Nogami sacked by Koizumi

Nogami sacked by Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami fields questions from reporters at the prime minister's official residence Jan. 29 in Tokyo after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi notified him of his decision to dismiss him following a conflict over the Foreign Ministry's decision to bar two Japanese nongovernmental organizations from last week's Afghan aid conference in Tokyo.

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