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Japan's new opposition party

Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda (C), Komeito party head Tetsuo Saito (2nd from R) and other executives of the two parties pose after announcing the name of their new political party, the Centrist Reform Alliance, in Tokyo on Jan. 16, 2026.

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Japan's main opposition CDPJ, Komeito to form new party

Yoshihiko Noda (C), leader of Japan's main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and Komeito party leader Tetsuo Saito (2nd from L), alongside other party executives, hold a meeting at the Diet in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2026. During the meeting, the two parties agreed to form a new party ahead of a looming snap general election.

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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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China's training program empowers better operation of Ethiopia-Djibouti railway

STORY: China's training program empowers better operation of Ethiopia-Djibouti railway SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 8, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 10, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:02 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: EDUCATION/ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the graduation ceremony 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): BEREKA NUR ESSA, Director of Human Resources and Administration of Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway Share Company 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): XU QUN, Vice dean of Tianjin Railway Technical and Vocational College STORYLINE: A senior management training program for the Ethiopia-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway concluded recently in north China's Tianjin Municipality. A total of 35 senior executives from Ethiopia and Djibouti had attended the two-month training in Tianjin Railway Technical and Vocational College. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): BEREKA NUR ESSA, Director of Human Resources and Administration of Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway Share Company "The training is practical. And we've seen the depots in the stations and ho

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CHINA-TIANJIN-ETHIOPIA-DJIBOUTI-RAILWAY-TRAINING PROGRAM-GRADUATION (CN)

(231108) -- TIANJIN, Nov. 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Graduates of a senior management training program for the Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway Share Company receive their certificates at Tianjin Railway Technical and Vocational College in north China's Tianjin, Nov. 7, 2023. A graduation ceremony of senior management training program for the Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway Share Company was held at Tianjin Railway Technical and Vocational College on Tuesday. In total 35 senior executives attended the ceremony after finishing their two-month training here in Tianjin. The 752-km Ethiopia-Djibouti standard gauge railway, also known as the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway, is the first electrified trans-boundary railway in Africa, a flagship project under the framework of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative. The project officially started commercial operations in January of 2018. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-ETHIOPIA-DJIBOUTI-RAILWAY-TRAINING PROGRAM-GRADUATION (CN)

(231108) -- TIANJIN, Nov. 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Nov. 7, 2023 shows a graduation ceremony of senior management training program for the Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway Share Company at Tianjin Railway Technical and Vocational College in north China's Tianjin. A graduation ceremony of senior management training program for the Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway Share Company was held at Tianjin Railway Technical and Vocational College on Tuesday. In total 35 senior executives attended the ceremony after finishing their two-month training here in Tianjin. The 752-km Ethiopia-Djibouti standard gauge railway, also known as the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway, is the first electrified trans-boundary railway in Africa, a flagship project under the framework of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative. The project officially started commercial operations in January of 2018. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-ETHIOPIA-DJIBOUTI-RAILWAY-TRAINING PROGRAM-GRADUATION (CN)

(231108) -- TIANJIN, Nov. 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Senior executives communicate within a simulated high-speed train at Tianjin Railway Technical and Vocational College in north China's Tianjin, Nov. 7, 2023. A graduation ceremony of senior management training program for the Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway Share Company was held at Tianjin Railway Technical and Vocational College on Tuesday. In total 35 senior executives attended the ceremony after finishing their two-month training here in Tianjin. The 752-km Ethiopia-Djibouti standard gauge railway, also known as the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway, is the first electrified trans-boundary railway in Africa, a flagship project under the framework of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative. The project officially started commercial operations in January of 2018. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-ETHIOPIA-DJIBOUTI-RAILWAY-TRAINING PROGRAM-GRADUATION (CN)

(231108) -- TIANJIN, Nov. 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Trainees of a senior management training program for the Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway Share Company pose for a group photo at Tianjin Railway Technical and Vocational College in north China's Tianjin, Nov. 7, 2023. A graduation ceremony of senior management training program for the Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway Share Company was held at Tianjin Railway Technical and Vocational College on Tuesday. In total 35 senior executives attended the ceremony after finishing their two-month training here in Tianjin. The 752-km Ethiopia-Djibouti standard gauge railway, also known as the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway, is the first electrified trans-boundary railway in Africa, a flagship project under the framework of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative. The project officially started commercial operations in January of 2018. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue)

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Türkiye detains 110 over alleged PKK ties ahead of elections

STORY: Türkiye detains 110 over alleged PKK ties ahead of elections DATELINE: April 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:41 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: POLITICS/LAW SHOTLIST: 1. various of the operation in Diyarbakir province STORYLINE: Turkish police on Tuesday detained 110 people over alleged ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), semi-official Anadolu Agency reported. The operation was launched in 21 provinces including the southeastern Kurdish-majority Diyarbakir province. The arrests included those masterminding nearly 60 street protests taken place since 2017, financing the PKK, promoting the group through media or its outlets, and some lawyers and association executives suspected of ties, according to the report. The operation came three weeks ahead of the key elections on May 14 in which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would seek to extend his two-decade rule. The PKK, listed as a terror organization by Türkiye, the United States and the European Union, has been rebelling ag

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CORRECTED: Kyoto tour boat with 30 aboard capsized

Tomoya Toyota (C), head of the Hozugawa Yusen Kigyo Kumiai river cruise operator, bows during a press conference with two other executives on March 29, 2023, in Kyoto Prefecture's Kameoka. One of the company's traditional tourist boats capsized the day before in the Hozu River in the western Japan city, after becoming stranded while on a cruise with about 30 people on board.

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CORRECTED: Kyoto tour boat with 30 aboard capsized

Tomoya Toyota (C), head of the Hozugawa Yusen Kigyo Kumiai river cruise operator, holds a press conference with two other executives on March 29, 2023, in Kyoto Prefecture's Kameoka. One of the company's traditional tourist boats capsized the day before in the Hozu River in the western Japan city, after becoming stranded while on a cruise with about 30 people on board.

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Blatter responds to FIFA corruption charges

ZURICH, May 28 Kyodo - Media reporters stand by in front of the hotel in which FIFA officials are staying in Zurich on May 27, 2015. FIFA President Sepp Blatter issued a statement the same day to "welcome" further investigation into the world's soccer governing body after the U.S. government announced a 47-count indictment against nine FIFA officials and five corporate executives on charges of corruption in the sport spanning at least two decades.

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PM Abe attends LDP executive members meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) attends a meeting of executive members of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2014, a day after the LDP and its junior coalition partner Komeito retained a two-thirds majority in the lower house. His Cabinet members and the LDP executives are expected to remain in their posts.

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Ex-TEPCO execs merit indictment over nuclear crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. -- former chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (L) as well as two former vice presidents Sakae Muto (C) and Ichiro Takekuro. An independent judicial panel of citizens has decided that the three merit indictment over the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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China-Japan Asia CEO Forum held in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuchika Hasegawa (extreme L), chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, addresses the China-Japan Asia CEO Forum in Tokyo on June 4, 2014, during the private-sector group's first meeting in two and a half years.

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Novartis management replaced

TOKYO, Japan - David Epstein, president of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 3, 2014. The Japanese sales arm of the company, Novartis Pharma K.K., announced that its president, Yoshiyasu Ninomiya, and two other top executives have resigned to take responsibility for its employees' inappropriate involvement in a clinical study led by medical doctors.

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Novartis management replaced

TOKYO, Japan - Dirk Kosche, new president of Novartis Pharma K.K., speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 3, 2014. The Japanese sales arm of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis announced that its president, Yoshiyasu Ninomiya, and two other top executives have resigned to take responsibility for its employees' inappropriate involvement in a clinical study led by medical doctors.

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Novartis management replaced

TOKYO, Japan - David Epstein (L), president of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 3, 2014. The Japanese sales arm of the company, Novartis Pharma K.K., announced that its president, Yoshiyasu Ninomiya, and two other top executives have resigned to take responsibility for its employees' inappropriate involvement in a clinical study led by medical doctors. At right is new Novartis Pharma K.K. President Dirk Kosche.

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Japan's business leaders

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuchika Hasegawa, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, or Keizai Doyukai, attends a joint press conference at a Tokyo hotel with leaders of two other major business organizations on Jan. 7, 2014.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe (C), a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., and other executives of the financial group bow after a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Failed cattle farm case

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2011 shows the headquarters of cattle farm Agura Bokujo in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture. Tokyo police arrested the former president and two other former executives of the failed company June 18, 2013, for allegedly soliciting investors based on misleading information before it went under in 2011.

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Japanese executives locked up in China in labor dispute

SHANGHAI, China - Photo taken on Jan. 20, 2013, shows a factory of an electronic parts maker in Shanghai owned by Japan's Shinmei Electric Co. Workers at the plant locked up around 10 Japanese executives for two days to press their demands for better pay and working conditions, releasing them early on Jan. 20 after police intervention.

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Ex-Olympus CEO Woodford at press conference

LONDON, Britain - Michael Woodford, former president and chief executive officer of Olympus Corp., gives a press conference in London on Feb. 16, 2012, following the arrest of former Olympus Chairman and President Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, two other former executives and a former securities company employee on suspicion of falsifying the company's financial reports in its massive investment loss coverup.

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Olympus head office in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in November 2011 shows the building housing the headquarters of Olympus Corp., a Japanese camera and medical equipment maker, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. Prosecutors on Feb. 16, 2012, arrested former Olympus Chairman and President Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, two other former executives and a former securities company employee on suspicion of falsifying the company's financial reports in an investment loss coverup.

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Suntory executive Torii

OSAKA, Japan - Undated file photo shows Suntory Holdings Ltd. Senior Executive Vice President Shingo Torii. He is set to become one of the two co-chairs of the Kansai Association of Corporate Executives in May 2012, the major business lobby in western Japan said Jan. 10, 2012.

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Suntory Holdings exec Torii

OSAKA, Japan - Undated file photo shows Shingo Torii, senior executive vice president of Suntory Holdings Ltd. Torii is expected to become one of the two co-chairs of the Kansai Association of Corporate Executives in 2012, sources said Dec. 9, 2011.

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Kyushu Electric managers to stay on

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Toshio Manabe speaks during a press conference in Fukuoka on Oct. 14, 2011. The utility announced a three-month, 100-percent salary cut for Manabe and Chairman Shingo Matsuo over a scandal involving the company manipulating public opinion in favor of restarting reactors at its Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture. The two top executives will remain in their posts.

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NEC, Neusoft ally on cloud computing service in China

BEIJING, China - Executives of Japan's NEC Corp. and China's Neusoft Corp. pose for photos during a news conference in Beijing on Aug. 31, 2010. The two companies announced a joint venture to offer a wide range of cloud computing services to companies operating in China.

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SDP threatens not to sign Cabinet resolution

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Fukushima, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Japan, one of the two junior partners in the governing coalition, is surrounded by reporters at the SDP's headquarters in Tokyo on May 27, 2010, after a meeting of party executives. The meeting decided that Fukushima, who also has a ministerial portfolio, will not sign a Cabinet resolution as long as Hatoyama presupposes that the relocation site will be in the coastal area near the Marines' Camp Schwab.

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SDP threatens not to sign Cabinet resolution

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Fukushima, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Japan, one of the two junior partners in the governing coalition, is surrounded by reporters at the SDP's headquarters in Tokyo on May 27, 2010, after a meeting of party executives. The meeting decided that Fukushima, who also has a ministerial portfolio, will not sign a Cabinet resolution as long as Hatoyama presupposes that the relocation site will be in the coastal area near the Marines' Camp Schwab.

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SDP threatens not to sign Cabinet resolution

TOKYO, Japan - Yasumasa Shigeno, secretary general of the Social Democratic Party of Japan, one of the two junior partners in the governing coalition, speaks at a news conference at the SDP's headquarters in Tokyo on May 27, 2010, after a meeting of party executives. The meeting decided that Fukushima, who also has a ministerial portfolio, will not sign a Cabinet resolution as long as Hatoyama presupposes that the relocation site will be in the coastal area near the Marines' Camp Schwab.

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10th anniv. of fatal Tokyo subway accident marked

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of Tokyo Metro Co. bow to a monument near the tracks of the subway operator's Hibiya Line in Tokyo on March 8, 2010, the 10th anniversary of a derailment accident involving two subway trains which killed five passengers.

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Nippon Keidanren and Rengo heads agree on efforts for employment

TOKYO, Japan - Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, addresses a meeting with Nobuaki Koga, chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, also known as Rengo, and other Rengo executives at Keidanren Kaikan hall in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2009. The heads of the two organizations agreed to make efforts to maintain employment.

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Nippon Keidanren and Rengo heads agree on efforts for employment

TOKYO, Japan - Fujio Mitarai (R), chairman of the Japan Business Federation, addresses a meeting with Nobuaki Koga, chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, also known as Rengo, and other Rengo executives at Keidanren Kaikan hall in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2009. The heads of the two organizations agreed to make efforts to maintain employment.

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2 JR West execs resign over dubious handling of accident probe

OSAKA, Japan - West Japan Railway Co. President Takayuki Sasaki bows in apology during a news conference on Oct. 23, 2009, at the transport ministry after submitting the company's report on its executives' questionable handling of the investigation process into a 2005 fatal train derailment. Two of its executives resigned the same day over their handling of the process.

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Gov't puts off further proposal over next BOJ chief

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda looks grim heading into a meeting of top executives of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party at the Diet on March 17, with two days remaining of Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui's five-year term, as the government put off a plan to come up with a new nominee as Fukui's successor. The government had been scheduled to name an alternative on March 17 after the opposition, which controls the upper house, rejected its proposal to keep Fukui in the job. Appointment of top BOJ officials must be endorsed by both houses of parliament.

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3 NHK employees investigated for suspected insider trading

TOKYO, Japan - NHK President Genichi Hashimoto and two other senior NHK executives bow in apology at a news conference at the NHK Broadcast Center in Tokyo on Jan. 17 after the public broadcaster acknowledged that two NHK reporters and a news director are under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission on suspicion of insider trading of stocks.

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SMBC Deputy President Nakano to become Kansai business group head

OSAKA, Japan - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. Deputy President Kenjiro Nakano (in file photo) is expected to become one of the two co-chairmen of the Kansai Association of Corporate Executives in 2008, sources said on Dec. 8. Nakano, 60, will replace Atsushi Kojima, 72, chairman of Ganko Food Service Co., while the group's other co-chairman, Norihiko Saito, 61, executive vice president of Kansai Electric Power Co., will remain in office, the sources said

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Mizuho Securities, Shinko Securities to merge Jan. 1, 2008

TOKYO, Japan - The top executives of Mizuho Securities Co. and Shinko Securities Co., both affiliates of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., meet the press in Tokyo on Jan. 10 after the two companies announced they have reached a basic agreement to merge Jan. 1, 2008, to form Japan's third-largest brokerage house in terms of operating revenue. From L to R: Shinko Securities President Takashi Kusama, Mizuho Securities President Makoto Fukuda, and Mizuho Securities Vice President Keisuke Yokoo. Yokoo will be president of the new company, Kusama chairman, and Fukuda vice chairman.

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2 top Nikko Cordial executives to resign

TOKYO, Japan - Nikko Cordial Corp. President Junichi Arimura (R) and Chairman Masashi Kaneko (L) speak on the falsification of group earnings for fiscal 2004 during a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 25. The two executives will step down to take responsibility for the falsification.

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Police raid JTB over suspected copyright infringement

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of travel agency JTB Corp. bow in a gesture of apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13 after police searched the Tokyo headquarters of the company and 16 other places on suspicion that the company used two photos in travel pamphlets without permission from the photographer who took them.

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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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Prosecutors set to question Livedoor's Horie over alleged fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie (L) and Chief Financial Officer Ryoji Miyauchi pose for photos during a press conference they held at the the Tokyo Stock Exchange in June 2004. Prosecutors are expected to soon question the two Livedoor executives over a series of alleged fraudulent practices apparently designed to expand their business, investigative sources said Jan. 19.

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Scandal-hit Meiji Yasuda decides to replace 11 executives

TOKYO, Japan - Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. said Nov. 4 it has decided to replace all nine of its most senior-level executives along with two other executives in order to take responsibility for its failure to pay insurance claims. At a news conference in Tokyo the same day were Managing Director Kenji Matsuo (R), who will succeed President Ryotaro Kaneko, and Managing Director Kenichi Sekiguchi (L), who will replace Chairman Mikihiko Miyamoto, both on Dec. 1.

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Ex-Kanebo president, 2 former execs arrested for fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a building in Tokyo which houses Kanebo Ltd. Prosecutors arrested a former president of Kanebo Ltd. and two other former executives on July 29 on suspicion of submitting falsified financial statements to financial authorities in violation of the Securities Exchange Law.