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Fast Retailing eyeing expansion of overseas operations via M&As

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, chairman and chief executive officer of Fast Retailing Co., a leading Japanese casual-clothing retailer, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 4 where the company said it will continue to invest 300-400 billion yen for mergers and acquisitions in order to raise its profile in the global market.

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New fleece lineup with better heat insulation unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai (C), head of Fast Retailing Co., which operates the Uniqlo clothing chain, and models wearing a new lineup of fleece wear with enhanced heat insulation pose at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014.

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Uniqlo, Daiwa House strike partnership deal

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai (L), head of Fast Retailing Co. which operates the Uniqlo clothing chain, and Naotake Ono, president of Daiwa House Industry Co., shake hands at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 14, 2014, after announcing a bilateral business partnership. The deal calls for the two companies to set up a joint distribution firm for the same-day domestic delivery of Uniqlo products purchased online.

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Fast Retailing's group net profit drops 28.7% in year through Aug.

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president and chairman of Fast Retailing Co., operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain, briefs reporters on the company's financial results for the business year through August in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2014. It logged 74.55 billion yen in group net profit for the year through August, down 28.7 percent from the previous year.

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Japan's Yanai re-elected as U.N. sea tribunal judge

NEW YORK, United States - Shunji Yanai responds to questions from reporters in New York, the United States, on June 11, 2014, after being re-elected as a judge at a U.N. tribunal handling sea disputes such as resources development, for a nine-year term from October.

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Japan panel on collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) receives a report from former Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai, who heads a panel of security experts, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 15, 2014. The panel proposed that Japan defend allies under armed attack by lifting its self-imposed ban on the exercise of the right to collective self-defense, giving the nod to Abe's push for an overhaul of postwar security policy.

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Japan panel on collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) receives a report from former Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai, who heads a panel of security experts, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 15, 2014. The panel proposed that Japan defend allies under armed attack by lifting its self-imposed ban on the exercise of the right to collective self-defense, giving the nod to Abe's push for an overhaul of postwar security policy.

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Fast Retailing chief Yanai explains Sept.-Feb. results

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president and chairman of Fast Retailing Co., explains the Uniqlo chain operator's business results in the September to February period on April 10, 2014, in Tokyo. The company logged record sales of 764.3 billion yen, up 24.3 percent from a year earlier, in the period.

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Treatment of people exposed to Fukushima radiation changing

KAWAUCHI, Japan - Makiko Orita (R), a graduate student at Nagasaki University and health nurse, visits shop owner Yoshiyuki Yanai in Kawauchi, Fukushima Prefecture, to offer health consultations on July 31, 2013.

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Bodies of 3 Japanese returned from China

NARITA, Japan - Airport workers bow to containers holding the bodies of three Japanese travelers -- Yoko Ogawa, 62, Kuniko Watanabe, 68, and Shunichiro Yanai, 76 -- at Narita airport, near Tokyo, on Nov. 10, 2012. The bodies of the three, who died in heavy snows during a trekking tour near the Great Wall outside Beijing, were transferred to a funeral hall in Tokyo after arriving at the airport.

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Uniqlo unveils scholarships

TOKYO, Japan - Uniqlo Co. Chairman and President Tadashi Yanai (R) and U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos (C) join hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2012. The major clothing retailer announced a $1.6 million scholarship program to help young Japanese aiming to become business leaders and fashion designers enroll as graduate students at three prestigious U.S institutions.

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Uniqlo to set up $10 mil. fund to help children

TOKYO, Japan - Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic (L) and Tadashi Yanai, chairman of Fast Retailing Co., the parent company of casual clothing chain operator Uniqlo Co., shake hands in Tokyo on Oct. 16, 2012, as Uniqlo announces its plan to establish a $10 million fund to help improve the lives of children around the world. Uniqlo said it will raise funds for the "Clothes for Smiles" project through sales of its Heattech innerwear and Ultra Light Down jackets this fall and winter.

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Fast Retailing aims for record 1 tril. yen in sales

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president and chairman of Fast Retailing Co., holds a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 11, 2012. Fast Retailing said the same day it aims to achieve record group sales of more than 1 trillion yen for the current business year ending in August 2013, on the back of robust growth of its Uniqlo casual clothing chain business in Asia.

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Veteran photographer Fukushima speaks of atomic-bomb attacks

YANAI, Japan - Veteran photographer Kikujiro Fukushima speaks in an interview in Yanai, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on June 3, 2012. For the 91-year-old, issues surrounding atomic-bomb survivors have always been pivotal to his career.

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Uniqlo's Yanai

TOKYO, Japan - Fast Retailing Co. President Tadashi Yanai speaks during a press conference on March 15, 2012, at its Uniqlo casual clothing brand's new flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district, which will open the following day.

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New faces in Japan's 2011 year-end song festival

TOKYO, Japan - Singers selected for the first time to perform at the 62nd ''Kohaku Uta Gassen'' year-end song festival of NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corp., pose for photos at the head office of NHK in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 2011, as the public broadcaster announced the lineup of performers for the program. They are (from L front) Fuku Suzuki and Mana Ashida and (from L back) Girls' Generation's SeoHyun, Jessica, YuRi, Tiffany, TaeYeon and SooYoung, Sayaka Kanda, KARA's GYU RI, HARA and NICOLE, and Inawashirokos' Michihiko Yanai, Toshimi Watanabe, who is holding a fan with member Takashi Yamaguchi's picture on it, and Shinji Matsuda. Solo singer Ringo Sheena, who will also appear for the first time on the show, was not present for the photo.

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Japan's Yanai elected president of int'l maritime court

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Shunji Yanai of Japan. The judge, a former Japanese ambassador to the United States, was elected on Oct. 1, 2011, as president of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for the three years through 2013

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Scholarship fund for children affected by March 11 disaster

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Masatoshi Koshiba, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, architect Tadao Ando and Fast Retailing Co. President Tadashi Yanai attend a press conference at the education ministry in Tokyo on May 18, 2011. They and others established a scholarship foundation the same day for children affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Toray, Uniqlo to expand strategic partnership

TOKYO, Japan - Chemical maker Toray Industries Inc. President Akihiro Nikkaku (L) and clothing retail chain Uniqlo Co. President Tadashi Yanai shake hands in Tokyo on July 20, 2010, after the two companies announced they will expand their strategic partnership with an eye toward boosting sales in 2011-2015 to 400 billion yen by promoting global operations.

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Fast Retailing, Grameen Bank to set up social joint venture

TOKYO, Japan - Muhammad Yunus (L), the head of the Grameen Bank Group of Bangladesh, and Tadashi Yanai, chairman and president of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of the Uniqlo clothing chain, shake hands during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on July 13, 2010. Yunus and Yanai announced an agreement to set up a joint venture, tentatively named Grameen Uniqlo Ltd., in Dhaka. Yunus, the founder of the microfinance organization, and the bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.

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Uniqlo eyes boosting global operations

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of the popular Uniqlo casual clothing chain, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on May 17, 2010. He said the company aims to continue expanding its global operations with an eye to opening shops in emerging markets such as India and Latin America.

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Uniqlo operator logs record Sept.-Feb. sales, profit

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai (L), chairman and president of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of Uniqlo casual clothing stores, briefs reporters on the company's earnings report for the business year that ended in February at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 8, 2010. Yanai reported record-high consolidated sales and operating profit for the year on the back of brisk demand for its autumn and winter products.

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Uniqlo operator logs record Sept.-Feb. sales, profit

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, chairman and president of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of Uniqlo casual clothing stores, briefs reporters on the company's earnings report for the business year that ended in February at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 8, 2010. Yanai reported record-high consolidated sales and operating profit for the year on the back of brisk demand for its autumn and winter products.

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Uniqlo operator logs record Sept.-Feb. sales, profit

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, chairman and president of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of Uniqlo casual clothing stores, briefs reporters on the company's earnings report for the business year that ended in February at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 8, 2010. Yanai reported record-high consolidated sales and operating profit for the year on the back of brisk demand for its autumn and winter products.

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Uniqlo operator logs record Sept.-Feb. sales, profit

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, chairman and president of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of Uniqlo casual clothing stores, briefs reporters on the company's earnings report for the business year that ended in February at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 8, 2010. Yanai reported record-high consolidated sales and operating profit for the year on the back of brisk demand for its autumn and winter products.

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Fast Retailing willing to open more Uniqlo outlets in N.Y.: Yanai

NEW YORK, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, chairman and president of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of the Uniqlo casual wear chain, speaks at an awards ceremony for International Retailer of the Year in New York on Jan. 12, 2010. Yanai, the award recipient, told reporters after the ceremony he wants to open more shops in New York City.

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Seven & I to buy stake in Pia

TOKYO, Japan - Seven & I Holdings Co. President Noritoshi Murata (R) and Pia Corp. President Hiroshi Yanai shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2009. The major retailer said the same day it will buy a stake of 20 percent in the ticketing and entertainment information company.

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Uniqlo operator logs record sales, operating profit in FY 2009

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing Co., briefs reporters on the company's group earnings report for the business year through Aug. 31 at the Tokyo Stocks Exchange on Oct. 8, 2009.

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Uniqlo operator logs record sales, operating profit in FY 2009

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing Co., briefs reporters on the company's group earnings report for the business year through Aug. 31 at the Tokyo Stocks Exchange on Oct. 8, 2009.

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Uniqlo operator aims to increase sales to 5 tril. yen by 2020

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain, briefs reporters on the company's business plan in Tokyo on Sept. 2. Yanai said the company is aiming to increase group sales around seven-fold to 5 trillion yen by 2020 through an expansion of global operations.

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Japan's Tada defends WBA women's minimumweight title

OSAKA, Japan - WBA women's minimumweight champion Etsuko Tada of Japan poses with her trophies after beating challenger Yani Kokietgym of Thailand in their title match in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 23. Tada won a unanimous decision over Yanai in the first defense of her title.

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Japan's Tada defends WBA women's minimumweight title

OSAKA, Japan - WBA women's minimumweight champion Etsuko Tada of Japan (L) delivers a punch to Thailand's Yani Kokietgym in the seventh round of their bout in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 23. Tada won a unanimous decision over Yanai in the first defense of her title.

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Uniqlo to open 1st casual wear store in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Tadashi Yanai, chairman and president of Fast Retailing Co. of Japan, speaks during a press conference in Singapore on April 6 at which he announced the company will establish Uniqlo casual wear retail chains in Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian nations, starting with an outlet in Singapore set to open April 9.

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Fast Retailing signs contract with fashion designer Sander

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai (R), president of Fast Retailing Co., and famed German fashion designer Jil Sander attend a joint news conference in Tokyo on March on March 17. They announced that Fast Retailing has signed a consulting contract with Sander to improve the quality of its Uniqlo-brand casual wear and develop new products.

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Fast Retailing signs contract with fashion designer Sander

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai (R), president of Fast Retailing Co., and famed German fashion designer Jil Sander shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on March 17. They announced that Fast Retailing has signed a consulting contract with Sander to improve the quality of its Uniqlo-brand casual wear and develop new products.

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Fast Retailing unit launches ultra-cheap jeans for 990 yen

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai (R), president of Fast Retailing Co., holds up a 990-yen pair of jeans during a press conference in Tokyo on March 10. GOV Retailing Co., a unit of Fast Retailing, is selling the jeans at its ''g.u.'' stores as part of its spring and summer lineup. At center is media personality Kaori Manabe.

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Drugmaker Kowa, Israel's Teva plan joint generic drug firm

TOKYO, Japan - Shlomo Yanai (L), president and chief executive officer of Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., and Yoshihiro Miwa, president of Japanese drugmaker Kowa Co., shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 24 at which they announced the two companies will set up a joint generic drug company in Tokyo next year.

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Toray, Uniqlo ink apparel business tie-up agreement

TOKYO, Japan - Uniqlo Co. Chairman and President Tadashi Yanai (L) and Toray Industries Inc. President Sadayuki Sakakibara pose for a photo after announcing a comprehensive business tie-up agreement at a press conference in Tokyo on June 19.

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Uniqlo clothing store operator to tie up with Daiei

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai (R), chairman and president of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of Uniqlo casual clothing stores, speaks at a news conference Jan. 26 in Tokyo about a business alliance with supermarket chain operator Daiei Inc. At left is Daiei President Yasuyuki Higuchi.

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2 ships collide in Seto Inland Sea

YANAI, Japan - The South Korean-flagged freighter Pine Pia sustained damage in its stem when the vessel collided with the Cyprus-registered freighter Asia Concerto in waters some 4 kilometers south of Heigun Island, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Aug. 10. Asia Concerto sank, leaving a Filipino crew member missing.

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2 ships collide in Seto Inland Sea

YANAI, Japan - Oil spills on Aug. 10 from the Cyprus-registered freighter Asia Concerto, which sank earlier in the day in the Seto Inland Sea off Yamaguchi Prefecture after colliding with the South Korean-flagged freighter Pine Pia (top).

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Japan's Yanai elected as judge of int'l tribunal for sea law

NEW YORK, United States - Former Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shunji Yanai holds a news conference in New York on June 22 as he was elected the same day as one of the judges of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea which adjudicates disputes involving ocean space as well as its uses and resources.

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Fast Retailing to replace president in Nov.

TOKYO, Japan - Genichi Tamatsuka (L), managing director of Fast Retailing Co., operator of the Uniqlo-brand casual-clothing store chain, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 7, flanked by President Tadashi Yanai (C). The company said Tamatsuka, 39, is currently president of Fast Retailing (U.K.) Ltd., a wholly owned unit in Britain of Fast Retailing, will replace Yanai in November. Yanai, 53, will become chairman.

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Fast Retailing sees 36% net profit fall on consumer reaction

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing Co., Japan's top casual-wear retailer known for its Uniqlo brand, releases the company's fiscal half-year financial statement at a news conference April 18 at the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

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Fast Retailing to enter food business

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing Co., a leading casual-clothing retailer known for its Uniqlo brand, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 8. He announced plans to enter the food business in the near future through tie-ups with three agricultural firms.

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Yanai denies U.S. put pressure for SDF dispatch

WASHINGTON, United States - Outgoing Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai spoke in an interview with Kyodo News at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Oct. 23. He denied Washington has pressured Japan to dispatch Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to provide logistical support for the U.S.-led military campaign against terrorism.

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Tanaka hints at punishment for envoy to U.S.

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka indicates Oct. 12 she may consider imposing some kind of punishment on Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai for proposing ways for Japan to assist the U.S. military campaign against terrorism. ''It may be a warning or something like that. But I do not intend to fire him over the case,'' Tanaka told a press conference.

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Uniqlo opens 4 stores in London on Friday

LONDON, Britain - An outlet of Fast Retailing Co., Japan's biggest casual clothing retailer operating under the Uniqlo brand, is ready to open in London on Sept. 27. Fast Retailing President Tadashi Yanai said at a press conference in London that his company is will four outlets in Britain on Sept. 28.

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Japan's U.S. envoy accused of pressuring contractor

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's outgoing ambassador to the United States, Shunji Yanai, put pressure on a major construction firm to change the design of a building (2) facing his own condominium block (1) in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward between 1995 and 1999, a source close to the case said Aug. 23. Yanai, who denies abusing his position in the Foreign Ministry to exert influence on the builder, is to resign next month over a scandal involving another Foreign Ministry official in the U.S. Photo was taken by Kyodo News helicopter.

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Tanaka agrees to Koizumi's plan to sack envoy

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show (upper row from L to R) Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Kawashima and Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai, (lower row from L to R) Japan International Cooperation Agency head Kunihiko Saito and Ambassador to Britain Sadayuki Hayashi whom Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has decided to replace after a feud with Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, a government source said August 2.

Fast Retailing eyeing expansion of overseas operations via M&amp;As

New fleece lineup with better heat insulation unveiled

Uniqlo, Daiwa House strike partnership deal

Fast Retailing's group net profit drops 28.7% in year through Aug.

Japan's Yanai re-elected as U.N. sea tribunal judge

Japan panel on collective self-defense

Japan panel on collective self-defense

Fast Retailing chief Yanai explains Sept.-Feb. results

Treatment of people exposed to Fukushima radiation changing

Bodies of 3 Japanese returned from China

Uniqlo unveils scholarships

Uniqlo to set up $10 mil. fund to help children

Fast Retailing aims for record 1 tril. yen in sales

Veteran photographer Fukushima speaks of atomic-bomb attacks

Uniqlo's Yanai

New faces in Japan's 2011 year-end song festival

Japan's Yanai elected president of int'l maritime court

Scholarship fund for children affected by March 11 disaster

Toray, Uniqlo to expand strategic partnership

Fast Retailing, Grameen Bank to set up social joint venture

Uniqlo eyes boosting global operations

Uniqlo operator logs record Sept.-Feb. sales, profit

Uniqlo operator logs record Sept.-Feb. sales, profit

Uniqlo operator logs record Sept.-Feb. sales, profit

Uniqlo operator logs record Sept.-Feb. sales, profit

Fast Retailing willing to open more Uniqlo outlets in N.Y.: Yanai

Seven &amp; I to buy stake in Pia

Uniqlo operator logs record sales, operating profit in FY 2009

Uniqlo operator logs record sales, operating profit in FY 2009

Uniqlo operator aims to increase sales to 5 tril. yen by 2020

Japan's Tada defends WBA women's minimumweight title

Japan's Tada defends WBA women's minimumweight title

Uniqlo to open 1st casual wear store in Singapore

Fast Retailing signs contract with fashion designer Sander

Fast Retailing signs contract with fashion designer Sander

Fast Retailing unit launches ultra-cheap jeans for 990 yen

Drugmaker Kowa, Israel's Teva plan joint generic drug firm

Toray, Uniqlo ink apparel business tie-up agreement

Uniqlo clothing store operator to tie up with Daiei

2 ships collide in Seto Inland Sea

2 ships collide in Seto Inland Sea

Japan's Yanai elected as judge of int'l tribunal for sea law

Fast Retailing to replace president in Nov.

Fast Retailing sees 36% net profit fall on consumer reaction

Fast Retailing to enter food business

Yanai denies U.S. put pressure for SDF dispatch

Tanaka hints at punishment for envoy to U.S.

Uniqlo opens 4 stores in London on Friday

Japan's U.S. envoy accused of pressuring contractor

Tanaka agrees to Koizumi's plan to sack envoy

Fast Retailing eyeing expansion of overseas operations via M&As

Seven & I to buy stake in Pia