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Mitsui Construction unveils management reform plan

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiro Inamura, president of financially troubled Mitsui Construction Co., speaks at a news conference Dec. 29 on a new mid-term management reform plan. He said his firm will ask Sakura Bank and other major creditor banks to waive a total 163 billion yen in claims on their outstanding loans.

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Festival to remember Goryo Hamaguchi

KAINAN, Japan - Participants in the Inamura-no-himatsuri (festival) light rice straws to commemorate Goryo Hamaguchi who saved villagers' lives by setting fire on rice fields to direct them to high ground when tsunami was going to hit a village located in today's Hirogawa, Wakayama Prefecture in 1854. The photo was taken on Oct. 16, 2005. (Kyodo)

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Inamura Promontory moon at daybreak

Inamura Promontory moon at daybreak (Inamurgasaki no akebono no tsuki) from the album 'The Hundred Moons' - Warrior Nitta no Yoshisada praying before the retreating sea. Date: 1885

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Okinawa.

Six years after Okinawa's reversion to the mainland, a major effort was made to change road signs to reflect the change from people left, cars right to people left, cars right at 6 a.m. on July 30. The film was released on August 4, 1978.

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The Northern Territories: Islands That Have Yet to Return

As Japan and the Soviet Union continue to disagree over the ownership of the Northern Territories, a caravan launches a campaign. 　 A caravan of people demanding the return of the Northern Territories visits Secretary of Internal Affairs and Communications Inamura, shaking his hand in encouragement; scenes at Cape Nosappu; people peering through binoculars at the Northern Territories in the distance; scenes of talks between Japan and the Soviet Union; the caravan travels around the country; scenes at a meeting in Nagoya demanding the return of the Northern Territories; greetings from Aichi Governor Nakaya Yoshiaki; and more. Fishermen fishing for kelp. Date of shooting unknown, release date: September 15, 1984.

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WWII survivor keeps wartime memory alive with ink drawings

Kazuo Inamura explains his "sumie" black-ink drawing of a girl in Sapporo in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido on Aug. 14, 2015. The girl died along with about 1,700 others when Soviet submarines attacked three ships carrying Japanese evacuees from the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin on Aug. 22, 1945. Inamura survived the tragedy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Western Japan city recognizes utility's power-saving campaign

Amagasaki Mayor Kazumi Inamura (L) hands a letter of certification to Jiro Kagawa, vice president of Kansai Electric Power Co., at the city hall in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on June 19, 2015, accepting as part of the city's low-carbon society promotion project the utility's power-saving campaign encouraging consumers to leave their homes and use credit points given in return for shopping at local stores during hours of peak demand for electricity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Western Japan city recognizes utility's power-saving campaign

Amagasaki Mayor Kazumi Inamura (L) hands a letter of certification to Jiro Kagawa, vice president of Kansai Electric Power Co., at the city hall in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on June 19, 2015, accepting as part of the city's low-carbon society promotion project the utility's power-saving campaign encouraging consumers to leave their homes and use credit points given in return for shopping at local stores during hours of peak demand for electricity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mitsui Construction incurs capital deficit

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiro Inamura, president of Mitsui Construction Co., speaks at a news conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Nove. 24. The company posted a capital deficit of about 72 billion yen on a parent-only basis in the April-September period.