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Exterior view, logo and signage of Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc.(Yashiro Plant)

Exterior view, logo and signage of Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc.(Yashiro Plant)=November 20,2024,Hyogo

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Exterior view, logo and signage of Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc.(Yashiro Plant)

Exterior view, logo and signage of Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc.(Yashiro Plant)=November 20,2024,Hyogo

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Mitarai, 3 others named for key gov't economic panel

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese government said on Sept. 29 it has picked Japan Business Federation Chairman Fujio Mitarai (top, L), Uichiro Niwa (top, R), chairman of trading house Itochu Corp., Naohiro Yashiro (bottom, L), professor of economics at International Christian University, and Takatoshi Ito (bottom, R), a professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics, as new private-sector representatives on its powerful Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy.

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Postal rebel Yashiro to run in Tokyo as independent

TOKYO, Japan - Eita Yashiro, one of the 37 Liberal Democratic Party members who voted against postal privatization bills in the House of Representatives, said Aug. 29 that he will run in a Tokyo constituency as an independent in the Sept. 11 general election.

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(3)Aichi Expo national day for the Netherlands

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Japanese pop singer Aki Yashiro (L) joins a Dutch chorus group during the Dutch national day celebrations at the 2005 World Exposition at Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on April 19.

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Japan firms struggling with post-bubble economic reality

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank Pesident Masamoto Yashiro responds to questions at the Diet on failed Sogo Co.'s issues in August 2000.

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Shinsei Bank's next president meets press

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank Vice Chairman Thierry Porte, who will become its new president in June next year, holds a news conference at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on Dec. 6. Porte will succeed Masamoto Yashiro.

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Shinsei Bank buys into UFJ's consumer finance unit Aplus

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank President Masamoto Yashiro (R) and Aplus President Junji Sugiyama (L) hold a press conference in a Tokyo hotel Sept. 3 on Shinsei purchasing a 67% equity stake in Aplus, a struggling consumer finance affiliate of the UFJ Holdings Inc. banking group, for 35 billion yen later this month.

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Shinsei Bank proves popular on TSE debut

TOKYO, Japan - Masamoto Yashiro (C), president of Shinsei Bank, and two other bank executives smile at a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) on Feb. 19 after the bank's stock attracted great attention on its first day of trading on the TES's main section.

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Shinsei Bank fetches initial price of 872 yen on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank President Masamoto Yashiro (R) rings a bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on Feb. 19 in a ceremony to mark the listing of the bank's stock on the market. Its initial price was quoted at 872 yen, 66% higher than the publicly offered price.

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Shinsei Bank's Yashiro named 2002 ACCJ person of year

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank Chairman and CEO Masamoto Yashiro speaks March 26 after being named by the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) its 2002 Person of the Year for actively promoting foreign direct investment and becoming a ''stellar role model'' for up-and-coming Japanese executives.''

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Shinsei to forgive loan to troubled builder Hazama

TOKYO, Japan - Masamoto Yashiro, chairman and chief executive officer of Shinsei Bank, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on Aug. 10. Yashiro said the bank will forgive a loan to financially troubled contractor Hazama Corp. Shinsei, formerly the nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, caused a stir in June when it refused to give up claims on loans to ailing department-store operator Sogo Co.

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U.S. envoy voices disappointment on NTT issue

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (L) have words with Japanese Posts and Telecommunications Minister Eita Yashiro prior to their meeting March 30. Foley expressed disappointment at Japan's refusal to accept a U.S. compromise to resolve their differences over the size of planned cuts in interconnection fees charged by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT).

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Post offices begin accepting New Year's cards

TOKYO, Japan - Posts and Telecommunications Minister Eita Yashiro (C) drops New Year's greeting cards into a mailbox, designed after a dragon as the year 2000 is the Year of the Dragon, at a post office in Shinjuku, Tokyo, on Dec. 15. The ceremony marked the start of post offices nationwide accepting New Year's greeting cards for delivery on New Year's Day.

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Foley urges Yashiro to cut NTT's fees for smaller carriers

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (R) shakes hands with Posts and Telecommunications Minister Eita Yashiro ahead of their meeting at the ministry Dec. 9. In the meeting, Foley urged Yashiro to reduce the interconnection fees the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. group charges smaller carriers prior to bilateral negotiations on deregulation scheduled for Dec. 13 and 14 in Washington.

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Reps of New LTCB Partners meet press

TOKYO, Japan - New LTCB Partners CV representatives Masamoto Yashiro (L) and Timothy Collins (R) shake hands before holding a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 28 as the Japanese government announced the same day that New LTCB Partners, an investor group led by U.S. investment house Ripplewood Holdings LLC, is the most preferred candidate to acquire all the operations of the nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB).

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Shinsei Bank buys into UFJ's consumer finance unit Aplus

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank President Masamoto Yashiro (R) and Aplus President Junji Sugiyama (L) hold a press conference in a Tokyo hotel Sept. 3 on Shinsei purchasing a 67% equity stake in Aplus, a struggling consumer finance affiliate of the UFJ Holdings Inc. banking group, for 35 billion yen later this month. (Kyodo)

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Mitarai, 3 others named for key gov't economic panel

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese government said on Sept. 29 it has picked Japan Business Federation Chairman Fujio Mitarai (top, L), Uichiro Niwa (top, R), chairman of trading house Itochu Corp., Naohiro Yashiro (bottom, L), professor of economics at International Christian University, and Takatoshi Ito (bottom, R), a professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics, as new private-sector representatives on its powerful Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy. (Kyodo)

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Shinsei Bank's next president meets press

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank Vice Chairman Thierry Porte, who will become its new president in June next year, holds a news conference at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on Dec. 6. Porte will succeed Masamoto Yashiro. (Kyodo)

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U.S. envoy voices disappointment on NTT issue

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (L) have words with Japanese Posts and Telecommunications Minister Eita Yashiro prior to their meeting March 30. Foley expressed disappointment at Japan's refusal to accept a U.S. compromise to resolve their differences over the size of planned cuts in interconnection fees charged by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT).

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Maple Trees at Mama, Tetona shrine and Linked bridge

Utagawa Hiroshige print of Mama no moniji tekona no yashiro tsugihashi - Maple Trees at Mama, Tetona shrine and Linked bridge from the 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo' series.

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Schoolchildren visit former Japanese Imperial Army monument

Elementary school children visit on March 2, 2015, a monument of the former Japanese Imperial Army's First Meteorological Regiment in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, western Japan. Miyuki Yashiro, an 89-year-old former Kobe College professor who long suffered from gender identity disorder before undergoing sex reassignment surgery to become a woman 11 years ago, worked as a telecommunications soldier handling meteorological information at the regiment during World War II. (Photo by Yukie Nishizawa) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Transsexual poses with partner in front of former Tokyo Music School

Miyuki Yashiro (L), an 89-year-old former Kobe College professor who long suffered from gender identity disorder before undergoing sex reassignment surgery to become a woman 11 years ago, poses with her partner Yasuko in front of a concert hall of the former Tokyo Music School. Yashiro attended the school, now part of Tokyo National University of the Arts.(Photo by Makoto Hori) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Schoolchildren visit former Imperial Japanese Army monument

Elementary school children visit on March 2, 2015, a monument of the former Imperial Japanese Army's First Meteorological Regiment in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, western Japan. Miyuki Yashiro, an 89-year-old former Kobe College professor who long suffered from gender identity disorder before undergoing sex reassignment surgery to become a woman 11 years earlier, worked as a telecommunications soldier handling meteorological information at the regiment during World War II. (Photo by Yukie Nishizawa) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Transsexual poses with partner in front of former Tokyo Music School

Miyuki Yashiro (L), an 89-year-old former Kobe College professor who long suffered from gender identity disorder before undergoing sex reassignment surgery to become a woman 11 years earlier, poses with her partner Yasuko in front of a concert hall of the former Tokyo Music School. Yashiro attended the school, now part of Tokyo National University of the Arts. (Photo by Makoto Hori) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Postal rebel Yashiro to run in Tokyo as independent

TOKYO, Japan - Eita Yashiro, one of the 37 Liberal Democratic Party members who voted against postal privatization bills in the House of Representatives, said Aug. 29 that he will run in a Tokyo constituency as an independent in the Sept. 11 general election. (Kyodo)

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Japan firms struggling with post-bubble economic reality

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank Pesident Masamoto Yashiro responds to questions at the Diet on failed Sogo Co.'s issues in August 2000. (Kyodo)

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(3)Aichi Expo national day for the Netherlands

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Japanese pop singer Aki Yashiro (L) joins a Dutch chorus group during the Dutch national day celebrations at the 2005 World Exposition at Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on April 19. (Kyodo)

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Shinsei Bank proves popular on TSE debut

TOKYO, Japan - Masamoto Yashiro (C), president of Shinsei Bank, and two other bank executives smile at a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) on Feb. 19 after the bank's stock attracted great attention on its first day of trading on the TES's main section. (Kyodo)

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Shinsei Bank fetches initial price of 872 yen on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank President Masamoto Yashiro (R) rings a bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on Feb. 19 in a ceremony to mark the listing of the bank's stock on the market. Its initial price was quoted at 872 yen, 66% higher than the publicly offered price. (Kyodo)

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Shinsei Bank's Yashiro named 2002 ACCJ person of year

TOKYO, Japan - Shinsei Bank Chairman and CEO Masamoto Yashiro speaks March 26 after being named by the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) its 2002 Person of the Year for actively promoting foreign direct investment and becoming a ''stellar role model'' for up-and-coming Japanese executives.'' (Kyodo)

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Shinsei to forgive loan to troubled builder Hazama

TOKYO, Japan - Masamoto Yashiro, chairman and chief executive officer of Shinsei Bank, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on Aug. 10. Yashiro said the bank will forgive a loan to financially troubled contractor Hazama Corp. Shinsei, formerly the nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, caused a stir in June when it refused to give up claims on loans to ailing department-store operator Sogo Co.

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New LTCB chief vows to revive int'l operations

TOKYO, Japan - Masamoto Yashiro, new president of the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB), meets reporters in Tokyo on March 3. He pledged the bank will be back in the international financial business in two to three years. The LTCB was sold March 1 by the government for 1 billion yen to New LTCB Partners CV, an Amsterdam-based international financial consortium led by Ripplewood Holdings LLC of the United States.

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LTCB seeks taxpayers' money for capital base

TOKYO, Japan - Masamoto Yashiro, president of the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB), arrives at the office of the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC) on March 3 to file a formal request for an injection of taxpayers' money to strengthen the bank's capital bases. LTCB, which New LTCB Partners CV. (NLP), a group of financial companies led by U.S. fund Ripplewood Holdings LLC, has just bought from the government, is seeking 240 billion yen in public funds.

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New LTCB to open as FRC approves agreement

TOKYO, Japan - The Financial Reconstruction Commission on Feb. 9 approved the final agreement on the sale of the nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB) to an international consortium led by U.S. fund Ripplewood Holdings LLC. The new LTCB begins operations March 2. Among the signatories to the agreement were Masamoto Yashiro (third from R), as representative of New LTCB Partners, LTCB President Takashi Anzai (second from L), Noboru Matsuda (third from L), governor of Deposit Insurance Corp. (DIC), which owns LTCB's 2.4 billion common shares, Ripplewood founder Timothy Collins (second from R), and Christopher Flowers (R), former head of the Goldman Sachs Financial Institutions Group. At left is Keiji Matsuda, deputy governor of DIC.

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New 'barrier-free' lifts fixed at premier's residence

TOKYO - Wheelchair lifts have been fixed in two places at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo. Photo shows Posts and Telecommunications Minister Eita Yashiro moving up on a test lift on Jan. 19 from the ground floor to the 2nd floor office of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) by using a new Canadian-made, 17-meter-long lift on the spiral stairway. Yashiro, a former TV celebrity, has been confined to a wheelchair since his serious injury in a fall from a stage in 1973.

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