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MIZUHO BANK

Major Japanese banks are tightening controls on the management of safe-deposit boxes after a string of thefts involving bank employees rocked public confidence.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 24, 2025
Japanese banks to rethink security measures for safe-deposit boxes
A string of thefts involving bank employees have intensified scrutiny of a segment already grappling with weak demand and thin margins.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 16, 2019
Mizuho Bank increases risky credit in competitive market
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is extending riskier types of corporate credit to fend off competition in a country that¡¯s awash with easy money.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 24, 2019
Guardians of money bristle at Mark Zuckerberg¡¯s new financial order
Facebook Inc. was hours away from the formal announcement of its ambitious foray into financial services, but French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire was already broadcasting his discontent.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 27, 2018
Line and China¡¯s Tencent link up to push cashless payments in Japan
Line, Â鶹´«Ã½ messaging app giant with 78 million users, is stepping up its bid to become a major cashless payment platform by targeting Chinese tourists.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jul 21, 2018
Plight of ¡®Mizuho refugees¡¯ stirs debate on banking services in Japan
Imagine wrapping up a tough work week and jumping into a three-day weekend. Maybe you just plan on lounging around at home with the air conditioner on at full blast. Or perhaps you¡¯ll hit the road and head out of the city to get a welcome break from urban life. At some point you¡¯ll probably need...
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2017
Mizuho plans fund to build dorms for foreign students in Japan
Mizuho Bank Ltd. said Tuesday it plans to launch a ?10 billion fund with a real estate developer and a trading company to build dormitories for international students studying in Japan.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Dec 7, 2013
Who is responsible for a corporate scandal?
Recent scandals involving Japanese businesses have included bank loans to the underworld and misrepresentations of restaurant menus at leading hotels, and many of the media reports have focused on how management takes responsibility for the mess. I would like to highlight three points that need to be...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2013
Mizuho has more loans to the mob
Mizuho Bank has outstanding loans to yakuza and other antisocial elements apart from car loans extended through its affiliate credit company, Orient Corp., President Yau00adsuu00adhiu00adro Sau00adto tells the Diet.
EDITORIALS
Oct 30, 2013
Mizuho¡¯s grave governance problem
A third-party panel of lawyers has effectively labeled Mizuho Bank¡¯s inaction on its loans to underworld customers as a failure of governance and the result of major system problems since 2011.
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Oct 29, 2013
Shady loans have long history; laws slow to catch up
Mizuho Bank¡¯s loans to yakuza and other shady individuals through its group credit company Orient Corp. may be just the tip of the iceberg as corporate Japan struggles to break off its long-held ties with organized crime.
EDITORIALS
Oct 15, 2013
Get to the bottom of shady loans
The inability of Â鶹´«Ã½ third-largest bank to break the habit of approving car loans for yakuza reflects poor corporate governance and besmirches the reputation of the financial industry.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 28, 2013
Mizuho Bank inaccessible this weekend
Bank account holders of Mizuho Bank Ltd. may wish to withdraw some cash for the weekend before the firm¡¯s online services, including ATMs, are halted right after midnight Friday.
South Korea fires warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed DMZ
North Korea's propaganda village Gijungdong as seen from a South Korea's observation post inside the Joint Security Area on the Demilitarized Zone in March 2023
Slowly but surely, Tokyo is becoming a hot spot for chicken rice
One of Singapore's most iconic dishes, the humble chicken rice is given an upscale treatment at a new Marunouchi cafe.
At Yasukuni, the politicians followed the script, but the shrine did not
People crowd in front of Yasukuni Shrine to pay tribute to the war dead on the 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo on Saturday.
New shinkansen model delivered to Taiwan
A new Taiwan High Speed Rail train car is unloaded from a cargo ship at a port in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Saturday.
Trump orders ¡®inappropriate¡¯ U.S.-South Korean military drills scaled back
A U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flies over Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Monday, after Seoul said that its annual Ulchi Freedom Shield joint military exercises with the United States had started.
Unrelenting Russian anti-war protesters in Japan fight through inescapable doubt
Anti-war Russians protest Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in February.
How U.S. bombing survey in Japan shed light on civilian sentiments of WWII
Residents are seen walking beside rubble in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in this undated photo taken soon after the end of World War II.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Takaichi needs Aso on her side to solidify position in LDP
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Liberal Democratic Party meeting alongside LDP Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki (left) and LDP Vice President Taro Aso in Tokyo earlier this month
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
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