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MinebeaMitsumi Press Conference on Changes to the Tender Offer for Shibaura Electronics

Minebea Mitsumi holds a press conference on changes to its tender offer for Shibaura Electric. The photo shows Yoshihisa Kainuma, Representative Director, Chairman and CEO.=August 18,2025,Tokyo

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MinebeaMitsumi Press Conference on Changes to the Tender Offer for Shibaura Electronics

Minebea Mitsumi holds a press conference on changes to its tender offer for Shibaura Electric. The photo shows Yoshihisa Kainuma, Representative Director, Chairman and CEO.=August 18,2025,Tokyo

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MinebeaMitsumi Press Conference on Changes to the Tender Offer for Shibaura Electronics

Minebea Mitsumi holds a press conference on changes to its tender offer for Shibaura Electric. The photo shows Yoshihisa Kainuma, Representative Director, Chairman and CEO.=August 18,2025,Tokyo

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Baseball: Buffaloes vs. Marines

Orix Buffaloes closer Yoshihisa Hirano pitches in the ninth inning of a game against the Lotte Marines at Zozo Marine Stadium in the city of Chiba, near Tokyo, on April 3, 2025, en route to earning the 250th save of his Nippon Professional Baseball career.

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Commencement of tender offer for shares of Minebea Electronics Shibaura Electronics Co.

Press conference on the commencement of the tender offer for MinebeaMitsumi and Shibaura Electronics. Photo shows, from left, Taisuke Sasanuma, Managing Partner of Advantage Partners; Yoshihisa Kainuma, Chairman and CEO of MinebeaMitsumi; and Akira Kasai, President and CEO of Shibaura Electric.=May 1,2025,Tokyo

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Commencement of tender offer for shares of Minebea Electronics Shibaura Electronics Co.

Press conference on the commencement of the tender offer for MinebeaMitsumi and Shibaura Electronics. Photo shows, from left, Taisuke Sasanuma, Managing Partner of Advantage Partners; Yoshihisa Kainuma, Chairman and CEO of MinebeaMitsumi; and Akira Kasai, President and CEO of Shibaura Electric.=May 1,2025,Tokyo

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Commencement of tender offer for shares of Minebea Electronics Shibaura Electronics Co.

Press conference on the commencement of the tender offer for MinebeaMitsumi and Shibaura Electronics. Photo shows, from left, Yoshihisa Kainuma, Chairman and CEO of MinebeaMitsumi, and Akira Kasai, President and Representative Director of Shibaura Electric.=May 1,2025,Tokyo

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Minebea-Mitsumi Shibaura Electronics Joint Press Conference

Joint press conference by Minebea and Shibaura Electric. Photo shows, from left, Yoshihisa Kainuma, Chairman and CEO of MinebeaMitsumi, and Akira Kasai, President and CEO of Shibaura Electric.=April 10,2025,Tokyo

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Minebea-Mitsumi Shibaura Electronics Joint Press Conference

Joint press conference by Minebea and Shibaura Electric. Photo shows Yoshihisa Kainuma, Chairman and CEO of MinebeaMitsumi (2nd left) and Akira Kasai, President and CEO of Shibaura Electric (3rd left).=April 10,2025,Tokyo

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Minebea-Mitsumi Shibaura Electronics Joint Press Conference

Joint press conference by Minebea and Shibaura Electric. Photo shows, from left, Yoshihisa Kainuma, Chairman and CEO of MinebeaMitsumi, and Akira Kasai, President and CEO of Shibaura Electric.=April 10,2025,Tokyo

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Minebea-Mitsumi Shibaura Electronics Joint Press Conference

Joint press conference by Minebea and Shibaura Electric. Photo shows, from left, Taisuke Sasanuma, Managing Partner of Advantage Partners; Yoshihisa Kainuma, Chairman and CEO of Minebea; and Akira Kasai, President and CEO of Shibaura Electric.=April 10,2025,Tokyo

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Expats in Anhui hail China's economic, technological development

STORY: Expats in Anhui hail China's economic, technological development SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 2, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 3, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:28 LOCATION: HEFEI, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the event 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SIEGMUND ROBERT, Body Structure & HV-Battery Specialist, Volkswagen Anhui 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): GREGORY MACUR, Vice Principal for Early Years and Primary Years Program of Canadian International School of Hefei 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): YOSHIHISA ISHIHARA, General Manager of Hefei Branch, Mizuho Bank (China), Ltd. STORYLINE: Recently "2024 Chinese New Year Celebration for International Friends in Anhui" was held in Hefei in east China's Anhui Province. Foreign expats from different fields in Anhui attended the event. While experiencing Chinese New Year traditions, multiple attendees gave the thumbs-up to China's economic and technological development. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SIEGMUND ROBERT, Body Structure & HV-Battery Specialist, Volkswagen Anhui "Things you

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Head of nuke damage dispute panel visits makeshift shop

NARAHA, Japan - Yoshihisa Nomi (L), chairman of a government committee for settling nuclear damage compensation disputes, visits a makeshift store in Naraha near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan on Sept. 24, 2014, as the panel considers whether to extend the one-year limit to compensation payments after evacuation orders are lifted.

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Japan gov't to seek Cabinet approval on defense policy

TOKYO, Japan - Senior lawmakers of Japan's New Komeito party -- (from R) Secretary General Yoshihisa Inoue, party leader Natsuo Yamaguchi and deputy chief Kazuo Kitagawa -- attend an in-house meeting on June 30, 2014, in Tokyo to discuss security issues. The government is in the final stages of talks on obtaining Cabinet approval to reinterpret the Constitution to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense.

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Ruling bloc eyes deal as gov't drafts decision on collective defense

TOKYO, Japan - Ruling bloc lawmakers -- (from R) Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura, New Komeito party deputy chief Kazuo Kitagawa and New Komeito Secretary General Yoshihisa Inoue -- attend a meeting on June 27, 2014, in Tokyo to discuss Japan's exercise of the right to collective self-defense. The two parties are expected to reach an agreement after focusing on a review of Japan's legal constraints on the Self-Defense Forces under the pacifist Constitution.

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Senior ruling bloc lawmakers discuss collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Senior lawmakers of Japan's ruling bloc attend a meeting on June 20, 2014, in Tokyo to discuss the proposed removal of the self-imposed ban on the right to collective self-defense. (From L) New Komeito party Secretary General Yoshihisa Inoue, New Komeito deputy chief Kazuo Kitagawa, Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura and LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba were among them.

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Senior ruling bloc lawmakers discuss collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura (R) attends a meeting of the ruling party lawmakers, together with the New Komeito party deputy chief Kazuo Kitagawa (C) and Secretary General Yoshihisa Inoue on June 20, 2014, in Tokyo. The LDP proposed Japan should participate in U.N. collective security operations that enable member states to defend each other against attacks, causing a backlash from the coalition partner against what would be a departure from the country's postwar policy.

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Japanese researcher awarded Draper Prize

WASHINGTON, United States - Yoshihisa Okumura (C), 86-year-old honorary professor of the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, on Feb. 19, 2013, attends a ceremony in Washington to receive the Charles Stark Draper Prize awarded to him and four others for pioneering contributions to the world's first cellular telephone networks, systems and standards. Okumura is the first Japanese winner of the Draper Prize, one of three prizes awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

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Japanese researcher awarded Draper Prize

WASHINGTON, United States - Yoshihisa Okumura (L), 86-year-old honorary professor of the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, on Feb. 19, 2013, attends a party prior to a ceremony in Washington to receive the Charles Stark Draper Prize awarded to him and four others for pioneering contributions to the world's first cellular telephone networks, systems and standards. Okumura is the first Japanese winner of the Draper Prize, one of three prizes awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

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CORRECTED Secretaries general of DPJ, LDP, New Komeito

TOKYO, Japan - ADDING 'PARTY' AFTER NEW KOMEITO Secretaries general of the ruling and two largest opposition parties -- (from R) Azuma Koshiishi of the Democratic Party of Japan, Nobuteru Ishihara of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Yoshihisa Inoue of New Komeito party -- hold talks at the Diet building in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2011. The DPJ called for the opposition parties' cooperation to secure quick Diet passage of the third extra budget for FY 2011, designed to fund reconstruction of areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Traditional salt making on Tokunoshima Island

AMAMI, Japan - Noriko Yoshihisa, a 70-year-old housewife in Isen, Kagoshima Prefecture, splashes a bucket of seawater into naturally made hollows of coral reefs on a beach near her home on Tokunoshima Island on Sept. 11, 2011, to produce salt in a traditional way. After drying the seawater in the hollows in the sun for several days, she will boil it down in a big pot for five to seven hours to make salt with ''a gentle taste and lots of minerals,'' Yoshihisa said.

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New Komeito Secretary General Inoue

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshihisa Inoue, secretary general of the opposition New Komeito party, arrives at a hotel in Tokyo on May 30, 2011, to discuss with his counterpart of the major opposition Liberal Democratic Party submitting a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Naoto Kan's Cabinet.

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Salary cut for lawmakers

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 28, 2011, shows Yoshihisa Inoue (L, facing), secretary general of the New Komeito party, Nobuteru Ishihara (C), secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Katsuya Okada (2nd from R) secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, ahead of their discussions in the Diet in Tokyo. Prime Minister Naoto Kan's DPJ and the two opposition parties agreed the same day to cut 3 million yen from each parliamentarian's salary to help generate funds for reconstruction work following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Baseball Japan Series Game 1

NAGOYA, Japan - Lotte Marines ace Yoshihisa Naruse starts against the Chunichi Dragons in Game 1 of the Japan Series at Nagoya Dome on Oct. 30, 2010.

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Lotte Marines clinch Japan Series berth

FUKUOKA, Japan - Lotte Marines ace Yoshihisa Naruse reacts after pitching a shutout against the Softbank Hawks at Yahoo Dome in Fukuoka on Oct. 19, 2010, steering the Pacific League club to the Japan Series.

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Power industry leader Morimoto tapped as BOJ Policy Board member

TOKYO, Japan - The government on March 12, 2010, nominated Yoshihisa Morimoto (file photo), vice chairman of the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, as a policymaker on the Bank of Japan's Policy Board. The nine-member board has two vacancies and the government has been in the process of obtaining approval from the Diet to fill one of the seats with Ryuzo Miyao, a Kobe University processor.

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Gov't lied about Japan-U.S. nuclear pact: ex-diplomat

TOKYO, Japan - This undated photo shows an audiotape of an Oct. 14, 1981, interview with former Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Hisanari Yamada conducted by academic Yoshihisa Hara. Yamada admitted that the government had lied regarding its position on the transit of U.S. nuclear weapons after signing a secret bilateral pact on the matter in 1960.

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New Komeito's new leader Yamaguchi

TOKYO, Japan - Natsuo Yamaguchi (2nd from L), new leader of the New Komeito party, shakes hands with members of his new team including Secretary General Yoshihisa Inoue (2nd from R) and Tetsuo Saito (R), chief policy-maker, at the party headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2009.

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Lotte pitcher Naruse shines in victory over Hanshin

KOSHIEN, Japan - Lotte Marines lefty Yoshihisa Naruse pitches against the Hanshin Tigers during a game at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture on May 26. Naruse threw two scoreless innings from the sixth inning before his club scored a go-ahead run in the ninth and final inning in a 3-2 victory.

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Hirano shuts out Swallows

TOKYO, Japan - Rookie right-hander Yoshihisa Hirano threw his third complete-game shutout of the season and Orix capitalized on a three-run eighth inning en route to blanking Yakult 4-0 at Jingu Stadium on June 3.

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Akiyama to remain in Kansai Economic Federation's top post

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Yoshihisa Akiyama (R) speaks at a press conference in Osaka on March 31 after he decided to stay on in the post for at least one year.

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(2)Chirac visits Japan

OSAKA, Japan - French President Jacques Chirac speaks during a luncheon meeting with dignitaries from the Kansai region in western Japan, including Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Yoshihisa Akiyama.

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Kansai Electric President Fuji to step down in June

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. Chairman Yoshihisa Akiyama (C), flanked by President Yosaku Fuji (L) and Vice President Shosuke Mori (R), speaks at a press conference in Osaka on March 25. Akiyama said that Fujii will step down in June to take responsibility for the 2005 fatal but non-radioactive accident at a nuclear power plant. Mori will succeed Fuji as president of Japan's second largest electric utility.

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(1)7 dead at 2 Hyogo Pref. homes, relative confesses to killing

OSAKA, Japan - Aerial photo shows the house of Toshiko Fujishiro (1) and that of Toshihiko Fujishiro (2) in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture. Toshiko and her sons Katsunori and Yoshihisa were found stabbed to death at Toshiko's house on Aug. 2, while Toshihiko, his wife Sumiko, son Shinichi, and daughter Midori were found stabbed to death at Toshihiko's house.

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Hiroshima Carp to create baseball academy in China

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Yoshihisa Shiratake (L), scout for the Hiroshima Carp baseball club, watches Chinese players practice at a ground in Dalian, China, in September 2003.

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Kitajima wins 100-m breaststroke in Asiad

PUSAN, South Korea - Japan's Kosuke Kitajima (R), who won the men's 100-meter breaststroke final in the Asian Games on Sept. 30, displays the gold medal at Sajik swimming pool in Pusan. At left is Yoshihisa Yamaguchi from Japan who claimed bronze.

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Japan to start using MOX fuel at nuclear plant

Kansai Electric Power Co. President Yoshihisa Akiyama (L) speaks at a news conference June 17 after obtaining the go-ahead from the Fukui prefectural government for his company's plan to burn mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel, a combination of uranium and plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel, at its Takahama nuclear power plant. It will be Japan's first nuclear power station to do so in line with the government's policy of promoting the recycling of spent nuclear fuel.

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Miyazaki wins fifth all-Japan kendo crown

Kanagawa police officer Masahiro Miyazaki is all smiles after claiming an unprecedented fifth kendo national championship crown Nov. 3 with a victory over Osaka rival Yoshihisa Eto at the Nippon Budokan. Miyazaki, a holder of the seventh dan, beat sixth-dan Eto with a strike to the head to regain the title he let slip away last year.

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Nomura ex-President testifies

Former Nomura Securities Co. President Yoshihisa TABUCHI testifies as an unsworn witness before the House of Representatives Budget Committee on June 5 in connection with a payoff scandal involving a 'sokaiya' corporate racketeer. Tabuchi denied involvement in the scandal in which Japan's top brokerage allegedly made illegal payoffs to the racketeer.

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Ex-Nomura Securities chief test

Former Nomura Securities Co. President Yoshihisa TABUCHI (standing) testifies as an unsworn witness before the House of Representatives Budget Committee on June 5 in connection with a payoff scandal involving a 'sokaiya' corporate racketeer. Tabuchi denied involvement in the scandal in which Japan's top brokerage allegedly made illegal payoffs to the racketeer.

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Japanese Justice Minister Furukawa

Japanese Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on July 29, 2022, wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Japanese Justice Minister Furukawa

Japanese Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on July 29, 2022, wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Assailant in fatal 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara executed

Japanese Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 26, 2022, after a man was executed earlier in the day over a 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district. On June 8, 2008, the man ran down pedestrians with a truck, killing three people, before fatally stabbing four others with a dagger after exiting the vehicle.

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Japan-Vietnam talks

Japanese Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa (L) and Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hold talks in Hanoi on June 30, 2022.

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Japan passes bill to make online insults punishable by jail time

Japanese Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa bows during a House of Councillors plenary session in Tokyo on June 13, 2022, as a bill to introduce prison terms as part of tougher penalties for online insults was passed, marking a major step toward tackling cyberbullying in Japan.

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Inauguration of Japan PM Kishida's Cabinet

Japanese Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2021, before his attestation ceremony at the Imperial Palace. New Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet was inaugurated the same day.

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(2)Chirac visits Japan

OSAKA, Japan - French President Jacques Chirac speaks during a luncheon meeting with dignitaries from the Kansai region in western Japan, including Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Yoshihisa Akiyama. (Kyodo)

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Akiyama to remain in Kansai Economic Federation's top post

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Yoshihisa Akiyama (R) speaks at a press conference in Osaka on March 31 after he decided to stay on in the post for at least one year. (Kyodo)

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Hirano shuts out Swallows

TOKYO, Japan - Rookie right-hander Yoshihisa Hirano threw his third complete-game shutout of the season and Orix capitalized on a three-run eighth inning en route to blanking Yakult 4-0 at Jingu Stadium on June 3. (Kyodo)

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Lotte pitcher Naruse shines in victory over Hanshin

KOSHIEN, Japan - Lotte Marines lefty Yoshihisa Naruse pitches against the Hanshin Tigers during a game at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture on May 26. Naruse threw two scoreless innings from the sixth inning before his club scored a go-ahead run in the ninth and final inning in a 3-2 victory. (Kyodo)