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Logistics Consortium Baton Joint Press Conference

Logistics Consortium Baton Joint Press Conference. photo shows from left: Hiroaki Shirota, President and CEO of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance; Takuo Yoshikawa, President and CEO of Meitetsu NX Transport; Kazuo Takada, President and CEO of Tonami Transport; Satoshi Takahashi, President and CEO of Seino Transportation; Hiroyuki Kumano, President and CEO of Fukuyama Transport; Masahiro Koike, President and CEO of Tokio Marine Holdings.=November 20,2025,Japan

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MOTORI - Auto Storiche - 1000Miglia - Stage 1

Hidetaka Yoshikawa and Anna Giovanelli during the first stage of 1000 Miglia Historical Race in Brescia, Italy on June 17, 2025 during 1000Miglia - Stage 1, Historical Motors in Brescia, Italy, June 17 2025

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CALCIO - Serie B - Spezia Calcio vs USS Sassuolo

from sx linesman Simone Biffi, Kristian Thorstvedt (Sassuolo), Referee Marco Piccinini, Petko Rosenov Hristov (Spezia), linesman Emanuele Yoshikawa for Album Panini during Spezia Calcio vs USS Sassuolo, Italian soccer Serie B match in La Spezia, Italy, January 24 2025

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Campaigning for upper house election in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, July 4 Kyodo - Hajime Yoshikawa, secretary general of the Social Democratic Party, makes a speech in Tokyo on July 4, 2019, as official campaigning began the same day for the July 21 House of Councillors election.

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Campaigning for upper house election in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, July 4 Kyodo - Hajime Yoshikawa, secretary general of the Social Democratic Party, makes a speech in Tokyo on July 4, 2019, as official campaigning began the same day for the July 21 House of Councillors election.

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Campaigning for upper house election in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, July 4 Kyodo - Hajime Yoshikawa, secretary general of the Social Democratic Party, makes a speech in Tokyo on July 4, 2019, as official campaigning began the same day for the July 21 House of Councillors election.

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Baseball: Diamondbacks sign Japan amateur pitcher Yoshikawa

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 25 Kyodo - Undated photo shows Japanese right-hander Shumpei Yoshikawa of corporate league team Panasonic. The Arizona Diamondbacks announced on Aug. 24, 2018, the signing of Yoshikawa to a minor league contract.

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Diamondbacks sign Japan amateur pitcher Yoshikawa

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 25 Kyodo - Photo taken July 15, 2017, shows Japanese amateur right-hander Shumpei Yoshikawa at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. The Arizona Diamondbacks announced on Aug. 24, 2018, the signing of Yoshikawa to a minor league contract.

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Baseball: Diamondbacks sign Japan amateur pitcher Yoshikawa

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 25 Kyodo - Undated photo shows Japanese right-hander Shumpei Yoshikawa practicing in Tokyo. The Arizona Diamondbacks announced on Aug. 24, 2018, the signing of Yoshikawa of corporate league team Panasonic to a minor league contract.

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Japan envoy hails coming UNSC meet on N. Korea human rights

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Motohide Yoshikawa addresses a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2014, saying he welcomes the U.N. Security Council's decision to schedule a meeting in the following week to discuss alleged human rights abuses in North Korea.

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N. Korea's rights violations condemned by U.N. panel

NEW YORK, United States - Motohide Yoshikawa, Japan's ambassador to the United Nations, speaks at the U.N. General Assembly's Third Committee in New York, the United States, on Nov. 18, 2014. The panel passed a draft resolution introduced by Japan and the European Union denouncing North Korea's human rights violations and seeking to bring the country's top leaders before the International Criminal Court for possible crimes against humanity.

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U.N. school receives books donated by Japanese first lady

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's Ambassador to the United Nations Motohide Yoshikawa (3rd from R) poses with people associated with the U.N. International School in New York, the United States, on Nov. 17, 2014. In front of them is a display of Japanese books donated to the school by Akie Abe, the wife of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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Japan's Omotenashi Pavilion in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Takamori Yoshikawa (2nd from R), Japanese senior vice minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, attends a ceremonial sake barrel opening at Japan's Omotenashi (hospitality) Pavilion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 24, 2014.

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U.N. ambassadors watch Group C games at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - United Nations' ambassadors Motohide Yoshikawa of Japan, Youssoufou Bamba of Ivory Coast, Maria Emma Mejia Velez of Colombia and Michel Spinellis of Greece (from L) clasp hands on June 24, 2014, at the U.N. Headquarters in New York. They watched World Cup Group C matches held the same day in Brazil together at the headquarters.

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Indigenous produce used for cosmetics

SAITAMA, Japan - A researcher at Saticine Medical Co. in Yoshikawa, Saitama Prefecture, extracts ingredients for cosmetics on June 13, 2014. The production of cosmetics using signature indigenous products in Japan is helping revitalize the areas where they are sourced.

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Japanese envoy on U.N. peacekeeping role

NEW YORK, United States - Motohide Yoshikawa, Japanese ambassador to the United Nations, speaks at an open debate on U.N. peacekeeping operations held at the Security Council at the U.N. headquarters in New York on June 11, 2014. Yoshikawa expressed Tokyo's enthusiasm for playing a greater role in the world body's peacekeeping operations in line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policy for contributing to global security.

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U.N. ambassadors gather at kickoff ceremony ahead of World Cup

NEW YORK, United States - (From L) Japan's Ambassador to the United Nations Motohide Yoshikawa poses for ceremonial photos with Colombian Ambassador Maria Emma Mejia and Ambassador Youssoufou Bamba from Ivory Coast at the U.N. headquarters in New York on June 9, 2014. They gathered for a kickoff ceremony ahead of the start of the soccer World Cup in Brazil.

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Isamu Noguchi Award

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows Japanese contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (R) and British architect Norman Foster (C), recipients of the inaugural Isamu Noguchi Award, at the Noguchi Museum in New York on May 13, 2014. At left is Motohide Yoshikawa, Japanese ambassador to the United Nations. The museum features works of Isamu Noguchi, a late Japanese-American sculptor.

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Japan joins U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

NEW YORK, United States - Ambassador Motohide Yoshikawa (L), permanent representative of Japan to the United Nations, presents the instrument of ratification for the Arms Trade Treaty in the presence of U.N. High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane (R) at the U.N. headquarters in New York on May 9, 2014. Japan became the 32nd country to join the international treaty.

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Japanese ambassador to U.N.

NEW YORK, Japan - Motohide Yoshikawa, Japan's new ambassador to the United Nations, holds a press conference in New York on Sept. 13, 2013.

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Data altered in Japanese research for Novartis blood pressure drug

TOKYO, Japan - Toshikazu Yoshikawa (2nd from L), president of the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, and Shinji Fushiki (L), the university窶冱 vice president, bow toward the end of a press conference in Kyoto on July 11, 2013. Yoshikawa apologized as the university found that data employed in a clinical study on Novartis Pharama K.K.'s blockbuster blood pressure lowering drug Diovan were manipulated.

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Abe, Yoshikawa win MVP awards

TOKYO, Japan - Yomiuri Giants catcher Shinnosuke Abe (L) and Nippon Ham Fighters pitcher Mitsuo Yoshikawa are pictured in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2012, after winning MVP awards for the first time for the Central League and Pacific League, respectively. Nippon Professional Baseball announced the same day that Abe was a near-unanimous selection, when the results of the Most Valuable Player voting were released.

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Rakugo comedian Sanyutei Enraku dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo taken in November 2007 is a portrait of ''Rakugo'' comedian Sanyutei Enraku, who died on Oct. 30 of lung cancer at 76. Enraku, whose real name was Hiroumi Yoshikawa, gained public popularity as a key member of the long-running TV comedy show ''Shoten'' and pioneered a boom of appearances by traditional rakugo performers on TV variety shows.

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Rakugo comedian Sanyutei Enraku dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken at Tokyo's National Engei Hall in February 2007, ''Rakugo'' comedian Sanyutei Enraku, who died on Oct. 30 of lung cancer at 76, gives his last rakugo performance, in which a lone storyteller relates a comic tale while seated. Known for his flowing storytelling, Entraku, whose real name was Hiroumi Yoshikawa, gained public popularity as a key member of the long-running TV comedy show ''Shoten.''

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Japan to pay Afghan police salaries: envoys

WASHINGTON, United States - Sadako Ogata (R), Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso's special envoy to support Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaks during a news conference in Washington on March 9. Ogata and Motohide Yoshikawa (L), the Japanese ambassador to Spain who doubles as the special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said they met U.S. Special Representative Richard Holbrooke and told him that Japan will pay half a year's salary for about 80,000 police officers in Afghanistan, worth $124 million, to help reconstruct the war-ravaged country.

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Japan Pavilion construction starts at Shanghai Expo venue

SHANGHAI, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (C) and senior vice trade minister Takamori Yoshikawa (L) take part in a groundbreaking ceremony in Shanghai on Feb. 27 for the Japan Pavilion at the World Expo to be held in the Chinese city in 2010.

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Melamine detected in Saizeriya's pizza ingredients

SAITAMA, Japan - Officials at the headquarters of Italian restaurant chain operator Saizeriya Co. in the city of Yoshikawa, Saitama Prefecture, worked late into the night of Oct. 20 after the company announced that a small amount of the industrial chemical melamine had been detected in its pizza dough made in Guangdong Province, China.

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Ishiba sacks MSDF chief, punishes 88 over collision, scandals

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 21 on the shakeup of the leadership of the Maritime Self-Defense Force. Ishiba effectively sacked MSDF chief Adm. Eiji Yoshikawa and punished 88 people for a series of MSDF-related fiascos since last year as part of his efforts to restore public confidence

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Ishiba to sack MSDF chief over ship collision

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Eiji Yoshikawa, chief of staff of the Maritime Self-Defense Force. Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided to sack Yoshikawa for his failure to immediately distribute information concerning the collision between an MSDF destroyer and a fishing boat, ministry sources said Feb. 22.

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Japan appoints new ambassador to Spain

TOKYO, Japan - Japan appointed Motohide Yoshikawa as Ambassador to Spain on Aug. 1.

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Iran rejects Japan's call for halt to uranium enrichment activities

TEHRAN, Iran - Motohide Yoshikawa (L), director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau, and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari pose for photos prior to their talks in Tehran on April 22. Iran rejected Japan's call on Tehran to halt its uranium enrichment activities, repeating its position that its nuclear programs are for peaceful purposes, Japanese officials said.

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Panel recommends end to beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, head of an expert panel of the government's Food Safety Commission speaks with reporters after the commission recommended an end to the two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef on Dec. 8.

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Panel submits report proposing allowing female monarchs

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Yoshikawa (L), head of a government panel on imperial succession, on Nov. 24 hands in a final report to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, which proposes allowing females and their descendants to ascend Japan's imperial throne, a step that would pave the way for 3-year-old Princess Aiko, the only child of Crown Prince Naruhito and Princess Masako, to eventually become Japan's first female monarch since the 18th century.

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Panel OKs draft report recommending end to beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, head of a specialists panel of the government's Food Safety Commission, speaks at a press conference on Oct. 31 after his panel adopted a draft report recommending an end to Japan's two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef imports. Beef and beef offal from U.S. and Canadian cattle aged up to 20 months are at ''very low'' risk if materials that could transmit mad cow disease are properly removed, the draft report said.

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Panel meets on lifting beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Yoshikawa (L), head of the Food Safety Commission's specialists panel, speaks at the opening of the panel's session, called on Oct. 31 to discuss whether to recommend an end to Japan's two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef imports.

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Gov't panel agrees to allow females to ascend imperial throne

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, chairman of a government panel on imperial succession, tells reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 25, that the panel have agreed to propose in a report to allow females and their descendants to take the imperial throne.

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Gov't panel says male-only imperial succession has ''concerns''

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, a former University of Tokyo President who heads a government-appointed panel on imperial succession issues, speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office on Aug. 31. The panel agreed that there are ''concerns'' in trying to ensure a stable succession under the current rule which only allows male heirs to ascend the throne.

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(2)Gov't panel calls for easing of blanket mad cow tests

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Yoshikawa (C), head of a government-appointed panel on mad cow disease, speaks at a press conference after a meeting of the panel on March 27. The panel called on the government to jettison its policy of testing all cattle, setting the stage for a possible easing of a ban on U.S. beef imports.

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Panel to agree in March to exclude young cows from mad cow tests

TOKYO, Japan - The Prion Research Committee of the Food Safety Commission, a government panel in charge of mad cow disease, is in session in Tokyo on March 11. Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, chairman of the committee, indicated after the session that his panel may reach a conclusion later in the mmonth that young cows aged up to 20 months can be excluded from tests for mad cow disease, clearing one of hurdles to lift a 15-month-old ban on U.S. beef imports to Japan.

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Takahashi joins city marathon in Saitama Pref.

YOSHIKAWA, Japan - Popular marathon runner Naoko Takahashi runs in a city marathon in Yoshikawa, Saitama Prefecture, on April 4 in her first public appearance since March when she was left off the national team for this summer's Athens Olympics. ''I'd like to enjoy running with many people here,'' Takahashi told some 3,800 participants at the kick-off event, adding she was there to ''directly convey my thanks'' to people who supported her and tried to cheer her up after her disappointment of not making the team.

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JR bus company chief apologizes over drunken driver

NAGOYA, Japan - Kimiyuki Yoshikawa, president of JR Tokai Bus, a unit of Central Japan Railway Co., apologizes in Nagoya on July 8 for an incident in which a drunken bus driver ran his vehicle into a parked car at a service area on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture on July 7.

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New economic panel eyes full recovery

TOKYO, Japan - The Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, a new economic panel headed by Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, holds its first meeting on Jan. 6, the day major government administrative reforms aimed at exerting political leadership over economic policy-making came into force to bring about an early economic recovery and to restore the state's long-term financial health. The photo shows the blue-ribbon panel's members from the private sector (clockwise) - Masaaki Homma, a professor at Osaka University, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, a professor at the University of Tokyo, Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Hiroshi Okuda, and Ushio Inc. Chairman Jiro Oshio.

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