Foreign Ministry criticized by reformers

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi (C at background table) attends a meeting of a panel discussing how to reform the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on May 23. Panel members criticized the way ministry officials dealt with the five North Koreans seized by Chinese police inside the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang on May 8.

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