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King Felipe Attends the Plenary Session of the European Round Table - Madrdid

(L-R) Telefónica CEO José María Álvarez-Pallete, the candidate for Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition and the European Commission's Competition portfolio, Teresa Ribera, King Felipe VI and ERT Secretary General Anthony Gooch during the plenary session of the European Round Table on Industry (ERT) at the Four Seasons Hotel on November 18, 2024, in Madrid (Spain). The event, organized on this occasion by Telefónica, is attended by leading executives and chairmen of Europe's largest industrial groups and technology companies. The European Round Table of Industry, created in 1983, holds two meetings a year. Photo by Marta Fernández Jara / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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King Felipe Attends the Plenary Session of the European Round Table - Madrdid

(L-R) Telefónica CEO José María Álvarez-Pallete, the candidate for Executive Vice-President for Clean, Fair and Competitive Transition and the European Commission's Competition portfolio, Teresa Ribera, King Felipe VI, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vodafone, Jean-François van Boxmeer, and the Secretary General of the ERT, Anthony Gooch Gálvez, during the plenary session of the European Round Table on Industry (ERT), at the Four Seasons Hotel, on November 18, 2024, in Madrid (Spain). During the event, organized on this occasion by Telefónica, the main executives and presidents of the largest industrial groups and technology companies in Europe will participate. The European Round Table of Industry, created in 1983, holds two meetings a year. Photo by Marta Fernández Jara / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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King Felipe Attends the Plenary Session of the European Round Table - Madrdid

(L-R) Telefónica CEO José María Álvarez-Pallete, the candidate for Executive Vice President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition and the European Commission's Competition portfolio, Teresa Ribera, and King Felipe VI, at the Four Seasons Hotel, November 18, 2024, in Madrid (Spain). During the event, organized on this occasion by Telefónica, the main executives and presidents of the largest industrial groups and technology companies in Europe will participate. The European Round Table of Industry, created in 1983, holds two meetings a year. Photo by Marta Fernández Jara / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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King Felipe Attends the Plenary Session of the European Round Table - Madrdid

King Felipe VI(2l), during the plenary session of the European Round Table on Industry (ERT), at the Four Seasons Hotel, on November 18, 2024, in Madrid (Spain). The event, organized on this occasion by Telefónica, will be attended by the leading executives and chairmen of Europe's largest industrial groups and technology companies. The European Round Table of Industry, created in 1983, holds two meetings a year. Photo by Marta Fernández Jara / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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King Felipe Attends the Plenary Session of the European Round Table - Madrdid

(L-R) Telefónica CEO José María Álvarez-Pallete, the candidate for Executive Vice President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition and the European Commission's Competition portfolio, Teresa Ribera, and King Felipe VI, at the Four Seasons Hotel, November 18, 2024, in Madrid (Spain). During the event, organized on this occasion by Telefónica, the main executives and presidents of the largest industrial groups and technology companies in Europe will participate. The European Round Table of Industry, created in 1983, holds two meetings a year. Photo by Marta Fernández Jara / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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King Felipe Attends the Plenary Session of the European Round Table - Madrdid

The candidate for Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition and the European Commission's Competition portfolio, Teresa Ribera and King Felipe VI, during the ERT event, at the Four Seasons Hotel, on November 18, 2024, in Madrid (Spain). During the event, organized on this occasion by Telefónica, the main executives and presidents of the largest industrial groups and technology companies in Europe are participating. The European Round Table of Industry, created in 1983, holds two meetings a year. Photo by Marta Fernández Jara / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Defense products expo underway in Malaysia

STORY: Defense products expo underway in Malaysia SHOOTING TIME: May 7, 2024 DATELINE: May 8, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:17 LOCATION: Kuala Lumpur CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the expo STORYLINE: Defense Services Asia 2024, a biennial defense and weaponry show, is underway in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. The four-day exhibition opened on Monday brings together government officials, professionals, and executives within the defense and security sectors, and enforcement agencies, with over 1,000 companies from 60 countries, its official website showed. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said at the opening ceremony that in the face of ever-changing defense and security changes, countries must not only equip themselves for traditional threats but emerging ones as well. "Our theme 'Building Resilient Nations for the Next Generation' challenges us to look beyond our own horizons and innovate in ways that fortify our nations against multi-faceted threats," he said. "It is a clarion call to

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New Japan LDP leadership

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 13 Kyodo - The Liberal Democratic Party's top four executives under prime minister and party chief Fumio Kishida -- Policy Research Council Chairman Koichi Hagiuda, Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi, General Council Chairman Hiroshi Moriyama and Election Strategy Committee Chairman Yuko Obuchi -- pose for a photo at the LDP's headquarters in Tokyo after the ruling party's leadership reshuffle. (Kyodo)

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New Japan LDP leadership

The Liberal Democratic Party's top four executives under prime minister and party chief Fumio Kishida -- (from L) Policy Research Council Chairman Koichi Hagiuda, Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi, General Council Chairman Hiroshi Moriyama and Election Strategy Committee Chairman Yuko Obuchi -- pose for a photo at the LDP's headquarters in Tokyo after the ruling party's leadership reshuffle.

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Foreign businesses voice confidence in Shanghai's economic prospects in 2023

STORY: Foreign businesses voice confidence in Shanghai's economic prospects in 2023 DATELINE: Jan. 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:42 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LIU MINGHUA, Deputy CEO, Deloitte China 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): XU XIAOLIANG, Co-CEO of Fosun International 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): ZHANG XIQIANG, Executive Vice President, Nestle S.A. 4. various of Shanghai STORYLINE: Executives of foreign-invested businesses in Shanghai have expressed confidence in the city's economic prospects in 2023. In 2022, for the second year in a row, Shanghai's GDP exceeded the four-trillion-yuan threshold. The city is expecting to notch a year-on-year GDP growth of over 5.5 percent this year. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LIU MINGHUA, Deputy CEO, Deloitte China "The economic recovery or economic growth will be a priority for Shanghai and even for the whole country. I believe we'll see very strong economic recovery. Shanghai has advantages in terms of high-end manufacturing, s

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SMBC Nikko chief to take pay cut over insider trading

TOKYO, Japan - SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. President Eiji Watanabe (R) and other company executives bow in apology during a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Aug. 7, 2012. The company said it will cut Watanabe's executive compensation by 30 percent for four months after a former corporate officer at the brokerage was indicted over an insider trading scandal.

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Uneasy LDP becoming more animated in satirical attacks on DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - In an image taken from an animated video clip by the governing Liberal Democratic Party, four men in silhouette who look like executives of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan call themselves the ''Burefo'' (Wavering Four). In the scene, the LDP criticizes DPJ President Yukio Hatoyama and his three deputies -- Naoto Kan, Ichiro Ozawa and Katsuya Okada -- for lacking coherence in their policies over key diplomatic and domestic issues.

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Opposition parties call for abolition of new medical care plan

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of four Japanese opposition parties (front) call for a new medical care plan for people aged 75 and above, which took effect on April 1, to be abolished in Tokyo's Sugamo district on April 14.

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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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Certified public accountants nabbed over Kanebo window dressing

TOKYO, Japan - The Kasumigaseki Building in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward houses the offices of ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prosecutors arrested four certified public accountants at the offices on Sept. 13 for allegedly collaborating with former executives at Kanebo Ltd. in falsifying accounting reports.

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4 certified public accountants arrested over Kanebo window dressing

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Seiichiro Tokumi, one of four certified public accountants arrested Sept. 13, arrives at Tokyo Detention Center. Prosecutors on arrested the four for allegedly collaborating with former executives at Kanebo Ltd. in falsifying accounting reports.

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Certified public accountants nabbed over Kanebo window dressing

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors arrive to search the house of Kuniaki Sato in Chiba Prefecture on Sept. 13, one of four certified public accountants who allegedly collaborated with former executives at Kanebo Ltd. in falsifying accounting reports.

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Police arrest Marubeni Chikusan execs over chicken scam

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 23 shows the building housing the office of Marubeni Chikusan Corp. in Tokyo. Police arrested four executives of the company for alleged involvement in passing off imported chicken as prime domestic poultry.

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Brewery execs attend campaign against happoshu tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Top executives of Japan's four largest breweries -- Kirin Brewery Co., Asahi Breweries Ltd., Sapporo Breweries Ltd. and Suntory Ltd. -- gather Dec. 6 at Tokyo's Ebisu Garden Place to petition government plans to increase the tax on ''happoshu,'' an increasingly popular low-malt, beer-like beverage in Japan.

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(2)TEPCO chief, others to quit over nuke plant scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuya Minami, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), winces during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 2 while announcing he and four TEPCO top executives will resign to take the blame for a cover-up of cracks in its nuclear power plants.

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(1)TEPCO chief, others to quit over nuke plant scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuya Minami, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 2 while announcing that he and four TEPCO top executives will resign to take the blame for a cover-up of cracks in its nuclear power plants.

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Ex-Fuji Bank President Iwasa dies of pneumonia at 95

TOKYO, Japan - Former Fuji Bank President Yoshizane Iwasa (file photo) died of pneumonia on Oct. 14. He was 95. Iwasa once served as chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, one of Japan's four leading business groups.

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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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Japan business dons pin hope on 2nd-half recovery

The leaders of Japan's top four big-business groups hold a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 5, voicing hope that the nation's economy will be put on a recovery track in the second half of this year, while expressing shock at a series of negative developments at the new year's onset. From left to right are Jiro Ushio, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), Takashi Imai, chairman of the Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren), Jiro Nemoto, chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers Associations (Nikkeiren), and Kosaku Inaba, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

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DKB president testifies at Diet

Katsuhiko KONDO (R), the president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank which is suspected of making illegal payoffs to a ''sokaiya'' corporate racketeer, testifies at a House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting on June 5, when prosecutors arrested four former and incumbent executives of the major commercial bank in the case.

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Japan LDP leadership shake-up

The Liberal Democratic Party's top four executives under prime minister and party chief Fumio Kishida -- (from L) Policy Research Council Chairman Koichi Hagiuda, Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi, General Council Chairman Toshiaki Endo and Election Strategy Committee Chairman Hiroshi Moriyama -- pose for a photo at the LDP's headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 10, 2022, after the ruling party's leadership shake-up.

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Japan LDP leadership shake-up

The Liberal Democratic Party's top four executives under prime minister and party chief Fumio Kishida -- (from L) Policy Research Council Chairman Koichi Hagiuda, Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi, General Council Chairman Toshiaki Endo and Election Strategy Committee Chairman Hiroshi Moriyama -- pose for a photo at the LDP's headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 10, 2022, after the ruling party's leadership shake-up.

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Opposition parties call for abolition of new medical care plan

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of four Japanese opposition parties (front) call for a new medical care plan for people aged 75 and above, which took effect on April 1, to be abolished in Tokyo's Sugamo district on April 14. (Kyodo)

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Ex-LTCB execs get suspended terms over concealing bad loans

TOKYO, Japan - Katsunobu Onogi (R), former president of the failed Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB) enters the Tokyo District Court building on Sept. 10 to hear a court ruling on him being charged with falsifying financial statements to conceal massive bad loans. Onogi was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for four years. The other two former top executives were also sentenced to suspended prison terms. (Kyodo)

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Abe to reshuffle Cabinet

Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Sadakazu Tanigaki arrives at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2015, ahead of a planned Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Tanigaki, together with four other LDP top executives, will keep his post. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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4 certified public accountants arrested over Kanebo window dress

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Seiichiro Tokumi, one of four certified public accountants arrested Sept. 13, arrives at Tokyo Detention Center. Prosecutors on arrested the four for allegedly collaborating with former executives at Kanebo Ltd. in falsifying accounting reports. (Kyodo)

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Certified public accountants nabbed over Kanebo window dressing

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors arrive to search the house of Kuniaki Sato in Chiba Prefecture on Sept. 13, one of four certified public accountants who allegedly collaborated with former executives at Kanebo Ltd. in falsifying accounting reports. (Kyodo)

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Certified public accountants nabbed over Kanebo window dressing

TOKYO, Japan - The Kasumigaseki Building in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward houses the offices of ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prosecutors arrested four certified public accountants at the offices on Sept. 13 for allegedly collaborating with former executives at Kanebo Ltd. in falsifying accounting reports. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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Uneasy LDP becoming more animated in satirical attacks on DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - In an image taken from an animated video clip by the governing Liberal Democratic Party, four men in silhouette who look like executives of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan call themselves the ''Burefo'' (Wavering Four). In the scene, the LDP criticizes DPJ President Yukio Hatoyama and his three deputies -- Naoto Kan, Ichiro Ozawa and Katsuya Okada -- for lacking coherence in their policies over key diplomatic and domestic issues. (Kyodo)

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Court battle begins over Livedoor case

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Miyauchi (R), former Chief Financial Officer of Livedoor Co., arrives at the Tokyo District Court on May 26 as the trial began for four former Livedoor Co. group executives indicted on accounting fraud charges. Miyauchi admitted at the first court hearing that he took part in accounting manipulations at the once high-flying Internet company. (Kyodo)

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New top executives of Japan's LDP

Yoshihide Suga (C), new president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, poses for a photo with four other LDP executives at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 15, 2020. Suga reappointed Secretary General Toshihiro Nikai (2nd from R) while naming Hakubun Shimomura (R) as policy chief, Tsutomu Sato (2nd from L) as chairman of the General Council and Taimei Yamaguchi as chairman of the Election Strategy Committee.

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Japan LDP leadership shake-up

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) attends a meeting of Liberal Democratic Party executives at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2019. The party carried out a leadership shake-up -- (from L at the table) Hakubun Shimomura, chairman of the Election Strategy Committee, Fumio Kishida, chairman of the Policy Research Council and Toshihiro Nikai, secretary general among the top four officials under Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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4 Japanese killed in car accident in central Thailand

Executives of Nippon Travel Agency Co., including its president Akihiro Horisaka (far L), bow in apology during a press conference on Nov. 9, 2017, in Tokyo over the deaths of four Japanese tourists in a car accident in central Thailand the previous day. The four were participating in a sightseeing tour organized by Nippon Travel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police arrest Marubeni Chikusan execs over chicken scam

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 23 shows the building housing the office of Marubeni Chikusan Corp. in Tokyo. Police arrested four executives of the company for alleged involvement in passing off imported chicken as prime domestic poultry. (Kyodo)

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Brewery execs attend campaign against happoshu tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Top executives of Japan's four largest breweries -- Kirin Brewery Co., Asahi Breweries Ltd., Sapporo Breweries Ltd. and Suntory Ltd. -- gather Dec. 6 at Tokyo's Ebisu Garden Place to petition government plans to increase the tax on ''happoshu,'' an increasingly popular low-malt, beer-like beverage in Japan. (Kyodo)

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(2)TEPCO chief, others to quit over nuke plant scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuya Minami, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), winces during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 2 while announcing he and four TEPCO top executives will resign to take the blame for a cover-up of cracks in its nuclear power plants. (Kyodo)

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(1)TEPCO chief, others to quit over nuke plant scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuya Minami, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 2 while announcing that he and four TEPCO top executives will resign to take the blame for a cover-up of cracks in its nuclear power plants. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Fuji Bank President Iwasa dies of pneumonia at 95

TOKYO, Japan - Former Fuji Bank President Yoshizane Iwasa (file photo) died of pneumonia on Oct. 14. He was 95. Iwasa once served as chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, one of Japan's four leading business groups.

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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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Business leaders expect info industry to spur economy

TOKYO, Japan - Leaders of Japan's four main business groups hold a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 5 after attending a New Year's reception. Some said they expect the Japanese economy to be on a recovery track by the latter half of this year, led by vigorous business and investment in information technology-related sectors. Photo shows (from L to R) Yotaro Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Takashi Imai, chairman of the Federation of Economic Organizations, Kosaku Inaba, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers Associations.

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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. ==Kyodo

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Japan business dons pin hope on 2nd-half recovery

The leaders of Japan's top four big-business groups hold a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 5, voicing hope that the nation's economy will be put on a recovery track in the second half of this year, while expressing shock at a series of negative developments at the new year's onset. From left to right are Jiro Ushio, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), Takashi Imai, chairman of the Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren), Jiro Nemoto, chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers Associations (Nikkeiren), and Kosaku Inaba, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry. ==Kyodo