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Rugby: Japan vs. South Africa

Yoshitaka Yazaki of Japan (bottom) scores a try in the second half of a rugby test match against South Africa at London's Wembley Stadium on Nov. 1, 2025.

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Rugby: Japan vs. South Africa

Yoshitaka Yazaki of Japan (bottom) scores a try in the second half of a rugby test match against South Africa at London's Wembley Stadium on Nov. 1, 2025.

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Japan PM Ishiba with expo mascot

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) and Yoshitaka Ito, minister for the World Exposition in Osaka, pose for a photo with dolls of Myaku-Myaku, the expo's official mascot, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 14, 2025, a day after the event's conclusion.

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Press Conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG, SBI Holdings and others

Press conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG and SBI Holdings. Photo shows Toru Nakajima, President and Group CEO of Sumitomo Mitsui FG (left) and Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings, shaking hands.=June 16,2025,Tokyo

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Press Conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG, SBI Holdings and others

Press conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG and SBI Holdings. Photo shows Toru Nakajima, Group CEO and President of Sumitomo Mitsui FG (third from left) and Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings, answering questions.=June 16,2025,Tokyo

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Press Conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG, SBI Holdings and others

Press conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG and SBI Holdings. Photo shows Toru Nakajima, President and Group CEO of Sumitomo Mitsui FG (left) and Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings.=June 16,2025,Tokyo

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Press Conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG, SBI Holdings and others

Press conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG and SBI Holdings. Photo shows Toru Nakajima, President Group CEO of Sumitomo Mitsui FG (left) and Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and President of SBI Holdings, explaining.=June 16,2025,Tokyo

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Press Conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG, SBI Holdings and others

Press conference by Sumitomo Mitsui FG, SBI Holdings, and others. Photo shows (from left) Shuji Yoshioka, President and CEO of SMBC Nikko Securities; Yukihiko Onishi, President and CEO of SMCC; Toru Nakajima, President and Group CEO of SMFG; Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings; and Masato Takamura, President of SBI Securities.=June 16,2025,Tokyo

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NTT DOCOMO press conference on acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank

NTT DOCOMO's press conference on the acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Photo shows, from left, Yoshiaki Maeda, President of NTT DOCOMO, Akira Shimada, President of NTT, Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings, and Noriaki Maruyama, President of SBI Sumishin Net Bank.=May 29,2025,Tokyo

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NTT DOCOMO press conference on acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank

NTT DOCOMO's press conference on the acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Photo shows, from left, Yoshiaki Maeda, President of NTT DOCOMO, Akira Shimada, President of NTT, Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings, and Noriaki Maruyama, President of SBI Sumishin Net Bank.=May 29,2025,Tokyo

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NTT DOCOMO press conference on acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank

NTT DOCOMO's press conference on the acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Photo shows NTT President Akira Shimada and Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings.=May 29,2025,Tokyo

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NTT DOCOMO press conference on acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank

NTT DOCOMO's press conference on the acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Photo shows, from left, Yoshiaki Maeda, President of NTT DOCOMO, Akira Shimada, President of NTT, Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings, and Noriaki Maruyama, President of SBI Sumishin Net Bank.=May 29,2025,Tokyo

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NTT DOCOMO press conference on acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank

NTT DOCOMO's press conference on the acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Photo shows, from left, Yoshiaki Maeda, President of NTT DOCOMO, Akira Shimada, President of NTT, Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings, and Noriaki Maruyama, President of SBI Sumishin Net Bank.=May 29,2025,Tokyo

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NTT DOCOMO press conference on acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank

NTT DOCOMO's press conference on the acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Photo shows NTT President Akira Shimada and Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings.=May 29,2025,Tokyo

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NTT DOCOMO press conference on acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank

NTT DOCOMO's press conference on the acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Photo shows, from left, Yoshiaki Maeda, President of NTT DOCOMO, Akira Shimada, President of NTT, Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and CEO of SBI Holdings, and Noriaki Maruyama, President of SBI Sumishin Net Bank.=May 29,2025,Tokyo

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Bean-throwing event

NARITA, Japan, Feb. 19 Kyodo - Japanese actor Tasuku Emoto and actress Yuriko Yoshitaka scatter roasted beans during a traditional bean-throwing event at Naritasan Shinsho-ji temple in Narita near Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2024.

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SBI Holdings CEO Yoshitaka Kitao

SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao attends a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 8, 2024.

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JCLP “Must Speak Up Now” Urgent Conference for 1.5 Degree Target

JCLP “We must speak up now” emergency press conference for the 1.5 degree target. Pictured from left to right: Masanori Imai, co-chairman of JCLP; Akira Nagakubo, Hayama Town Fishermen's Association; Yoshitaka Inoue, Furman representative director; Tomoko Irie, director of J League Sustainability Department; Takeo Fujiwara, professor of public health at Institute of Science Tokyo; Kenji Kono, professional skier.=December 3,2024,Tokyo

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'We must speak up now' Urgent press conference for 1.5 degree goal

“We must speak up now” Urgent press conference for the 1.5 degree target. Pictured from left to right: Masanori Imai, co-chairman of JCLP; Akira Nagakubo, Hayama Town Fishermen's Association; Yoshitaka Inoue, Furman representative director; Tomoko Irie, director of the J League Sustainability Department; Takeo Fujiwara, professor of public health at Institute of Science Tokyo; Kenji Kono, professional skier.”=December 3,2024,Tokyo

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Ainu-themed museum in northern Japan

Yoshitaka Ito (R), Japanese minister for Ainu-related policies, visits Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park in Shiraoi on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Nov. 21, 2024.

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Ainu-themed museum in northern Japan

Yoshitaka Ito, Japanese minister for Ainu-related policies, meets the press after visiting Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park in Shiraoi on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Nov. 21, 2024.

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Ainu-themed museum in northern Japan

Yoshitaka Ito (2nd from R), Japanese minister for Ainu-related policies, visits Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park in Shiraoi on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Nov. 21, 2024.

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Ministers visit World Expo 2025 site

Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yoji Muto (4th from R) and Yoshitaka Ito (3rd from R), minister for the World Expo 2025, visit the exposition site in Osaka on Oct. 6, 2024, ahead of the six-month event to be held in the western Japan city from mid-April 2025.

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Lineup of Japan PM Ishiba's Cabinet

Yoshitaka Ito, who is set to become minister in charge of regional revitalization in the Cabinet of new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, arrives at the premier's office in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2024, before his attestation in a ceremony at the Imperial Palace.

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Rice price futures index's listing

OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 20 Kyodo - SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao, Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Masayoshi Matsumoto, Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama and Osaka Dojima Exchange Inc. President Wataru Ariga pose for a photo in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 20, 2024, in a ceremony marking the listing a week before of a Japanese rice price futures index on the Osaka Dojima Exchange. (Kyodo)

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Rice price futures index's listing

SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao speaks in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 20, 2024, in a ceremony marking the listing a week before of a Japanese rice price futures index on the Osaka Dojima Exchange.

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Rice price futures index's listing

(from L) SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao, Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Masayoshi Matsumoto, Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama and Osaka Dojima Exchange Inc. President Wataru Ariga pose for a photo in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 20, 2024, in a ceremony marking the listing a week before of a Japanese rice price futures index on the Osaka Dojima Exchange.

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Rice price futures index's listing

(from L) SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao, Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Masayoshi Matsumoto, Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama and Osaka Dojima Exchange Inc. President Wataru Ariga break a sake cask in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 20, 2024, in a ceremony marking the listing a week before of a Japanese rice price futures index on the Osaka Dojima Exchange.

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Yasukuni shrine

Japanese economic revitalization minister Yoshitaka Shindo visits Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, seen by Japan's Asian neighbors as a symbol of its past militarism as it honors the souls of Japan's more than 2.4 million war dead as well as the country's wartime leaders convicted as war criminals, on Aug. 15, 2024, the 79th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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Yasukuni shrine

Japanese economic revitalization minister Yoshitaka Shindo visits the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on April 21, 2024, as the Shinto shrine's three-day spring festival begins.

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Yasukuni shrine

Japanese economic revitalization minister Yoshitaka Shindo meets the press after visiting the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on April 21, 2024, as the Shinto shrine's three-day spring festival begins.

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Ruling party slush fund scandal

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2024, following the arrest of Liberal Democratic Party lower house member Yoshitaka Ikeda over allegations linked to a political fundraising scandal that has engulfed the ruling party.

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Ruling party slush fund scandal

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2024, following the arrest of Liberal Democratic Party lower house member Yoshitaka Ikeda over allegations linked to a political fundraising scandal that has engulfed the ruling party.

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Office of LDP faction member searched amid funds scandal

Officials of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's special investigation squad prepare to search the office of House of Representatives lawmaker Yoshitaka Ikeda, who belongs to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's largest faction, in his constituency in Nagoya, central Japan, on Dec. 27, 2023, amid a political fundraising scandal.

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Office of LDP faction member searched amid funds scandal

Officials of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's special investigation squad prepare to search the office of House of Representatives lawmaker Yoshitaka Ikeda, who belongs to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's largest faction, in his constituency in Nagoya, central Japan, on Dec. 27, 2023, amid a political fundraising scandal.

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Office of LDP faction member searched amid funds scandal

Officials of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's special investigation squad prepare to search the office of House of Representatives lawmaker Yoshitaka Ikeda, who belongs to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's largest faction, in his constituency in Nagoya, central Japan, on Dec. 27, 2023, amid a political fundraising scandal.

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SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference

SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference. From left to right: Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and President, SBI Holdings; Chong Jin Hwang, Chairman and Representative Director, Powerchip Group; and Chairman and Representative Director, PSMC=Date:October 31, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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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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SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference

SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference. Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and President, SBI Holdings=Date:October 31, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference

SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference. From left to right: Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and President, SBI Holdings; Chong Jin Hwang, Chairman and Representative Director, Powerchip Group; and Chairman and Representative Director, PSMC=Date:October 31, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference

SBI Holdings and PSMC press conference. From left to right: Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman and President, SBI Holdings; Chong Jin Hwang, Chairman and Representative Director, Powerchip Group; and Chairman and Representative Director, PSMC=Date:October 31, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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SBI Holdings Chairman Kitao

Yoshitaka Kitao, chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. SBI and Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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SBI Holdings Chairman Kitao

Yoshitaka Kitao, chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. SBI and Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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Press conference by Japan's SBI, Taiwan's PSMC

Yoshitaka Kitao (L), chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., and Frank Huang, chairman of Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., shake hands at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. The two companies said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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Press conference by Japan's SBI, Taiwan's PSMC

Yoshitaka Kitao (L), chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., and Frank Huang, chairman of Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., attend a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. The two companies said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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SBI Holdings Chairman Kitao

Yoshitaka Kitao, chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. SBI and Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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Yasukuni shrine

Yoshitaka Shindo, Japanese minister in charge of economic revitalization, visits the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2023, as the Shinto shrine's autumn festival begins.

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Yasukuni shrine

Yoshitaka Shindo, Japanese minister in charge of economic revitalization, visits the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2023, as the Shinto shrine's autumn festival begins.

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Japan economic revitalization minister Shindo

Yoshitaka Shindo, Japanese minister in charge of economic revitalization, gives an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 29, 2023.

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Japan economic revitalization minister Shindo

Yoshitaka Shindo, Japanese minister in charge of economic revitalization, gives an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 29, 2023.