Toshiaki Higashihara

Toshiaki Higashihara

23.08.2025, Tallinn. Toshiaki Higashihara, Executive Chairman of Hitachi in Tallinn. Photo Madis Veltman, Postimees

Toshiaki Higashihara

Toshiaki Higashihara

23.08.2025, Tallinn. Toshiaki Higashihara, Executive Chairman of Hitachi in Tallinn. Photo Madis Veltman, Postimees

Toshiaki Higashihara

Toshiaki Higashihara

23.08.2025, Tallinn. Toshiaki Higashihara, Executive Chairman of Hitachi in Tallinn. Photo Madis Veltman, Postimees

Keidanren meeting with Italian president

Keidanren meeting with Italian president

Toshiaki Higashihara, vice chairman of the Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren, speaks at the beginning of a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in Tokyo on March 5, 2025.

CORRECTED: China Development Forum

CORRECTED: China Development Forum

Toshiaki Higashihara (R), executive chairman of Japanese electronics maker Hitachi Ltd., attends China Development Forum in Beijing on March 24, 2024, in Beijing.

Hitachi aims to expand train business via acquisitions

Hitachi aims to expand train business via acquisitions

TOKYO, Japan - Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara is interviewed in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Dec. 17, 2014. Higashihara said that the Japanese electric machinery maker aims to strengthen its railway-related business through overseas acquisitions.

Hitachi Senior Vice President Higashihara to become president

Hitachi Senior Vice President Higashihara to become president

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiaki Higashihara (L), who will be promoted to president and chief operating officer of Hitachi Ltd. from senior vice president on April 1, shakes hands with current President Hiroaki Nakanishi prior to a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 8, 2014. Nakanishi will become chairman and chief executive officer, the company said.

Hitachi Senior Vice President Higashihara to become president

Hitachi Senior Vice President Higashihara to become president

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiaki Higashihara, who will be promoted to president and chief operating officer of Hitachi Ltd. from senior vice president on April 1, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 8, 2014. Hiroaki Nakanishi, the current president, will become chairman and chief executive officer, the company said.

Hitachi eyes competing in railway-related business globally

Hitachi eyes competing in railway-related business globally

Toshiaki Higashihara, president of Hitachi Ltd., speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2015. Higashihara said his company is moving to compete in railway-related businesses globally following the acquisition of the railway vehicle and signal businesses of Italy's Finmeccanica S.p.A. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi eyes 600 billion yen in annual railway business sales

Hitachi eyes 600 billion yen in annual railway business sales

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara (R) and Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi hold a press conference in London on Sept. 2, 2015. They said the Japanese conglomerate will aim to boost annual sales of its British-based railway business 1.5-fold to around 600 billion yen ($5 billion) as early as possible, and to 800 billion thereafter. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi chief cites 3 key investment areas in India

Hitachi chief cites 3 key investment areas in India

Toshiaki Higashihara, president of Hitachi Ltd., meets reporters in Mumbai, India, on Feb. 16. 2016. He said the Japanese electrical equipment manufacturer will focus investment in India in three fields: infrastructure, financial information and medical treatment. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi eyes competing in railway-related business globally

Hitachi eyes competing in railway-related business globally

Toshiaki Higashihara, president of Hitachi Ltd., speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2015. Higashihara said his company is moving to compete in railway-related businesses globally following the acquisition of the railway vehicle and signal businesses of Italy's Finmeccanica S.p.A. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi aims to expand train business via acquisitions

Hitachi aims to expand train business via acquisitions

TOKYO, Japan - Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara is interviewed in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Dec. 17, 2014. Higashihara said that the Japanese electric machinery maker aims to strengthen its railway-related business through overseas acquisitions. (Kyodo)

Hitachi eyes M&As to expand rail business: president

Hitachi eyes M&As to expand rail business: president

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara addresses an event in Milan on Oct. 18, 2017. Higashihara told reporters the same day that the company is eager to expand its railroad business through mergers and acquisitions with a goal to more than double sales to 1 trillion yen ($8.9 billion) by the early 2020s. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi's president

Hitachi's president

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara holds an online press conference on May 29, 2020, in Tokyo on the electronics maker's full-year earnings results and estimates amid continued worries about the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara meets the press in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2019, to announce the company's suspension of a British nuclear project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara meets the press in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2019, to announce the company's suspension of a British nuclear project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara meets the press in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2019, to announce the company's suspension of a British nuclear project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara meets the press in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2019, to announce the company's suspension of a British nuclear project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara meets the press in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2019, to announce the company's suspension of a British nuclear project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara meets the press in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2019, to announce the company's suspension of a British nuclear project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara meets the press in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2019, to announce the company's suspension of a British nuclear project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi nuclear project in Britain

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara heads to a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2019, to announce the company's suspension of a British nuclear project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi to buy ABB's power grid business

Hitachi to buy ABB's power grid business

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara announces the company's decision to purchase the power grid business of Swiss engineering group ABB Ltd. at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Energy project deal in Taiwan

Energy project deal in Taiwan

(From R) Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara, Taiwan Power Co. President Chung Bin-li and Jan De Nul Group Chairman Jan Pieter De Nul attend a signing ceremony in Taipei on April 30, 2018, to build offshore wind turbines in Taiwan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Energy project deal in Taiwan

Energy project deal in Taiwan

(From R) Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara, Taiwan Power Co. President Chung Bin-li and Jan De Nul Group Chairman Jan Pieter De Nul attend a signing ceremony in Taipei on April 30, 2018, to build offshore wind turbines in Taiwan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi to expand technical renovation businesses in Australia

Hitachi to expand technical renovation businesses in Australia

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara gives a speech in Sydney on Dec. 1, 2016. Higashihara showed readiness to expand technical renovation businesses in Australia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hitachi chief hints at integrating 3 firms' nuclear power businesses

Hitachi chief hints at integrating 3 firms' nuclear power businesses

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara, at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2016, hints at the possible integration of the nuclear power businesses of Hitachi, Toshiba Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo