Honorary Chairman Ito recently gave away 10% of his shares in company to longtime employees.
Mr Kohl, after all, remains one of Germany's most popular figures as well as the party's honorary chairman.
Remains honorary chairman of Toyota Motor, while his son Akio will become president in June, a post Shoichiro held for a decade.
It tolerates no criticism whatsoever of Mr Ikeda, who elevated himself to honorary chairman after a series of scandals in the 1970s.
Its honorary chairman, the head of Liberty Mutual Insurance, Bill Flynn, helped secure the first visa for Mr Adams to visit New York.
Later Hanawa bowed out gracefully, and he is now honorary chairman.
Last year he made news when flashy liquor baron Vijay Mallya tried unsuccessfully to unseat him as honorary chairman of the Royal Western India Turf Club.
The aim of the Foundation, whose Honorary Chairman is former US President Bill Clinton, is to impact 100 underprivileged children for every student enrolled at a GEMS School.
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ANA's reforming president, quit in frustration in May when the airline's superannuated honorary chairman and existing chairman both former bureaucrats from the transport ministry blocked measures aimed at streamlining the company.
Owner of the Seibu Lions pro baseball team, he set his sights on bringing the Olympic Winter Games to Nagano a decade ago, as honorary chairman of the Nagano Bidding Committee.
That may be fine with the giant conglomerate's honorary Chairman Chung Ju Jung, who left the North as a boy and is willing to spend whatever it takes to promote reunification.
"She is certainly a pioneer among female entrepreneurs, but I see her as an inspiring figure regardless of her gender, " says Higuchi Hirotaro, honorary chairman of Asahi Breweries and a respected business leader.
This may have disappointed the party's honorary chairman, Lien Chan, who is reportedly interested in a third run at the presidency, and the speaker in the legislature, Wang Jin-pyng, who has already shown his ambition.
Its honorary chairman, and one of its most effective spokesmen, is California's best-known Latino teacher, Jaime Escalante, whose struggle to teach calculus to barrio kids in East Los Angeles has been celebrated in a film.
Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist credited with transforming Fiat from an obscure Italian car maker into a major force in the global automotive industry as well as other industries, was the firm's honorary chairman when he died.
When asked if Japan faced the danger of a Russian-style collapse, Shoichiro Toyoda, the honorary chairman of Toyota Motor, says, "It is already in the middle of one, " but he complains that the country's leaders don't recognize it.
KONG, July 9 (Reuters) - Chinese meat processor China Yurun Food Group Ltd said founder Zhu Yicai has resigned as chairman with immediate effect but will become honorary chairman and a senior advisor, the latest management reshuffle by a Chinese company.
Venice jumped into the picture last year, when Italian officials invited Pinault to fill shoes left empty when honorary Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli died in 2003 and his company stopped supporting revolving art exhibits at the palazzo.
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Venice jumped into the picture last year, when Italian officials invited Pinault to fill shoes left empty when honorary Fiat (nyse: FIA - news - people ) chairman Gianni Agnelli died in 2003 and his company stopped supporting revolving art exhibits at the palazzo.
Last week, former president Joao Havelange - who ruled the organization between 1974 and 1988 - resigned as FIFA's honorary president after the 96-year-old was ruled to have taken bribes in a report by ethics chairman Eckert.
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