Kan hoping to see Northern Territories with own eyes

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) meets a group of people representing cities and towns in Nemuro near the Northern Territories -- four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan -- at his office in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2010, wearing a headband that reads, ''Return the Northern Territories.'' Kan said he wants to visit Hokkaido to see the Northern Territories with his own eyes in the near future.

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA001154816

Registered date
2010/12/01 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source
2010 Kyodo News

Media size
1303 × 1600 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
375.68(KB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Japan, Marshall Islands leaders hold talks

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) and Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine shake hands at the premier's office in Tokyo on July 17, 2024, as they hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the 10th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting.

Japan, Palau leaders' talks

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) and Palau President Surangel Whipps shake hands at the premier's office in Tokyo on July 17, 2024, as they hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the 10th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting.

Japan, Tonga premiers hold talks

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) and his Tonga counterpart Hu'akavameiliku shake hands at the premier's office in Tokyo on July 17, 2024, as they hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the 10th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting.

Japan, Palau leaders' talks

Japan, Samoa premiers hold talks

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) and his Samoan counterpart, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, shake hands at the premier's office in Tokyo on July 17, 2024, as they hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the 10th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting.

Japan, Cook Islands premiers hold talks

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) and his Cook Islands counterpart, Mark Brown, shake hands at the premier's office in Tokyo on July 17, 2024, as they hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the 10th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting.

Japan, Solomon Islands premiers hold talks

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) and his Solomon Islands counterpart Jeremiah Manele shake hands at the premier's office in Tokyo on July 17, 2024, as they hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the 10th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting.

International anti-nuke meeting in Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (far R) delivers a speech during a meeting with members of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 22, 2024. The group, set up under the initiative of Kishida, a lawmaker from a constituency in Hiroshima who has pushed his vision of a nuclear-free world since becoming prime minister in 2021, held its fourth meeting the day before in Yokohama near Tokyo.

Japan PM Kishida given Okinawan shirt

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from L), Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (3rd from L) and Hanako Jimi, minister in charge of Okinawa and Northern Territories affairs, show off the traditional Okinawan "kariyushi" short-sleeve shirts that were given to them by Takekuni Ikeda (far L), vice governor of Okinawa Prefecture, at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 21, 2024.

Abductee's families meet Japan PM Kishida

Takuya Yokota (C), head of a group representing the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, holds a letter to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from R) seeking the return of the abductees at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 10, 2024. The group members' meeting with Kishida took place following their recent trip to Washington to ask for U.S. help.