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Man publishes newsletter about ex-residents in Fukushima town

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Noritada Nakazato shows copies of a newsletter called Kawabusa Tsushin which he has been publishing to deepen bonds among former residents of a district in Fukushima Prefecture, during an interview in October 2013 in Furano, Hokkaido. About 300 residents in Kawabusa had to evacuate their homes shortly after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami triggered the nuclear disaster.

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Housewife issues own newsletter for 25 yrs

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken in Sapporo's Kita Ward on July 24, 2013 shows Minako Higuchi, a housewife from Ebetsu, Hokkaido, holding copies of the newsletter Ginga Tsushin she has been issuing for 25 years.

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Hikari Tsushin's Shigeta gives up post at Softbank

TOKYO, Japan - The file photo shows Hikari Tsushin Inc. President Yasumitsu Shigeta, who resigned April 26 as outside director at Softbank Corp. in order to concentrate on running his own company. Hikari Tsushin anticipates a loss of 11.60 billion yen for the current business year through Aug. 31, instead of the profit of 8.0 billion yen it projected last August.

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Forbes picks Japan's Shigeta among world's five richest men

TOKYO, Japan - This is a file photo of Yasumitsu Shigeta, president of Japanese cellular phone retailer Hikari Tsushin Inc., who has been named as the world's fifth richest man by Forbes Global magazine. The business magazine said Shigeta has the fastest-growing fortune in the world. Shigeta, 34, owns 62 percent of Hikari Tsushin. The company was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's First Section in September.

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Hikari Tsushin's Shigeta gives up post at Softbank

TOKYO, Japan - The file photo shows Hikari Tsushin Inc. President Yasumitsu Shigeta, who resigned April 26 as outside director at Softbank Corp. in order to concentrate on running his own company. Hikari Tsushin anticipates a loss of 11.60 billion yen for the current business year through Aug. 31, instead of the profit of 8.0 billion yen it projected last August.

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Japan's Hikari Tsushin to become tenant at Hong Kong's Cyber-Por

HONG KONG, China - Yasumitsu Shigeta (R), president and chief executive officer of Japanese mobile phone giant Hikari Tsushin Inc., and Richard Li (L), chairman of Hong Kong's Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. (PCCW), sign a memorandum of understanding Jan. 14. Hikari Tsushin has agreed to become an anchor tenant of Cyber-Port, a high-tech business park being developed by (PCCW) with support from the Hong Kong government.

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Forbes picks Japan's Shigeta among world's five richest men

TOKYO, Japan - This is a file photo of Yasumitsu Shigeta, president of Japanese cellular phone retailer Hikari Tsushin Inc., who has been named as the world's fifth richest man by Forbes Global magazine. The business magazine said Shigeta has the fastest-growing fortune in the world. Shigeta, 34, owns 62 percent of Hikari Tsushin. The company was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's First Section in September.