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Japanese businessman upbeat on Chinese market

STORY: Japanese businessman upbeat on Chinese market DATELINE: Jan. 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:31 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Meiji factory 2. various of views of China 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): TAMOTSU MATSUI, President, Meiji (China) Investment Co., Ltd. 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): TAMOTSU MATSUI, President, Meiji (China) Investment Co., Ltd. STORYLINE: Tamotsu Matsui, President of Meiji (China) Investment Co., Ltd., expresses confidence in the Chinese market as the company is building three factories in China. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): TAMOTSU MATSUI, President, Meiji (China) Investment Co., Ltd. "Currently in China, Meiji is building three factories. One is a milk/yogurt factory located in Tianjin with an investment of 620 million yuan (about 90.27 million U.S. dollars). The second one is in Guangzhou, where we invested 1.2 billion yuan (about 170 million U.S. dollars). This factory will produce milk and yogurt, chocolate and biscuit products. The third is the ice crea

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Japanese-Brazilians facing new challenges in Brazil

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Family members of Masayoshi Ibusuki (2nd from R) have a chat while looking at family photos in Piedade in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo on March 21, 2014. From left in front are his father Tamotsu and mother Hisayo, with his first son Kelvin (R, rear) looking down.

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PM Abe visits Fukushima

NAMIE, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and reconstruction minister Takumi Nemoto (C) listen as Tamotsu Baba (L), mayor of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, describes the situation in the town on March 24, 2013, during their visit to the prefecture to check on the progress of reconstruction in areas damaged by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters. (Pool photo)

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PM Abe visits Fukushima

NAMIE, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and reconstruction minister Takumi Nemoto (C) listen as Tamotsu Baba (L), mayor of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, describes the situation in the town on March 24, 2013, during their visit to the prefecture to check on the progress of reconstruction in areas damaged by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters. (Pool photo)

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Osaka prosecutors release comedian Kuroda

OSAKA, Japan - Comedian and TV personality Tamotsu Kuroda (L), who was arrested on Dec. 26, 2009, for allegedly assaulting and injuring a bar manager in a quarrel over a bill, attends a press conference in Osaka on Jan. 12, 2010, after the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office suspended his indictment and released him. Kuroda and the manager came to an out-of-court settlement.

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Osaka prosecutors release comedian Kuroda

OSAKA, Japan - Comedian and TV personality Tamotsu Kuroda (L), who was arrested on Dec. 26, 2009, for allegedly assaulting and injuring a bar manager in a quarrel over a bill, bows in apology during a press conference in Osaka on Jan. 12, 2010, after the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office suspended his indictment and released him. Kuroda and the manager came to an out-of-court settlement.

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Anthropologist Tamotsu Aoki named as cultural agency head

TOKYO, Japan - Anthropologist Tamotsu Aoki, who was appointed as head of the Agency for Cultural Affairs on March 27. (File photo). Aoki, 68, visiting professor at Waseda University's Organization for Asian Studies, will replace Shinji Kondo, a senior bureaucrat of the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry.

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Carlyle, Kyocera finalize deal on DDI Pocket purchase

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Onodera (L), president of KDDI, Tamotsu Adachi (2nd from L), Japanese representative of U.S. investment firm Carlyle Group, Yasuo Nishiguchi, president of Kyocera Corp. (2n from R) and Takeo Yamashita, president of DDI Pocket Inc., pose for photos during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on June 21. They announced that Carlyle Group and Kyocera will buy DDI Pocket, an affiliate of KDDI, 220 billion yen.

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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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Chimura father wants to visit N. Korea to meet grandchildren

OBAMA, Japan - Tamotsu Chimura, the father of Yasushi Chimura now back in Japan after being abducted to North Korea in 1978, tells reporters at his home in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Dec. 31 he wants to travel to Pyongyang to see his grandchildren there if Japanese government officials accompany him. Yasushi has three children still in Pyongyang. (Pool photo)

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Father to force Chimura to speak about 8 on dead abductee list

OBAMA, Japan - Tamotsu Chimura, whose son Yasushi was abducted by North Korean agents in 1978 but is now back in Japan, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Obama, Fukui Prefecture. He said said he will force his son to ''tell the truth'' about eight Japanese abductees listed by Pyongyang as dead when his grandchildren come to Japan from the communist state.

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Abductees' kin rejoice at gov't announcement

OBAMA, Japan - Tamotsu Chimura (L), whose son Yasushi was abducted to North Korea in 1978 and is currently visiting Japan, and Yuko Hamamoto, Yasushi's brother-in-law, rejoice Oct. 24 after Tokyo announced that Yasushi, his wife and three other abductees who returned to Japan will not go back to North Korea.

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(7)5 returnees arrive in hometowns in Fukui, Niigata

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (R), who was abducted to North Korea, dines with his father Tamotsu (L) and relatives at his family's home in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 17 during a temporary visit to Japan. (Pool photo)

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(4)Abductees glad to be in homeland

TOKYO, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (2nd from L) and Fukie Hamamoto (2nd from R) are seated at a joint news conference at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 15, flanked by Chimura's father Tamotsu (L) and Hamamoto's brother Yuko (R).

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(3)5 abductees to N. Korea reunited with families

TOKYO, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (R) and his father Tamotsu join hands at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Oct. 15 after Chimura arrived from Pyongyang. Chimura and four other Japanese nationals, all abducted to North Korea in 1978, returned to Japan for a temporary homecoming.

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(3)Abductees, kin embrace after 24 years

TOKYO, Japan - Yasushi Chimura holds his father Tamotsu on arriving at Haneda airport for temporary homecoming from North Korea on Oct. 15.

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(2)Joy, doubt grip kin of 5 abductees on news of homecoming

TOKYO, Japan - Tamotsu Chimura, 75, informed of his son Yasushi's temporary homecoming from North Korea, speaks to reporters at his home in Fukui Prefecture on Oct. 9. ''Even if you say five survivors, why aren't the children included?'' Tamotsu said.

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Nomakuchi to become president of Mitsubishi Electric

TOKYO, Japan - Tamotsu Nomakuchi (L), a senior managing director of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. who will become the company's president April 1, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 5. At right is current President Ichiro Taniguchi, who will become chairman with representation rights.

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Sony launches Japan's 2nd Internet-only bank

TOKYO, Japan - Tamotsu Iba (2nd from L), chairman of Sony Bank, Shigeru Ishii (3rd from L) its president, and two unidentified officials join hands at a ceremony in Tokyo's Ginza district June 11 to mark the start of Sony Corp.'s venture into the banking business. Sony Bank, owned 80% by electronic giant Sony, is Japan's second Internet-based bank, following Japan Net Bank set up last October.

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Sony files application for Internet banking license

TOKYO, Japan - Tamotsu Iba (L), vice chairman of Sony Corp., and Shigeru Ishii, chief of Sony's financial service preparatory division, speak about the company's planned Internet bank at a press conference at the firm's head office in Tokyo on Jan. 31. Sony asked the Financial Services Agency for a preliminary license to establish Sony Bank Corp., with an eye to launching it in June.

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11 firms, banks led by Sony to push electric money payments

TOKYO, Dec. 25 - Tamotsu Iba (C), vice chairman of Sony Corp, and representatives from six other companies join hands at a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Dec. 25 after announcing their agreement to set up a joint venture in January to promote electric-money services based on prepaid-card technology developed by Sony. Other participants in the joint venture include NTT DoCoMo Inc., Sakura Bank, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Toyota Motor Corp., Denso Corp., and KDDI.

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Sony to form online bank with J.P. Morgan

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) J.P. Morgan & Co Chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown, Sony Corp. President Nobuyuki Idei, Sakura Bank President Akishige Okada and Sony Executive Deputy President Tamotsu Iba shake hands following the announcement of their new online banking joint venture.

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Nomakuchi to become president of Mitsubishi Electric

TOKYO, Japan - Tamotsu Nomakuchi (L), a senior managing director of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. who will become the company's president April 1, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 5. At right is current President Ichiro Taniguchi, who will become chairman with representation rights.

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(7)5 returnees arrive in hometowns in Fukui, Niigata

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (R), who was abducted to North Korea, dines with his father Tamotsu (L) and relatives at his family's home in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 17 during a temporary visit to Japan. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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(2)Joy, doubt grip kin of 5 abductees on news of homecoming

TOKYO, Japan - Tamotsu Chimura, 75, informed of his son Yasushi's temporary homecoming from North Korea, speaks to reporters at his home in Fukui Prefecture on Oct. 9. ''Even if you say five survivors, why aren't the children included?'' Tamotsu said. (Kyodo)

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Chimura father wants to visit N. Korea to meet grandchildren

OBAMA, Japan - Tamotsu Chimura, the father of Yasushi Chimura now back in Japan after being abducted to North Korea in 1978, tells reporters at his home in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Dec. 31 he wants to travel to Pyongyang to see his grandchildren there if Japanese government officials accompany him. Yasushi has three children still in Pyongyang. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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(7)Abductees, kin embrace after 24 years

TOKYO, Japan - Yasushi Chimura holds his father Tamotsu on arriving at Haneda airport for temporary homecoming from North Korea on Oct. 15. (Kyodo)

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IHI announces aero-engine unit chief's promotion to president

IHI Corp. Managing Executive Officer Tsugio Mitsuoka (L) attends a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 22, 2016, alongside current President Tamotsu Saito, as the heavy machinery maker announced Mitsuoka's promotion to president, effective April 1. The 61-year-old has contributed to expanding sales and profits in IHI's aero-engine business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima town mayor draws attention to deaths related to prolonged evacuation

Tamotsu Baba, mayor of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, reports on the current situation of his town and its residents near the crippled nuclear power plant at a symposium in Tokyo on April 4, 2015. The entire town remains in the no-go zone due to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi plant disaster and Baba called for attention to the increasing number of deaths - including from suicides and deteriorating health - related to the prolonged evacuation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Post-Fukushima disaster character's popularity grows in Thailand

Courage Force Inc. President Tamotsu Ebina poses with the masks of the Japanese Miraigar (L) and Thai Miraigar on Dec. 7, 2016 in Nikaho, Akita Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Anthropologist Tamotsu Aoki named as cultural agency head

TOKYO, Japan - Anthropologist Tamotsu Aoki, who was appointed as head of the Agency for Cultural Affairs on March 27. (File photo). Aoki, 68, visiting professor at Waseda University's Organization for Asian Studies, will replace Shinji Kondo, a senior bureaucrat of the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry. (Kyodo)

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Sailors playing cards on their ship

The sailors probably had this photograph taken to commemorate their visit to Yokohama. The mount is from the Enami Tamotsu Studio at No.9 Benten Dori 1-chome. Opened by Enami Nobukuni in 1892, the studio was located at this address until the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number69‐24‐0]

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Osaka prosecutors release comedian Kuroda

OSAKA, Japan - Comedian and TV personality Tamotsu Kuroda (L), who was arrested on Dec. 26, 2009, for allegedly assaulting and injuring a bar manager in a quarrel over a bill, attends a press conference in Osaka on Jan. 12, 2010, after the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office suspended his indictment and released him. Kuroda and the manager came to an out-of-court settlement. (Kyodo)

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Osaka prosecutors release comedian Kuroda

OSAKA, Japan - Comedian and TV personality Tamotsu Kuroda (L), who was arrested on Dec. 26, 2009, for allegedly assaulting and injuring a bar manager in a quarrel over a bill, bows in apology during a press conference in Osaka on Jan. 12, 2010, after the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office suspended his indictment and released him. Kuroda and the manager came to an out-of-court settlement. (Kyodo)

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Logo of 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo

Tamotsu Shimada, head of Team Inari, speaks at a press conference in Osaka, western Japan, on Aug. 25, 2020, as the official logo of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai World Exposition, designed by the team, is unveiled.

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Logo of 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo

Tamotsu Shimada, head of Team Inari, poses as the official logo of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai World Exposition, designed by the team, is unveiled in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 25, 2020.

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Logo of 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo

Tamotsu Shimada, head of Team Inari, poses as the official logo of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai World Exposition, designed by the team, is unveiled in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 25, 2020.

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Death of N. Korean abduction victim's father

File photo taken in June 2003 shows Tamotsu Chimura (R), whose son Yasushi was abducted by North Korea in 1978 and returned to Japan in 2002 with four other abductees. Chimura died on July 10, 2020, aged 93.

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Death of N. Korean abduction victim's father

File photo taken in February 2004 shows Tamotsu Chimura, whose son Yasushi was abducted by North Korea in 1978 and returned to Japan in 2002 with four other abductees. Chimura died on July 10, 2020, aged 93.

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Death of N. Korean abduction victim's father

File photo taken in November 2003 shows Tamotsu Chimura (R), whose son Yasushi was abducted by North Korea in 1978 and returned to Japan in 2002 with four other abductees, speaking in Oji, Nara Prefecture, western Japan. Chimura died on July 10, 2020, at age 93.

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Death of N. Korean abduction victim's father

File photo taken in October 2002 shows Tamotsu Chimura (R), whose son Yasushi was abducted by North Korea in 1978, speaking at a press conference in Tokyo, about a week after his son's return to Japan with four other abductees. Chimura died on July 10, 2020, at age 93.

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Death of N. Korean abduction victim's father

File photo taken in October 2002 shows Tamotsu Chimura (L) welcoming back his abducted son Yasushi from North Korea at Tokyo's Haneda airport. Chimura died on July 10, 2020 at age 93.

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New president of McDonald's Japan

Tamotsu Hiiro, senior vice president and chief support officer of McDonald's Co. (Japan), holds a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 21, 2019. He will become president and CEO of the company effective March 27, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Comedian arrested over fight with bar manager

OSAKA, Japan - Tamotsu Kuroda (file photo), a member of comic duo ''Messenger,'' was arrested on Dec. 26, 2009, after allegedly assaulting and injuring a bar manager in a quarrel over a bill. (Kyodo)

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Carlyle, Kyocera finalize deal on DDI Pocket purchase

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Onodera (L), president of KDDI, Tamotsu Adachi (2nd from L), Japanese representative of U.S. investment firm Carlyle Group, Yasuo Nishiguchi, president of Kyocera Corp. (2n from R) and Takeo Yamashita, president of DDI Pocket Inc., pose for photos during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on June 21. They announced that Carlyle Group and Kyocera will buy DDI Pocket, an affiliate of KDDI, 220 billion yen. (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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Father to force Chimura to speak about 8 on dead abductee list

OBAMA, Japan - Tamotsu Chimura, whose son Yasushi was abducted by North Korean agents in 1978 but is now back in Japan, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Obama, Fukui Prefecture. He said said he will force his son to ''tell the truth'' about eight Japanese abductees listed by Pyongyang as dead when his grandchildren come to Japan from the communist state. (Kyodo)

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Abductees' kin rejoice at gov't announcement

OBAMA, Japan - Tamotsu Chimura (L), whose son Yasushi was abducted to North Korea in 1978 and is currently visiting Japan, and Yuko Hamamoto, Yasushi's brother-in-law, rejoice Oct. 24 after Tokyo announced that Yasushi, his wife and three other abductees who returned to Japan will not go back to North Korea. (Kyodo)

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(3)Abductees, kin embrace after 24 years

TOKYO, Japan - Yasushi Chimura holds his father Tamotsu on arriving at Haneda airport for temporary homecoming from North Korea on Oct. 15. (Kyodo)

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(3)5 abductees to N. Korea reunited with families

TOKYO, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (R) and his father Tamotsu join hands at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Oct. 15 after Chimura arrived from Pyongyang. Chimura and four other Japanese nationals, all abducted to North Korea in 1978, returned to Japan for a temporary homecoming. (Kyodo)