Katsuya Okada
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US and Japan at odds over bases...PM refuses to clarify. Scrambling before last week's meeting to avoid a blow-up, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada agreed a high-level working group should resolve the disagreement. But straight afterwards,... In this article: US, Barack Obama, Japan, Liberal Democratic Party, Okinawa, Democratic Party of Japan, Tokyo, Pentagon, Nago, Okinawa, and Washington |
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washingtonpost.com | November 13, 2009
Obama: Decision soon on troops for Afghanistan
..."silliness" was something that "should be avoided." To that end, Okada and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton created a committee earlier this week to try sort out the base issue. But the dispute is not going away. It's part of a key...
In this article: Barack Obama, Yukio Hatoyama, United States, Japan, Okinawa, Afghanistan, Tokyo, North Korea, and Okinawa
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The Japan Times: All Stories | November 01, 2009
Okada's meeting with Clinton on, then off
Okada has been eager to meet with Clinton ahead of President Barack Obama's trip to Tokyo to discuss the increasingly fractious question of where the U.S. Futenma military airfield in Okinawa Prefecture should be relocated. The...
In this article: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Yukio Hatoyama, U.S. Defense Department, Barack Obama, Japan, United States, Okinawa Prefecture, and Tokyo
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ABC News | November 13, 2009
Punch: US-Japan Work Toward Compromise on Okinawa
...Eye of the Beholder November 13, 2009 5:56 PM Early this week in Singapore, Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reached an agreement on creating a bilateral working group to resolve issues...
In this article: Okinawa, United States, Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, Robert Gates, and Hillary Clinton
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U.S. sorry for Okada-Clinton snafu
...has apologized to Japan for saying over the weekend that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would meet with Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in Washington on Friday and then retracting the announcement, a senior Japanese official said...
In this article: Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States, The Diet, Hirofumi Hirano, Washington, and Japan
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Obama, Japan PM to agree on alliance review: report
..."the next couple of months." But Okada added: "I also explained to her the history of Okinawa, that it was once an independent country and that during World War Two about 100,000 civilians lost their lives. "So when Prime Minister...
In this article: Barack Obama, Yukio Hatoyama, Japan, Okinawa, United States, Tokyo, Washington, Singapore, and World War Two
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Katsuya Okada (岡田克也 Okada Katsuya, born July 14, 1953) is a Japanese politician. He is a member of the House of Representatives of Japan, and the former president and current Secretary General of the Democratic Party of Japan. From September 2009, he will serve as the country's Foreign Minister.
He is the second son of Takuya Okada, who is a founder of Japanese retail giant AEON Group. His elder brother, Motoya Okada is the President and CEO of AEON Group. He has a younger brother and a half-sister. A native of Yokkaichi, Mie, Okada graduated from the University of Tokyo with a degree in law, and entered the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. He also studied at Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs in Harvard University.
He ran for the House of Representatives at the 1990 general election from LDP and later joined the Takeshita faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, and followed faction leaders Tsutomu Hata and Ichirō Ozawa to join the Japan Renewal Party in 1993. Through a series of splits and mergers, Okada then became a member of the Shinshinto, Sun Party, and Minseito, finally entering the DPJ upon its merger with Minseito in 1998.
He became president of the DPJ on May 18, 2004, and led the DPJ to one of its largest electoral victories in history during the 2004 House of Councillors election. However, he resigned after his party suffered dramatic losses in the September 2005 general election.
Okada is said to be an avid collector of frog knick knacks, which decorate his office.
- Birth Date:
- July 14, 1953
- Birthplace:
- Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture
- Political party:
- Democratic Party of Japan
- Represents:
- Mie 3rd. District (Elected sixth)
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