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(SP)INDONESIA-BANDUNG-FIFA-WORLD CUP-U17-GROUP D-SEN VS JPN

(231117) - BANDUNG Nov. 17, 2023 (Xinhua) - Alpha Toure (L) of Senegal vies with Yotaro Nakajima of Japan during the group D match of the FIFA World Cup U17 in Bandung, Indonesia, Nov. 17, 2023. (Photo by Septianjar Muharam/Xinhua)

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(SP)JAPAN-FUKUOKA-WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS-ARTISTIC SWIMMING-MIXED DUET TECHNICAL

(230716) -- FUKUOKA, July 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Sato Tomoka/Sato Yotaro (not in picture) of Japan compete during the mixed duet technical final of artistic swimming at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, July 16, 2023. (Xinhua/Xia Yifang)

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(SP)JAPAN-FUKUOKA-WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS-ARTISTIC SWIMMING-MIXED DUET TECHNICAL

(230716) -- FUKUOKA, July 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Sato Tomoka (top)/Sato Yotaro of Japan compete during the mixed duet technical final of artistic swimming at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, July 16, 2023. (Xinhua/Xia Yifang)

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(SP)JAPAN-FUKUOKA-WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS-ARTISTIC SWIMMING-MIXED DUET TECHNICAL

(230716) -- FUKUOKA, July 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Gold medalists Sato Tomoka (R)/Sato Yotaro of Japan pose with medals after the awarding ceremony of the mixed duet technical final of artistic swimming at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, July 16, 2023. (Xinhua/Xia Yifang)

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(SP)JAPAN-FUKUOKA-WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS-ARTISTIC SWIMMING-MIXED DUET TECHNICAL

(230716) -- FUKUOKA, July 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Sato Tomoka (front)/Sato Yotaro of Japan compete during the mixed duet technical final of artistic swimming at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, July 16, 2023. (Xinhua/Xia Yifang)

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(SP)JAPAN-FUKUOKA-WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS-ARTISTIC SWIMMING-MIXED DUET TECHNICAL

(230716) -- FUKUOKA, July 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Gold medalists Sato Tomoka (3rd R)/Sato Yotaro (3rd L)of Japan, silver medalists Dennis Gonzalez Boneu (1st L)/Emma Garcia (2nd L) of Spain and bronze medalists Shi Haoyu (2nd R)/Cheng Wentao of China pose with medals after the awarding ceremony of the mixed duet technical final of artistic swimming at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, July 16, 2023. (Xinhua/Xia Yifang)

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(SP)JAPAN-FUKUOKA-WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS-ARTISTIC SWIMMING-MIXED DUET TECHNICAL

(230716) -- FUKUOKA, July 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Gold medalists Sato Tomoka (3rd L)/Sato Yotaro (3rd R) of Japan, silver medalists Dennis Gonzalez Boneu (1st L)/Emma Garcia (2nd L) of Spain and bronze medalists Shi Haoyu (1st R)/Cheng Wentao of China pose with medals after the awarding ceremony of the mixed duet technical final of artistic swimming at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, July 16, 2023. (Xinhua/Xia Yifang)

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(SP)JAPAN-FUKUOKA-WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS-ARTISTIC SWIMMING-MIXED DUET TECHNICAL

(230716) -- FUKUOKA, July 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Sato Tomoka (L)/Sato Yotaro of Japan compete during the mixed duet technical final of artistic swimming at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, July 16, 2023. (Xinhua/Xia Yifang)

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(SP)JAPAN-FUKUOKA-WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS-ARTISTIC SWIMMING-MIXED DUET TECHNICAL

(230716) -- FUKUOKA, July 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Sato Tomoka (1st L)/Sato Yotaro (2nd L)of Japan react with their coaches after knowing the score during the mixed duet technical final of artistic swimming at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, July 16, 2023. (Xinhua/Xia Yifang)

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World aquatics championships

Japanese artistic swimmers Tomoka Sato (R) and Yotaro Sato pose after winning gold in the mixed duet technical routine event at the world aquatics championships on July 16, 2023, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan.

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World aquatics championships

Japanese artistic swimmers Tomoka Sato (R) and Yotaro Sato pose after winning gold in the mixed duet technical routine event at the world aquatics championships on July 16, 2023, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan.

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World aquatics championships

Japanese artistic swimmers Tomoka Sato (R) and Yotaro Sato pose after winning gold in the mixed duet technical routine event at the world aquatics championships on July 16, 2023, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan.

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World aquatics championships

Japanese artistic swimmers Tomoka Sato (L) and Yotaro Sato acknowledge the crowd after winning gold in the mixed duet technical routine event at the world aquatics championships on July 16, 2023, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan.

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World aquatics championships

Japanese artistic swimmers Tomoka Sato (L) and Yotaro Sato acknowledge the crowd after winning gold in the mixed duet technical routine event at the world aquatics championships on July 16, 2023, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan.

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World aquatics championships

Japanese artistic swimmer Tomoka Sato (L) smiles alongside Yotaro Sato after they won gold in the mixed duet technical routine event at the world aquatics championships on July 16, 2023, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan.

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World aquatics championships

Japanese artistic swimmers Tomoka Sato (L) and Yotaro Sato perform in the mixed duet technical routine final at the world aquatics championships on July 16, 2023, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. The siblings won gold.

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World aquatics championships

Japanese artistic swimmers Tomoka Sato (bottom) and Yotaro Sato pose before their performance in the mixed duet technical routine final at the world aquatics championships on July 16, 2023, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. The siblings won gold.

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World aquatics championships

Japanese artistic swimmers Tomoka Sato (L) and Yotaro Sato perform in the mixed duet technical routine final at the world aquatics championships on July 16, 2023, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. The siblings won gold.

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World aquatics championships

Japan's Tomoka Sato (L) and Yotaro Sato perform in the mixed duet technical routine final at the world aquatics championships on July 16, 2023, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. The siblings won gold.

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World aquatics championships

Japan's Tomoka Sato (top) and Yotaro Sato perform in the mixed duet technical routine final at the world aquatics championships on July 16, 2023, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. The siblings won gold.

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World aquatics championships

Japan's Tomoka Sato (L) and Yotaro Sato perform in the mixed duet technical routine final at the world aquatics championships on July 16, 2023, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. The siblings won gold.

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World aquatics championships

Japan's Tomoka Sato (bottom) and Yotaro Sato pose before their performance in the mixed duet technical routine final at the world aquatics championships on July 16, 2023, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. The siblings won gold.

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World aquatics championships

Japan's Tomoka Sato (L) and Yotaro Sato perform in the mixed duet technical routine final at the world aquatics championships on July 16, 2023, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. The siblings won gold.

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Yokomine wins U.S. LPGA tour card for next season

DAYTONA BEACH, United States - Japanese professional golfer Sakura Yokomine (R) and her husband Yotaro Morikawa point to her name on the score board at the LPGA International golf club in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Dec. 8, 2014, after she won a U.S. Ladies Professional Golf Association tour card for next season. She finished 11th in the fifth and last round of the LPGA Qualifying Tournament.

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Consumer accident probe panel

TOKYO, Japan - Yotaro Hatamura, head of the Consumer Safety Investigation Commission, speaks at a press conference at the Consumer Affairs Agency on Sept. 20, 2013 ahead of the commission's first anniversary on Oct. 1.

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Panel says TEPCO mishandled nuclear crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Yotaro Hatamura, head of a government-appointed panel investigating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, speaks during a press conference after handing the panel's final report to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in Tokyo on July 23, 2012. The report concluded that Tokyo Electric Power Co. mishandled its response to the crisis and nuclear regulators failed to prepare sufficient disaster-mitigation measures as they were "overly confident" about the safety of nuclear power.

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Panel says TEPCO mishandled nuclear crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Yotaro Hatamura, head of a government-appointed panel investigating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, speaks during a press conference after handing the panel's final report to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in Tokyo on July 23, 2012. The report concluded that Tokyo Electric Power Co. mishandled its response to the crisis and nuclear regulators failed to prepare sufficient disaster-mitigation measures as they were "overly confident" about the safety of nuclear power.

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Panel says TEPCO mishandled nuclear crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Yotaro Hatamura (R), head of a government-appointed panel investigating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, hands the panel's final report to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in Tokyo on July 23, 2012. The report concluded that Tokyo Electric Power Co. mishandled its response to the crisis and nuclear regulators failed to prepare sufficient disaster-mitigation measures as they were "overly confident" about the safety of nuclear power.

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Nuclear crisis investigation panel head Hatamura

TOKYO, Japan - Yotaro Hatamura, head of a government-appointed panel investigating the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2012, after a panel meeting. Hatamura, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, said that the panel will compile its final report by the end of July 2012.

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Fukushima accident shows need to prepare for unexpected

TOKYO, Japan - Yotaro Hatamura (L), a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, hands a report to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2011. The report by a panel, led by Hatamura, investigating the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant said the accident shows the need to prepare for unexpected events if the consequences could be disastrous, referring to the poor emergency response of the plant operator and the government.

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Nuclear crisis investigation

TOKYO, Japan - Yotaro Hatamura, a researcher on human error and head of a panel of experts created to investigate the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, speaks at a press conference after the panel's second meeting in Tokyo on July 8, 2011. The panel plans to hear from hundreds of people involved in dealing with the crisis.

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Experts' panel on Fukushima nuclear crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Yotaro Hatamura, a researcher on human error who is leading an independent panel of experts on the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, speaks at the first meeting of the panel in Tokyo on June 7, 2011. Japan has started probing the causes of the crisis under the panel.

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Japan sets up probe panel on nuclear crisis

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Yotaro Hatamura, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. The Japanese government on May 24, 2011, set up an independent panel headed by Hatamura to probe the nuclear crisis at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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China leader urges Japan to clearly oppose Taiwan referendum

BEIJING, China - Li Keqiang (R), member of the powerful Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party's Politburo, meets with Yotaro Kobayashi, chief corporate adviser at Fuji Xerox Co. and the Japanese leader of the New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st Century, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Jan. 29. Li said Beijing hopes Tokyo will issue a clearer opposition against a referendum to be held in Taiwan in March.

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Panel to urge Japan, China to work together on environment

BEIJING, China - The seventh meeting of the New Japan-China Friendship 21st Century Committee ended two days of talks in Beijing on Jan. 28 aimed at compiling a list of recommendations for the two governments on ways to enhance ties. Yotaro Kobayashi (L), chief corporate adviser at Fuji Xerox Co., who headed the Japanese delegation, and Zheng Bijian (R), chair of the China Reform Forum, a nongovernmental academic group, met the press after the meeting. The committee will hold its last meeting to complete the list in Japan at the end of this year.

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China's Li eyes cooperation with Japan over N. Korea

BEIJING, China - Yotaro Kobayashi (L), chief corporate adviser at Japan'S Fuji Xerox Co., talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing at the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing on Oct. 18. Kobayashi heads a group of Japanese businessmen and academics. (Pool photo)

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Independent league inks sponsor deal with Shikoku Coca-Cola

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Hiromichi Ishige (R), head of Tokyo-based company IBLJ, the operator of Japan's new independent baseball league, speaks at a press conference after signing a three-year sponsorship deal with Yotaro Endo (L), president of Shikoku Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

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Business group proposes increase in direct investment with Europe

TOKYO, Japan - Yotaro Kobayashi (L), chairman of Fuji Xerox Co. and co-chairman of the Business Dialogue Round Table, presents a proposal to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the premier's office in Tokyo on June 18. The proposal called for an increase in the direct investment between Japan and European Union.

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Business lobby regrets Koizumi's absence from Davos forum

DAVOS, Switzerland - Yotaro Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), tells Kyodo News in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 26 that he was sorry that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi did not attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) there.

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Business leaders voice opposition to inflation target

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Association of Corporate Executives Chairman Yotaro Kobayashi (L), Japan Business Federation Chairman Hiroshi Okuda (C) and Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman Nobuo Yamaguchi pose at a Tokyo hotel Jan. 6 after a press conference in which they spoke out against setting an inflation target to contain deflation.

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Doyukai's Kitashiro wants to create jobs, nurture start-ups

TOKYO, Dec. 26 Kyodo - Kakutaro Kitashiro (R), who is to become the head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 26 with Yotaro Kobayashi, the current Doyukai chairman, looking on. Kitashiro, chairman of IBM Japan Ltd., will be the first executive from a foreign-owned company to head a major Japanese business lobby.

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Ex-administrative reform panel chief Iida dies at 82

TOKYO, Japan - Former Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. President Yotaro Iida (file photo), who headed the government's administrative reform commission in the 1990s, died of heart failure on Sept. 9, his family said on Sept. 12. He was 82.

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Business leaders meet the press

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Yotaro Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Takashi Imai, chairman of the Federation of Economic Organizations, Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations, and Nobuo Yamaguchi, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, meet the press after a New Year party in Tokyo on Jan. 7.

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Business leaders confident about 1.7% growth

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's top four industrial bosses give a joint news conference at a Tokyo hotel Jan. 5. (From L to R) Kosaku Inaba, head of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Takashi Imai, head of the Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren), Hiroshi Okuda, chief of the Japan Federation of Employers Associations (Nikkeiren), and Yotaro Kobayashi, chief of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai).

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Kobayashi to head Keizai Doyukai

Fuji Xerox Co. Chairman Yotaro Kobayashi (L) speakes at a news conference April 22 after being named new chief of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), one of Japan's four influential business lobby organs. At right is his predecessor Jiro Ushio.

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Kobayashi named Keizai Doyukai head

The file photo shows Yotaro Kobayashi, chairman of Fuji Xerox Co., who was appointed as head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai) on Dec. 22. Kobayashi, 65, is currently vice chairman of the business group.

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Artistic swimming: World championships

Japan's Tomoka Sato (R) and Yotaro Sato wave to the crowd after winning silver in the artistic swimming mixed duet free routine at the world swimming championships on June 25, 2022 in Budapest.

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Artistic swimming: World championships

Japan's Tomoka Sato (R) and Yotaro Sato wave to the crowd after performing in the artistic swimming mixed duet free routine final at the world swimming championships on June 25, 2022 in Budapest. The duo won silver.

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Artistic swimming: World championships

Japan's Tomoka Sato (R) and Yotaro Sato pose after winning silver in the artistic swimming mixed duet free routine at the world swimming championships on June 25, 2022 in Budapest.

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Artistic swimming: World championships

Japan's Tomoka Sato (R) and Yotaro Sato compete en route to winning silver in the artistic swimming mixed duet free routine final at the world swimming championships on June 25, 2022 in Budapest.