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Fierce battle between major Japanese underground syndicates

OSAKA, Japan, April 25 Kyodo - Riot police officers confront members of the Yamaguchi-gumi underground gangster syndicate to keep them at bay from Osaka Police Hospital in the western Japan city on Jan. 26, 1985. The syndicate's leader Masahisa Takenaka was admitted to the hospital earlier in the day after being shot by members belonging to the syndicate's rival, Ichiwa-kai.

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Test of automated vessel-type robot

An automated square vessel, "Umidoko Robot" developed by a team involving Japanese general contractor Takenaka Corp. and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, is tested in a moat of Osaka Castle Park in the western Japan city of Osaka on Dec. 6, 2023, to assess its practical application in the future.

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Test of automated vessel-type robot

An automated square vessel, "Umidoko Robot" developed by a team involving Japanese general contractor Takenaka Corp. and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, is tested in a moat of Osaka Castle Park in the western Japan city of Osaka on Dec. 6, 2023, to assess its practical application in the future.

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Takenaka shows outdoor work space

OSAKA, Japan - Construction firm Takenaka Corp. shows to the press on Nov. 21, 2014, an outdoor work space created in the Osaka Business Park in Osaka, western Japan, as part of its energy-saving demonstration experiment.

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In-service training for Takenaka's Thai employees

BANGKOK, Thailand - A veteran Thai employee of Takenaka Corp.'s Thai Takenaka International Ltd. trains compatriot junior employees at its training facility on the outskirts of Bangkok in September 2014.

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Takenaka opens new carpentry museum in western Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Carpenters' tools are exhibited at Takenaka Corp.'s Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum in Kobe, western Japan, on Sept. 18, 2014, during a press preview. Official inauguration is scheduled for Oct. 4.

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Takenaka opens new carpentry museum in western Japan

OSAKA, Japan - A real-size dummy pillar of Toshodaiji Temple's main hall is exhibited at Takenaka Corp.'s Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum in Kobe, western Japan, on Sept. 18, 2014, during a press preview. Official inauguration is scheduled for Oct. 4.

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Japanese economic experts in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Koichi Hamada (R), Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policy adviser, and Heizo Takenaka, professor at Keio University in Japan, attend an event at the Japan Society in New York on April 30, 2014.

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Stiglitz in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Joseph Stiglitz (L), a Nobel laureate in economics and professor at Columbia University, listens to Heizo Takenaka, a professor at Keio University, at an international conference on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policies, dubbed "Abenomics," in Tokyo's Minato Ward on May 31, 2013.

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Kan, Takenaka clash over economic growth priority

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show former Liberal Democratic Party Cabinet minister Heizo Takenaka (L) and Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan during a meeting of the government's growth strategy panel in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2009. The two clashed over whether priority should be given to businesses or households to boost Japan's economic growth.

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Takenaka raps nomination of ex-bureaucrat to head Japan Post

TOKYO, Japan - Former economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka, the main architect of postal privatization under former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Oct. 22, 2009. Takenaka criticized the government's naming of a former bureaucrat to head Japan Post Holdings Co.

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World's tallest observation wheel in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - The Singapore Flyer, the world's tallest observation wheel, rises to 165 meters above ground level. The Flyer, which will open to the public on March 1, was designed by Japanese architectural firm Kisho Kurokawa Architects and Associates and a Singaporean firm, and was built by Mitsubishi Corp. and Takenaka Corp.

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Takenaka urges European investors to turn attention to Japan

LONDON, Britain - Japan's former economic minister Heizo Takenaka speaks at a seminar sponsored by the Japan Securities Dealers Association in London on Jan. 21.

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JAL incurs 16.27 bil. yen group net loss in FY 2006

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuya Takenaka (R), managing director of Japan Airlines Corp., briefs reporters on the company's group earnings report for fiscal 2006 in Tokyo on May 9.

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Koizumi Cabinet resigns en masse

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (C) prepares to attend a final Cabinet meeting at his office in Tokyo on Sept. 26. The Cabinet ministers resigned en masse ahead of the incoming administration. At left is Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Heizo Takenaka, who is flanked by Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe.

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Internal affairs minister Takenaka to resign as lawmaker

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Heizo Takenaka speaks at a press conference on Sept. 15 on his decision to resign as a member of the House of Councillors on Sept. 26, in line with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi leaving office. ''My role in the political world has been to support Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi,'' Takenaka said.

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Privatized postal services may lose their teeth

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshifumi Nishikawa (R), president of Japan Post Holdings, hands a working plan for privatization of Japan Post to Heizo Takenaka, internal affairs and communications minister, at the ministry in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district on July 31.

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Japan Post plans service expansion after privatization

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post Corp. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (R) and Internal Affairs and Communication Minister Heizo Takenaka (L) hold a news conference in Tokyo on July 31 after Nishikawa handed Takenaka an outline of its 10-year postal privatization road map.

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Japan Post plans service expansion after privatization

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post Corp. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (R) hands an outline of the company's 10-year postal privatization road map to Internal Affairs and Communication Minister Heizo Takenaka on July 31.

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Businessmen to head 4 postal entities after privatization

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Heizo Takenaka (L) speaks at a press conferemce after announcing the appointment of private-sector businessmen as chief executive officers of the four companies to be created through the privatization of postal services in October 2007.

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Fuji Heavy debuts Subaru Stella minicar targeted at women

TOKYO, Japan - Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Kyoji Takenaka stands besides the Subaru Stella the company released on June 14.

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Toyota let Fuji Heavy producing 100,000 Camrys

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki Watanabe (R) and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Kyoji Takenaka shake hands after a press conference in Tokyo on March 13. They announced their business tie-up centering on producing about 100,000 Toyota Camrys a year at Fuji Heavy's U.S. plant.

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Postal privatization planning firm begins operations

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshifumi Nishikawa (L), president of Japan Post Corp., a new stock company set up by the public corporation Japan Post, and Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Heizo Takenaka (R) cut the tape in a ceremony in Tokyo on Jan. 23 as the new company began operations the same day in the buildup to Japan's postal privatization from October 2007.

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Planning firm for postal privatization selects president, directors

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Heizo Takenaka addresses an inaugural meeting of a company to prepare for Japan's postal privatization in 2007 held at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 20. The meeting chose former Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa as its president. Takenaka said, ''Postal privatization will have the historic meaning of creating Japan's new market economy for the 21st century.''

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Gov't to map out plan to integrate two pension programs by April

TOKYO, Japan - Government officials and members of the ruling parties discuss mapping out a plan to integrate two of the country's three public pension programs -- those for corporate and public employees -- at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 16. Photo shows (from R to L) welfare minister Jiro Kawasaki, Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki and Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Heizo Takenaka.

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Rice reaped in high-tech paddy field on underground floor

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Heizo Takenaka (C) reaps rice from a computer-operated paddy field on the second floor basement of an office building in Tokyo's Otemachi district on Jan. 11. The paddy field was prepared by staffing services company Pasona to interest more people in agriculture.

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Rice reaped in high-tech underground paddy field

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Heizo Takenaka (C) joins in reaping rice from a computer-operated paddy field on the second floor basement of an office building in Tokyo's Otemachi district Jan. 11. The paddy field was prepared by staffing services company Pasona to interest more people in agriculture.

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Sakhalin-born man moves to Japan 60 years after WWII

HAKODATE, Japan - Akio Takenaka (L), 63, born in Sakhalin in 1942 during World War II, arrives at Hakotate Airport in Hokkaido, on Dec. 9 with his wife and son's family to spend the rest of his life in Japan.

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Cabinet ministers meet to discuss U.S. realignment plans

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Defense Agency chief Fukushiro Nukaga, Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe and Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Heizo Takenaka are among Cabinet members attending their first meeting at the prime minister's office on Nov. 15 to discuss plans related to realignment of the U.S. military presence in Japan.

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Ex-top banker Nishikawa to head key firm for postal system privatization

TOKYO, Japan - Heizo Takenaka (L), minister of internal affairs and communications, and former Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa smile at a question from one of reporters during a press conference on Nov. 11. The government has picked Nishikawa as president of a holding firm to be founded in October 2007 for the privatization of Japan's postal system.

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Takenaka named new internal affairs minister

TOKYO, Japan - Former postal reform minister Heizo Takenaka, who was appointed as minister of internal affairs and communications on Oct. 31, enters the prime minister's office the same day.

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Bills enacted to privatize Japan Post from Oct. 2007

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (2nd from L) shakes hands with his postal privatization minister Heizo Takenaka (L) after a set of bills to privatize Japan Post were voted into laws by the House of Councillors on Oct. 14. Koizumi called the enactment of the laws a ''political miracle'' and thanked the public for supporting his drive.

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Bills enacted to privatize Japan Post from Oct. 2007

TOKYO, Japan - Heizo Takenaka (L), state minister in charge of potal privatization, bow by way of expressing appreciation after a set of bills to privatize Japan Post were approved the House of Councillors Special Committee on Postal Privatization on Oct. 14. The upper house voted the bills into laws at a plenary session later in the day.

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Gov't maintains bullish economic view in Oct.

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi smiles, flanked by Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki (2nd from L) and economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka (3rd from R) during a meeting of his economic ministers at his office on Oct. 12. The government maintained its bullish assessment of the Japanese economy Wednesday from the previous month, with officials citing recoveries in personal spending and exports.

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Toyota to become Fuji Heavy's biggest shareholder

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Mitsuo Kinoshita (L) shakes hands with Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Kyoji Takenaka after a press conference Oct. 5. The two automakers said Toyota will become the biggest shareholder in Fuji Heavy by acquiring an 8.7 percent stake from General Motors Corp. in the United States.

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Gov't maintains upbeat overall economic view

TOKYO, Japan - Economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka briefs reporters on the government's monthly economic report for September in Tokyo on Sept. 22.

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Takenaka expresses intent to delay postal privatization

TOKYO, Japan - Postal privatization minister Heizo Takenaka enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 13. Takenaka told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that he plans to delay the start of privatizing Japan's postal services by half a year to Oct. 1, 2007.

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Fuji Heavy unveils electric car that uses lithium-ion battery

TOKYO, Japan - Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Kyoji Takenaka unveils in Tokyo on Aug. 18 a Subaru R1e electric minicar concept model that uses high-performance lithium-ion batteries the automaker says will help it compete against others in developing environment-friendly vehicles.

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Japan's economy grows 0.3% in April-June for 3rd quarterly rise

TOKYO, Japan - Heizo Takenaka, state minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, speaks to reporters about Japan's gross domestic product for the April-June period in Tokyo on Aug. 12.

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LDP begins to purge lawmakers who voted against postal bills

TOKYO, Japan - Ppostal privatization minister Heizo Takenaka speaks with reporters at the prime minister's office on Aug. 10. Takenaka dismissed a newspaper report that he would pit himself in the Sept. 11 general election against Shizuka Kamei, a former chairman of the LDP Policy Research Council who is staunchly opposed to Koizumi's postal privatization bills.

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Japan has pulled out of economic lull: Takenaka

TOKYO, Japan - Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Heizo Takenaka tells a press conference on Aug. 9 that Japan has pulled out of economic lull, attributing his belief to pickups in exports, major progress in adjustments in the information technology sector and rising personal spending.

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Upper house nixes postal bills

TOKYO, Japan - Heizo Takenaka, state minister in charge of postal privatization, reacts after the House of Councillors plenary session voted down the government-sponsored bills to privatize Japan Post on Aug. 8.

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Postal bills clear panel but Koizumi's fate uncertain

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) and Heizo Takenaka, state minister in charge of postal privatization, bow in appreciation after the House of Councillors's Special Committee on Postal Privatization approved the government-sponsored bills to privatize Japan Post on Aug. 5.

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Gov't calls for market-driven reforms to realize 'small gov't'

TOKYO, Japan - Heizo Takenaka, state minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 15 after submitting a report on the Japanese economy to the Cabinet.

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Postal bills clear lower house ad hoc panel

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) and state minister for portal privatization Heizo Takenaka express their appreciation after a House of Representatives ad hoc committee approved a set of bills to privatize Japan Post on July 4.

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Japan's policy guideline calls for medical spending goal

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (C) presides over a meeting of his Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, flanked by Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda (L) and economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka (R) on June 21. The panel adopted an economic and fiscal policy guideline calling for establishing within this year a goal for rationalizing medical care spending.

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Gov't upgrades economic view for 1st time in 11 months

TOKYO, Japan - Economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka briefs reporters on the government monthly economic report for June at the Cabinet Office in Tokyo on June 15.

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(2)Opposition boycotts panel debate on postal bills

TOKYO, Japan - Heizo Takenaka, state minister in charge of postal privatization, speaks in reply to questions at a House of Representatives ad hoc committee on privatization of postal services on May 27. Seated behind him are Tatsuya Ito (C), state minister in charge of financial services, and Taro Aso 'R), internal affairs and communications minister. The opposition camp continued to boycott the session.

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Japan's GDP grows in Jan.-March qtr

TOKYO, Japan - Economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 17 on Japan's economy, which grew a real 1.3 percent in the January-March period from the previous quarter, its strongest expansion in a year.

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Japan's economy shrinks 0.1% in Oct.-Dec. qtr

TOKYO, Japan - Economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka speaks to reporters after the government announced Japan's economy shrank 0.1 percent in real terms in the 2004 October-December period from the previous quarter, down for the third straight quarter.