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Yamaichi Securities Co. has named Yoshio Yokota chairman and Tsugio Yukihira president. Yamaichi is one of the world’s largest financial organizations and Japan’s oldest investment firm. Yokota previously was president. Yukihira previously was executive vice president. Yamaichi’s U.S. subsidiary, Yamaichi International (America), has headquarters in New York’s World Trade Center and other offices in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.