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Saori Minami

Saori Minami=Date: November 2, 1971, Place: Japan

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Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura on the set of the movie “Abashiri Prison”=Date : December 10, 1971, Place : Sounkyo, Hokkaido

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Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tomisaburo Wakayama=Place: Akasaka, Japan

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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Company signboard and logo

Signboard and logo of Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Company. ＝Signboard and logo of Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Company in Tokyo on May 10, 2024.

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Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Company signboard, logo

Signboard and logo of Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Company. ＝(Photo: May 10, 2024, in Tokyo)

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Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Company sign and logo

Signboard and logo of Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Company. ＝May 10, 2024, in Tokyo.

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New farm minister Wakabayashi pledges to restore trust

TOKYO, Japan - New Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi speaks at a news conference in Tokyo after assuming the post Sept. 4. Wakabayashi, who replaced scandal-tainted Takehiko Endo, pledged to restore trust. Endo resigned on Sept. 3 over the misuse of farm subsidies involving a farmers' mutual aid association he headed.

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Minister Endo admits farm group misconduct, rules out resignation

TOKYO, Japan - New farm minister Takehiko Endo speaks at a press conference at his ministry on Sept. 1. Endo admitted that a farmers' mutual aid association headed by him has received 1.15 million yen from the state illegally but said he has no intention of resigning from the ministerial post over the matter.

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Minister Endo admits farm group misconduct, rules out resignation

TOKYO, Japan - New farm minister Takehiko Endo ponders before replying to a media question during a press conference at his ministry on Sept. 1. Endo admitted that a farmers' mutual aid association headed by him has received 1.15 million yen from the state illegally but said he has no intention of resigning from the ministerial post over the matter.

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Japan, EU hold 'Railway Industrial Dialogue' in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese and European Union government officials and company representatives attend the second "Japan-EU Railway Industrial Dialogue" for mutual market access enhancement in the railway sector in Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2014.

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Japanese, Chinese media compare notes in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Editors from Japanese media distributing news in Chinese and Chinese media distributing news in Japanese attend a forum, hosted by Kyodo News and China International Publishing Group, in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2014, to discuss ways to promote mutual understanding.

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A-bomb victim publishes Chinese version of her book

TOKYO, Japan - Fumino Tsuru shows in this file photo taken on Oct. 7, 2014, the Chinese version of her book "Tokoroten no Uta" (Song of Seaweed Jelly) she wrote 24 years ago based on her experience of the 1945 atomic bombing in Nagasaki, western Japan. She hopes that the book will help people in Japan and China deepen their mutual understanding.

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S. Korean Ambassador to Japan Shin

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Shin Kak Soo speaks in Tokyo on Sept. 15, 2011, about an upcoming annual festival aimed at enhancing ties between Japanese and South Korean people to be held in Tokyo on Oct. 1-2 and in Seoul on Sept. 25. Shin said cultural exchange is important in deepening mutual understanding and trust between people of the two countries.

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6 of 9 major life insurers see core profits expand in FY 2006

TOKYO, Japan - Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. Executive Director Koichiro Watanabe speaks on the company's business results for fiscal 2006 at a press conference in Tokyo on May 30. Six of Japan's nine major life insurers saw their core operating profits expand in the 2006 business year ended March 31 from a year earlier, supported by improved conditions for their fund management following interest rate hikes by the Bank of Japan.

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Abe, Prodi agree further cooperation on security, Afghans, summit

TOKYO, Japan - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold a joint press conference at the end of their talks in Tokyo on April 16. The two leaders later agreed to further mutual cooperation in the fields of security and defense, assistance for Afghan reconstruction, and dealing with the North Korean nuclear standoff.

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Abe, Prodi agree further cooperation on security, Afghans, summit

TOKYO, Japan - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi (far left) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far right) are in talks in Tokyo on April 16. The two leaders later agreed to further mutual cooperation in the fields of security and defense, assistance for Afghan reconstruction, and dealing with the North Korean nuclear standoff.

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Abe, Prodi agree further cooperation on security, Afghans, summit

TOKYO, Japan - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pose for a photo prior to their talks in Tokyo on April 16. The two leaders later agreed to further mutual cooperation in the fields of security and defense, assistance for Afghan reconstruction, and dealing with the North Korean nuclear standoff.

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Life insurers fail to pay 26.8 bil. yen insurance over 5 years

TOKYO, Japan - Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Katsutoshi Saito (C) and other Dai-ichi executives bow in apology over nonpayment of insurance money at a news conference in Tokyo on April 13. Dai-ichi is among 12 leading life insurance companies in Japan that admitted they had skipped 26.8 billion yen in insurance money payment in 230,000 cases over the five years from fiscal 2001.

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Wen urges Japan to face up to history for better ties with China

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao waves to Japanese members of parliament as he leaves the House of Representatives chamber after delivering a speech on April 12. He urged Japan to take ''concrete action'' to face up to wartime history and outlined China's vision for building a strategic relationship with Japan through building mutual trust and working on common interests.

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Wen urges Japan to face up to history for better ties with China

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivers a speech in the House of Representatives chamber on April 12. He urged Japan to take ''concrete action'' to face up to wartime history and outlined China's vision for building a strategic relationship with Japan through building mutual trust and working on common interests.

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Wen urges Japan to face up to history for better ties with China

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao waves to Japanese members of parliament at the end of his speech in the House of Representatives chamber on April 12. He urged Japan to take ''concrete action'' to face up to wartime history and outlined China's vision for building a strategic relationship with Japan through building mutual trust and working on common interests.

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Wen urges Japan to face up to history for better ties with China

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (fore) makes a speech in the House of Representatives chamber on April 12 as Speaker Yohei Kono (back left) and House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi listen. Wen urged Japan to take ''concrete action'' to face up to wartime history and outlined China's vision for building a strategic relationship with Japan through building mutual trust and working on common interests.

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Wen urges Japan to face up to history for better ties with China

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. in a speech in Japanese parliament on April 12, urges Japan to take ''concrete action'' to face up to wartime history. Wen outlined China's vision for building a strategic relationship with Japan through building mutual trust and working on common interests.

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Wen urges Japan to face up to history for better ties with China

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) arrives at the House of Representatives chamber, led by Speaker Yohei Kono, on April 11 to deliver a speech. Wen urged Japan to take ''concrete action'' to face up to wartime history and outlined China's vision for building a strategic relationship with Japan through building mutual trust and working on common interests.

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Japan, S. Korea formalize legal assistance treaty

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Song Min Soon (L) and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso shake hands as they exchange ratification documents for a mutual legal assistance treaty at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura guesthouse in Tokyo on Dec. 27.

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Core profit at Japan's 9 big life insurers hits record high

TOKYO, Japan - Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. Executive Director Koichi Watanabe speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 27 on the group's business results for the first half of fiscal 2006. The combined core operating profit at Japan's nine major life insurers hit a record high for the April-September period, supported by the solid stock market and rising returns from bond investment.

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Japan, U.S., Europe to study mutual patent approval system

TOKYO, Japan - European Patent Office President Alain Pompidou (L), Japan Patent Office Director General Makoto Nakajima (C) and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Jon Dudas hold a joint news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16 about their agreement to begin working-level talks with an eye toward the introduction of a system for mutual approval of patent examination results among the three.

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Japanese, South, North Korean children show amity through drawings

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors look at self-portraits and other drawings by children in North Korea, South Korea and Japan on display at an exhibition that began in Tokyo on June 29. The weeklong event is aimed at promoting reciprocal knowledge and mutual friendship.

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Japanese, Korean youths get together

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese and Korean youths dance together during the ''One Korea Festival'' held to promote peace and mutual friendship at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo on April 2.

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(2)Toshiba, Microsoft reach comprehensive cross-licensing pact

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the headquarters in Washington of U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. which has signed a comprehensive cross-licensing agreement on mutual use of patents with Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. Informed sources said that the deal will allow the two companies to save time and costs for developing digital consumer electronics, without negotiating and concluding a license contract for each patent.

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(1)Toshiba, Microsoft reach comprehensive cross-licensing pact

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the headquarters in Tokyo of Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. which has signed a comprehensive cross-licensing agreement on mutual use of patents with U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. Informed sources said May 13 that the deal will allow the two companies to save time and costs for developing digital consumer electronics, without negotiating and concluding a license contract for each patent.

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(1)Japanese, Chinese parliamentarians discuss ways to improve ties

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese and Chinese parliamentarians hold a meeting in Tokyo on April 14, chaired by Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono (C). They discussed ways to improve soured bilateral relations and deepen friendship and mutual understanding.

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(4)Japan protests to China over submarine intrusion, demands apology

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks to reporters at his office on Nov. 12 after Japan lodged a strong protest with China over a suspected nuclear submarine that intruded into Japanese waters which Tokyo determined belongs to the Chinese Navy. Koizumi called the incident ''extremely regrettable'' and stressed the need of mutual efforts to minimize the effects of the incident on bilateral relations.

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(1)Japan, S. Korea seek to double number of tourists

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) and South Korean Minister of Culture and Tourism Chung Dong Chae sign at a Tokyo hotel on July 22 a joint statement calling for mutual efforts to double the number of tourists from their own country visiting the other by 2010.

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DPJ, SDP agree on cooperation in general elections

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) leader Naoto Kan speaks at a news conference at his party's headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 5 after working out an agreement with the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) on mutual cooperation in general elections expected to be held in the autumn.

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Millea, Asahi scrap management integration plan

TOKYO, Japan - Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Yuzuru Fujita speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 10 after Millea Holdings Inc., a large nonlife insurer with a life insurance division, and financially troubled Asahi announced an agreement to scrap a plan for their management integration in 2004.

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Meiji, Yasuda to form nonlife alliance with Nipponkoa

TOKYO, Japan - Mikihiko Miyamoto (L), president of Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance Co., and Ryotaro Kaneko, president of Meiji Life Insurance Co., shake hands after signing a memorandum to merge to create Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. The merged company will tie up with Nipponkoa Insurance Co. in the nonlife insurance business.

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Daido Life becomes Japan's 1st life insurer to go public

TOKYO, Japan - Naoteru Miyato, president of Daido Life Insurance Co., rings a bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) on April 1 to mark the company's debut on the first section of the TSE. Daido, which converted itself from a mutual firm to a stock company, is the first Japanese life insurer to go public. It was also listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange the same day.

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Asahi Mutual Life to seek 150 bil. yen from 3 banks

TOKYO, Japan - Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Yuzuru Fujita announces a fresh restructuring package, featuring a capital injection of 150 billion yen from three banks and a deep cut in its heavy equity holding losses, at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 15.

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Tokio Marine, Asahi Mutual ditch early merger

TOKYO, Japan - Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Yuzuru Fujita (fore) and Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co. President Kunio Ishihara (back) take their seats for a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 31. They said the two firms have scrapped a plan to integrate their life insurance operations in March 2003 by merging Asahi Mutual and a Tokio Marine subsidiary.

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Meiji Life, Yasuda Mutual Life announce merger

TOKYO, Japan - Mikihiko Miyamoto (L), president of Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance Co., and Ryotaro Kaneko, president of Meiji Life Insurance Co. announce Jan. 24 in Tokyo that the two life insurers will merge around April 2004 to boost competitiveness. The merger will create a company with outstanding insurance contracts worth 196 trillion yen, nearly as much as the 203 trillion yen held by Sumitomo Life Insurance Co., Japan's third-largest life insurer.

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4 Sumitomo Mitsui firms to enhance insurance alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and three insurers with ties to the Sumitomo Mitsui group said Nov. 22, 2001 they will bolster ties to enhance their ability to develop innovative insurance policies and boost marketing cooperation amid the harsh business environment. Seated at a Tokyo news conference are (From L to R) Mitsui Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Hiroshi Nishimura, Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. President Shinichi Yokoyama, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. Chairman Takeo Iguchi and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa.

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Tokio Marine, Asahi Mutual to mull regrouping plan

TOKYO, Japan - Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co. President Kunio Ishihara (L) and Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Yuzuru Fujita speak at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2001. They said the two firms have agreed to mull plans to integrate their life insurance operations as soon as possible in line with the planned creation of the Millea Insurance Group in March 2001.

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Taiyo Mutual, Nipponkoa in nonlife insurance tie-up

TOKYO, Japan - Ken Matsuzawa (L), president of Nipponkoa Insurance Co., Masahiro Yoshiike (C), president of Taiyo Mutual Life Insurance Co., and Tsunaie Kanie, president of Taiyo Fire & Marine Insurance Co., speak about their alliance at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 23. Nipponkoa Insurance Co. and Taiyo Mutual Life Insurance Co. have agreed to tie up in the nonlife insurance business. They have also agreed to merge Taiyo Mutual's nonlife insurance unit, Taiyo Fire & Marine Insurance Co., with Nipponkoa.

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Tokyo Mutual fails with liabilities of 980 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Kenichi Nakamura, president of Tokyo Mutual Life, bows at a news conference at the head office of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on March 23. The midsize life insurer filed for court protection from creditors with the Tokyo District Court earlier in the day under fast-track legislation aimed at dealing with troubled financial institutions with total liabilities of 980.2 billion yen.

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Tokyo Mutual files for court protection from creditors

TOKYO, Japan - A man looks at a notice at the head office of Tokyo Mutual Life Insurance Co. in central Tokyo on March 23. The midsize life insurer filed for court protection from creditors with the Tokyo District Court earlier in the day under fast-track legislation aimed at dealing with troubled financial institutions. Tokyo Mutual was the seventh life insurer to fail in the postwar era.

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Kyoei to join Millea insurers group

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Yuzuru Fujita, Kyoei Mutual Fire & Marine Insurance Co. President Wataru Ozawa, Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co. President Kokei Higuchi and Nichido Fire & Marine Insurance Co. President Takashi Aihara join hands at a news conference in Tokyo on March 22. They announced Kyoei will join the Millea Insurance Group to be set up by the three other firms under a joint holding company by the end of 2004.

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Murakami denies wrongdoing in sworn Diet testimony

TOKYO, Japan - Former ruling Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight Masakuni Murakami reads aloud an oath at a House of Councillors Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Feb. 28. Murakami was testifying as a sworn witness on allegations he received bribes from KSD, a mutual aid foundation, although he declined comment on the charges.

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Nukaga denies receiving KSD bribes to push school project

TOKYO, Japan - Former cabinet minister Fukushiro Nukaga on Feb. 26 attends a closed-door House of Representatives ethics panel. During the meeting, he denied receiving 15 million yen in bribes from KSD, a mutual aid group for small businesses, in return for his support for a technical college project it was promoting.