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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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Taiwan: Typhoon Danas Batters Southern Region, Leaving Widespread Damage 3

Typhoon Danas made landfall near Chiayi's Budai Township around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, bringing gusty winds and heavy rainfall to the southern region. Typhoon Danas weakened to a tropical storm after its eye departed Taiwan early Monday.

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Taiwan: Rain And Winds Pick Up As Typhoon Krathon Approaches

Rain and winds started to pick up in Taipei on Monday, September 30 as Typhoon Krathon approached Taiwan.

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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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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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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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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 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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Chiyoda to make new start under AIG

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Sakai (L), trustee of failed Japanese insurer Chiyoda Mutual Life Insurance Co., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 23. Sakai said American International Group Inc. (AIG) has been named as the exclusive sponsor for the rehabilitation of Chiyoda, which will be converted into a publicly traded company in April and make a fresh start as AIG Star Life Insurance Co.

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Tokio, Nichido, Asahi holding firm to be named 'Millea'

TOKYO, Japan - (From L TO R) Yuzuru Fujita, president of Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co., Kokei Higuchi, president of Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co., and Takashi Aihara, president of Nichido Fire & Marine Insurance Co., shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 11. They announced an agreement to form a holding firm to be named Millea Insurance Group, an appellation associated with the new millennium.

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FRC head Aizawa speaks on Chiyoda Mutual Life's collapse

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Aizawa, chairman of the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission, meets the press in Tokyo on Oct. 9 and said it is ''extremely regrettable'' that Chiyoda Mutual Life Insurance Co. has failed to rehabilitate with the financial support of its close business partner Tokai Bank. Chiyoda earlier in the day filed for court protection from creditors, making it the biggest Japanese life insurer to go under.

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Chiyoda goes bust, President Yoneyama bows deeply

TOKYO, Japan - Reiji Yoneyama, president of Chiyoda Mutual Life Insurance Co., bows deeply at a press conference on Oct. 9, after the midsize life insurer filed for court protection from creditors with liabilities of 2,936.6 billion yen. The nation's 12th largest life insurer went bust under mountains of nonperforming loans accumulated during the asset-inflated bubble economy.

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Dai-ichi Life, AFLAC to form Japan alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Tomijiro Morita (L) and American Family Life Assurance Co. of Columbus (AFLAC) Chief Executive Officer Daniel O. Amos shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7. The two companies have agreed to form a business alliance to market each other's products from early 2001, subject to regulatory approval.

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Dai-ichi Life, Yasuda Fire agree on alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Tomijiro Morita (L), president of Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co., and Hiroshi Hirano, president of Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co., shake hands after announcing in Tokyo on Aug. 28 they have agreed to form a wide-ranging business alliance. The alliance between Dai-ichi Mutual, Japan's second-largest life insurer, and Yasuda Fire, the No. 2 nonlife insurer, is the first between a major life insurer and nonlife insurer in Japan.

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Yasuda Fire & Marine to team up with Dai-ichi Mutual Life

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the head office in Tokyo's Nishi-Shinjuku district of Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co., which plans to enter into a comprehensive business tie-up with Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co.

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Dai-ichi Mutual Life, Yasuda Fire & Marine to tie up

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the head office in Tokyo's Yurakucho business district of Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co., which plans to join hands with Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co. with a view to integrating operations in the future.

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Toho Mutual Life ordered to halt business

The Financial Supervisory Agency (FSA) orders Toho Mutual Life Insurance Co. on June 4 to partially suspend business following a surge in the number of cancellations by policyholders of insurance contracts. The photo shows FSA chief Masaharu Hino explaining his agency's order at a news conference in Tokyo.

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Manulife Century Life Insurance Co. established

Dominic D'Alessandro (R), president of Canada's Manulife Financial, shakes hands with Shinjiro Kawasaki, president ofJapan's Daihyaku Mutual Life Insurance Co., in Tokyo on March 29 after the two companies set up a Tokyo-based joint venture, Manulife Century Life Insurance Co., to offer Japanese versions of the U.S. 401(k) pension plans.

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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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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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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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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. (Kyodo)

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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 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. (Kyodo)

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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 Koichi 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. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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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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Dai-ichi Life, AFLAC to form Japan alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Tomijiro Morita (L) and American Family Life Assurance Co. of Columbus (AFLAC) Chief Executive Officer Daniel O. Amos shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7. The two companies have agreed to form a business alliance to market each other's products from early 2001, subject to regulatory approval.

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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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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. (Kyodo)

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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 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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Chiyoda to make new start under AIG

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Sakai (L), trustee of failed Japanese insurer Chiyoda Mutual Life Insurance Co., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 23. Sakai said American International Group Inc. (AIG) has been named as the exclusive sponsor for the rehabilitation of Chiyoda, which will be converted into a publicly traded company in April and make a fresh start as AIG Star Life Insurance Co.

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Tokio, Nichido, Asahi holding firm to be named 'Millea'

TOKYO, Japan - (From L TO R) Yuzuru Fujita, president of Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co., Kokei Higuchi, president of Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co., and Takashi Aihara, president of Nichido Fire & Marine Insurance Co., shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 11. They announced an agreement to form a holding firm to be named Millea Insurance Group, an appellation associated with the new millennium.

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FRC head Aizawa speaks on Chiyoda Mutual Life's collapse

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Aizawa, chairman of the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission, meets the press in Tokyo on Oct. 9 and said it is ''extremely regrettable'' that Chiyoda Mutual Life Insurance Co. has failed to rehabilitate with the financial support of its close business partner Tokai Bank. Chiyoda earlier in the day filed for court protection from creditors, making it the biggest Japanese life insurer to go under.

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Chiyoda goes bust, President Yoneyama bows deeply

TOKYO, Japan - Reiji Yoneyama, president of Chiyoda Mutual Life Insurance Co., bows deeply at a press conference on Oct. 9, after the midsize life insurer filed for court protection from creditors with liabilities of 2,936.6 billion yen. The nation's 12th largest life insurer went bust under mountains of nonperforming loans accumulated during the asset-inflated bubble economy.

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Dai-ichi Life, Yasuda Fire agree on alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Tomijiro Morita (L), president of Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co., and Hiroshi Hirano, president of Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co., shake hands after announcing in Tokyo on Aug. 28 they have agreed to form a wide-ranging business alliance. The alliance between Dai-ichi Mutual, Japan's second-largest life insurer, and Yasuda Fire, the No. 2 nonlife insurer, is the first between a major life insurer and nonlife insurer in Japan.

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Yasuda Fire & Marine to team up with Dai-ichi Mutual Life

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the head office in Tokyo's Nishi-Shinjuku district of Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co., which plans to enter into a comprehensive business tie-up with Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Saori Minami

Ken Takakura

Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Taiwan: Typhoon Danas Batters Southern Region, Leaving Widespread Damage 3

Taiwan: Rain And Winds Pick Up As Typhoon Krathon Approaches

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

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

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

Millea, Asahi scrap management integration plan

Meiji, Yasuda to form nonlife alliance with Nipponkoa

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

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

Tokio Marine, Asahi Mutual ditch early merger

Meiji Life, Yasuda Mutual Life announce merger

4 Sumitomo Mitsui firms to enhance insurance alliance

Tokio Marine, Asahi Mutual to mull regrouping plan

Taiyo Mutual, Nipponkoa in nonlife insurance tie-up

Tokyo Mutual files for court protection from creditors

Kyoei to join Millea insurers group

Chiyoda to make new start under AIG

Tokio, Nichido, Asahi holding firm to be named 'Millea'

FRC head Aizawa speaks on Chiyoda Mutual Life's collapse

Chiyoda goes bust, President Yoneyama bows deeply

Dai-ichi Life, AFLAC to form Japan alliance

Dai-ichi Life, Yasuda Fire agree on alliance

Yasuda Fire &amp; Marine to team up with Dai-ichi Mutual Life

Dai-ichi Mutual Life, Yasuda Fire &amp; Marine to tie up

Toho Mutual Life ordered to halt business

Manulife Century Life Insurance Co. established

Tokio Marine, Asahi Mutual to mull regrouping plan

4 Sumitomo Mitsui firms to enhance insurance alliance

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

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

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

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

Meiji, Yasuda to form nonlife alliance with Nipponkoa

Meiji Life, Yasuda Mutual Life announce merger

Dai-ichi Life, AFLAC to form Japan alliance

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

Millea, Asahi scrap management integration plan

Taiyo Mutual, Nipponkoa in nonlife insurance tie-up

Tokyo Mutual files for court protection from creditors

Kyoei to join Millea insurers group

Chiyoda to make new start under AIG

Tokio, Nichido, Asahi holding firm to be named 'Millea'

FRC head Aizawa speaks on Chiyoda Mutual Life's collapse

Chiyoda goes bust, President Yoneyama bows deeply

Dai-ichi Life, Yasuda Fire agree on alliance

Yasuda Fire & Marine to team up with Dai-ichi Mutual Life

Yasuda Fire & Marine to team up with Dai-ichi Mutual Life

Dai-ichi Mutual Life, Yasuda Fire & Marine to tie up