Court on July 25. The Court upheld a lower court ruling sentencing Horie to two years and six months in prison without suspension for his involvement in accounting fraud and other securities law breaches.

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Livedoor eyes damages suit against Horie, other ex-execs

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 23. He said the company is willing to seek damages from its convicted founder Takafumi Horie and other former top executives now that a court has made a series of judgments condemning accounting fraud by the once high-flying Internet and financial services company.

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Livedoor founder Horie given 2 1/2-year prison term

TOKYO, Japan - People make a long line to get tickets to enter the Tokyo District Court on March 16 to observe a court ruling on Takafumi Horie, Livedoor Co. group founder charged with securities law breaches.

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S. Korea's Baek wins gold in wrestling at Asian Games

DOHA, Qatar - Baek Jin Kuk of South Korea (R) celebrates after beating Japan's Takafumi Kojima (L) in the men's 66kg freestyle wrestling final at the Asian Games in Doha on Dec. 14.

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S. Korea's Baek wins gold in wrestling at Asian Games

DOHA, Qatar - Baek Jin Kuk of South Korea (top) competes against Japan's Takafumi Kojima in the men's 66kg freestyle wrestling final at the Asian Games in Doha on Dec. 14. Baek won the gold.

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Line long to get tickets for Horie's 1st court hearing

TOKYO, Japan - A long line forms in front of the Tokyo District Court in central Tokyo on Sept. 4 as people try to get admission tickets for the first hearing of former Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie over the alleged securities law violation case.

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Futata accepts buyout proposal by Konaka over Aoki plan

FUKUOKA, Japan - Takafumi Futata, president of menswear retailer Futata Co., speaks during a news conference in Fukuoka on Aug. 18 about the company's acceptance of a buyout proposal from Konaka Co. over a rival takeover offer from another menswear chain, Aoki Holdings Inc.

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Livedoor hopes Horie will reduce stake in company: president

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu (L) speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on March 24. He expressed hope that former President Takafumi Horie, in detention since Jan. 23 over alleged accounting fraud, will reduce his equity stake in the embattled company.

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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 decides to delist Livedoor stock in mid-April

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo Stock Exchange decided March 13 to delist Livedoor Co. stock in mid-April as the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission filed a fresh criminal complaint with prosecutors against former five Livedoor Co. executives, including former President Takafumi Horie, and the company over alleged securities law violations. Photo taken the same day shows the Roppongi Hills building in Tokyo which houses Livedoor Co.

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DPJ thinks e-mail ruckus over, to pick Diet affairs chief quickly

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshihiko Noda (L), who will resign as Diet affairs chief of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, again apologizes at a party executives' meeting on March 1 for disrupting the Diet by alleging that Livedoor Co. founder Takafumi Horie had in an e-mail ordered a payment to a son of ruling Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe. DPJ is seeking to pick Noda's successor as early as possible as it believes the uproar about the e-mail allegation has been settled with the apology by DPJ lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata and executives of the party.

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Opposition lawmaker Nagata apologizes for e-mail uproar

TOKYO, Japan - Hisayasu Nagata (C), a House of Representatives member of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, holds a press conference at the Diet in Tokyo on Feb. 28 to apologize for disrupting the Diet by alleging, without hard evidence, that Livedoor founder Takafumi Horie had ordered a payment to the son of a top ruling party official.

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Opposition lawmaker Nagata apologizes for e-mail uproar

TOKYO, Japan - Opposition lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata apologizes for the uproar he caused by alleging, without hard evidence, that Livedoor founder Takafumi Horie had ordered a payment to the son of a top ruling party official as he leaves the hospital he had been admitted to due to fatigue caused by the scandal.

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Horie will not return to Livedoor: Hiramatsu

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 24. He said that Takafumi Horie, the founder of the Internet firm who has been arrested over alleged securities law violations, will not be able to come back to the company, no matter the outcome of his trial.

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Horie faces fresh arrest, Livedoor's future in doubt

TOKYO, Japan - Kozo Hiramatsu, president of Livedoor Co., speaks at a news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Feb. 22 after Takafumi Horie, the company's former president, and three other former executives were served fresh arrest warrants on suspicion of inflating Livedoor group earnings.

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Livedoor Representative Director Kumagai arrested

TOKYO, Japan - Fumito Kumagai (file photo), representative director of Livedoor Co., was arrested on Feb. 22 on suspicion of falsifying the company's financial figures for the business year through September 2004. Former Livedoor President Takafumi Horie and three others were served fresh warrants on the same suspicion.

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Livedoor shareholders to seek damages from Horie for losses

TOKYO, Japan - Chohei Yonekawa (L), who heads a newly formed group of lawyers to help Livedoor shareholders, tells reporters in Tokyo on Feb. 21 that some Livedoor Co. shareholders plan to sue former President Takafumi Horie and other former top managers of the company around September to seek damages, saying they have suffered huge losses in purchasing its shares in the wake of allegations that the Livedoor group was involved in accounting fraud.

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Horie steps down, Hiramatsu becomes president

TOKYO, Japan - New Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu (2nd from L) and other executives of the company bow at a hurriedly arranged press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 24. Takafumi Horie stepped down as president, a day after he was arrested on suspicion of violating securities laws.

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Horie steps down, Hiramatsu becomes president

TOKYO, Japan - Kozo Hiramatsu (R), newly appointed president of Livedoor Co., speaks at a hurriedly arranged press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 24, flanked by Fumito Kumagai, who was named director with the right to represent the company. Takafumi Horie stepped down as president, a day after he was arrested on suspicion of violating securities laws.

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Livedoor President Horie arrested over alleged financial scam

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie leaves the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office on Jan. 23. Horie was arrested along with three executives on suspicion of spreading false financial information to deceive investors.

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Livedoor President Horie arrested over alleged financial scam

OSAKA, Japan - People take out copies of a newspaper extra reporting the arrest of Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie at the JR Osaka Station on Jan. 23. Horie was arrested along with three executives on suspicion of spreading false financial information to deceive investors.

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Prosecutors grill Livedoor's Horie over alleged financial fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie (C) speaks to reporters at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2005, flanked by Chief Financial Officer Ryoji Miyauchi. Prosecutors began questioning Horie on Jan. 23 for allegedly spreading false financial information to deceive investors.

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Prosecutors grill Livedoor's Horie over alleged financial fraud

TOKYO, Japan - An electric board in Tokyo's Ginza district reports that prosecutors began questioning Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie on Jan. 23.

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Prosecutors grill Livedoor's Horie over alleged financial fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 23 shows the Mori Tower at Tokyo's Roppongi Hills which houses the headquarters of Livedoor Co. Prosecutors began questioning Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie for allegedly spreading false financial information to deceive investors.

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Prosecutors set to question Livedoor's Horie over alleged fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie (L) and Chief Financial Officer Ryoji Miyauchi pose for photos during a press conference they held at the the Tokyo Stock Exchange in June 2004. Prosecutors are expected to soon question the two Livedoor executives over a series of alleged fraudulent practices apparently designed to expand their business, investigative sources said Jan. 19.

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Horie says Livedoor is probing suspected illegal practice

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie bows after a news conference Jan. 17 in Tokyo.

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Horie says Livedoor is probing suspected illegal practice

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie speaks to reporters Jan. 17 in Tokyo after prosecutors ended an all-night raid into the Internet company's head office and other locations over allegations a group company gave false information about a corporate buyout and inflated earnings results to boost its stock price.

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Terao wins Olympic berth

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Skating Federation said Dec. 19 that (from L to R) Yoshiharu Arino, Takahiro Fujimoto, Satoru Terao, Takafumi Nishitani, and Hayato Sueyoshi will represent Japan in the men's short-track races in the Turin Olympics in February 2006.

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Livedoor aims to take majority stake in mail-order firm Cecile

TOKYO, Japan - Takafumi Horie, president of Internet services firm Livedoor Co., speaks in reply to question at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 21. He said Livedoor is seeking to take control of Cecile Co. as a Livedoor subsidiary will obtain a majority stake in the mail-order company for more than 20 billion yen.

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Livedoor Pres. Horie defeated in Hiroshima No. 6 district

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Takafumi Horie (R), president of Internet services firm Livedoor Co., watches a TV election program at his election campaign office in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Sept. 11. He was defeated by veteran lawmaker Shizuka Kamei in the Hiroshima No. 6 election district in the day's House of Representatives election.

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Horie says he will change Japan if elected to lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Internet mogul Takafumi Horie speaks at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo on Sept. 6. The 32-year-old pro-postal privatization independent said he will bring about drastic changes to Japan's political system if he wins in the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election.

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Horie begins election campaigning

ONOMICHI, Japan - Takafumi Horie (R), president of Internet services firm Livedoor Co., appeals to voters in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Aug. 30 as he begins official campaigning for the Sept. 11 general election in a Hiroshima district.

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Livedoor's Horie in Hiroshima to check his constituency

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie, who will run in the Sept. 11 general election, shakes hands with a voter during an inspection tour of his constituency. Horie will run as an independent in the Hiroshima No. 6 constituency challenging Shizuka Kamei, one of the leading Liberal Democratic Party rebels against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization legislation.

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Livedoor's Horie arrives in Hiroshima

FUKUYAMA, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie (C) arrives at JR Fukuyama Station on Aug. 19 on his way to the Hiroshima No. 6 constituency, where he will run as an independent in the Sept. 11 general election to challenge Shizuka Kamei, one of the leading Liberal Democratic Party rebels against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization legislation.

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Livedoor's Horie to run as independent

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie (R) speaks at a press conference at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 19, flanked by LDP Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe (L) and an LDP election poster featuring Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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Livedoor's Horie to run as independent

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie speaks at a press conference after his talks with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 19. The 32-year-old Internet entrepreneur said he will run in the Sept. 11 general election as an independent in the Hiroshima No. 6 constituency to challenge Shizuka Kamei, one of the leading LDP rebels against Koizumi's postal privatization bills.

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Horie to run in general election against Kamei

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie speaks to reporters at the headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Aug. 19 after talks with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Horie said he will run in the Sept. 11 general election as an independent in the Hiroshima No. 6 constituency.

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Livedoor's Horie hoping to run in election in Hiroshima: Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks to reporters at his office on Aug. 18. He said Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie has told his ruling Liberal Democratic Party that he hopes to run in the upcoming election in a constituency in Hiroshima Prefecture. The constituency is where Shizuka Kamei, a stern critic of Koizumi, is expected to run in the Sept. 11 general election.

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Livedoor's Horie hoping to run in election in Hiroshima: Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie (in photo) has told the ruling Liberal Democratic Party that he hopes to run in the upcoming election in a constituency in Hiroshima Prefecture, Prime Minister and LDP President Junichiro Koizumi said on Aug. 18. The constituency is where Shizuka Kamei, a stern critic of Koizumi, is expected to run in the Sept. 11 general election.