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Japanese singer Koizumi and actor Nagase

TOKYO, Japan, March 5 Kyodo - Japanese singer and actress Kyoko Koizumi and actor Masatoshi Nagase attend a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 22, 1995, to announce their marriage.

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ITOCHU Corporation's acquisition of Bic Motor, Inc. and establishment of a new company, WECARS

ITOCHU Corporation acquires Bic Motor Co. Press conference on the establishment of the new company, WECARS. Pictured from right to left: Masatoshi Maki, ITOCHU Corporation Executive Officer; Shinjiro Tanaka, President and CEO of WECARS; Tsutomu Yamauchi, Executive Vice President and COO of WECARS; and Wataru Goroku, General Manager of Corporate Planning Department of WECARS. ＝May 1, 2024, in Tokyo

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ITOCHU Corporation's acquisition of Bic Motor and establishment of a new company, WECARS

ITOCHU Corporation acquired Bic Motor Co. Press conference on the establishment of the new company, WECARS. (Photo from right to left: Masatoshi Maki, Executive Officer of ITOCHU Corporation; Shinjiro Tanaka, President and CEO of WECARS; and Tsutomu Yamauchi, Executive Vice President and COO of WECARS) = May 1, 2024, in Tokyo.

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ITOCHU Corporation's acquisition of Vic Motor Corporation Establishment of new company, WECARS

ITOCHU Corporation acquires Bic Motor Co. Press conference on the establishment of the new company, WECARS. (Photo from right to left: Masatoshi Maki, Executive Officer of ITOCHU Corporation; Shinjiro Tanaka, President and CEO of WECARS; and Tsutomu Yamauchi, Executive Vice President and COO of WECARS.

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Japanese film at Berlin film festival

Japanese director Gakuryu Ishii (2nd from R), gives a speech after the official screening of "The Box Man" at the Berlin International Film Festival in the German capital on Feb. 18, 2024, alongside Japanese actors from the film Tadanobu Asano (far L), Masatoshi Nagase (2nd from L), and Koichi Sato (far R).

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2 Japanese food firms to set up instant noodle JVs in India, Nigeria

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Ito (L), president of Ajinomoto Co., and Kazuo Obata, president of Toyo Suisan Kaisha Ltd., shake hands after a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2013. They announced that their companies have agreed to set up instant noodle joint ventures in India and Nigeria as they aim to meet growing demand and catch up with foreign rivals.

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Wakabayashi receives appointment as farm minister from emperor

TOKYO, Japan - With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) watching, Masatoshi Wakabayashi (R) receives the appointment as agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister from Emperor Akihito (L) at an attestation ceremony held at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Sept. 4. (Pool photo)

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New farm minister Wakabayashi pledges to restore trust

TOKYO, Japan - New Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi speaks at a news conference in Tokyo after assuming the post Sept. 4. Wakabayashi, who replaced scandal-tainted Takehiko Endo, pledged to restore trust. Endo resigned on Sept. 3 over the misuse of farm subsidies involving a farmers' mutual aid association he headed.

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Ex-environment minister Wakabayashi appointed as farm minister

TOKYO, Japan - Former Environment Minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 3 after being appointed by Prime Minister Shizo Abe as new agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister to replace Takehiko Endo. Earlier in the day, Endo submitted his resignation to Abe over the misuse of farm subsidies.

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China's Wen welcomes Abe's speech at war-end anniversary

BEIJING, China - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) talks with visiting Japanese environment and agricultural minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Aug. 23.

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Kubota aims to break into world's top farm machinery makers

OSAKA, Japan - Masatoshi Kimata, president of Kubota Corp., is interviewed by Kyodo News on Dec. 3, 2014, in Osaka. Kimata said the company aims to boost its group sales by about 30 percent over the next three years and become one of the world's top three makers of agricultural machinery.

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Nobel laureate Amano feted by previous Nobel winners

TOKYO, Japan - Nagoya University professor Hiroshi Amano (back C), a winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, smiles as he is flanked by previous Nobel laureates -- 1987 Physiology or Medicine winner Susumu Tonegawa (back L) and 2002 Physics laureate Masatoshi Koshiba -- during an event at the Swedish ambassador's residence in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2014.

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Japan releases documents related to Bikini H-bomb test

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Yamashita, executive director of the Kochi Prefecture Pacific Ocean Nuclear Test Suffering Support Center, speaks about the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2014, after receiving related documents released by the Japanese government at the request of the group.

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Ajinomoto to buy U.S. frozen foods maker Windsor

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Ito (R), president of Ajinomoto Co., and Greg Geib, president of Windsor Quality Holdings, shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2014. They announced that Japan's Ajinomoto will buy the U.S. frozen foods maker for about $800 million in a bid to grow its presence in the giant North American market.

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Riken research center chief on STAP cell scandal

KOBE, Japan - Masatoshi Takeichi, director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, speaks about the scandal over the stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells research in Kobe, western Japan, on June 26, 2014.

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Top Riken research center officials meet press

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Takeichi (C), director of the government-affiliated Riken institute's Center for Development Biology, and other senior officials meet the press on June 12, 2014, following recommendations by an outside panel to disband the center in the wake of a scandal surrounding a STAP stem cell study by one of its scientists.

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Kubota chief Masumoto found dead

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in 2012 shows Yasuo Masumoto, chairman and president of Kubota Corp., Japan's leading manufacturer of farm equipment. On June 4, 2014, Masumoto was found dead at a hotel in Tokyo. He was 67. Police are investigating the cause of his death. Vice President Masatoshi Kimata will take over as acting president, Kubota said.

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Dance club operator acquitted

OSAKA, Japan - Masatoshi Kanemitsu (C), a former nightclub operator, holds a scroll reading "not guilty" in Osaka on April 25, 2014, after a local court acquitted him of debasing sexual morals by allowing patrons to dance.

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Dance club operator acquitted

OSAKA, Japan - Masatoshi Kanemitsu, a former nightclub operator, holds a press conference in Osaka on April 25, 2014, after a local court acquitted him of debasing sexual morals by allowing patrons to dance.

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Dance club operator acquitted

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken Sept. 28, 2013, shows a facility that used to be nightclub "NOON" in Osaka. The nightclub's operator, Masatoshi Kanemitsu, was arrested in April 2012, leading to its closure, but a local court on April 25, 2014, acquitted him of debasing sexual morals by allowing patrons to dance.

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JSDF'S cyber defense unit launched

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (L) hands the flag of the cyber defense unit of the Japan Self-Defense Forces to unit chief Col. Masatoshi Sato during a ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on March 26, 2014.

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Osaka Asian Film Festival event

OSAKA, Japan - Actors in the baseball movie "Kano" as well as others attend an event for the Osaka Asian Film Festival at JR Osaka Station in western Japan on March 7, 2014. From left, front row: Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui, Sadaharu Oh, chairman of the board of the Softbank Hawks, Japanese actor and actress Masatoshi Nagase and Maki Sakai, and producer Wei Te-sheng (far R).

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People involved in film 'Kano' parade in Chiayi, Taiwan

CHIAYI, Taiwan - Japanese actor Masatoshi Nagase (3rd from R in front row) and other people involved in the film "Kano" parade in Chiayi, Taiwan, on Feb. 22, 2014.

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Fallout from U.S. nuke tests continues to take toll

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in December 2013 shows Masatoshi Yamashita, a former high school teacher, giving an interview at his home in Sukumo, Kochi Prefecture. Yamashita, together with his students, confirmed after 30 years of studies that some 1,000 Japanese fishing boats were exposed to "death ash" caused by a series of U.S. nuclear tests in the central Pacific Ocean around 60 years ago, in addition to the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 tuna fishing boat that was exposed to fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954.

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Chubu Electric seeks to restart Hamaoka nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Sakaguchi (R), vice president of Chubu Electric Power Co., hands applications to an official of the Nuclear Regulation Authority in Tokyo on Feb. 14, 2014, for a state safety assessment of one of its reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant. The plant in central Japan was forced to shut down in 2011 as the previous government viewed operation of the complex as too risky.

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Deaf hammer thrower competing at top level in Japan

OTSU, Japan - Deaf hammer thrower Masatoshi Morimoto competes in the prefectural championship at Shiga Prefecture Comprehensive Sports Facilities in Hikone on July 13, 2013.

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Deaf hammer thrower competing at top level in Japan

OTSU, Japan - Deaf hammer thrower Masatoshi Morimoto gives an interview to Kyodo News on June 24, 2013, in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture.

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Japan's ex-envoy to S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Nov. 22, 2012. Muto, who dealt with bilateral tension over a territorial dispute in the summer of the year, called for a "mature relationship between adults" in which bilateral cooperation can be advanced where possible.

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Japan's new envoy to S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Japan's new Ambassador to South Korea Koro Bessho arrives at Seoul's Gimpo International Airport on Oct. 30, 2012. Bessho, a former deputy foreign minister, replaces Masatoshi Muto.

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Japan's new envoy to S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Japan's new Ambassador to South Korea Koro Bessho (C) meets the press upon his arrival at Seoul's Gimpo International Airport on Oct. 30, 2012. Bessho, a former deputy foreign minister, replaces Masatoshi Muto.

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Japanese painter Oka's exhibition in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese painter Nobutaka Oka (L) and Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto chat at an exhibition of Oka's works portraying sceneries at the Korean court, in Seoul on Oct. 10, 2012, its opening day.

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Japan's envoy back in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto answers reporters' questions at Seoul's Kimpo airport after returning from Japan on Aug. 22, 2012. Japan decided to send the envoy back to Seoul following his temporary withdrawal earlier in August in protest over South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's visit to a disputed isle in the Sea of Japan.

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Japan mulls taking isle dispute with S. Korea to ICJ

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto enters the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 11, 2012, to brief Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba on South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's trip to a pair of Sea of Japan islands the previous day. Gemba said after the briefing that Japan will consider taking its dispute with South Korea over the islands controlled by Seoul to the International Court of Justice.

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Japan mulls taking isle dispute with S. Korea to ICJ

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba speaks with reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 11, 2012, after he was briefed by Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto on South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's trip to a pair of Sea of Japan islands the previous day. Gemba said Japan will consider taking its dispute with South Korea over the islands controlled by Seoul to the International Court of Justice.

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Japan mulls taking isle dispute with S. Korea to ICJ

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba speaks with reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 11, 2012, after he was briefed by Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto on South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's trip to a pair of Sea of Japan islands the previous day. Gemba said Japan will consider taking its dispute with South Korea over the islands controlled by Seoul to the International Court of Justice.

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Japan envoy to S. Korea returns to Tokyo over isle visit

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto (R) arrives at Tokyo's Haneda airport from Seoul on Aug. 10, 2012. Japan called the envoy home temporarily in protest over South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's trip to disputed islands in the Sea of Japan, called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.

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Japan envoy to S. Korea returns to Tokyo over isle visit

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto departs from Seoul's Kimpo airport for Japan on Aug. 10, 2012. Japan called the envoy home temporarily in protest over South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's trip to disputed islands in the Sea of Japan, called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.

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Japan envoy to S. Korea returns to Tokyo over isle visit

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto is surrounded by reporters before leaving Seoul's Kimpo airport for Japan on Aug. 10, 2012. Japan called the envoy home temporarily in protest over South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's trip to disputed islands in the Sea of Japan, called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.

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Japan envoy to S. Korea returns to Tokyo over isle visit

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto departs from Seoul's Kimpo airport for Japan on Aug. 10, 2012. Japan called the envoy home temporarily in protest over South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's trip to disputed islands in the Sea of Japan, called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.

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NKSJ group officials

TOKYO, Japan - NKSJ Holdings Inc. President Masatoshi Sato (C) shakes hands with the presidents of the company's two key nonlife insurance units -- Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. President Kengo Sakurada (R) and Nipponkoa Insurance Co. President Masaya Futamiya -- after a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 27, 2012.

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S. Korea welcomes Japan's return of archives

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean First Vice Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Park Suk Hwan (R) and Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto shake hands at a ceremony at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Dec. 6, 2011, to hand over to South Korea from Japan more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean archives. The documents were seized and removed to Japan during Japanese rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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Japan-China-S. Korea cooperation secretariat

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto (far L) and South Korean foreign minister Kim Sung Hwan (2nd from L) clap hands together with other delegates of Japan, China or South Korea at the opening ceremony of the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat in Seoul on Sept. 27, 2011. The secretariat has been established for the efficient promotion and management of cooperative projects among the three countries.

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Ex-PM Kaifu decorated

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu (R front) chats with Masatoshi Wakabayashi, former agriculture minister, during a photo session for the recipients of annual spring decorations from the Japanese government at a garden of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on June 24, 2011. Kaifu, 80, who was Japan's prime minister from February 1990 to November 1991, received this spring's highest award, the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers.

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Scholarship fund for children affected by March 11 disaster

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Masatoshi Koshiba, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, architect Tadao Ando and Fast Retailing Co. President Tadashi Yanai attend a press conference at the education ministry in Tokyo on May 18, 2011. They and others established a scholarship foundation the same day for children affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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S. Korean students write to Japanese children

SEOUL, South Korea - Chae Pa Da (L), a poet from Cheju Island in South Korea, hands some of the 13,000 encouraging letters from primary and secondary school students on the island addressed to children affected by the March 11 quake and tsunami in Japan to Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto during a ceremony in Seoul on April 13, 2011. The letter writing drive was started by Chae's call and carried out by a local education bureau.

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S. Korea slams Japan's approval of textbooks making claim to islets

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean foreign minister Kim Sung Hwan (R) summons Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto (L) to lodge a protest over Tokyo's approval of textbooks containing territorial claims to South Korean-controlled islets that lie halfway between the two countries.

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Moment of silence in S. Korea for Japan quake victims

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Kim Sung Hwan (L) observes a moment of silence for the victims of the massive earthquake in northeastern Japan at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on March 18, 2011, a week after Japan's strongest recorded earthquake. On the right is Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto.

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Alpinist Kuriaki wins adventurer's award

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese alpinist Masatoshi Kuriaki speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 16, 2011. He received the Naomi Uemura adventure prize from the government of the city of Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture. In the background is an image of the late adventurer Uemura.

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Sapporo to make Pokka subsidiary

TOKYO, Japan - Sapporo Holdings Ltd. Managing Director Tsutomu Kamijo (L), who is set to become the next president of the holding firm of beverage makers, Masatoshi Hori, president of another beverage producer Pokka Corp. (C) and Takao Murakami, current president of Sapporo Holdings (R), shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2011. The two companies said Sapporo will turn Pokka into a subsidiary in late March as a first step to integrate their management in April 2012, in an effort to better compete in drink and food markets amid an adverse business environment.

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New Japanese Ambassador to S. Korea Masatoshi Muto

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Masatoshi Muto, new Japanese Ambassador to South Korea, dated Aug. 12, 2010.