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Japan opposition party decides to dissolve

OSAKA, Japan - Shintaro Ishihara, one of the two co-heads of the Japan Restoration Party, is projected on a screen via video link at an extraordinary party meeting held in Osaka on June 22, 2014. The opposition party decided at the meeting to dissolve with its two co-leaders, Ishihara, former Tokyo governor, and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, set to lead separate parties.

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Japan opposition party decides to dissolve

OSAKA, Japan - Shintaro Ishihara, one of the two co-heads of the Japan Restoration Party, is projected on a screen via video link at an extraordinary party meeting held in Osaka on June 22, 2014. The opposition party decided at the meeting to dissolve with its two co-leaders, Ishihara, former Tokyo governor, and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, set to lead separate parties.

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Japan opposition party decides to dissolve

OSAKA, Japan - Toru Hashimoto, one of the two co-heads of the Japan Restoration Party, speaks at an extraordinary party meeting in Osaka on June 22, 2014. The opposition party decided at the meeting to dissolve with its two co-leaders, former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara and Hashimoto, Osaka mayor, set to lead separate parties.

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Japan opposition party decides to dissolve

OSAKA, Japan - Toru Hashimoto, one of the two co-heads of the Japan Restoration Party, speaks at an extraordinary party meeting in Osaka on June 22, 2014. The opposition party decided at the meeting to dissolve with its two co-leaders, former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara and Hashimoto, Osaka mayor, set to lead separate parties.

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Report on Nissan's governance

YOKOHAMA, Japan, March 27 Kyodo - Lawyer Seiichiro Nishioka, who co-heads an external committee tasked by Nissan Motor Co. to enhance its corporate governance, meets the press in Yokohama on March 27, 2019, following the release of its final report on the matter. The report was compiled following the arrest and dismissal of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn on alleged financial misconduct.

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Japan Innovation Party's Hashimoto on lower house election

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, one of the co-heads of the opposition Japan Innovation Party, holds a press conference at an Osaka hotel on the results of the lower house election on the night of Dec. 14, 2014. Hashimoto said his party "failed to win public confidence."

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Japan Restoration Party's co-heads agree to break up

NAGOYA, Japan - Toru Hashimoto, one of the two co-heads of the Japan Restoration Party, heads for a hotel in Nagoya, central Japan, on May 28, 2014, after talks with the party's other leader Shintaro Ishihara. The two leaders agreed to agreed to break the party into two separate units.

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Japan Restoration Party's co-heads agree to break up

NAGOYA, Japan - Shintaro Ishihara, one of the two co-heads of the Japan Restoration Party, walks through JR Nagoya Station in Nagoya, central Japan, on May 28, 2014, after talks with the party's other leader Toru Hashimoto. The two leaders agreed to break the party into two separate units.

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Hashimoto's controversial remarks on 'comfort women'

TOKYO, Japan - Shintaro Ishihara (R) and Takeo Hiranuma, lawmakers from the opposition Japan Restoration Party, attend a plenary session of the House of Representatives in the Diet in Tokyo on May 14, 2013. Ishihara, the former Tokyo governor who co-heads the party with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, defended the same day Hashimoto's controversial remarks on wartime sexual servitude by women, saying that "Any military is commonly associated with prostitution and that is like a principle of history."

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Osaka Mayor Hashimoto

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto speaks to reporters at Osaka City Hall in Osaka on May 13, 2013. Hashimoto, who co-heads the opposition Japan Restoration Party, said he believes the system to recruit women into sexual servitude was "necessary to maintain discipline" in the Japanese military during World War II.

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JAL president commemorates 30th anniversary of jumbo jet crash

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet, Yoshiharu Ueki, president of Japan Airlines Co., heads on Aug. 12, 2015 to offer flowers at the cenotaph at the accident site known as Osutaka Ridge in Gunma Prefecture, central Japan. The world's deadliest single aircraft tragedy killed all but four of the 524 passengers and crew on board. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Report on Nissan's governance

Lawyer Seiichiro Nishioka, who co-heads an external committee tasked by Nissan Motor Co. to enhance its corporate governance, meets the press in Yokohama on March 27, 2019, following the release of its final report on the matter. The report was compiled following the arrest and dismissal of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn on alleged financial misconduct. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Idemitsu founding family moving against merger with Showa Shell

Shosuke Idemitsu, honorary chairman of Japanese oil distributor Idemitsu Kosan Co., heads to a meeting in Tokyo between two Idemitsu public foundations on Sept. 3, 2016. The two entities, headed by the eldest son of Idemitsu's founder, decided to oppose a proposed merger between Idemitsu and rival Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Idemitsu founding family moving against merger with Showa Shell

Shosuke Idemitsu, honorary chairman of Japanese oil distributor Idemitsu Kosan Co., heads to a meeting in Tokyo between two Idemitsu public foundations on Sept. 3, 2016. The two entities, headed by the eldest son of Idemitsu's founder, decided to oppose a proposed merger between Idemitsu and rival Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Idemitsu founding family moving against merger with Showa Shell

Shosuke Idemitsu, honorary chairman of Japanese oil distributor Idemitsu Kosan Co., heads to a meeting in Tokyo between two Idemitsu public foundations on Sept. 3, 2016. The two entities, headed by the eldest son of Idemitsu's founder, decided to oppose a proposed merger between Idemitsu and rival Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Girls Farm" blazes trail for Japanese would-be women farmers

Haruna Takano (R), 25, and Eri Sawai, 26, pose for a photo in Obihiro on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Dec. 7, 2015. They will be co-heads of Tokachi Girls Farm, which will open in spring 2016 in Obihiro. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Horie heads to Tokyo District for Livedoor trial

TOKYO, Japan - Takafumi Horie, former president of Livedoor Co., heads to the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 26 as his defense team presents its closing arguments, concluding a five-month court battle over his alleged securities law violations. (Kyodo)

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Japan Innovation Party's Hashimoto on lower house election

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, one of the co-heads of the opposition Japan Innovation Party, holds a press conference at an Osaka hotel on the results of the lower house election on the night of Dec. 14, 2014. Hashimoto said his party "failed to win public confidence." (Kyodo)

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Japan opposition party decides to dissolve

OSAKA, Japan - Toru Hashimoto, one of the two co-heads of the Japan Restoration Party, speaks at an extraordinary party meeting in Osaka on June 22, 2014. The opposition party decided at the meeting to dissolve with its two co-leaders, former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara and Hashimoto, Osaka mayor, set to lead separate parties. (Kyodo)

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New conservative party launched in S. Korea

Ha Tae Keung (R) and other co-heads of a new conservative party wave its flag at an event to launch the party held at the National Assembly in Seoul on Jan. 5, 2020, ahead of parliamentary elections in April. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan opposition party leaders

Ichiro Ozawa (L), who co-heads the Liberal Party, and Japanese Communist Party chief Kazuo Shii meet at parliament in Tokyo on April 18, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Report on Nissan's governance

Former chief of Japan's powerful business lobby Keidanren Sadayuki Sakakibara, who co-heads an external committee tasked by Nissan Motor Co. to enhance its corporate governance, meets the press in Yokohama on March 27, 2019, following the release of its final report on the matter. The report was compiled following the arrest and dismissal of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn on alleged financial misconduct. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo