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Court rejects Fukushima crisis damages order against ex-TEPCO execs

Plaintiffs and their lawyers gather in front of the Tokyo High Court in the Japanese capital on June 6, 2025, in protest over the court's decision earlier in the day to overturn a district court ruling ordering former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. to pay the utility damages for failing to prevent the 2011 crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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Alimentation Couche-Tard execs in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, March 13 Kyodo - Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. founder and Chairman Alain Bouchard and President and CEO Alex Miller attend a press conference in Tokyo on March 13, 2025. The executives of the Canadian company, the operator of Circle K convenience stores, are in talks with Japanese rival Seven & i Holdings Co., the operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores, over a takeover proposal. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Alimentation Couche-Tard execs in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, March 13 Kyodo - Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. founder and Chairman Alain Bouchard speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 13, 2025. Bouchard and other executives of the Canadian company, the operator of Circle K convenience stores, is in talks with its Japanese rival Seven & i Holdings Co., the operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores, over its takeover proposal. (Kyodo)

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Alimentation Couche-Tard execs in Tokyo

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. founder and Chairman Alain Bouchard (L) and President and CEO Alex Miller attend a press conference in Tokyo on March 13, 2025. The executives of the Canadian company, the operator of Circle K convenience stores, are in talks with Japanese rival Seven & i Holdings Co., the operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores, over a takeover proposal.

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Alimentation Couche-Tard execs in Tokyo

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. President and CEO Alex Miller speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 13, 2025. Miller and other executives of the Canadian company, the operator of Circle K convenience stores, is in talks with its Japanese rival Seven & i Holdings Co., the operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores, over its takeover proposal.

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Alimentation Couche-Tard execs in Tokyo

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. founder and Chairman Alain Bouchard speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 13, 2025. Bouchard and other executives of the Canadian company, the operator of Circle K convenience stores, is in talks with its Japanese rival Seven & i Holdings Co., the operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores, over its takeover proposal.

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Alimentation Couche-Tard execs in Tokyo

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. founder and Chairman Alain Bouchard speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 13, 2025. Bouchard and other executives of the Canadian company, the operator of Circle K convenience stores, is in talks with its Japanese rival Seven & i Holdings Co., the operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores, over its takeover proposal.

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Alimentation Couche-Tard execs in Tokyo

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. founder and Chairman Alain Bouchard speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 13, 2025. Bouchard and other executives of the Canadian company, the operator of Circle K convenience stores, is in talks with its Japanese rival Seven & i Holdings Co., the operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores, over its takeover proposal.

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Family Switch Premiere - LA

McG, Scott Stuber, Ben Everard, Ed Helms, Emma Myers, Oliver, Brady Noon, Caroline Campbell Execs, , At Netflix's The Family Switch Los Angeles Premiere at AMC The Grove 14 in Los Angeles, CA, USA on November 29 2023. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PM Kishida meets U.S. chip execs

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from L) meets with U.S. business people including senior executives of chipmakers during their meeting in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2023. (Pool photo)

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PM Kishida meets U.S. chip execs

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (4th from L) poses for photos with U.S. business people including senior executives of chipmakers during their meeting in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2023. (Pool photo)

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3 ex-TEPCO execs judged to merit indictment on nuke disaster

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Kawai (C), an attorney representing people who sought a review of the prosecution's judgment on six former Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives, and others meet the press in Tokyo on July 31, 2014, about a decision by a committee for the inquest of prosecution that three of them deserve indictment over the 2011 nuclear disaster at the utility's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Ex-TEPCO execs merit indictment over nuclear crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Kawai, an attorney representing those who sought criminal responsibility of Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials, attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 31, 2014, after an independent judicial panel of citizens decided that the three former TEPCO executives merit indictment over the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Ex-TEPCO execs merit indictment over nuclear crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. -- former chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (L) as well as two former vice presidents Sakae Muto (C) and Ichiro Takekuro. An independent judicial panel of citizens has decided that the three merit indictment over the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato (far L) holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato is pictured during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Mizuho Bank execs face pay cuts over shady loans

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Bank President Yasuhiro Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013. Sato said his salary will be cut for six months following revelations of the bank's loans to members of organized crime groups but denied he intends to step down over the matter.

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Nissan, Toyota execs in China

CHENGDU, China - Toshiyuki Shiga (L), Nissan Motor Co.'s chief operating officer, and Toyota Motor Corp. Vice President Atsushi Niimi attend a symposium in Chengdu, China, on Sept. 6, 2012.

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1,300 file criminal complaint against TEPCO execs, others

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - People head to the Fukushima District Public Prosecutors Office in Fukushima city on June 11, 2012. Around 1,300 people mainly from Fukushima Prefecture the same day filed a criminal complaint against Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and 32 others, arguing they were responsible for causing the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and the exposure of the plaintiffs to radiation.

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1,300 file criminal complaint against TEPCO execs, others

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - People head to the Fukushima District Public Prosecutors Office in Fukushima city on June 11, 2012. Around 1,300 people mainly from Fukushima Prefecture the same day filed a criminal complaint against Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and 32 others, arguing they were responsible for causing the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and the exposure of the plaintiffs to radiation.

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Docomo execs to face pay cuts

TOKYO, Japan - NTT Docomo Inc. President Ryuji Yamada heads to a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 27, 2012. He and five other executives at Japan's largest mobile phone carrier will face pay cuts over a series of communications service disruptions since 2011.

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Docomo execs to face pay cuts

TOKYO, Japan - NTT Docomo Inc. President Ryuji Yamada stands up after a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 27, 2012. Yamada and five other executives at Japan's largest mobile phone carrier face pay cuts over a series of communications service disruptions since 2011.

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Docomo execs to face pay cuts

TOKYO, Japan - NTT Docomo Inc. President Ryuji Yamada speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 27, 2012. Yamada and five other executives at Japan's largest mobile phone carrier face pay cuts over a series of communications service disruptions since 2011.

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Tokyo Electric execs' apology

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. Vice President Sakae Muto (2nd from R) and other executives of Japan's largest power utility bow to apologize during a press conference in Tokyo on March 27, 2011, over errors it made in analyzing the concentration of radioactive substances in water found in the basement of the No. 2 reactor's turbine building at the company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled by the March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami.

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Tokyo Electric execs' apology

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. Vice President Sakae Muto (R) and other executives of Japan's largest power utility bow to apologize over a crisis at its nuclear power plants in quake-hit Fukushima Prefecture in a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2011. The No. 2 reactor at the company's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant lost cooling functions and the reactor's fuel rods were briefly fully exposed earlier in the day, indicating the critical situation of the reactor's core beginning to melt due to overheating.

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JR East execs' apology for shinkansen paralysis

TOKYO, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. executives bow in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 18, 2011, for the temporary suspension the previous day of shinkansen bullet train services that the company attributed to a computer glitch.

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DPJ execs attend meeting with gov't

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Azuma Koshiishi, acting secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, Ichiro Ozawa, DPJ secretary general, and Kenji Yamaoka, chief of the DPJ parliamentary proceedings committee, attend a meeting with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and top officials of his government at the premier's office Jan. 11, 2010.

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2 JR West execs resign over dubious handling of accident probe

OSAKA, Japan - West Japan Railway Co. President Takayuki Sasaki bows in apology during a news conference on Oct. 23, 2009, at the transport ministry after submitting the company's report on its executives' questionable handling of the investigation process into a 2005 fatal train derailment. Two of its executives resigned the same day over their handling of the process.

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JR West slaps execs with pay cuts over fatal 2005 derailment

OSAKA, Japan - Seiji Manabe, vice president of West Japan Railway Co., speaks during a news conference in Osaka on July 23. He said the company will punish 26 executives with pay cuts of as much as 30 percent over the 2005 train derailment in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, which left 107 people dead and 562 injured.

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M'bishi UFJ Securities imposes pay cuts on execs

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co. President Fumiyuki Akikusa (C) apologizes for an unauthorized removal of customer information, at a news conference in Tokyo on June 2. A former company employee was arrested on June 25 on suspicion of taking out client information through unauthorized access to the firm's database.

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Ex-Livedoor execs ordered to pay 7.6 bil. yen in compensation

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs speak at a press conference after the Tokyo District Court on May 21 ordered Livedoor Co., now LDH Corp., Takafumi Horie, the founder and former president of Livedoor, and other former Livedoor executives to pay about 7.63 billion yen in compensation for stock losses they caused the company through securities law violations.

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Top DPJ execs reject Watanabe for BOJ deputy governor

TOKYO, Japan - Top Democratic Party of Japan officials -- (from L to R) President Ichiro Ozawa, Acting President Naoto Kan and Secretary General Yukio Hatoyama -- attend a meeting of senior party executives at the party headquarters in Tokyo on April 8 where they rejected the government's nomination of Hiroshi Watanabe, a former vice finance minister for international affairs, for the post of Bank of Japan deputy governor.

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Police send papers on ex-Paloma execs to prosecutors

TOKYO, Japan - Police sent to prosecutors papers on former Paloma Industries Ltd. President Toshihiro Kobayashi (file photo) and two other people over the death of a university student of carbon monoxide poisoning in 2005 and the injury of his brother.

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Holding firm for Hankyu, Hanshin to be led by Hankyu execs

OSAKA, Japan - Jun Wakabayashi (2nd from L), senior managing executive officer of Hankyu Department Stores Inc., holds up a signboard saying ''H2O Retailing Corp.'' during a press conference in Osaka on May 10. Wakabayashi will assume the post of president of H2O Retailing Corp., the holding company which Hankyu and Hanshin Department Stores Ltd. will jointly set up on Oct. 1 to integrate their operations.

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Nonlife insurers punish execs over failures to pay benefits

TOKYO, Japan - Nipponkoa Insurance Co. Chairman Ken Matsuzawa (C), President Makoto Hyodo (2nd R), and other Nipponkoa executives bow in apology at a news conference in Tokyo on April 13 where the insurer said it will punish senior executives over failure to pay due insurance benefits. Matsuzawa will take a 50 percent executive pay cut over six months and Hyodo 30 percent, starting in May.

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Nonlife insurers punish execs over failures to pay benefits

TOKYO, Japan - President Kunio Ishihara (L) and Senior Managing Director Shuzo Sumi (R) of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co. bow in apology at a news conference in Tokyo on April 13 where the insurer said it will punish senior executives over failure to pay due insurance benefits. Ishihara is stepping down and will be replaced by Sumi.

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Livedoor eyes damages suit against Horie, other ex-execs

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 23. He said the company is willing to seek damages from its convicted founder Takafumi Horie and other former top executives now that a court has made a series of judgments condemning accounting fraud by the once high-flying Internet and financial services company.

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Nikko Cordial to seek 3.1 bil. yen damages from 3 former execs

TOKYO, Japan - Nikko Cordial Corp. President Shoji Kuwashima (C) bow in apology at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 27 after the brokerage submitted a corrected version of its financial statements to the Finance Ministry following an accounting fraud late last year. The company said it will file a lawsuit against three former top group executives to seek a total of 3.1 billion yen ($25.94 million) in damages for their alleged involvement in the fraud.

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Yamaha Motor execs face arrest over chopper export to China

NAGOYA, Japan - The head office of Yamaha Motor Co. in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture. Three Yamaha officials face arrest on Feb. 23 on suspicion of attempting to export without authorization an unmanned helicopter to China that authorities say can be converted for military use.

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2 ex-skating fed. execs served fresh arrest warrants

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuichiro Hisanaga (L in file photo), a former president of the Japan Skating Federation, and the federation's former director Mitsuo Matsumoto (R in file photo) were served fresh arrest warrants on Oct. 24 on breach of trust charges for allegedly causing 16 million yen in losses to the organization by making a travel agency overcharge for travel fees, police said.

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Daiei's new management team launched, led by ex-Marubeni execs

TOKYO, Japan - Daiei Inc. Chairwoman Fumiko Hayashi (L) and new President Toru Nishimi shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 6. Nishimi, a former corporate senior vice president of Daiei's top shareholder Marubeni Corp., replaced Yasuyuki Higuchi.

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Police arrest Mitutoyo execs over nuke-linked exports

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrest Kazusaku Tezuka (photo), president of precision instruments maker Mitutoyo Corp., and four other company executives on Aug. 25 on suspicion of exporting without a license two measuring devices convertible for use in building nuclear weapons.

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Panel to recommend ban on BOJ execs' investment in private funds

TOKYO, Japan - Itsuo Sonobe, a former Supreme Court justice who heads a Bank of Japan advisory panel set up to review the central bank's internal rules, speaks to reporters at the BOJ's head office in Tokyo on June 30.

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BOJ likely to limit execs' financial deals before policy decisions

TOKYO, Japan - A Bank of Japan advisory panel charged with crafting new in-house trading and disclosure rules is in session at the bank head office in Tokyo on June 28. The central bank may introduce a rule to strictly restrict senior BOJ policymakers' stock and bond trading ahead of policy decisions at its Policy Board, officials said on June 28.

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TSE to cut execs' wages up to 50% over system crash

TOKYO, Japan - Takuo Tsurushima, president of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Nov. 10 about punishments against TSE executives over the Nov. 1 massive computer system breakdown at the TSE.

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Meiji Yasuda president, execs to quit in nonpayment scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. President Ryotaro Kaneko speaks at a press conference on Oct. 21 on his decision to resign to take the blame for a scandal involving the company's failure to pay insurance claims.

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Ex-Kanebo president, 2 former execs arrested for fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a building in Tokyo which houses Kanebo Ltd. Prosecutors arrested a former president of Kanebo Ltd. and two other former executives on July 29 on suspicion of submitting falsified financial statements to financial authorities in violation of the Securities Exchange Law.

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New Sony execs vow to restore company's status

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Chairman and group Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer (L) and President Ryoji Chubachi shake hands at a hotel in Tokyo on June 23 prior to a press conference. They met the press a day after Sony's board launched a new management team that Stringer, a Welsh-born U.S. citizen, heads as the first non-Japanese CEO in the company's 59-year history.