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Japanese, S. Korean vice foreign ministers meet for talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a South Korean civil group block a car carrying Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki, who met with Cho Tae Yong, South Korea's first vice foreign minister, on Dec. 29, 2014, in Seoul. The group was protesting over a memorandum of understanding signed by Japan, South Korea and the United States on sharing and safeguarding sensitive defense information.

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Japanese, S. Korean vice foreign ministers meet for talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki (L) and Cho Tae Yong, South Korea's first vice foreign minister, meet at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Dec. 29, 2014, at a time when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun Hye have still not held a one-on-one summit since taking office in 2012 and 2013, respectively, due to strained bilateral ties.

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Japanese, S. Korean vice foreign ministers meet in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki (R) and his South Korean counterpart Cho Tae Yong shake hands before their "strategic dialogue" on bilateral issues and regional affairs at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2014.

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Japan, S. Korea officials meet for "strategic" talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki (far R) and Cho Tae Yong (far L), South Korea's first vice foreign minister, hold talks in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 1, 2014, with hopes high that their "strategic dialogue" will pave the way for a summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun Hye.

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Japan summons China envoy to protest over plane encounter

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua responds to questions from reporters at Japan's Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on June 12, 2014, after meeting with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki. Saiki lodged a protest over the second near-miss incident involving their military planes in less than three weeks and urged China to prevent a recurrence.

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Japan summons China envoy to protest over plane encounter

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki responds to questions from reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on June 12, 2014, after meeting with Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua. Saiki lodged a protest over the second near-miss incident involving their military planes in less than three weeks and urged China to prevent a recurrence.

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Japan's vice foreign minister in U.S.

WASHINGTON, United States - Akitaka Saiki, vice foreign minister of Japan, answers a reporter's question in Washington after holding talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns on April 14, 2014.

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S. Korea, Japan hold high-level talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Visiting Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki is surrounded by reporters in Seoul on March 12, 2014, after talks with his South Korean counterpart Cho Tae Yong. They agreed on the importance of their two governments coordinating on matters relating to North Korea.

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S. Korea, Japan hold vice ministerial talks in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Visiting Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki (L) and his South Korean counterpart Cho Tae Yong (R) hold talks at South Korea's Foreign Ministry in Seoul on March 12, 2014.

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S. Korea, Japan hold vice ministerial talks in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae Yong (L) and his Japanese counterpart Akitaka Saiki shake hands in Seoul on March 12, 2014, prior to their talks.

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Japan vice foreign minister in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki arrives in Gimpo International Airport in Seoul on March 12, 2014. Saiki is making a two-day visit for talks with South Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae Yong and other South Korean officials on bilateral issues and North Korea, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

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China slams Abe's shrine visit

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks with reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2013, after lodging a protest with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo earlier in the day.

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China slams Abe's shrine visit

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks with reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2013, after lodging a protest with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo earlier in the day.

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Chinese envoy Cheng

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks with reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2013, after being summoned there by Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki. Saiki lodged a protest over Beijing's establishment of an air defense zone covering the Senkaku Islands in an attempt to stake its claim over the Japanese-administered islets in the East China Sea.

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New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Kennedy

TOKYO, Japan - New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy arrives at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2013, for a meeting with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki.

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New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Kennedy

TOKYO, Japan - New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (C) shakes hands with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2013. (Pool photo)

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China vessels in Japan waters

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua leaves Japan's Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2013, after Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki conveyed to Cheng Japan's protest over the entry of Chinese vessels into Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.

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Chinese envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua leaves Japan's Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2013. Cheng held talks with Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki ahead of the anniversary on Aug. 15 of Japan's surrender in World War II, senior Foreign Ministry officials said.

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Chinese envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua leaves Japan's Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2013. Cheng held talks with Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki ahead of the anniversary on Aug. 15 of Japan's surrender in World War II, senior Foreign Ministry officials said.

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Japanese vice foreign minister

BEIJING, China - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki speaks to reporters at Beijing airport before heading back to Tokyo on July 30, 2013. Saiki held talks with senior Chinese officials during his two-day visit.

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Japanese vice foreign minister

BEIJING, China - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki speaks to reporters at Beijing airport before heading back to Tokyo on July 30, 2013. Saiki held talks with senior Chinese officials during his two-day visit.

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Japanese, S. Korean vice foreign ministers

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki (R) shakes hands with South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kyou Hyun at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 18, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Japan, S. Korea vice ministers meet

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki (L) and South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kyou Hyun shake hands before their meeting in Seoul on July 11, 2013.

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Japan, S. Korea vice ministers meet

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki (L) and South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kyou Hyun meet in Seoul on July 11, 2013.

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Saiki eyed as new vice foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Akitaka Saiki, a deputy foreign minister of Japan. The government plans to appoint Saiki as the new vice foreign minister, the top bureaucrat at the Foreign Ministry, a government source said June 14, 2013.

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Japan-Russia working-level talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Deputy Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki (R) shakes hands with Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov before their meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 19, 2012. The meeting was effectively the first working-level talks since Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in June 2012 to reactivate long-dormant negotiations over the sovereignty of four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, which are claimed by Japan.

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Japan-Russia working-level talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Deputy Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki (3rd from R) and Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov (3rd from L) hold a meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 19, 2012. The meeting was effectively the first working-level talks since Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in June 2012 to reactivate long-dormant negotiations over the sovereignty of four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, which are claimed by Japan.

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Japan-India FTA enters into force

NEW DELHI, India - Akitaka Saiki (L), Japanese Ambassador to India, shakes hands with Indian Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar in New Delhi on Aug. 1, 2011, after they signed a document on a bilateral free trade agreement. The Japan-India FTA entered into force the same day to scrap tariffs on goods that account for 94 percent of the two-way trade flows over 10 years.

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Japan's nuclear envoy Saiki in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Japan's chief nuclear envoy Akitaka Saiki speaks to reporters in Beijing on Dec. 11, 2010, after meeting with China's chief nuclear envoy Wu Dawei.

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Japan's nuclear envoy Saiki arrives in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Japan's chief nuclear envoy Akitaka Saiki arrives at Beijing international airport on Dec. 11, 2010. Saiki exchanged opinions with Wu Dawei, China's special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs, who attended a meeting earlier this month in Pyongyang between North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo.

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Japan official in China

BEIJING, China - Akitaka Saiki, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, arrives in Beijing airport on Nov. 30, 2010, to meet Wu Dawei, the chief Chinese envoy to the stalled six-party talks on the disablement of North Korea's nuclear arms program.

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Japan's Saiki meets Chinese official

BEIJING, China - Akitaka Saiki, chief of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian affairs bureau, leaves a hotel in Beijing for the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Oct. 14, 2010. Saiki arrived in the Chinese capital for talks with his counterpart on matters such as a possible Japan-China summit in Hanoi in late October.

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Japan's Saiki meets Chinese officials

BEIJING, China - Akitaka Saiki, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, leaves the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing on Oct. 13, 2010, after meetings with the ministry's top official on Japan policy and Wu Dawei, China's special envoy on Korean Peninsula policy. Saiki is believed to have discussed a possible Japan-China summit on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings in Hanoi slated for late October as well as the resumption of the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program.

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Bosworth meets with Japan's Saiki on North Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Stephen Bosworth (L), U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, shakes hands with Akitaka Saiki, Japan's chief negotiator at the six-party talks on North Korea, at the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2009, ahead of their talks. (Pool photo)

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Goldberg meets with Saiki over N. Korea sanctions

TOKYO, Japan - Philip Goldberg (R), a visiting U.S. official in charge of sanctions on North Korea, and Akitaka Saiki (L), director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, prepare to hold talks at the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 25.

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Goldberg meets with Saiki over N. Korea sanctions

TOKYO, Japan - Philip Goldberg (L), a visiting U.S. official in charge of sanctions on North Korea, and Akitaka Saiki (R), director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, shake hands before their talks at the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 25.

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Japan, S. Korea repeat call on N. Korea not to launch rocket

TOKYO, Japan - Wi Sung Lac (L), South Korea's chief delegate at the six-party talks aimed at denuclearizing Pyongyang, shakes hands with his Japanese counterpart, Akitaka Saiki, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, at the foreign ministry in Tokyo on March 16 before their talks.

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Japan, U.S. envoys to reaffirm common stance on N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Stephen Bosworth (L), the new U.S. special representative for policy on North Korea, and Akitaka Saiki, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, shake hands at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on March 5 prior to their talks.

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6-way envoys fail to agree on N. Korea nuke verification protocol

BEIJING, China - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei (3rd from L) shakes hands with North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan (2nd from L) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Dec. 11 after the six-party talks on denuclearizing North Korea ended. Chief Japanese delegate Akitaka Saiki (2nd from R) poses for photos together with other delegates at the talks. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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6-way envoys fail to agree on N. Korea nuke verification protocol

BEIJING, China - Akitaka Saiki, chief Japanese delegate to the six-party talks on denuclearizing North Korea, responds to questions from reporters in Beijing on Dec. 11 after the talks ended at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse. (Pool photo)

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6-way envoys meet amid trouble over N. Korea verification

BEIJING, China - Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (C) and the envoys from six countries for six-way talks on North Korea's nuclear programs pose for photos when the six called on Yang at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Dec. 11. At far left is Akitaka Saiki, Japan's chief nuclear negotiator. (Pool Photo)

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6-way envoys remain apart over N. Korea verification

BEIJING, China - Chief Japanese nuclear negotiator Akitaka Saiki speaks to reporters at a hotel in Beijing on Dec. 10 after the six-party talks on denuclearizing North Korea failed to produce any progress on the third day of meeting. (Pool photo)

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Saiki hints 'sampling' not mentioned in 6-way draft protocol

BEIJING, China - Chief Japanese nuclear negotiator Akitaka Saiki speaks to reporters in Beijing on Dec. 9 after the second day of the six-party talks on denuclearizing North Korea. Saiki suggested that a draft protocol for verifying N. Korea's nuclear information presented by China during the talks did not directly refer to ''sampling'' at the North's nuclear sites as a verification method. (Pool photo)

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China presents draft on N. Korea verification at 6-way talks

BEIJING, China - Akitaka Saiki, the head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs bureau, heads for six-party talks on North Korea's denuclearization as nuclear negotiators from six countries meet for the second day at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Dec. 9.

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6-way envoys begin talks over N. Korea nuclear verification

BEIJING, China - Akitaka Saiki, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, attends the first day of the six-party talks on denuclearizing North Korea on Dec. 8 at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. (Pool photo)

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6-way envoys predict tough negotiations over N. Korea nuke info

BEIJING, China - Akitaka Saiki, Japan's chief nuclear envoy, (Center) heads for six-country talks on denuclearizing North Korea being held in Beijing on Dec. 8. Saiki, the head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and negotiators from the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia will try to put in writing methods for verifying Pyongyang's nuclear information at the six-way meeting, which is expected to last three days. (Pool photo)

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Japan, S. Korea, U.S. agree to seek N. Korea pledge on nuke sampling

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Kim Sook, the South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, Akitaka Saiki, who heads the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Christopher Hill, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, talk to reporters after their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 3.

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Japan, U.S., S. Korean envoys meet ahead of 6-party talks

TOKYO, Japan - (From left) Kim Sook, the South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, Akitaka Saiki, who heads the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Christopher Hill, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, shake hands before their talks at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 3. (Pool photo)

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Saiki, Hill agree N. Korea pledge on sampling needed in 6-way paper

TOKYO, Japan - Akitaka Saiki (R), who heads the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, alongside Christopher Hill (L), U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, speaks to reporters after their talks at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 2. The chief nuclear negotiators said they agreed that the six-party talks on denuclearizing North Korea should try to hammer out a document during the next round of discussions that commits Pyongyang to allowing inspectors to take samples from its nuclear facilities.

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Japan, N. Korea agree abduction probe should end by fall

SHENYANG, China - Song Il Ho, North Korea's ambassador for normalization talks with Japan, speaks to reporters at a hotel in Shenyang on Aug. 13 after talks with Akitaka Saiki, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau.