Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

Panel chief reiterates consumption tax debate to start in Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Yutaka Kosai, chairman of the government's Tax Commission, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 8. Kosai reiterated that debate on comprehensive tax reform, including a possible consumption tax hike, will start in September or after as scheduled, despite the ruling camp's defeat in the House of Councillors election on July 29.

E

Tax panel urges gov't to clarify timing of sales tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Yutaka Kosai, head of the Tax Commission, handed a report of recommendations to Prime Minster Taro Aso at the Prime Minster's Office on Nov. 28. The commission, which advises Aso, urged Aso's administration to state the precise timing of a hike in the consumption tax rate from the current 5 percent when it unveils a medium-term fundamental tax reform program by the year-end.

E

Gov't panel to call for sales tax hike in reform proposals

TOKYO, Japan - Yutaka Kosai, chairman of government's Tax Commission, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Nov. 5 after a plenary session of the panel, which agreed on an outline of its tax reform proposals for fiscal 2008 centering on a hike in the consumption tax.

E

Kosai picked as new tax panel chief, eyes basic study of tax system

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe address a meeting of the government's tax panel as newly named panel Chairman Yutaka Kosai listens at the prime minister's official residence on Jan. 22. The panel agreed to launch basic research subgroups on Japan's tax system as early as February.

E

Kosai picked as new tax panel chief, eyes basic study of tax system

TOKYO, Japan - Yutaka Kosai, a bureaucrat-turned-economist, speaks at a press conference after being named chairman of the govenment's tax panel on Jan. 22.

E

Abe taps think tank adviser Kosai as tax panel chief

TOKYO, Japan - Yutaka Kosai, senior adviser at the Japan Center for Economic Research, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 26 after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe selected him as chairman of the government's Tax Commission to replace Masaaki Homma, who resigned last week over a scandal.

E

Gov't plans to pick thin tank adviser Kosai as tax panel chief

TOKYO, Japan - The government plans to pick Yutaka Kosai (file photo), senior adviser of the Japan Center for Economic Research, as chairman of the government's Tax Commission, following the resignation last week of Masaaki Homma.

E

(2) Disaster-relief drills

KOSAI, Japan - Junior high school students work together to make sandbags in mock disaster-relief exercises carried out in Kosai, Shizuoka Prefecture on Sept. 1.

E

Court turns down S. Korean's pension request

OSAKA, Japan - Kang Pu Jung (L), a 79-year-old South Korean living in Kosai, Shiga Prefecture, meets the press in Osaka on Oct. 15 after his request for pension payment from the Japanese government was turned down by the Osaka High Court. ''I am really angry,'' he said of the ruling, which said pension recipients must hold Japanese nationality. Kang, who was injured while serving for the Imperial Japanese Navy, was a Japanese national under Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula but automatically became a South Korean national after the war.

E

Court urges settlement between Korean resident, gov't

Kang Bu Jung, 79, from Kosai, Shiga Prefecture, speaks at a news conference after the Osaka High Court recommended a settlement over his suit seeking to overturn a previous court decision that had dismissed his claim to a government pension for his service in the Japanese military during World War II.

E

Gov't plans to pick thin tank adviser Kosai as tax panel chief

TOKYO, Japan - The government plans to pick Yutaka Kosai (file photo), senior adviser of the Japan Center for Economic Research, as chairman of the government's Tax Commission, following the resignation last week of Masaaki Homma. (Kyodo)

E

Abe taps think tank adviser Kosai as tax panel chief

TOKYO, Japan - Yutaka Kosai, senior adviser at the Japan Center for Economic Research, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 26 after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe selected him as chairman of the government's Tax Commission to replace Masaaki Homma, who resigned last week over a scandal. (Kyodo)

E

Kosai picked as new tax panel chief, eyes basic study of tax sys

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe address a meeting of the government's tax panel as newly named panel Chairman Yutaka Kosai listens at the prime minister's official residence on Jan. 22. The panel agreed to launch basic research subgroups on Japan's tax system as early as February. (Kyodo)

E

Kosai picked as new tax panel chief, eyes basic study of tax sys

TOKYO, Japan - Yutaka Kosai, a bureaucrat-turned-economist, speaks at a press conference after being named chairman of the govenment's tax panel on Jan. 22. (Kyodo)

E

Panel chief reiterates consumption tax debate to start in Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Yutaka Kosai, chairman of the government's Tax Commission, speaks at a news conference at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 8. Kosai reiterated that debate on comprehensive tax reform, including a possible consumption tax hike, will start in September or after as scheduled, despite the ruling camp's defeat in the House of Councillors election on July 29. (Kyodo)

E

Gov't panel to call for sales tax hike in reform proposals

TOKYO, Japan - Yutaka Kosai, chairman of government's Tax Commission, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Nov. 5 after a plenary session of the panel, which agreed on an outline of its tax reform proposals for fiscal 2008 centering on a hike in the consumption tax. (Kyodo)

E

Tax panel urges gov't to clarify timing of sales tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Yutaka Kosai, head of the Tax Commission, handed a report of recommendations to Prime Minster Taro Aso at the Prime Minster's Office on Nov. 28. The commission, which advises Aso, urged Aso's administration to state the precise timing of a hike in the consumption tax rate from the current 5 percent when it unveils a medium-term fundamental tax reform program by the year-end. (Kyodo)

E

U.N. official retracts remarks over "compensated dating": Suga

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announces at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2015, that Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, special rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, effectively retracted her remark that 13 percent of schoolgirls in Japan are engaged in "enjo kosai" or compensated dating. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

Man in news: Professor uses virus targeting cancer cells

Profile photo shows Kagoshima University professor Kenichiro Kosai, who will be in charge of producing an oncolytic virus that multiplies in cancer cells and kills them. The national university announced on May 25, 2015, a plan to use the virus in a clinical trial on human patients at its hospital that will begin by March 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

Tokyo Olympic torch relay

TV personality Rose Touwa runs in the Tokyo Olympic torch relay in the Shizuoka Prefecture city of Kosai, central Japan, on June 23, 2021.

E

Tokyo Olympic torch relay

TV personality Rose Touwa runs in the Tokyo Olympic torch relay in the Shizuoka Prefecture city of Kosai, central Japan, on June 23, 2021.

E

(2) Disaster-relief drills

KOSAI, Japan - Junior high school students work together to make sandbags in mock disaster-relief exercises carried out in Kosai, Shizuoka Prefecture on Sept. 1.

E

New coronavirus

New students wear face masks during an enrollment ceremony at Kosai Elementary School in Sapporo, Japan, on April 6, 2020, amid concerns over coronavirus infections. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

New coronavirus

New students wear face masks during an enrollment ceremony at Kosai Elementary School in Sapporo, Japan, on April 6, 2020, amid concerns over coronavirus infections. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

New coronavirus

New students wear face masks during an enrollment ceremony at Kosai Elementary School in Sapporo, Japan, on April 6, 2020, amid concerns over coronavirus infections. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

Toyota Motor's honorary chairman

Shoichiro Toyoda, honorary chairman of Toyota Motor Corp., addresses a ceremony in Kosai, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 30, 2017, that commemorated Sakichi Toyoda, Shoichiro's grandfather who was born in the city and who founded the Toyota group. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

Keidanren picks 3 new vice chairmen

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show (from L to ) Akio Kosai, 68, president of Sumitomo Chemical Co., Minoru Makihara, 70, chairman of Mitsubishi Corp., and Shigeji Ueshima, 68, president of Mitsui & Co., who were named vice chairmen of the Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren), Japan's most powerful big-business group, on March 8.

E

Court turns down S. Korean's pension request

OSAKA, Japan - Kang Pu Jung (L), a 79-year-old South Korean living in Kosai, Shiga Prefecture, meets the press in Osaka on Oct. 15 after his request for pension payment from the Japanese government was turned down by the Osaka High Court. ''I am really angry,'' he said of the ruling, which said pension recipients must hold Japanese nationality. Kang, who was injured while serving for the Imperial Japanese Navy, was a Japanese national under Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula but automatically became a South Korean national after the war.

E

Court urges settlement between Korean resident, gov't

Kang Bu Jung, 79, from Kosai, Shiga Prefecture, speaks at a news conference after the Osaka High Court recommended a settlement over his suit seeking to overturn a previous court decision that had dismissed his claim to a government pension for his service in the Japanese military during World War II.