Katsuya Okada

Japan will be represented by Okada and Kitazawa, while Washington's delegates will be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs Wallace Gregson and Ambassador John Roos, the Foreign Ministry said. © Thomson...

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...of LNG. Repeating requests On Nov. 5, Japan's Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada met with Prince Mohamed Bolkiah, Brunei's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, then in Japan on affairs of state. "To Japan, Brunei is an important...

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...close to the ministry. The probe into the alleged nuclear pact and other secret agreements with the United States was ordered in September by Okada days after Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's government took office. The United States is...

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...Japanese island of Okinawa. Okada began a two-day trip to Okinawa on Sunday with a meeting with Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima and also viewed the current proposed new location for Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. Three years ago, Japan and the...

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...military airfield. Gregson came to Japan to attend the first session of the Japan-U.S. high-level dialogue, attended by Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa and U.S. Ambassador John Roos. "The U.S. government...

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...peacekeeping role To rectify Japan's impractical limits on joining U.N. peacekeeping operations (PKO), Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada has called for a review of Japan's five-point principle on PKO participation. As of the end of...

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...discussions held by a Japan-U.S. high-level working group set up to examine the matter. Hatoyama told reporters after meeting with Okada and Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa that he is keenly aware of the need to find a speedy solution to...

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...the newspapers reported. Okada will set up a committee of experts to examine the documents before announcing the government's final judgement in January whether the secret pact did indeed exist, they said. Japan, the only nation to have...

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...refer to Futenma. "It is not a fact that we promised in our manifesto to relocate Futenma outside the prefecture or outside Japan," Okada told Nakaima during their talks after the governor referred to growing expectations among people...

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