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Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

YOKOHAMA, Japan, Aug. 26 Kyodo - Takashi Koike, head of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office's public security bureau, Hiroshi Ichikawa, deputy chief prosecutor of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, and Tetsuro Kamata, deputy superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, bow in apology to the bereaved family of Shizuo Aishima, a former adviser to machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., in Yokohama on Aug. 25, 2025, alongside Aishima's lawyer. Aishima was wrongfully accused of the unauthorized export of sensitive equipment in 2020 and died next year at age 72 without being granted bail. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

(from L) Takashi Koike, head of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office's public security bureau, Hiroshi Ichikawa, deputy chief prosecutor of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, and Tetsuro Kamata (C), deputy superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, bow in apology to the bereaved family of Shizuo Aishima, a former adviser to machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., in Yokohama on Aug. 25, 2025, alongside Aishima's lawyer. Aishima was wrongfully accused of the unauthorized export of sensitive equipment in 2020 and died next year at age 72 without being granted bail. (Pool photo)

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Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

(from L) Takashi Koike, head of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office's public security bureau, Hiroshi Ichikawa, deputy chief prosecutor of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, and Tetsuro Kamata (C), deputy superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, bow in apology to the bereaved family of Shizuo Aishima, a former adviser to machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., in Yokohama on Aug. 25, 2025, alongside Aishima's lawyer. Aishima was wrongfully accused of the unauthorized export of sensitive equipment in 2020 and died next year at age 72 without being granted bail. (Pool photo)

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Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

Tetsuro Kamata (C), deputy superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, and prosecutors apologize at the grave of Shizuo Aishima, a former adviser to machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., in Yokohama on Aug. 25, 2025, alongside Aishima's two sons (back). Aishima was wrongfully accused of the unauthorized export of sensitive equipment in 2020 and died the following year at age 72 without being granted bail. (Pool photo)

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Keizai Doyukai Ordinary General Meeting Press Conference

Press conference at the Ordinary General Meeting of Keizai Doyukai. Photo shows, from left, Nambu Toshikazu (newly appointed), Keizai Doyukai Representative Director Takeshi Niinami, Yasuhito Hirota (newly appointed), and Tetsuro Yoshimatsu (newly appointed).=April 28,2025,Tokyo

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Keizai Doyukai Ordinary General Meeting Press Conference

Press conference at the Ordinary General Meeting of Keizai Doyukai. Photo shows, from left, Nambu Toshikazu (newly appointed), Keizai Doyukai Representative Director Takeshi Niinami, Yasuhito Hirota (newly appointed), and Tetsuro Yoshimatsu (newly appointed).=April 28,2025,Tokyo

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CORRECTED: PM Kishida at chip factory construction site in Hokkaido

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from R) is pictured with Rapidus Corp. Chairman Tetsuro Higashi on July 24, 2024, as he visits the construction site of a semiconductor factory in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan, to be operated by a government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022. (Pool photo)

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International import fair in Shanghai

Tetsuro Homma, head of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China, holds a press conference at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai on Nov. 6, 2023.

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China remains hot investment destination as multinationals seek more opportunities

STORY: China remains hot investment destination as multinationals seek more opportunities DATELINE: Oct. 12, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:02 LOCATION: QINGDAO, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the fourth Qingdao Multinationals Summit 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LEON WANG, Executive vice president of AstraZeneca 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LI FENG, COO of Festo BR GCN 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): TETSURO HOMMA, Executive vice president of Panasonic Holdings Corporation STORYLINE: China remains the world's hot spot for global investment, noted representatives from multinational corporate giants and industry insiders at the fourth Qingdao Multinationals Summit. The three-day summit wraps up Thursday in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. This year's summit has attracted 416 multinational corporations, 146 of which are participating in it for the first time. The summit is focused on topics including new trends in industrial investment, achievements in optimizing the business environment, and internationa

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G-7 farm ministers' meeting in Miyazaki

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura (2nd from R) meets the press following a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven farm ministers in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 23, 2023.

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G-7 farm ministers' meeting in Miyazaki

(from L) Canadian Agriculture and Agri-food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack attend a joint press conference following a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven farm ministers in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 23, 2023.

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G-7 farm ministers' meeting in Miyazaki

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura (C) meets the press following a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven farm ministers in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 23, 2023.

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Japan-France farm ministers meeting

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura (L) and his French counterpart Marc Fesneau shake hands ahead of their talks in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 23, 2023, held on the sidelines of a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven farm ministers.

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Japan-France farm ministers meeting

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura (far L) and his French counterpart Marc Fesneau hold talks in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 23, 2023, on the sidelines of a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven farm ministers.

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G-7 farm ministers' meeting in Miyazaki

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura speaks at a joint press conference following a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven farm ministers in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 23, 2023.

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G-7 farm ministers' meeting in Miyazaki

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura speaks at a joint press conference following a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven farm ministers in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 23, 2023.

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G-7 farm ministers' meeting in Miyazaki

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura (6th from L) and other participants of a two-day Group of Seven agricultural ministers' meeting in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, pose during a photo session on the first day on April 22, 2023.

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G-7 farm ministers' meeting in Miyazaki

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura speaks on the first day of a two-day Group of Seven agricultural ministers' meeting in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 22, 2023.

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G-7 farm ministers' meeting in Miyazaki

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura speaks on the first day of a two-day Group of Seven agricultural ministers' meeting in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 22, 2023.

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Japan-Canada farm ministers meeting

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura (R) and Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau pose for a photo during a meeting held in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 22, 2023, on the fringes of a Group of Seven farm ministers' meeting.

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Japan-Canada farm ministers meeting

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura (far L) and Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau (far R) hold talks in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 22, 2023, held on the fringes of a Group of Seven farm ministers' meeting.

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G-7 agricultural ministers' meeting in Miyazaki

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura (C) and other participants of a Group of Seven agricultural ministers' meeting in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, visit a booth explaining Japan's farm policy set up at its venue on the first day of the two-day event on April 22, 2023. (Pool photo)

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G-7 farm ministers' meeting in Miyazaki

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura speaks on the first day of a two-day Group of Seven agricultural ministers' meeting in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 22, 2023.

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G-7 farm ministers' meeting in Miyazaki

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura speaks on the first day of a two-day Group of Seven agricultural ministers' meeting in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 22, 2023.

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Japan's agriculture minister in Miyazaki

Combined photo shows Tetsuro Nomura (L), Japanese minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and European Union Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski during talks in the southwestern Japanese city of Miyazaki on April 21, 2023, ahead of the Group of Seven farm ministers' meeting.

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Japan's agriculture minister in Miyazaki

Tetsuro Nomura (L), Japanese minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and European Union Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski (2nd from R) hold talks in the southwestern Japanese city of Miyazaki on April 21, 2023, ahead of the Group of Seven farm ministers' meeting.

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Japan's agriculture minister in Miyazaki

Tetsuro Nomura (R), Japanese minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and European Union Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski prepare to hold talks in the southwestern Japanese city of Miyazaki on April 21, 2023, ahead of the Group of Seven farm ministers' meeting.

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IFAD chief in Tokyo

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura (L) shakes hands with Alvaro Lario, president of the U.N. International Fund for Agricultural Development, during a meeting in Tokyo on April 20, 2023.

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New Year decoration at makeshift barber shop in Iwate Pref.

OTSUCHI, Japan - Tetsuro Abe puts up a New Year decoration around the entrance of his makeshift barber shop in the disaster-hit town of Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture on Dec. 31, 2011. The barber shop, which was opened by his father and had been in business for 40 years, was washed away by the March 11 tsunami.

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Mitsubishi Motors new president

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Managing Director Tetsuro Aikawa. The automaker plans to promote Aikawa to president on April 1, 2014, replacing Osamu Masuko, company sources said Jan. 31.

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Ceremony held to celebrate 100th anniv. of opening of Tokyo Station

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuro Tomita, president of East Japan Railway Co., speaks Dec. 19, 2014, in a ceremony to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the opening of Tokyo Station at the iconic red-brick station building. The station opened on Dec. 20, 1914.

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LDP to win lower house majority

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuro Fukuyama, the policy chief of the major opposition Democratic Party of Japan, is interviewed for TV broadcasts at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district on the night of Dec. 14, 2014, on the results of the day's lower house election. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will likely secure a majority in the election, according to Kyodo News exit polls and projections.

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LDP to win lower house majority

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuro Fukuyama, the policy chief of the major opposition Democratic Party of Japan, is interviewed for TV broadcasts at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district on the night of Dec. 14, 2014, on the results of the day's lower house election. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will likely secure a majority in the election, according to Kyodo News exit polls and projections.

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Student-cum-pro 'shogi' player wins 'Ryuo' title

TOKYO, Japan - Osaka University student Tetsuro Itodani wrests the "Ryuo" crown, one of the seven major professional titles in "shogi" or Japanese chess, from champion Toshiyuki Moriuchi 4-1 in the best of seven games in Kanazawa, central Japan, on Dec. 4, 2014. It was the 26-year-old Hiroshima native's first major title.

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Volunteers repair weather-beaten locomotive

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Tetsuro Murano works to repair a steam locomotive as a volunteer at a park in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 16, 2014. Local children used to call the engine a "ghost loco" due to its serious damage from long exposure to weather.

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Japan envoy offers flowers at 'Leyte Landing' ceremony

PALO, Philippines - Tetsuro Amano, Japanese deputy chief of mission to the Philippines, offers a wreath of flowers in Palo on the Philippine island of Leyte on Oct. 20, 2014, at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the "Leyte Landing" during World War II that freed the country from Japanese occupation in 1941.

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JR East unveils name, logo for new luxury sleeper train

TOKYO, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. President Tetsuro Tomita announces the name and logo for the company's new luxury sleeper train, Train Suite Shiki-Shima, on Oct. 7, 2014, in Tokyo. The train will commence operations in spring 2017.

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Nagano-Kanazawa bullet train to start operation on March 14

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuro Tomita, president of East Japan Railway Co., announces the plan to start bullet train operations connecting Nagano and Kanazawa on March 14 next year during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2014. The new Hokuriku Shinkansen Line will be an extension of the Tokyo-Nagano route launched in October 1997.

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Senior Panasonic appliance official speaks in interview

OSAKA, Japan - Tetsuro Honma, deputy head of Panasonic Corp.'s electronic appliance division, speaks in an interview with the press in Osaka on July 3, 2014, stressing a plan to boost exports of industrial-use refrigerators to China and Southeast Asian countries.

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JR East chief shows model of planned Tokyo Station plaza

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuro Tomita, president of East Japan Railway Co., shows a conceptual scale model of a plaza to be built in front of Tokyo Station at a press conference in Tokyo on July 2, 2014.

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Commentator Morimoto dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in 1984 shows Tetsuro Morimoto. Morimoto, a former journalist who became a travel writer and a commentator, died Jan. 5, 2014, of heart failure at his home in Tokyo. He was 88.

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Hokuriku Shinkansen

TOKYO, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. President Tetsuro Tomita (R) and West Japan Railway Co. executive Makoto Shibata hold a signboard showing the four names for the bullet trains that will run on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2013. The Hokuriku Shinkansen Line is scheduled to start service between Tokyo and Kanazawa via Nagano in the spring of 2015.

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Tokyo Electron to merge with Applied Materials

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuro Higashi (L), chairman and president of semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker Tokyo Electron Ltd., and Gary Dickerson, chief executive officer of California-based Applied Materials Inc., hold a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 24, 2013, to announce that the two companies will merge in the second half of 2014.

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Tokyo Electron to merge with Applied Materials

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuro Higashi (L), chairman and president of semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker Tokyo Electron Ltd., and Gary Dickerson, chief executive officer of California-based Applied Materials Inc., shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 24, 2013. The two companies announced they will merge in the second half of 2014.

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New JR East president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows East Japan Railway Co. Executive Vice President Tetsuro Tomita. Sources said on Feb. 15, 2012, the railway operator will promote Tomita to president.

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Governors urge gov't to halt yen's rise, deflation

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese governors including Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura (C), head of a National Governors' Association project team, submit a written request for halting the yen's steep rise and pulling Japan out of deflation to Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Tetsuro Fukuyama (R) at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 17, 2011.

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Gaps remain between gov't and Okinawa over Futenma relocation

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (L) and Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Tetsuro Fukuyama (R front) discuss the planned relocation of a key U.S. military base within Okinawa Prefecture in Naha on Aug. 11, 2010. Differences of opinion remain between the two sides as the prefecture opposes the government's plan and wants the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station moved outside Okinawa.

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Ex-minister Masuzoe submits resignation to LDP to form new party

TOKYO, Japan - Former Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe (front) and Tetsuro Yano, former state secretary for foreign affairs, arrive at the headquarters of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on April 22, 2010, to submit their letters of resignation from the LDP. Masuzoe will hold a press conference on April 23 to launch a new party ahead of this summer's House of Councillors election.

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Critic Murobushi dies at 79

TOKYO, Japan - Well-known critic Tetsuro Murobushi (file photo taken in May, 1989) died of acute pneumonia at his home in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Oct. 26. He was 78. Murobushi was known particularly for his writings on corruption issues and was a frequent guest on TV programs.

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U.N. to seek dialogue with N. Korea over abduction: Ban

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tetsuro Fukuyama (L) shakes hands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 22, 2009, before their talks.