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PlayStation Booth at 2025 ChinaJoy

SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 3, 2025 - EGUCHI TATSUO, Chairman and President of SONY Interactive Entertainment, made an appearance at the 2025 ChinaJoy in Shanghai, China on August 1, 2025.

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Japan Foreign Trade Council,Inc. (JFTC) Chairman Change Press Conference

Japan Foreign Trade Council,Inc. (JFTC) press conference on the change of chairman. Photo shows, from right to left: Tatsuo Yasunaga, new chairman (Chairman of Mitsui & Co., Ltd.); Fumiya Kokubu, new honorary chairman (Chairman of Marubeni Corporation). ＝May 31, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

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Japan Foreign Trade Council,Inc. (JFTC) Chairman Change Press Conference

Japan Foreign Trade Council,Inc. (JFTC) press conference on the change of chairman. Photo shows Tatsuo Yasunaga, new chairman (Chairman of Mitsui & Co., Ltd.). ＝May 31, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

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Japan Foreign Trade Council,Inc. (JFTC) Chairman Change Press Conference

Japan Foreign Trade Council,Inc. (JFTC) press conference on the change of chairman. Photo shows, from right to left: Tatsuo Yasunaga, new chairman (Chairman of Mitsui & Co., Ltd.); Fumiya Kokubu, new honorary chairman (Chairman of Marubeni Corporation). ＝May 31, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

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Japanese painter Takayama dies at 95

TOKYO, Japan - Award-winning Japanese painter Tatsuo Takayama (file photo) died of pneumonia at his home in Tokyo on Sept. 14, his family said. He was 95. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, Takayama painted his breakthrough work ''Yokushitsu'' (bathroom) in 1946, for which he won a special commendation in the Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, or Nitten.

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Managing officer Yasunaga named as new Mitsui president

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Yasunaga, a 54-year-old Mitsui & Co. managing officer who will become the company's new president in April, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2015.

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Univ. of Miyazaki opens office in Yangon

YANGON, Myanmar - Tatsuo Suganuma (C), president of the University of Miyazaki, attends the opening ceremony of the Japanese national university's office in Yangon, the biggest city in Myanmar, on Dec. 30, 2014. The university will promote the development of human resources in Myanmar in cooperation with the government of the Southeast Asian country.

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Otsuka to buy U.S. biopharmaceutical firm Avanir for $3.5 bil.

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Higuchi, president of Otsuka Holdings Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Dec. 2, 2014, on the planned acquisition by its subsidiary Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. of California-based biopharmaceutical firm Avanir Pharmaceuticals Inc. for $3.54 billion through a tender offer to be followed by a merger. The Japanese nutrition product and drug manufacturer will pay $17 per Avanir share in the takeover bid through its U.S. subsidiary.

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Japanese community papers in fierce battle in U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Tatsuo Mori, publisher of the Los Angeles-based Japanese community paper Weekly LALALA, places copies of the paper in a shelf for distribution at a Japanese supermarket in Torrance, California, on Oct. 16, 2014.

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Man prays for repose of father's soul in N. Korea

HAMHUNG, North Korea - Eighty-year-old Tatsuo Kondo, a member of a group of Japanese citizens visiting graves of their kin who died during and after World War II, prays for the repose of his father's soul before a tree on the mountainside in Hamhung, northeastern North Korea, on Sept. 21, 2014.

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Hirano to run in election as independent

MORIOKA, Japan - Tatsuo Hirano, who served as reconstruction minister under the government led by the Democratic Party of Japan, tells a press conference at the Iwate prefectural government office building in Morioka on April 2, 2013, that he will run in the upcoming House of Councillors election as an independent. Hirano submitted a letter the same day to the DPJ stating his intention to leave the main opposition party.

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9/11 group seeks continued support for Tohoku disaster victims

TOKYO, Japan - Lee Ielpi (far L), head of the September 11th Families' Association, meets reconstruction minister Tatsuo Hirano (R) in Tokyo on Oct. 26, 2012. Bereaved families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States called for continued support for survivors of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit eastern and northeastern Japan in their meeting with the Japanese minister.

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Ancient Japanese pots at British Museum

LONDON, Britain - Tamio Mori (R), mayor of Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, and Tatsuo Kobayashi, a professor emeritus at Kokugakuin University, attend a ceremony to mark the exhibition of two ancient pots dating from Japan's Jomon era at the British Museum in London on Oct. 4, 2012. The pots are being exhibited for the first time outside Japan.

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"Jellyfish aquarium" in Yamagata

YAMAGATA, Japan - Tatsuo Murakami, director of Kamo Aquarium, observes jellyfish Chrysaora helvola at the aquarium in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, on April 15, 2012. The aquarium was designated the same year by the Guinness World Records as having the largest number of different jellyfish species in captivity.

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Mitsubishi UFJ Trust President Wakabayashi

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Wakabayashi, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp., speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on April 12, 2012.

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Hirano unveils Reconstruction Agency logo

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Hirano (L), head of the newly formed Reconstruction Agency, unveils the agency's logo at a press conference at the agency in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2012.

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Japan launches postquake reconstruction agency

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) and Tatsuo Hirano, the Cabinet minister who heads a new agency to promote the reconstruction of areas ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, put up a signboard bearing the name of the agency at the new entity in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2012, as it was launched the same day. (Pool Photo)

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Japan launches postquake reconstruction agency

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Hirano, the Cabinet minister who heads a new agency to promote reconstruction of areas ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo as the agency was launched on Feb. 10, 2012.

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Reconstruction minister Hirano

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Hirano, minister in charge of reconstruction from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2012. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda the same day appointed Hirano as head of a new agency to bolster efforts to rebuild areas ravaged by the natural disaster.

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Ex-upper house lawmaker Tomobe dies at 83

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in May 1995 shows Tatsuo Tomobe, a former House of Councillors member who was convicted of fraud and expelled from parliament in 2001. Tomobe died on Jan. 28, 2012, in Tokyo, police said Feb. 3, 2012. He was 83.

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Wakabayashi to take helm of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp. Senior Managing Director Tatsuo Wakabayashi (R) attend a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2012, as he will succeed Kinya Okauchi (L) as president.

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New president of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Tatsuo Wakabayashi, senior managing director of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp. The trust bank will promote Wakabayashi to president on April 1, 2012, company sources said Jan. 23. The company will decide on the appointments at a board meeting to be held later January, they said.

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Japan to reclassify Fukushima no-entry zones

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - (from L) Yukio Edano, minister of economy, trade and industry, Goshi Hosono, nuclear disaster minister, and Tatsuo Hirano, minister in charge of reconstruction in areas affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, meet Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato in the city of Fukushima on Dec. 18, 2011. The ministers notified the governor and representatives of 11 other municipal governments near the plant of a plan to reclassify no-entry zones, possibly on April 1, 2012, around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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Panel reports on Olympus' loss coverup

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Tatsuo Kainaka, chairman of a third-party panel set up by Olympus Corp. to probe the company's coverup of investment losses, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2011, to announce the findings of the panel's investigation.

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Panel reports on Olympus' loss coverup

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Tatsuo Kainaka (C), chairman of a third-party panel set up by Olympus Corp. to probe the company's coverup of investment losses, and other panel members hold a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2011, to announce their findings.

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Panel calls for legal revisions for disaster prevention

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiaki Kawata (R), a professor at Kansai University who heads a panel of the Central Disaster Prevention Council, hands a report to Tatsuo Hirano, disaster management minister, in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2011. In the report, the panel calls for reviewing disaster-related laws to maintain the functions of local governments and smooth long-distance evacuations if a massive natural disaster occurs.

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Reappointed reconstruction minister Hirano

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Hirano walks into the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 2, 2011. Hirano was retained the same day as minister in charge of Japan's reconstruction from the March earthquake and tsunami.

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Hosono, Hirano, Jimi in new Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photos show (from L) Goshi Hosono, Tatsuo Hirano and Shozaburo Jimi, who will become ministers in the new Cabinet under Prime Minister-elect Yoshihiko Noda on Sept. 2, 2011. Hosono will remain minister in charge of handling the ongoing nuclear crisis in Fukushima Prefecture and double as environment minister, Hirano will retain the post of reconstruction minister, and Jimi, a member of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's coalition partner the People's New Party, will keep his post as postal reform minister.

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New internal affairs minister Kawabata

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Tatsuo Kawabata, former education minister, who was named internal affairs and communications minister in the new Cabinet under Prime Minister-elect Yoshihiko Noda on Sept. 2, 2011.

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Disaster drills in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) and Reconstruction Minister Tatsuo Hirano take part in a news conference at the prime minister's office on Sept. 1, 2011, as part of a disaster exercise. Emergency drills were held the same day across Japan in commemoration of the Great Kanto Earthquake on Sept. 1, 1923.

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PM Kan in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) speaks at a meeting between the national and Fukushima prefectural governments on the prefecture's revival from the nuclear plant disaster in Fukushima on Aug. 27, 2011. Tatsuo Hirano (L), minister in charge of reconstruction, and nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono also attended the meeting.

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Kan, ministers meet local leaders in Fukushima Pref.

KORIYAMA, Japan - (From L) Reconstruction minister Tatsuo Hirano, Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Goshi Hosono, state minister in charge of the nuclear disaster, attend a meeting in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 16, 2011, with leaders of municipalities near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Kan told reporters after the meeting that the government will make utmost efforts to complete the second phase of work to contain the crisis earlier than planned.

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Reconstruction minister Hirano in Iwate Pref.

MORIOKA, Japan - Japan's new reconstruction minister Tatsuo Hirano (L) receives a letter of request from Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso at the Iwate prefectural government office in Morioka on July 9, 2011, during his first visit to areas devastated by the March 11 quake and tsunami since assuming the post. Hirano told Tasso he hopes the central government can team up with prefectures in reconstructing the disaster-hit areas.

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Appointment of reconstruction minister

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, senior vice minister handling reconstruction issues, Prime Minister Naoto Kan, and reconstruction minister Tatsuo Hirano pose for photos at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 5, 2011, after Kan appointed Hirano and Yamaguchi to their posts.

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Hirano to be Japan's new reconstruction minister

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Hirano, senior vice minister handling reconstruction issues, speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 5, 2011. Hirano will replace Ryu Matsumoto as reconstruction minister as Matsumoto stepped down over controversial remarks he made.

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New reconstruction minister Hirano

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's new reconstruction minister Tatsuo Hirano speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on July 5, 2011, after his appointment to the post. Hirano, a House of Councillors member, hails from Iwate Prefecture, which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Otsuka Holdings debuts on Tokyo bourse

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Higuchi, president of drugmaker Otsuka Holdings Co., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2010 after the company made its debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's First Section.

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Soccer coach to advise gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japan soccer national team coach Takeshi Okada (L) receives a document assigning him as an adviser to the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry on sports policy from education minister Tatsuo Kawabata in Tokyo on Sept. 2, 2010.

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Astronaut to advise gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Astronaut Naoko Yamazaki (L) receives a document assigning her as an adviser to the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry on science policy from education minister Tatsuo Kawabata (R) in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2010.

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Sports minister urges sumo circles to sever ties with gangs

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Tatsuo Kawabata speaks to reporters at the ministry in Tokyo on July 6, 2010, after talks with acting Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hiroyoshi Murayama. Kawabata urged Murayama to sever ties with mobsters to prevent a recurrence of the gambling scandal rocking the sport.

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Education minister Kawabata

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Tatsuo Kawabata speaks at a press conference after he was retained in the post at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 8, 2010.

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Education minister Kawabata

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Kawabata, who has been reappointed as the education, culture, sports, science and technology minister by Prime Minister Naoto Kan, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 8, 2010.

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Ex-finance minister Murayama dies at 95

TOKYO, Japan - Former finance minister Tatsuo Murayama (file photo taken in June, 1999) died on May 20, 2010. He was 95. After serving as a finance ministry official, Murayama won a House of Representatives seat on the Liberal Democratic Party ticket in 1963 and served 12 terms, holding ministerial posts in finance and welfare affairs. He retired from politics in 2000.

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Japanese astronaut Yamazaki back in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki (C), who traveled to the International Space Station aboard NASA's space shuttle Discovery in April 2010, shakes hands with Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Tatsuo Kawabata during a courtesy call at the ministry in Tokyo on May 17, 2010. Yamazaki is on a temporary visit to Japan after her 15-day space mission.

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Child allowances, tuition-free schools bills pass lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Tatsuo Kawabata bows at a plenary session of the House of Representatives after the lower house passed a bill to make tuition free for public senior high school students in Tokyo on March 16, 2010. The government expects the bill, along with a bill to provide monthly allowances to families raising children, to clear the House of Councillors by the end of the month.

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Japanese athletes return home from Vancouver

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese athletes who won medals at the Vancouver Winter Olympics pose for photographs with education minister Tatsuo Kawabata (rear L) during a visit to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on March 2, 2010, after returning home from Vancouver. (From front L) figure skater Mao Asada, the women's speed skating team of Maki Tabata, Nao Kodaira and Masako Hozumi, speed skaters Keiichiro Nagashima and Joji Kato, and figure skater Daisuke Takahashi pose for photographs.

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Japanese athletes return home from Vancouver

TOKYO, Japan - Figure skaters Mao Asada (2nd from R) and speed skater Keiichiro Nagashima (2nd from L) speak with education minister Tatsuo Kawabata (C) during a visit to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on March 2, 2010, after returning home from Vancouver. Asada won the silver medal in the women's figure skating at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, while Nagashima won silver in the men's 500-meter speed skating.

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Hatoyama calls astronaut Noguchi in space

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) waves to Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who is at the International Space Station for a five-month mission, from the prime minister office in Tokyo during a video conference on Jan. 7, 2010, with Education, Culture, Sports and Technology Minister Tatsuo Kawabata and elementary school children from Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, looking on.

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Hatoyama formally appoints Kan finance minister

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Administrative reform minister Yoshito Sengoku, Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, education minister Tatsuo Kawabata, and Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano pose for photos at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2010. Kan officially assumed the post of finance minister, while Sengoku and Kawabata respectively took over the post of state minister in charge of national strategy and the post in charge of science and technology policies from Kan.

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Hatoyama formally appoints Kan finance minister

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan (2nd L) and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2010, after Hatoyama gave Kan a letter appointing him finance minister, with administrative reform minister Yoshito Sengoku (L) and education minister Tatsuo Kawabata (R) looking on. Sengoku and Kawabata respectively took over the post of state minister in charge of national strategy and the post in charge of science and technology polices from Kan.