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Cyberdyne, Omron partner in robotics field

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiyuki Sankai (R), president of powered exoskeleton maker Cyberdyne Inc., and Yoshihito Yamada, president of Omron Corp., announce the two firms' alliance in the field of robotics in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2014.

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New Omron president

KYOTO, Japan - New Omron Corp. President Yoshihito Yamada speaks in a press conference in Kyoto on July 7, 2011.

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NTT DoCoMo to promote fusion of mobile, fixed-line services

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuji Yamada, president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 2. Yamada said NTT DoCoMo will promote the joint development of services with fixed-line phone units of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. group.

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DoCoMo still considering launching iPhone: new president

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuji Yamada, new president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., tells reporters June 23 that the nation's largest mobile phone carrier is still considering launching Apple Inc.'s new iPhone after smaller rival Softbank Mobile Corp. clinched a deal with the U.S. firm earlier this month.

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Diet panels to file perjury charges against Moriya

TOKYO, Japan - The House of Representatives committee on antiterrorism and Iraq reconstruction affairs votes unanimously on Jan. 15 to file perjury charges against former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya in connection with his sworn testimony on his relationships with Motonobu Miyazaki, a former executive of defense equipment trader Yamada Corp. The House of Councillors committee on foreign affairs and defense unanimously approved a similar motion the same day. Moriya and Miyazaki have been arrested and indicted on bribery charges in connection with equipment procurement by the Defense Ministry.

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Akiyama denies he got funds from defense firm Yamada

TOKYO, Japan - Naoki Akiyama, 58, executive director of the Japan-U.S. Center for Peace and Cultural Exchange, speaks as an unsworn witness at the House of Councillors' Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Jan. 8. Akiyama denied media reports that his organization got 100 million yen from scandal-tainted defense equipment trading house Yamada Corp.

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Akiyama denies he got funds from defense firm Yamada

TOKYO, Japan - Naoki Akiyama, 58, executive director of the Japan-U.S. Center for Peace and Cultural Exchange, speaks as an unsworn witness at the House of Councillors' Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Jan. 8. Akiyama denied media reports that his organization got 100 million yen from scandal-tainted defense equipment trading house Yamada Corp.

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Nukaga says he returned 2.2 mil. yen to defense supplier Yamada

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga is in a pensive mood at the House of Councillors Audit Committee on Nov. 19 during questioning about his relationships with scandal-hit defense equipment trader Yamada Corp. Nukaga said Yamada paid 2.2 million yen for his fundraising parties between 2002 and March this year but he has since returned all the money to the firm. Nukaga was defense chief from 1996 to 1998 and from September 2006 to July this year.

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Yonezu denies organizational involvement in defense scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Yamada Corp. President Yoshihiko Yonezu, speaking as an unsworn witness, tells a House of Councillors panel on Nov. 15 that a former executive of the scandal-tainted defense equipment trading house entertained former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya by golfing with him more than 300 times between 1998 and 2006, costing more than 15 million yen for the company.

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Moriya testifies at Diet over ties with ex-defense firm exec

TOKYO, Japan - Former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya (R) testifies before a House of Representatives panel on Oct. 29 on his relations with an ex-senior executive of Yamada Corp., a defense business firm. Moriya admitted playing golf with the former executive ''more than 200 times'' over 12 years.

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Moriya denies doing favors for defense firm despite golfing

TOKYO, Japan - Former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya speaks at a House of Representatives panel in the Diet in Tokyo on Oct. 29 as a sworn witness about a series of allegations including collusion with a former executive of defense equipment trading house Yamada Corp.

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Mitsubishi Securities launched as 4th biggest brokerage

TOKYO, Japan - Akio Utsumi (L), president of Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corp., Nobuo Nakazawa (2nd from L), president of Mitsubishi Securities Co., Masamichi Yamada, chairman of Mitsubishi Securities Co. (2nd from R) and Shigemitsu Miki, president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi cut a tape at a ceremony to launch Mitsubishi Securities in Tokyo's Marunouchi district on Sept. 2.

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Gov't forgives part of Sogo's 200 bil. yen debts

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Vice President Tadashi Natori and President Kyoichi Yamada of Sogo Co. bow their heads at a news conference June 30 after the state-run Deposit Insurance Corp. (DIC) announced it will purchase and forgive part of 200 billion yen in loans to the ailing department store operator.

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Moriya denies doing favors for defense firm despite golfing

TOKYO, Japan - Former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya speaks at a House of Representatives panel in the Diet in Tokyo on Oct. 29 as a sworn witness about a series of allegations including collusion with a former executive of defense equipment trading house Yamada Corp. (Kyodo)

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Moriya testifies at Diet over ties with ex-defense firm exec

TOKYO, Japan - Former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya (R) testifies before a House of Representatives panel on Oct. 29 on his relations with an ex-senior executive of Yamada Corp., a defense business firm. Moriya admitted playing golf with the former executive ''more than 200 times'' over 12 years. (Kyodo)

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Nukaga says he returned 2.2 mil. yen to defense supplier Yamada

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga is in a pensive mood at the House of Councillors Audit Committee on Nov. 19 during questioning about his relationships with scandal-hit defense equipment trader Yamada Corp. Nukaga said Yamada paid 2.2 million yen for his fundraising parties between 2002 and March this year but he has since returned all the money to the firm. Nukaga was defense chief from 1996 to 1998 and from September 2006 to July this year. (Kyodo)

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Akiyama denies he got funds from defense firm Yamada

TOKYO, Japan - Naoki Akiyama, 58, executive director of the Japan-U.S. Center for Peace and Cultural Exchange, speaks as an unsworn witness at the House of Councillors' Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Jan. 8. Akiyama denied media reports that his organization got 100 million yen from scandal-tainted defense equipment trading house Yamada Corp. (Kyodo)

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Akiyama denies he got funds from defense firm Yamada

TOKYO, Japan - Naoki Akiyama, 58, executive director of the Japan-U.S. Center for Peace and Cultural Exchange, speaks as an unsworn witness at the House of Councillors' Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Jan. 8. Akiyama denied media reports that his organization got 100 million yen from scandal-tainted defense equipment trading house Yamada Corp. (Kyodo)

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Lower house panel to file perjury charge against Moriya

TOKYO, Japan - A House of Representatives committee decided on Jan. 9 to file a perjury charge against former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya (in file photo). Moriya testified as a sworn witness before the committee on Oct. 29, and denied doing any favors for Motonobu Miyazaki, a former executive of defense equipment trader Yamada Corp., in exchange for golf outings, entertainment and other benefits when he was still the top defense bureaucrat. (Kyodo)

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Diet panels to file perjury charges against Moriya

TOKYO, Japan - The House of Representatives committee on antiterrorism and Iraq reconstruction affairs votes unanimously on Jan. 15 to file perjury charges against former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya in connection with his sworn testimony on his relationships with Motonobu Miyazaki, a former executive of defense equipment trader Yamada Corp. The House of Councillors committee on foreign affairs and defense unanimously approved a similar motion the same day. Moriya and Miyazaki have been arrested and indicted on bribery charges in connection with equipment procurement by the Defense Ministry. (Kyodo)

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DoCoMo still considering launching iPhone: new president

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuji Yamada, new president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., tells reporters June 23 that the nation's largest mobile phone carrier is still considering launching Apple Inc.'s new iPhone after smaller rival Softbank Mobile Corp. clinched a deal with the U.S. firm earlier this month. (Kyodo)

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NTT DoCoMo to promote fusion of mobile, fixed-line services

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuji Yamada, president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 2. Yamada said NTT DoCoMo will promote the joint development of services with fixed-line phone units of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. group. (Kyodo)

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(1) Nobel chemical prize laureate Koichi Tanaka

KYOTO, Japan - Shimadzu Corp. engineer Koichi Tanaka (R), winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, receives congratulations from Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada at the Shimadzu head office in Kyoto on Oct. 10. (Kyodo)

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"Pepper" robots installed at housing showroom

"Pepper" humanoid robots are on show at a Yamada Wood House Co. housing showroom in Osaka, western Japan, on July 24, 2015. Softbank Group Corp., which sells the robots, hopes visitors will get a feel of what it would be like living with a robot. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soy sauce company Kikkoman sponsors Japan food event at Milan expo

Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada (5th from L) and Yuzaburo Mogi (6th from L), honorary chairman of Kikkoman Corp., attend a press conference at the Expo Milano in Milan, Italy, on July 13, 2015. The Japanese soy sauce maker held a two-day event starting from July 12 to promote the country's culinary culture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yamada Denki, Softbank form capital, business alliance

Jun Okamoto, senior managing executive officer of Yamada Denki Co., speaks about the company's capital and business alliance with Softbank Corp. at a press conference in Tokyo on May 7, 2015. The two companies will cooperate in sales of Softbank's mobile communications services, handsets and high-speed Internet connection services via Yamada's retail network across Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sit-ski

Tomohito Enomoto (R) of Toyota Motor Corp. and Yoshihisa Yamada of medical-care equipment maker Nissin Medical Industries Co. check a sit-ski in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Dec. 8, 2017. The rigid and lightweight sit-ski co-developed by the two companies will be used by Japan's Taiki Morii in the alpine skiing at the 2018 Pyeongchang Paralympics in South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miyazaki admits to payment of money to gov't-linked body

TOKYO, Japan - Motonobu Miyazaki, 69, former managing director of defense equipment trader Yamada Corp., speaks at the House of Councillors' Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on May 22 as a sworn witness. Miyazaki is a codefendant in the bribery trial of former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Defense Vice Minister Moriya, Miyazaki freed on bail

TOKYO, Japan - Motonobu Miyazaki, 69, a former senior managing director of defense contractor Yamada Corp., leaves the Tokyo Detention House on Jan. 23 after being released on bail of 15 million yen. (Kyodo)

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Moriya to face additional bribery indictment, perjury charges

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya, who will face an additional bribery indictment next week over golf outings with Motonobu Miyazaki, a former executive of defense equipment trading firm Yamada Corp., and perjury charges over his sworn testimony in parliament, investigative sources said Jan. 19. Moriya was allegedly entertained by Miyazaki with one-day golf outings more than 100 times. (Kyodo)

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Prosecutors quiz ex-defense contractor executive Miyazaki

TOKYO, Japan - Motonobu Miyazaki, a former senior managing director of defense contractor Yamada Corp., who is at the center of a scandal involving former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya, covers his face with a newspaper as he leaves his home in Yokohama on Nov. 8. Miyazaki was questioned later in the day by Tokyo prosecutors on suspicion of embezzling the company's funds. (Kyodo)

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Prosecutors quiz ex-defense contractor executive Miyazaki

TOKYO, Japan - Motonobu Miyazaki, a former senior managing director of defense contractor Yamada Corp., who is at the center of a scandal involving former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya, covers his face with a newspaper as he leaves his home in Yokohama on Nov. 8. Miyazaki was questioned later in the day by Tokyo prosecutors on suspicion of embezzling the company's funds. (Kyodo)

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Yonezu denies organizational involvement in defense scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Yamada Corp. President Yoshihiko Yonezu, speaking as an unsworn witness, tells a House of Councillors panel on Nov. 15 that a former executive of the scandal-tainted defense equipment trading house entertained former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya by golfing with him more than 300 times between 1998 and 2006, costing more than 15 million yen for the company. (Kyodo)

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Globaly head, 3 others nabbed for alleged false business reports

NAGOYA, Japan - Police arrested Globaly Corp. President Yasuhiro Yamada (file photo) and three others Nov. 1 on suspicion of falsely reporting to the government the number of cases of customer trouble and earnings statements of the Nagoya-based brokerage formerly engaged in commodity futures trading. (Kyodo)

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New Omron president

KYOTO, Japan - New Omron Corp. President Yoshihito Yamada speaks in a press conference in Kyoto on July 7, 2011. (Kyodo)

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7 arrested over Olympus loss coverup

TOKYO, Japan - Combined file photo shows former Olympus Corp. Chairman and President Tsuyoshi Kikukawa (L) and former Executive Vice President Hisashi Mori. Prosecutors arrested Kikukawa and Mori on Feb. 16, 2012, as well as the medical equipment maker's former auditor Hideo Yamada and a former securities company employee, on suspicion of falsifying the company's financial reports in its massive investment loss coverup. The Tokyo police also arrested three other former employees of a major securities company who are alleged to have advised those in the Olympus management on the coverup. (Kyodo)

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7 arrested over Olympus loss coverup

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Olympus Corp.'s former auditor Hideo Yamada. Prosecutors arrested Yamada, and the medical equipment maker's former Chairman and President Tsuyoshi Kikukawa and former Executive Vice President Hisashi Mori on Feb. 16, 2012, as well as a former securities company employee, on suspicion of falsifying the company's financial reports in its massive investment loss coverup. The Tokyo police also arrested three other former employees of a major securities company who are alleged to have advised those in the Olympus management on the coverup. (Kyodo)

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Cyberdyne, Omron partner in robotics field

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiyuki Sankai (R), president of powered exoskeleton maker Cyberdyne Inc., and Yoshihito Yamada, president of Omron Corp., announce the two firms' alliance in the field of robotics in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Omron's new president

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Yoshihito Yamada, the 49-year-old managing officer of Omron Corp. The Kyoto-based electronics maker said Jan. 17, 2011, that it has named Yamada as successor to 66-year-old President Hisao Sakuta as part of its efforts to rejuvenate the management. Sakuta will become chairman. The change of management will be formalized at a shareholders' meeting in June. (Kyodo)

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Mitsubishi Securities launched as 4th biggest brokerage

TOKYO, Japan - Akio Utsumi (L), president of Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corp., Nobuo Nakazawa (2nd from L), president of Mitsubishi Securities Co., Masamichi Yamada, chairman of Mitsubishi Securities Co. (2nd from R) and Shigemitsu Miki, president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi cut a tape at a ceremony to launch Mitsubishi Securities in Tokyo's Marunouchi district on Sept. 2. (Kyodo)

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Gov't forgives part of Sogo's 200 bil. yen debts

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Vice President Tadashi Natori and President Kyoichi Yamada of Sogo Co. bow their heads at a news conference June 30 after the state-run Deposit Insurance Corp. (DIC) announced it will purchase and forgive part of 200 billion yen in loans to the ailing department store operator.