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2 architects believed to have proposed Olympic stadium designs

TOKYO, Dec. 17 Kyodo - Photo shows Kengo Kuma (L) and Toyoo Ito, both of whom are Japanese architects working internationally. They are believed to have each proposed designs for the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The names of the two bidders have not been officially disclosed.

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Japanese architect Toyoo Ito wins 2013 Pritzker prize

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese architect Toyoo Ito speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on March 18, 2013, on his winning the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

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Japanese architect Toyoo Ito wins 2013 Pritzker prize

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo on March 18, 2013, shows Japanese architect Toyoo Ito. Ito has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's sponsor organization said on March 17, 2013.

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Japanese architect Toyoo Ito wins 2013 Pritzker prize

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2012 shows Japanese architect Toyoo Ito, who speaks in front of "Home for All," where survivors of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan gather to eat, drink and talk, after its completion in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. Ito has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the Nobel prize of architecture, the prize's sponsor organization said on March 17, 2013.

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Japanese architect Toyoo Ito wins 2013 Pritzker prize

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese architect Toyoo Ito. Ito has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the Nobel prize of architecture, the prize's sponsor organization said on March 17, 2013.

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Japan pavilion wins top award at Venice architecture exhibition

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) architect Toyoo Ito, photographer Naoya Hatakeyama, and architects Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata and Sosuke Fujimoto, are pictured with the Golden Lion trophy at the award ceremony for the 13th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition in Venice on Aug. 29, 2012, where the Japan pavilion won top prize. Ito, commissioner of the pavilion, exhibited along with other architects the process of designing "Home for All" places where survivors of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan gather to eat, drink and talk. Hatakeyama displayed photos of disaster-hit areas.

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Japan pavilion wins top award at Venice architecture exhibition

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese architect Toyoo Ito (back) receives the Golden Lion trophy at the award ceremony for the 13th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition in Venice on Aug. 29, 2012, where the Japan pavilion won top prize. Ito, commissioner of the pavilion, exhibited along with other architects the process of designing "Home for All" places where survivors of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan gather to eat, drink and talk.

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Japan pavilion wins top award at Venice architecture exhibition

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japanese architect Toyoo Ito. The Japan pavilion won the Golden Lion top prize at the 13th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition on Aug. 29, 2012. Ito, commissioner of the pavilion, exhibited along with other architects the process of designing "Home for All" places where survivors of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan gather to eat, drink and talk.

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Police raid Yamaha Motor over chopper export to China

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Toyoo Otsubo (L), a Yamaha Motor Co. executive, speaks during a news conference at the company's head office in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 23 after police raided the headquarters and other places to search for evidence on suspicion that the company illegally exported an unmanned helicopter to China.

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Gyohten urges G-7 to address excess liquidity behind oil price hikes

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Toyoo Gyohten speaks in an interview with Kyodo News. Gyoten has urged the Group of Seven industrialized nations to address the excess liquidity that he says is behind recent oil price increases.

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Japan should seek U.S. help to stem yen's rise, Gyohten says

TOKYO, Japan - Japan should seek U.S. help to stem the yen's excessive appreciation against the U.S. dollar, Toyoo Gyohten, a former vice finance minister for international affairs, said in a recent interview with Kyodo News. Gyohten currently serves as president of the Institute for International Monetary Affairs in Tokyo.

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Gyohten urges G-7 to address excess liquidity behind oil price h

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Toyoo Gyohten speaks in an interview with Kyodo News. Gyoten has urged the Group of Seven industrialized nations to address the excess liquidity that he says is behind recent oil price increases. (Kyodo)

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Police raid Yamaha Motor over chopper export to China

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Toyoo Otsubo (L), a Yamaha Motor Co. executive, speaks during a news conference at the company's head office in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 23 after police raided the headquarters and other places to search for evidence on suspicion that the company illegally exported an unmanned helicopter to China. (Kyodo)

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Toyoo Gyohten

Toyoo Gyohten Ministry Of Finance, Japan 03 June 1991 Date: 03-Jun-1991

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Toyoo GYOHTEN - the president of the Institute for International Monetary Affairs, also former top Japanese financial diplomat. (at the interview with Kyodo News on April 7, 2000)

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New design picked for 2020 Olympics stadium

Japanese architect Toyoo Ito meets with reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2015, after his proposal for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics main stadium was rejected. Ito said there should be more focus on how the new stadium will be operated 50 or 100 years after hosting the Olympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan should seek U.S. help to stem yen's rise, Gyohten says

TOKYO, Japan - Japan should seek U.S. help to stem the yen's excessive appreciation against the U.S. dollar, Toyoo Gyohten, a former vice finance minister for international affairs, said in a recent interview with Kyodo News. Gyohten currently serves as president of the Institute for International Monetary Affairs in Tokyo.