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Nitten scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Tadao Terasaka, chief director of the prestigious Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, speaks during the opening ceremony of the 45th Nitten exhibition at the National Art Center, Tokyo, on Nov. 1, 2013. The organization decided the previous day to cancel their selection of top prizes for the year in the wake of reports that screening of artworks was manipulated in one of the five categories in the past.

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Outgoing nuclear agency chief

TOKYO, Japan - Outgoing Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency chief Nobuaki Terasaka speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 10, 2011. He said the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant showed Japan's nuclear regulation was inadequate, but insisted he did his best to deal with the world's worst nuclear accident in 25 years.

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Agency sought to manipulate symposiums on nuclear power

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Terasaka (R), head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, holds a press conference in Tokyo on July 29, 2011. Chubu Electric Power Co. said the Japanese government's nuclear safety agency asked the utility to have local residents pitch questions favoring the firm's pluthermal nuclear power generation project at a symposium in 2007. Other utilities also said similar attempts were made by the agency when public meetings on nuclear power generation were held.

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Agency sought to manipulate symposiums on nuclear power

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Terasaka, head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, holds a press conference in Tokyo on July 29, 2011. Chubu Electric Power Co. said the Japanese government's nuclear safety agency asked the utility to have local residents pitch questions favoring the firm's pluthermal nuclear power generation project at a symposium in 2007. Other utilities also said similar attempts were made by the agency when public meetings on nuclear power generation were held.

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Sapporo's Terasaka to be promoted to president in late March

TOKYO, Japan - Fumiaki Terasaka (L), senior managing director of Sapporo Breweries Ltd., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2010, after being nominated as successor to President Masaru Fukunaga (R). Terasaka will assume the presidency on March 25 while Fukunaga will become adviser to the company.

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Sumitomo Life solvency margin falls in 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. Managing Director Motoyuki Terasaka (C) speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 26. He said that the key gauge of the company's ability to pay out policy obligations fell in the fiscal half year ended Sept. 30 due largely to unrealized losses from its securities holdings.

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Outgoing nuclear agency chief

TOKYO, Japan - Outgoing Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency chief Nobuaki Terasaka speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 10, 2011. He said the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant showed Japan's nuclear regulation was inadequate, but insisted he did his best to deal with the world's worst nuclear accident in 25 years. (Kyodo)

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Agency sought to manipulate symposiums on nuclear power

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Terasaka (R), head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, holds a press conference in Tokyo on July 29, 2011. Chubu Electric Power Co. said the Japanese government's nuclear safety agency asked the utility to have local residents pitch questions favoring the firm's pluthermal nuclear power generation project at a symposium in 2007. Other utilities also said similar attempts were made by the agency when public meetings on nuclear power generation were held. (Kyodo)

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Agency sought to manipulate symposiums on nuclear power

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Terasaka, head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, holds a press conference in Tokyo on July 29, 2011. Chubu Electric Power Co. said the Japanese government's nuclear safety agency asked the utility to have local residents pitch questions favoring the firm's pluthermal nuclear power generation project at a symposium in 2007. Other utilities also said similar attempts were made by the agency when public meetings on nuclear power generation were held. (Kyodo)

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Sapporo's Terasaka to be promoted to president in late March

TOKYO, Japan - Fumiaki Terasaka (L), senior managing director of Sapporo Breweries Ltd., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2010, after being nominated as successor to President Masaru Fukunaga (R). Terasaka will assume the presidency on March 25 while Fukunaga will become adviser to the company. (Kyodo)

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Sumitomo Life solvency margin falls in 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. Managing Director Motoyuki Terasaka (C) speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 26. He said that the key gauge of the company's ability to pay out policy obligations fell in the fiscal half year ended Sept. 30 due largely to unrealized losses from its securities holdings. (Kyodo)