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SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference

SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference. From left to right: Yoshihiro Murai, Governor of Miyagi Prefecture; Takahito Hwang, Chairman of Powerchip Group and Representative Director of PSMC; Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman of the Board and President of SBI Holdings; Wu Yuan Xiong, President of PSMC Japan=Date:October 31, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Miyagi accepts probe to find site for nuke waste disposal

TOKYO, Japan - Miyagi Governor Yoshihiro Murai (L) hands over a document to Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2014, to accept government-funded research in the prefecture to find a candidate site for the final disposal of some of the radiation-tainted waste from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Miyagi Pref. to accept assessment for radioactive waste site

SENDAI, Japan - A meeting of local municipal leaders in Miyagi Prefecture is held on Aug. 4, 2014, in Sendai. Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai announced the same day his decision to accept an assessment by the government to narrow down the list of candidate sites for a final disposal facility for radioactive waste generated by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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Suntory to set up fund to support disabled in sports

SENDAI, Japan - Japanese Paralympian Mami Sato gives a press conference on July 29, 2014, following a courtesy visit to Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai over a decision by her employer Suntory Holdings Ltd. to create a fund to support sports for disabled people in the region damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011.

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Miyagi gov't, Japan Asia Group ink solar power plant deal

SENDAI, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) and Tetsuo Yamashita, chairman of Japan Asia Group Ltd., sign an agreement in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 28, 2014, to build a mega-solar power plant on a lot vacated by a tsunami-ddamaged high school in Natori in the northeastern Japan prefecture.

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4 disaster-hit prefectures urge continued gov't aid

TOKYO, Japan - Leaders of four prefectures in northeastern Japan ravaged by the 2011 disaster present a joint request to Reconstruction Minister Takumi Nemoto (extreme R) for continuation of intensive government support for reconstruction work in Tokyo on July 10, 2014. (From L) Vice Governor Yuji Aoyama of Aomori, Vice Governor Fumio Murata of Fukushima, Governor Takuya Tasso of Iwate and Governor Yoshihiro Murai of Miyagi.

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Miyagi Pref., Tokyo Olympics organizer ink cooperation pact

SENDAI, Japan - Governor Yoshihiro Murai (L) of Miyagi Prefecture and former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, chairman of the organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, hold a joint statement on cooperation after signing it at the former's office in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on June 16, 2014.

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Tour de Tohoku 2014 on promotion

TOKYO, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (front R) poses for the photo with ambassadors of Tour de Tohoku 2014, an event to assist the reconstruction of Tohoku region devastated by 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, in Tokyo on June 10, 2014. The ambassadors are model Karen Michibata (2nd from front R), track and field Paralympian Mami Sato (2nd from L front), and former footballer Tetsuo Nakanishi (front L).

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Hanyu receives honorary award from Miyagi gov't

SENDAI, Japan - Sochi Olympic figure skating gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu (R) poses for a photo with Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai after receiving an honorary award from the prefectural government in Sendai on April 26, 2014.

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Envoy Kennedy in Tohoku

SENDAI, Japan - New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (L) and Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai shake hands at the Miyagi prefectural office in Sendai on Nov. 25, 2013. It is Kennedy's first visit to the Tohoku area in northeastern Japan, which was hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, since assuming office earlier in the month. (Pool photo)

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Lady Gaga's teacup donated to disaster-hit area

SENDAI, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) receives a teacup that pop icon Lady Gaga used, at the prefectural government offices on Feb. 20, 2013. The teacup, which was sold for 6 million yen at a charity auction in May 2012 to support the recovery from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, is presented to Miyagi Prefecture, a northeastern Japan area hit hard by the disaster, on Feb. 20, 2013. Lady Gaga sipped from the teacup at a news conference in Tokyo in June, 2011. It is smeared with her lipstick and the phrase "We pray for Japan" is written in Japanese across the front.

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1st shipment from Kirin plant in Sendai since March disaster

SENDAI, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Koichi Matsuzawa (L) and Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai pose with cases of beer in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 2, 2011, during a ceremony to mark the first shipment of beer from the company's Sendai plant in about eight months since it was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Miyagi governor inspects Onagawa nuke plant

ONAGAWA, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) hears from employees of Tohoku Electric Power Co. at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture on April 26, 2011, on ensuring the safety of the plant, which was damaged in the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Miyagi Gov. Murai

TOKYO, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 23, 2011, to attend a meeting of the central government's panel on reconstruction in tsunami-hit areas. At the meeting, he proposed establishing a new institution linking the state and three prefectures devastated by the March 11 mega earthquake and tsunami, as well as disaster-hit municipalities in the region, to promote integrated post-quake reconstruction.

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Miyagi Gov. Murai at evacuation center

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (R) encourages evacuees at a junior high school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 21, 2011. The area was devastated by a historic earthquake and tsunami on March 11.

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Toyota unit to build factory near Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (far left), Kanji Ishii (C), president of Central Motor Co., a Toyota Motor Corp. subsidiary, and Hirai Village Mayor Masahiro Atobe (far right) sign documents on Feb. 21 on a new automobile assembly factory to be built near Sendai by Central Motor.

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Toyota unit to build factory near Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (far left), Kanji Ishii (C), president of Central Motor Co., a Toyota Motor Corp. subsidiary, and Hirai Village Mayor Masahiro Atobe (far right) sign documents on Feb. 21 on a new automobile assembly factory to be built near Sendai by Central Motor. (Kyodo)

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Art festival to be held in Miyagi Pref. in spring 2017

Music producer Takeshi Kobayashi (R) who heads ap bank, an organization established for financing environmental protection projects, and Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai stand in Sendai on July 7, 2017, beside a logo for a series of art and cultural events, which will be held in Miyagi Prefecture in the spring of 2017 to help reconstruct the area hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit Minamisanriku building to be owned by prefecture

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (R) receives a document from Jin Sato, mayor of Minamisanriku Town in the prefecture, in Sendai on July 7, 2015. The town agreed to transfer the ownership of the tsunami-ravaged disaster prevention office building to the prefecture until March 2031. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Discount blitz launched for flights to Sendai to revive tourism

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai introduces a poster promoting the launch of a discount campaign for visitors traveling to Sendai by air from Fukuoka, Chubu Centrair and Hiroshima airports between Sept. 5 and Dec. 19 at a news conference in the prefectural government office on July 6, 2015. Discounts of up to 10,000 yen, to be shouldered by the northeastern Japan prefecture, will be applied to flight tickets when purchased together with accommodation reservations via websites or over the counter at travel agents. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panel discusses post-quake reconstruction measures

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai speaks to reporters in Tokyo on May 26, 2015. He attended a meeting of the Reconstruction Promotion Committee to discuss funding and other measures for the reconstruction in fiscal 2016 and beyond of areas hit hard by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Maruha to relocate factory within Miyagi Pref.

Maruha Nichiro Corp. President Shigeru Ito (C) poses for photos in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 19, 2015, after the marine products company signed a deal with the prefectural and Ishinomaki city governments to relocate its Ishinomaki factory, damaged by the 2011 tsunami, to a new site about 10 kilometers inland. Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai is on the left. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Construction minister receives request from 4 governors

Reconstruction Minister Wataru Takeshita (C) receives a letter of request from four governors -- (from L) Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori, Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai, Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso, and Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura -- asking to extend the intensive reconstruction period for swift recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011, at the Reconstruction Agency in Tokyo on April 23, 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miyagi gov. explains plan on anti-disaster bldg. frame to families

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) speaks in front of some 40 bereaved family members of those died in or went missing from Minamisanriku town's disaster prevention office building during the 2011 tsunami in the town on April 9, 2015, about a plan to transfer the ownership of the building from the town to the prefecture until March 2031 and postpone the decision on whether to preserve it or tear it down. Town Mayor Jin Sato sits on his right. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miyagi gov. explains plan on anti-disaster bldg. frame to families

A man visits the steel frame of Minamisanriku town's disaster prevention office building, damaged by the 2011 tsunami, in Miyagi Prefecture on April 9, 2015. Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai told bereaved family members who lost their loved ones there about a plan to transfer the ownership of the building from the town to the prefecture until March 2031 and postpone the decision on whether to preserve or disassemble it. Many people continue to visit the place where 43 people died or went missing in the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miyagi governor speaks before 4th anniv. of 2011 disaster

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai speaks to Kyodo News in an interview on Feb. 17, 2015, ahead of the fourth anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami disaster that hit Miyagi and other prefectures in the northeastern Japanese region of Tohoku on March 11, 2015. He said the Miyagi and Fukushima governments will jointly ask the central government in April for greater financial support for reconstruction work. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miyagi Gov. Murai offers flowers at tsunami-ruined building

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai offers flowers on Jan. 28, 2015, in front of a building in the northeastern Japan town of Minamisanriku, destroyed by the 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunami, before talks with the mayor of the town. In the disaster, 43 people died while working inside the building used as the town's anti-disaster headquarters. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't to delay surveys to pick radioactive waste disposal site

Environment state minister Shinji Inoue (L) informs Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai during talks at the Miyagi prefectural government office on Nov. 19, 2015, that the central government will abandon planned year-end onsite surveys at three candidate locations in the northeastern Japanese prefecture for disposing of radioactively contaminated waste from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster due to fierce local opposition and anticipated snowfall once winter sets in. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miyagi, Mie agree to work to publicize disaster recovery at summit

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) and Mie Gov. Eikei Suzuki (C) visit Kashiko Island, where the G7 Ise-Shima Summit will be held in 2016, in Shima, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on Oct. 20, 2015. The two governors agreed to work together in asking the central government to set up an exhibition at the international press center in Ise to show the updated situation of reconstruction in areas devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miyagi stays distant from tsunami-hit school preservation

Photo taken in May 2015 shows Okawa Elementary School's building in the Miyagi prefectural city of Ishinomaki in northeastern Japan. A total of 84 teachers and students of the school were killed or went missing in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai said on Oct. 19, 2015, the prefecture will not be actively involved in preservation of the school building. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden in disaster-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (R) is greeted by Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) at Sendai airport in Miyagi Prefecture on Aug. 23, 2011. Biden became the highest-ranking U.S. official to travel to the disaster-hit northeast of Japan. (Pool Photo)(Kyodo)

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Emperor, empress visit disaster-hit Miyagi

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (R) and Empress Michiko (C) are welcomed by Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) upon arrival at a Japan Air Self-Defense Force airbase in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 27, 2011. The couple paid their first visit to northeastern Japan after the region was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Miyagi governor inspects Onagawa nuke plant

ONAGAWA, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) hears from employees of Tohoku Electric Power Co. at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture on April 26, 2011, on ensuring the safety of the plant, which was damaged in the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Miyagi Gov. Murai

TOKYO, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 23, 2011, to attend a meeting of the central government's panel on reconstruction in tsunami-hit areas. At the meeting, he proposed establishing a new institution linking the state and three prefectures devastated by the March 11 mega earthquake and tsunami, as well as disaster-hit municipalities in the region, to promote integrated post-quake reconstruction. (Kyodo)

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Miyagi Gov. Murai at evacuation center

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (R) encourages evacuees at a junior high school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 21, 2011. The area was devastated by a historic earthquake and tsunami on March 11. (Kyodo)

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Miyagi Pref. to accept assessment for radioactive waste site

SENDAI, Japan - A meeting of local municipal leaders in Miyagi Prefecture is held on Aug. 4, 2014, in Sendai. Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai announced the same day his decision to accept an assessment by the government to narrow down the list of candidate sites for a final disposal facility for radioactive waste generated by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (Kyodo)

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Miyagi gov't, Japan Asia Group ink solar power plant deal

SENDAI, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) and Tetsuo Yamashita, chairman of Japan Asia Group Ltd., sign an agreement in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 28, 2014, to build a mega-solar power plant on a lot vacated by a tsunami-ddamaged high school in Natori in the northeastern Japan prefecture. (Kyodo)

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1st shipment from Kirin plant in Sendai since March disaster

SENDAI, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Koichi Matsuzawa (L) and Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai pose with cases of beer in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 2, 2011, during a ceremony to mark the first shipment of beer from the company's Sendai plant in about eight months since it was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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New coronavirus

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (R) and Sendai Mayor Kazuko Kori speak in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on May 8, 2020. Six prefectures in the Tohoku region, including Miyagi, and Niigata Prefecture urged people to remain in their own prefecture to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) and Sendai Mayor Kazuko Kori speak in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on May 8, 2020. Six prefectures in the Tohoku region, including Miyagi, and Niigata Prefecture urged people to remain in their own prefecture to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) and Sendai Mayor Kazuko Kori speak in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on May 8, 2020. Six prefectures in the Tohoku region, including Miyagi, and Niigata Prefecture urged people to remain in their own prefecture to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tour of Olympic flame in Japan

(From L) Sendai Mayor Kazuko Kori and Miyagi Governor Yoshihiro Murai light the Olympic flame at JR Sendai Station in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture on March 21, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Figure skating: Olympic champion Hanyu feted in home town

Pyeongchang Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu (R) receives an honorary award from Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai in his hometown Sendai in northeastern Japan on April 22, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miyagi gov. asks that Tokyo Games torch relay start from Ishinomaki

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (2nd from L) meets with Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Aug. 22, 2017, at the metropolitan government offices to request that the flame torch relay for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics start from the disaster-hit northeastern city of Ishinomaki to symbolize reconstruction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Naganuma rowing course may host rowing/canoe sprint events

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike (R), accompanied by Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai, inspects temporary housing for March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster evacuees in the city of Tome, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 15, 2016. The housing will be used as an athletes' village if Naganuma rowing course hosts the rowing/canoe sprint events during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Naganuma rowing course may host rowing/canoe sprint events

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike (far R), accompanied by Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (2nd from R), inspects temporary housing for March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster evacuees in the city of Tome, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 15, 2016. The housing will be used as an athletes' village if Naganuma rowing course hosts the rowing/canoe sprint events during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Naganuma rowing course may host rowing/canoe sprint events

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike (R), accompanied by Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai, inspects temporary housing for March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster evacuees in the city of Tome, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 15, 2016. The housing will be used as an athletes' village if Naganuma rowing course hosts the rowing/canoe sprint events during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Naganuma rowing course may host rowing/canoe sprint events

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike (2nd from L) and Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (far L) inspect on Oct. 15, 2016, the Naganuma rowing course in the northeastern Japan city of Tome, Miyagi Prefecture, which is being floated as a candidate site to host the rowing/canoe sprint events during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Naganuma rowing course may host rowing/canoe sprint events

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike (R) and Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai inspect on Oct. 15, 2016, the Naganuma rowing course in the northeastern Japan city of Tome, Miyagi Prefecture, which is being floated as a candidate site to host the rowing/canoe sprint events during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo, Miyagi governors meet over Olympics

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (2nd from R), who is hoping that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics rowing/canoe sprint will be held in the disaster-damaged prefecture, explains the plan to host the event during a meeting with Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike (far R) at the metropolitan government building on Oct. 12, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo