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[Breaking News]Reelected Hyogo Gov. Saito attends office

KOBE, Japan, Nov. 19 Kyodo - Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito bows in apology to prefectural government officials during his inauguration ceremony in Kobe on Nov. 19, 2024, his first day in office after being reelected in the western Japan prefecture's gubernatorial election on Nov. 17. The election was held after he lost his position over power abuse accusations. (Kyodo)

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Reelected Hyogo Gov. Saito attends office

Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito bows in apology to prefectural government officials during his inauguration ceremony in Kobe on Nov. 19, 2024, his first day in office after being reelected in the western Japan prefecture's gubernatorial election on Nov. 17. The election was held after he lost his position over power abuse accusations.

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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu (L) offers apology in front of an apology and anti-war monument at the former site of Unit 731 in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, August 13, 2024. Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, identified the crimes of the Japanese army on Tuesday at the site where he served 79 years ago in China. Shimizu, 94, was among the last batch of Unit 731 Youth Corps members sent by Japan to Harbin, China, where he spent more than four months witnessing the war crimes committed by the unit, including the cultivation of pathogens, human dissections and human experiments. He fled China with the retreating Japanese forces on August 14, 1945. This visit is Shimizu's first return to Chinese soil in 79 years. Photo by Wang Song/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu offers apology in front of an apology and anti-war monument at the former site of Unit 731 in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, August 13, 2024. Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, identified the crimes of the Japanese army on Tuesday at the site where he served 79 years ago in China. Shimizu, 94, was among the last batch of Unit 731 Youth Corps members sent by Japan to Harbin, China, where he spent more than four months witnessing the war crimes committed by the unit, including the cultivation of pathogens, human dissections and human experiments. He fled China with the retreating Japanese forces on August 14, 1945. This visit is Shimizu's first return to Chinese soil in 79 years. Photo by Wang Song/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu offers apology in front of an apology and anti-war monument at the former site of Unit 731 in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, August 13, 2024. Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, identified the crimes of the Japanese army on Tuesday at the site where he served 79 years ago in China. Shimizu, 94, was among the last batch of Unit 731 Youth Corps members sent by Japan to Harbin, China, where he spent more than four months witnessing the war crimes committed by the unit, including the cultivation of pathogens, human dissections and human experiments. He fled China with the retreating Japanese forces on August 14, 1945. This visit is Shimizu's first return to Chinese soil in 79 years. Photo by Wang Song/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu offers apology in front of an apology and anti-war monument at the former site of Unit 731 in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, August 13, 2024. Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, identified the crimes of the Japanese army on Tuesday at the site where he served 79 years ago in China. Shimizu, 94, was among the last batch of Unit 731 Youth Corps members sent by Japan to Harbin, China, where he spent more than four months witnessing the war crimes committed by the unit, including the cultivation of pathogens, human dissections and human experiments. He fled China with the retreating Japanese forces on August 14, 1945. This visit is Shimizu's first return to Chinese soil in 79 years. Photo by Wang Jianwei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu offers apology in front of an apology and anti-war monument at the former site of Unit 731 in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, August 13, 2024. Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, identified the crimes of the Japanese army on Tuesday at the site where he served 79 years ago in China. Shimizu, 94, was among the last batch of Unit 731 Youth Corps members sent by Japan to Harbin, China, where he spent more than four months witnessing the war crimes committed by the unit, including the cultivation of pathogens, human dissections and human experiments. He fled China with the retreating Japanese forces on August 14, 1945. This visit is Shimizu's first return to Chinese soil in 79 years. Photo by Xie Jianfei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu offers apology in front of an apology and anti-war monument at the former site of Unit 731 in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, August 13, 2024. Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, identified the crimes of the Japanese army on Tuesday at the site where he served 79 years ago in China. Shimizu, 94, was among the last batch of Unit 731 Youth Corps members sent by Japan to Harbin, China, where he spent more than four months witnessing the war crimes committed by the unit, including the cultivation of pathogens, human dissections and human experiments. He fled China with the retreating Japanese forces on August 14, 1945. This visit is Shimizu's first return to Chinese soil in 79 years. Photo by Wang Song/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu offers apology in front of an apology and anti-war monument at the former site of Unit 731 in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, August 13, 2024. Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, identified the crimes of the Japanese army on Tuesday at the site where he served 79 years ago in China. Shimizu, 94, was among the last batch of Unit 731 Youth Corps members sent by Japan to Harbin, China, where he spent more than four months witnessing the war crimes committed by the unit, including the cultivation of pathogens, human dissections and human experiments. He fled China with the retreating Japanese forces on August 14, 1945. This visit is Shimizu's first return to Chinese soil in 79 years. Photo by Wang Jianwei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Space One rocket explodes after liftoff

Masakazu Toyoda (front), president of Space One Co., bows in apology during a press conference in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on March 13, 2024, after its satellite-carrying Kairos rocket exploded shortly after liftoff from Japan's first commercial launch site in Kushimoto in the prefecture.

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Elderly U.S. tourist detained in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Undated photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on Nov. 30, 2013, shows Merrill Newman, an 85-year-old man from California, reading aloud a statement of apology to the North Korean government. KCNA said Newman, a Korean War veteran who had been on a 10-day organized trip to North Korea when seized, is in custody for committing "hostile acts," acknowledging his detention for the first time since he was prevented from leaving the country a month ago.

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Elderly U.S. tourist detained in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Undated photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on Nov. 30, 2013, shows a statement of apology written by Merrill Newman, an 85-year-old man from California, to the North Korean government. KCNA said Newman, a Korean War veteran who had been on a 10-day organized trip to North Korea when seized, is in custody for committing "hostile acts," acknowledging his detention for the first time since he was prevented from leaving the country a month ago.

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Toyota offers apology, defends recall response as customer-first

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Shinichi Sasaki (L) speaks about the company's massive recall during a press conference in Nagoya on Feb. 2, 2010. Sasaki, in charge of quality and customs service operations, offered an apology to customers for the recall that could reach up to 4.45 million vehicles worldwide over potentially defective accelerator pedals.

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Toyota offers apology, defends recall response as customer-first

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Shinichi Sasaki speaks about the company's massive recall during a press conference in Nagoya on Feb. 2, 2010. Sasaki, in charge of quality and customs service operations, offered an apology to customers for the recall that could reach up to 4.45 million vehicles worldwide over potentially defective accelerator pedals.

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Toyota offers apology, defends recall response as customer-first

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Shinichi Sasaki speaks about the company's massive recall during a press conference in Nagoya on Feb. 2, 2010. Sasaki, in charge of quality and customs service operations, offered an apology to customers for the recall that could reach up to 4.45 million vehicles worldwide over potentially defective accelerator pedals.

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Toyota offers apology, defends recall response as customer-first

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Shinichi Sasaki speaks about the company's massive recall during a press conference in Nagoya on Feb. 2, 2010. Sasaki, in charge of quality and customs service operations, offered an apology to customers for the recall that could reach up to 4.45 million vehicles worldwide over potentially defective accelerator pedals.

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Kanji body chief to step down over business practice allegations

TOKYO, Japan - Noboru Okubo (R), head of the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, bows in apology during a press conference at the education ministry in Tokyo on April 15 after presenting the ministry with plans to reform the foundation's business practices following allegations of impropriety. Okubo said he will step down from the foundation's board in his first public appearance since the revelation in January of the problems with his organization.

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Sumo wrestler arrested for marijuana possession

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo stablemaster Oguruma (C), besieged by reporters and photographers, bows in apology over the arrest of his apprentice wrestler Wakakirin for alleged possession of marijuana at the stable in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Jan. 30. Wakakirin, a wrestler in the second-tier juryo division, became the first Japanese sumo wrestler to be arrested in a marijuana case.

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Fukuda apologizes to Japanese war orphans from China, 1st by PM

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (R, standing) apologizes to Japanese nationals formerly war-displaced in China (L side) on Dec. 5 at his office in Tokyo, making it the first apology by a prime minister to the so-called ''war orphans.'' The move followed the Diet's enactment of new support measures last week for those displaced in World War II to settle lawsuits.

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Health minister apologizes to victims for hepatitis C infections

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe (C) meets with a group of people who were infected with hepatitis C through a tainted blood product, in Tokyo on Dec. 4. Masuzoe offered an apology to them for the first time for the government's inaction over the infections.

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(2)Baseball fans gather at autograph sessions

TOKYO, Japan - Atsuya Furuta (C), Yakult Swallows catcher and head of the pro baseball players association (a labor union), and other players bow in a gesture of apology during a gathering with fans held in Tokyo's Ginza district on Sept. 19, the second day of the first-ever strike by Japanese pro ball players.

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(2)Protesters continue to demand Japan apologize for WWII sex slavery

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean women who were forced by the Japanese military into sexual slavery during World War II and their supporters hold a rally, the 600th since the first one was held 12 years ago, outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on March 17 to press their demand for an official apology and reparation from Japan. GEN

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Japanese female pitcher debuts in Tokyo Big Six game

TOKYO, Japan - Megumi Takemoto of Tokyo University, the first Japanese female to take the mound in the history of Tokyo Big Six League, takes her cap off in apology after hitting the first batter with her first pitch in a game against Keio University at Jingu Ball Park on April 14. She left the mound after throwing just five pitches.

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Sub captain directly apologizes to relatives

HONOLULU, United States - Cmdr. Scott Waddle, captain of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, is pictured March 8 after he directly apologized for the first time to relatives of the nine Japanese who went missing in last month's collision between the sub and the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii. Waddle privately made the apology outside the courtroom of the Navy's Court of Inquiry in Honolulu after the fourth day of the inquiry into the accident concluded.

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N. Korean envoy meets the press

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa speaks at a news conference at the end of the first round of talks on normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and North Korea on Aprul 7. He claimed Japan ''conveyed its intention to apologize (to Pyongyang) for the past and to compensate in line with the apology.''

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LTCB executives apologizes

Tsuneo Suzuki (C), president of the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB), flanked by other bank executives, offers an apology to shareholders and clients in Tokyo on Oct. 23 for any inconveniences the bank's decision to come under state control has brought. The LTCB, one of three Japanese long-term credit banks, is the first bank to be nationalized under a law enacted earlier this month to avoid the possibility of its severing credit lines to its corporate borrowers and defaulting on its obligations to creditors.

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(2)Baseball fans gather at autograph sessions

TOKYO, Japan - Atsuya Furuta (C), Yakult Swallows catcher and head of the pro baseball players association (a labor union), and other players bow in a gesture of apology during a gathering with fans held in Tokyo's Ginza district on Sept. 19, the second day of the first-ever strike by Japanese pro ball players. (Kyodo)

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Fukuda apologizes to Japanese war orphans from China, 1st by PM

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (R, standing) apologizes to Japanese nationals formerly war-displaced in China (L side) on Dec. 5 at his office in Tokyo, making it the first apology by a prime minister to the so-called ''war orphans.'' The move followed the Diet's enactment of new support measures last week for those displaced in World War II to settle lawsuits. (Kyodo)

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"Paternity leave" lawmaker resigns over affair

Liberal Democratic Party member Kensuke Miyazaki bows in apology during a press conference at the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2016. Miyazaki, who had vowed to become the first lawmaker in Japan to take paternity leave, resigned from the House of Representatives that day after admitting to having an affair with a woman while his wife, a fellow LDP parliamentarian, was about to give birth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata chief apologizes in 1st appearance since massive recalls

Reporters raise their hands to question Shigehisa Takada (C), chairman and chief executive officer of Japan's troubled Takata Corp., during a press conference in Tokyo on June 25, 2015. Takada offered an apology over the company's defective air bags, making his first appearance since the crisis arising from its potentially deadly products deepened in 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata chief apologizes in 1st appearance since massive recalls

Shigehisa Takada (C), chairman and chief executive officer of Japan's troubled Takata Corp., bows in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on June 25, 2015. Takada offered an apology over the company's defective air bags, making his first appearance since the crisis arising from its potentially deadly products deepened in 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata chief apologizes in 1st appearance since massive recalls

Shigehisa Takada (C), chairman and chief executive officer of Japan's troubled Takata Corp., and the company's two other top officials attend a press conference in Tokyo on June 25, 2015. Takada offered an apology over the company's defective air bags, making his first appearance since the crisis arising from its potentially deadly products deepened in 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata chief apologizes in 1st appearance since massive recalls

Shigehisa Takada, chairman and chief executive officer of Japan's troubled Takata Corp., listens to questions from a reporter during a press conference in Tokyo on June 25, 2015. Takada offered an apology over the company's defective air bags, making his first appearance since the crisis arising from its potentially deadly products deepened in 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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McDonald's Japan logs 2014 group net loss of 21.8 bil. yen

Sarah Casanova (C), president of McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan), bows in apology for a string of food safety incidents involving its products at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 5, 2015, as she briefs reporters on the company's consolidated financial statements for 2014. McDonald's Japan logged a group net loss of 21.84 billion yen ($190.1 million) in 2014, falling into the red for the first time in 11 years, due to a food safety scandal. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Actress Sakai released on bail following Aug. 8 arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Noriko Sakai, a 38-year-old former pop idol indicted for stimulant possession and use, bows in apology in front of a police station in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2009, after being released on bail. Her first court hearing is scheduled for Oct. 26 at the Tokyo District Court. (Kyodo)

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Actress Sakai offers tearful apology

TOKYO, Japan - Noriko Sakai, a 38-year-old former pop idol indicted for possession and use of stimulant drugs, offers a tearful apology to her fans in a press conference shortly after her release on bail from a police cell in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2009, following her arrest on Aug. 8. Her first court hearing is scheduled for Oct. 26 at the Tokyo District Court. (Kyodo)

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Kanji body chief to step down over business practice allegations

TOKYO, Japan - Noboru Okubo (R), head of the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, bows in apology during a press conference at the education ministry in Tokyo on April 15 after presenting the ministry with plans to reform the foundation's business practices following allegations of impropriety. Okubo said he will step down from the foundation's board in his first public appearance since the revelation in January of the problems with his organization. (Kyodo)

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Sumo wrestler arrested for marijuana possession

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo stablemaster Oguruma (C), besieged by reporters and photographers, bows in apology over the arrest of his apprentice wrestler Wakakirin for alleged possession of marijuana at the stable in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Jan. 30. Wakakirin, a wrestler in the second-tier juryo division, became the first Japanese sumo wrestler to be arrested in a marijuana case. (Kyodo)

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Health minister apologizes to victims for hepatitis C infections

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe (C) meets with a group of people who were infected with hepatitis C through a tainted blood product, in Tokyo on Dec. 4. Masuzoe offered an apology to them for the first time for the government's inaction over the infections. (Kyodo)

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Toyota offers apology, defends recall response as customer-first

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Shinichi Sasaki speaks about the company's massive recall during a press conference in Nagoya on Feb. 2, 2010. Sasaki, in charge of quality and customs service operations, offered an apology to customers for the recall that could reach up to 4.45 million vehicles worldwide over potentially defective accelerator pedals. (Kyodo)

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Toyota offers apology, defends recall response as customer-first

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Shinichi Sasaki speaks about the company's massive recall during a press conference in Nagoya on Feb. 2, 2010. Sasaki, in charge of quality and customs service operations, offered an apology to customers for the recall that could reach up to 4.45 million vehicles worldwide over potentially defective accelerator pedals. (Kyodo)

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Toyota offers apology, defends recall response as customer-first

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Shinichi Sasaki speaks about the company's massive recall during a press conference in Nagoya on Feb. 2, 2010. Sasaki, in charge of quality and customs service operations, offered an apology to customers for the recall that could reach up to 4.45 million vehicles worldwide over potentially defective accelerator pedals. (Kyodo)

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Toyota offers apology, defends recall response as customer-first

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Shinichi Sasaki (L) speaks about the company's massive recall during a press conference in Nagoya on Feb. 2, 2010. Sasaki, in charge of quality and customs service operations, offered an apology to customers for the recall that could reach up to 4.45 million vehicles worldwide over potentially defective accelerator pedals. (Kyodo)

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(2)Protesters continue to demand Japan apologize for WWII sex sl

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean women who were forced by the Japanese military into sexual slavery during World War II and their supporters hold a rally, the 600th since the first one was held 12 years ago, outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on March 17 to press their demand for an official apology and reparation from Japan. (Kyodo)GEN

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Comfort women statue in Taiwan

People hold a sit-in on Aug. 14, 2018 in front of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association office in Taipei seeking a Japanese government apology and compensation over so-called comfort women, who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels. The same day a bronze statue symbolizing comfort women was unveiled at a ceremony in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan, marking the first erection of such a memorial in Taiwan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba to be demoted to 2nd Section on Tokyo bourse

At a press conference in Tokyo on June 23, 2017, Toshiba Corp. President Satoshi Tsunakawa bows his head in apology as the company will be demoted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange's First Section to the Second Section on Aug. 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese female pitcher debuts in Tokyo Big Six game

TOKYO, Japan - Megumi Takemoto of Tokyo University, the first Japanese female to take the mound in the history of Tokyo Big Six League, takes her cap off in apology after hitting the first batter with her first pitch in a game against Keio University at Jingu Ball Park on April 14. She left the mound after throwing just five pitches.

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Sub captain directly apologizes to relatives

HONOLULU, United States - Cmdr. Scott Waddle, captain of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, is pictured March 8 after he directly apologized for the first time to relatives of the nine Japanese who went missing in last month's collision between the sub and the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii. Waddle privately made the apology outside the courtroom of the Navy's Court of Inquiry in Honolulu after the fourth day of the inquiry into the accident concluded.

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N. Korean envoy meets the press

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa speaks at a news conference at the end of the first round of talks on normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and North Korea on Aprul 7. He claimed Japan ''conveyed its intention to apologize (to Pyongyang) for the past and to compensate in line with the apology.''

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LTCB executives apologizes

Tsuneo Suzuki (C), president of the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB), flanked by other bank executives, offers an apology to shareholders and clients in Tokyo on Oct. 23 for any inconveniences the bank's decision to come under state control has brought. The LTCB, one of three Japanese long-term credit banks, is the first bank to be nationalized under a law enacted earlier this month to avoid the possibility of its severing credit lines to its corporate borrowers and defaulting on its obligations to creditors.