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Farewell party for former RENGO president Tsuyoshi Takagi

Farewell party for former RENGO President Tsuyoshi Takagi. Photo shows Yoshihiko Noda, Representative of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, reading his eulogy.=January 21,2025,Imperial Hotel Tokyo Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

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Farewell party for former RENGO president Tsuyoshi Takagi

Farewell party for former RENGO President Tsuyoshi Takagi. The photo shows RENGO President Tomoko Yoshino addressing the gathering.=January 21,2025,Imperial Hotel Tokyo Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

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Farewell party for former RENGO president Tsuyoshi Takagi

Farewell party for former RENGO President Tsuyoshi Takagi. Photo shows RENGO President Tomoko Yoshino (center) and others offering flowers.=January 21,2025,Imperial Hotel Tokyo Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

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Koga chosen as new Rengo president

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Koga (standing), secretary general of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, also known as Rengo, is chosen as its new president to succeed Tsuyoshi Takagi (front) at a regular convention in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2009.

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Rengo marks 20th anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Takagi (L), chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, also known as Rengo, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama at Rengo's regular convention in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2009. Rengo marked the 20th anniversary of its establishment.

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Rengo marks 20th anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Takagi, chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, also known as Rengo, addresses a regular convention in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2009, marking the 20th anniversary of its establishment.

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Hatoyama Cabinet starts business in full swing

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukuo Hatoyama (R) and Tsuyoshi Takagi, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2009, as they meet to discuss employment.

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Aso seeks cooperation from labor groups on emissions target

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) meets with Tsuyoshi Takagi, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 8. Aso called on Takagi to cooperate in achieving Japan's midterm greenhouse gas emissions reduction target.

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Gov't, employers, employees agree on Japan-style work-sharing

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, Prime Minister Taro Aso, Tsuyoshi Takagi, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, and a representative of the National Federation of Small Business Associations join hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 23 after they agreed to promote Japanese-style work-sharing to stabilize and create jobs amid the deteriorating job conditions of the global economic crisis.

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Aso falls short of specifying employment promotion measures

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Tsuyoshi Takagi (L) presents a list of employment promotion measures to Prime Minister Taro Aso at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Dec. 4.

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Car, electronics makers offer wage hikes for 3rd straight year

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Takagi, chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 12. Most leading Japanese car and electronics makers concluded this year's ''shunto'' spring wage talks with labor unions by offering to raise wages for the third consecutive year. But this year's wage hikes mostly failed to meet union requests and remained at the same levels as last year.

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Labor chief meets business community head, demands higher wages

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Takagi, chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), speaks at a meeting with the Japan Business Federation in Tokyo on Jan. 23. The meeting came in the run-up to labor-management wage talks for this spring's annual spring offensive wage bargaining.

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Labor chief, business community head spar over higher wages

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Takagi, chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), addresses a meeting with leaders of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) at Nippon Keidanren's head office in Tokyo on Jan. 15.

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Rengo to seek pay hike for part-time workers

TOKYO, Japan - Participants in a gathering sponsored the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) in Tokyo on Feb. 3 shout their slogans ahead of the start of this year's spring pay negotiations. Rengo President Tsuyoshi Takagi said the group will seek wage hikes for part-time workers to narrow pay gaps between them and full-time workers.

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'Shunto' wage negotiations start

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Takagi (C), chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), speaks at a meeting with the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Nippon Keidanren) in Tokyo on Jan. 11, effectively kicking off annual spring wage negotiations, known as Shunto in Japanese.

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Takagi elected as new Rengo chief

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Takagi (L), head of UI Zensen Domei, and Kiyoshi Sasamori shake hands during an annual convention of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, in Tokyo on Oct. 6 after Takai is elected as new Rengo president to replace Sasamori.

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(2)Sasamori reelected Rengo president

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoshi Sasamori, reelected president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), the country's largest labor organization, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 3. Sasamori, 62, easily beat challenger Tsuyoshi Takagi, 60, head of the Japanese Federation of Textile, Chemical, Food, Commercial, Service and General Workers' Unions (UI Zensen Domei), Japan's largest private-sector union federation with about 784,000 members.

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Chimuras worried about kids in N. Korea

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi and Fukie Chimura (C), on their first homecoming visit since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, see Tsuyoshi Takagi, a House of Representatives member, off at their father's home in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 30. Fukie told the lawmaker her children she left behind in North Korea may worry if their stay in Japan is extended to long beyond an agreed two-week period. (Pool photo)

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'Shunto' wage negotiations start

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Takagi (C), chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), speaks at a meeting with the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Nippon Keidanren) in Tokyo on Jan. 11, effectively kicking off annual spring wage negotiations, known as Shunto in Japanese. (Kyodo)

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Rengo to seek pay hike for part-time workers

TOKYO, Japan - Participants in a gathering sponsored the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) in Tokyo on Feb. 3 shout their slogans ahead of the start of this year's spring pay negotiations. Rengo President Tsuyoshi Takagi said the group will seek wage hikes for part-time workers to narrow pay gaps between them and full-time workers. (Kyodo)

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Labor chief meets business community head, demands higher wages

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Takagi, chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), speaks at a meeting with the Japan Business Federation in Tokyo on Jan. 23. The meeting came in the run-up to labor-management wage talks for this spring's annual spring offensive wage bargaining. (Kyodo)

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Car, electronics makers offer wage hikes for 3rd straight year

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Takagi, chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 12. Most leading Japanese car and electronics makers concluded this year's ''shunto'' spring wage talks with labor unions by offering to raise wages for the third consecutive year. But this year's wage hikes mostly failed to meet union requests and remained at the same levels as last year. (Kyodo)

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Aso falls short of specifying employment promotion measures

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Tsuyoshi Takagi (L) presents a list of employment promotion measures to Prime Minister Taro Aso at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Dec. 4. (Kyodo)

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Gov't, employers, employees agree on Japan-style work-sharing

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Tadashi Okamura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, Prime Minister Taro Aso, Tsuyoshi Takagi, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, and a representative of the National Federation of Small Business Associations join hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 23 after they agreed to promote Japanese-style work-sharing to stabilize and create jobs amid the deteriorating job conditions of the global economic crisis. (Kyodo)

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Aso seeks cooperation from labor groups on emissions target

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) meets with Tsuyoshi Takagi, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 8. Aso called on Takagi to cooperate in achieving Japan's midterm greenhouse gas emissions reduction target. (Kyodo)

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Chimuras worried about kids in N. Korea

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi and Fukie Chimura (C), on their first homecoming visit since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, see Tsuyoshi Takagi, a House of Representatives member, off at their father's home in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 30. Fukie told the lawmaker her children she left behind in North Korea may worry if their stay in Japan is extended to long beyond an agreed two-week period. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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(2)Sasamori reelected Rengo president

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoshi Sasamori, reelected president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), the country's largest labor organization, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 3. Sasamori, 62, easily beat challenger Tsuyoshi Takagi, 60, head of the Japanese Federation of Textile, Chemical, Food, Commercial, Service and General Workers' Unions (UI Zensen Domei), Japan's largest private-sector union federation with about 784,000 members. (Kyodo)

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Reconstruction minister says he will stay in job despite scandal

Tsuyoshi Takagi, the Cabinet minister for rebuilding areas devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 7, 2015. He dismissed calls for his resignation and denied allegations that there had been any misuse of his political funds, violating the election law. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Reconstruction minister on defensive at Diet

Reconstruction Minister Tsuyoshi Takagi (far L) speaks during a session of the House of Representatives Budget Committee in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2015, defending himself over doubtful statements in a political fund report. Prior to the session, Takagi denied he would resign. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe reshuffles Cabinet

Tsuyoshi Takagi, a House of Representatives member of the Liberal Democratic Party, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2015, ahead of his appointment as reconstruction minister in a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Reconstruction minister meets Fukushima evacuees

Reconstruction Minister Tsuyoshi Takagi (far L) meets with evacuees from Fukushima Prefecture's Okuma town, where the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant exists, near their temporary houses in Aizuwakamatsu in the northeastern Japanese prefecture on Oct. 27, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Recipients of Grand Cordon of Order of Rising Sun at photo session

Recipients of Japan's Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun attend a photo session at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 8, 2015. They are (from L) Iwao Uruma, former chief of the National Police Agency, Tsuyoshi Takagi, former head of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, Tadamasa Kodaira, former chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, Tadashi Okamura, former head of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, former Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare, Kosuke Hori, former home affairs minister, former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, Etsuhiko Shoyama, former president of Hitachi Ltd., Hiromasa Yonekura, former chairman of Keidanren, Nancy Pelosi, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Yoshihito Karasawa, former president of the Japan Medical Association, and Toshitsugu Saito, former chief of the Defense Agency. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Labor chief, business community head spar over higher wages

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Takagi, chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), addresses a meeting with leaders of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) at Nippon Keidanren's head office in Tokyo on Jan. 15. (Kyodo)

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Takagi elected as new Rengo chief

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Takagi (L), head of UI Zensen Domei, and Kiyoshi Sasamori shake hands during an annual convention of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, in Tokyo on Oct. 6 after Takai is elected as new Rengo president to replace Sasamori. (Kyodo)

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Koga chosen as new Rengo president

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Koga (standing), secretary general of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, also known as Rengo, is chosen as its new president to succeed Tsuyoshi Takagi (front) at a regular convention in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2009. (Kyodo)

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Rengo marks 20th anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Takagi, chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, also known as Rengo, addresses a regular convention in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2009, marking the 20th anniversary of its establishment. (Kyodo)

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Rengo marks 20th anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Takagi (L), chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, also known as Rengo, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama at Rengo's regular convention in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2009. Rengo marked the 20th anniversary of its establishment. (Kyodo)

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Hatoyama Cabinet starts business in full swing

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukuo Hatoyama (R) and Tsuyoshi Takagi, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2009, as they meet to discuss employment. (Kyodo)