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(SP)CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA-HULUN BUIR-14TH NATIONAL WINTER GAMES-MEN'S SNOWBOARD SLOPESTYLE

(240224) -- HULUN BUIR, Feb. 24, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Gold medalist Su Yiming (R) of Shanxi celebrates with his Japanese coach Sato Yasuhiro during the awarding ceremony of the men's snowboard slopestyle at the 14th National Winter Games in Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Feb. 24, 2024. (Xinhua/Bei He)

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(SP)CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA-HULUN BUIR-14TH NATIONAL WINTER GAMES-MEN'S SNOWBOARD BIG AIR

(240223) -- HULUN BUIR, Feb. 23, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Gold medalist Su Yiming (R) of Shanxi celebrates with his Japanese coach Sato Yasuhiro at the awarding ceremony for men's snowboard big air at the 14th National Winter Games in Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Feb. 23, 2024. (Xinhua/Bei He)

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Mizuho FG chief vows to prevent recurrence after loan scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Sato, President of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., pledges at its shareholders' meeting in Tokyo on June 24, 2014, to improve corporate governance to prevent recurrence of a scandal involving loans to members of organized crime groups. "We will try to regain the public's trust through renewed efforts to sever ties with antisocial groups," he said.

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Mizuho Bank's outgoing president

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Sato (C), president of Mizuho Bank, bows after a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2014, on his resignation following the megabank's involvement in loans to gangsters.

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Mizuho Bank's new president

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuhide Hayashi (front), deputy president of Mizuho Bank, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2014, after being named its next president. Hayashi will assume the presidency of the core banking unit of Mizuho Financial Group Inc. on April 1, succeeding Yasuhiro Sato (back), following the megabank's involvement in loans to gangsters.

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Mizuho Financial Group chief

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Sato, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2014. Sato said Mizuho Financial Group will set up independent committees to oversee its management in an effort to enhance corporate governance following its core banking unit's involvement in loans to gangsters.

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Mizuho Bank president

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2013. Earlier in the day, the Financial Services Agency ordered the megabank to suspend some of its affiliated loans between Jan. 20 and Feb. 19 over the lender's involvement in transactions with "antisocial forces."

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Mizuho Bank president

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato bows during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2013. Earlier in the day, the Financial Services Agency ordered the megabank to suspend some of its affiliated loans between Jan. 20 and Feb. 19 over the lender's involvement in transactions with "antisocial forces."

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Mizuho Bank chief in Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato attends a meeting of the House of Councillors' Committee on Financial Affairs at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2013, to testify on a scandal involving the bank over loans to members of organized crime groups.

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Mizuho releases earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Sato, president of Mizuho Bank, announces Mizuho Financial Group Inc.'s earnings for the April to September period of 2013 in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2013.

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Mizuho Bank chief summoned to Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato speaks during a meeting of the House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Affairs at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2013. Sato was summoned as an unsworn witness to the committee over a scandal involving loans to organized crime groups.

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Mizuho Bank chief summoned to Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato (3rd from L) attends a meeting of the House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Affairs at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2013. Sato was summoned as an unsworn witness to the committee over a scandal involving loans to organized crime groups.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato (far L) holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato is pictured during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Ex-Mizuho president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2013. Sato said that former President Satoru Nishibori had been aware of the bank's lending to organized crime groups since at least July 2010, reversing the bank's prior claim that senior management was not aware of the wrongdoing.

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Ex-Mizuho president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato (C) bows during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2013. Sato said that former President Satoru Nishibori had been aware of the bank's lending to organized crime groups since at least July 2010, reversing the bank's prior claim that senior management was not aware of the wrongdoing.

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Ex-Mizuho president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2013. Sato said that former President Satoru Nishibori had been aware of the bank's lending to organized crime groups since at least July 2010, reversing the bank's prior claim that senior management was not aware of the wrongdoing.

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Ex-Mizuho president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2013. Sato said that former President Satoru Nishibori had been aware of the bank's lending to organized crime groups since at least July 2010, reversing the bank's prior claim that senior management was not aware of the wrongdoing.

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Ex-Mizuho president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato (L front) holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2013. Sato said that former President Satoru Nishibori had been aware of the bank's lending to organized crime groups since at least July 2010, reversing the bank's prior claim that senior management was not aware of the wrongdoing.

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Ex-Mizuho president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato bows during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2013. Sato said that former President Satoru Nishibori had been aware of the bank's lending to organized crime groups since at least July 2010, reversing the bank's prior claim that senior management was not aware of the wrongdoing.

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Ex-Mizuho president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Satoru Nishibori, former president of Mizuho Bank. The bank's current president, Yasuhiro Sato, told a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2013, that Nishibori had been aware of the bank's lending to organized crime groups since at least July 2010, reversing the bank's prior claim that senior management was not aware of the wrongdoing.

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Mizuho Bank to consider merging with trust bank

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato tells a press conference in Tokyo on July 1, 2013, that his bank may consider merging with Mizuho Trust & Banking Co. in April 2016 or later, once their computer systems are integrated.

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Mizuho Financial announces earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Sato, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., announces the group's earnings for financial 2012 at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on May 15, 2013.

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New Mizuho Bank head

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Mizuho Financial Group Inc. President Yasuhiro Sato. Sato will concurrently serve as head of the new Mizuho Bank to be created through the merger in July 2013 of its core group banks, sources familiar with the matter said on Jan. 21, 2013.

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Shinko, Mizuho Securities merge, becoming 4th-largest brokerage house

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Takashi Tsukamoto, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., Takashi Kusama, chairman of Mizuho Securities Co., Keisuke Yokoo, president of Mizuho Securities, and Yasuhiro Sato, president of Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd., join hands during a ceremony to mark the merger of Shinko Securities Co. and Mizuho Securities Co. in Tokyo on May 7. The newly created brokerage house succeeded to the name of Mizuho Securities.

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Mizuho to reshuffle top managers at holding firm, group banks

TOKYO, Japan - (From left) Terunobu Maeda, current president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., Takashi Tsukamoto, next president of the holding company, Satoru Nishibori, next president of Mizuho Bank, and Yasuhiro Sato, next president of Mizuho Corporate Bank, give a press conference at the Bank of Japan headquarters Jan. 16. Mizuho Financial Group said it will reshuffle top managers at the holding company and the two key group banks in April as the Japanese megabank combats a sharp economic downturn sparked by the global financial turmoil.

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Aramaki named Kirin's new president

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Aramaki, senior managing director of Kirin Brewery Co., attends a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15 after the major Japanese brewing company said it plans to appoint him as president to succeed Yasuhiro Sato. His appointment will be formally approved at a board meeting in late March following a shareholders' meeting.

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Kirin names senior managing director Aramaki as chief

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Aramaki (R), senior managing director of Kirin Brewery Co., shake hands with Kirin President Yasuhiro Sato at a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15. The company announced that Aramaki, 61, will succeed Sato as president of the major brewery. The appointment will be formally approved at a board meeting in late March following a shareholders' meeting to be convened at that time.

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Presidents of 'happoshu' makers oppose tax hike plan

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Suntory Ltd. President Shinichiro Torii, Kirin Brewery Co. President Yasuhiro Sato and Sapporo Breweries Ltd. President Tatsushi Iwama give a joint news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16. The three major brewers that produce ''happoshu,'' a low-malt, beer-like beverage, voiced strong opposition to government plans to raise taxes on the increasingly popular drink. Happoshu, which is priced less than beer due to lower tax rates, is attracting a growing number of consumers and has captured about 25% of the overall beer market.

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Mizuho to reshuffle top managers at holding firm, group banks

TOKYO, Japan - (From left) Terunobu Maeda, current president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., Takashi Tsukamoto, next president of the holding company, Satoru Nishibori, next president of Mizuho Bank, and Yasuhiro Sato, next president of Mizuho Corporate Bank, give a press conference at the Bank of Japan headquarters Jan. 16. Mizuho Financial Group said it will reshuffle top managers at the holding company and the two key group banks in April as the Japanese megabank combats a sharp economic downturn sparked by the global financial turmoil. (Kyodo)

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Shinko, Mizuho Securities merge, becoming 4th-largest brokerage h

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Takashi Tsukamoto, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., Takashi Kusama, chairman of Mizuho Securities Co., Keisuke Yokoo, president of Mizuho Securities, and Yasuhiro Sato, president of Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd., join hands during a ceremony to mark the merger of Shinko Securities Co. and Mizuho Securities Co. in Tokyo on May 7. The newly created brokerage house succeeded to the name of Mizuho Securities. (Kyodo)

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Mizuho, Mitsui Sumitomo joins list of 2020 Tokyo Olympics "gold" sponsors

Yasuhiro Sato (L), president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., and Koichi Miyata (R), president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., pose with Yoshiro Mori, president of the organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, in Tokyo on April 14, 2015, after signing up their companies as official "Gold Partners" sponsoring the Games, the highest rank in the three tiers of local sponsorship. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Japan banking group chief speaks to reporters

Yasuhiro Sato, new chairman of the Japanese Bankers Association, meets the press in Tokyo on April 1, 2015. The president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc. said it is too early to conclude whether the Chinese-proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank would benefit Japanese businesses or not. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Banking leader speaks of effects of possible U.S. interest rate hike

Yasuhiro Sato, chairman of the Federation of Bankers Associations of Japan, tells a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2015, that he will closely watch the effects on financial markets of a possible U.S. interest rate hike and the speed with which it will be implemented. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mizuho FG chief vows to prevent recurrence after loan scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Sato, President of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., pledges at its shareholders' meeting in Tokyo on June 24, 2014, to improve corporate governance to prevent recurrence of a scandal involving loans to members of organized crime groups. "We will try to regain the public's trust through renewed efforts to sever ties with antisocial groups," he said. (Kyodo)

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Mizuho Financial Group's next president

Mizuho Securities Co. President Tatsufumi Sakai, seen in this undated photo, will succeed Yasuhiro Sato as president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., effective April 1, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mizuho Bank exec Fujiwara to become president

(From L) Koji Fujiwara, executive managing director of Mizuho Bank Ltd. who will become the bank's president, Yasuhiro Sato, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., and Tetsuo Iimori, managing executive officer of Mizuho Financial Group who will become president and chief executive officer of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co, pose for photos after a press conference to announce the management change in Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2017. Fujiwara and Iimori will assume their new positions on April 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kirin names senior managing director Aramaki as chief

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Aramaki (R), senior managing director of Kirin Brewery Co., shake hands with Kirin President Yasuhiro Sato at a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15. The company announced that Aramaki, 61, will succeed Sato as president of the major brewery. The appointment will be formally approved at a board meeting in late March following a shareholders' meeting to be convened at that time.

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Aramaki named Kirin's new president

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Aramaki, senior managing director of Kirin Brewery Co., attends a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15 after the major Japanese brewing company said it plans to appoint him as president to succeed Yasuhiro Sato. His appointment will be formally approved at a board meeting in late March following a shareholders' meeting.

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Presidents of 'happoshu' makers oppose tax hike plan

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Suntory Ltd. President Shinichiro Torii, Kirin Brewery Co. President Yasuhiro Sato and Sapporo Breweries Ltd. President Tatsushi Iwama give a joint news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16. The three major brewers that produce ''happoshu,'' a low-malt, beer-like beverage, voiced strong opposition to government plans to raise taxes on the increasingly popular drink. Happoshu, which is priced less than beer due to lower tax rates, is attracting a growing number of consumers and has captured about 25% of the overall beer market.