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Swimmer Kitajima vows gold at Athens Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima (L) shows education minister Atsuko Toyama the gold medals he won in the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke events at the just-ended world swimming championships in Barcelona. Kitajima promised to win gold meals in next year's Athens Olympics.

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Diet OKs bill giving nat'l colleges more autonomy

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama gestures her appreciation July 9 after the House of Councillors approved a set of bills to turn state-run universities into independent administrative institutions in April 2004 amid concerns that the legislation will not do enough to curb government involvement in higher education. The legislation will take effect on Oct. 1.

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3 governors request admission policy change for ethnic schools

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the prefectural governments of Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo (standing on the left side) jointly submit a request to an education ministry official, asking Education Minister Atsuko Toyama to make graduates of Asian ethnic schools automatically eligible to sit for university entrance exams. They handed the written request on on behalf of the governors of the three prefectures.

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Hirayama calls for preservation of Iraqi cultural assets

TOKYO, Japan - UNESCO goodwill ambassador Ikuo Hirayama (C), flanked by Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi (L) and culture minister Atsuko Toyama (R), meets reporters in Tokyo on May 12. He appealed for the preservation of Iraqi cultural assets.

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Panel urges drastic change to education law

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiko Torii (L), chairman of the Central Education Council, a government advisory panel, hands a report recommending a drastic revision of the basic education law to Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama on March 20. The report specifically advocated the idea of cultivating patriotism and public spirit in schools with an emphasis on individual dignity.

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Gov't voices regret over high court ruling on Monju reactor

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama speaks at a press conference at her ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 27. Toyama expressed the government's regret over a Nagoya High Court ruling that nullified its original approval of construction of the Monju experimental fast-breeder nuclear reactor.

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Afghan educators meet Japan's education minister

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama (C) meets with a group of Afghan school administration officials at her ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 26. The Afghan group includes officials from the government's primary and secondary education bureaus as well as the head of a women's school.

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Ceremony held to honor 16 as Persons of Cultural Merit

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Tanaka (L), one of 16 recipients of this year's Persons of Cultural Merit awards, receives a citation from Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Nov. 5. Tanaka, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was also awarded this year's Order of Culture on Nov. 3.

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Nobel laureate Koshiba meets science minister

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba (L), who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics with two Americans, shakes hands with science minister Atsuko Toyama in Tokyo on Oct. 21.

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Nobel laureate Tanaka meets science minister

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Tanaka (R), who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with an American and Swiss, meets science minister Atsuko Toyama in Tokyo on Oct. 21.

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Education panel recommends mandating student community work

TOKYO, July 29 Kyodo - Atsuko Toyama (L), Japan's education minister, receives a report on education policy from Yasuhiko Torii, chairman of an advisory panel to Toyama, at a hotel July 29 in Tokyo's Minato Ward. The panel recommended schoolchildren be required to take part in community activities, and that this be a part of student evaluations.

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Koizumi leaves for Seoul to attend World Cup opening

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) waves as he, along with Education, Technology and Science Minister Atsuko Toyama, leaves Haneda airport in Tokyo on May 31 for Seoul to attend the opening ceremony later in the day of the World Cup finals co-hosted by Japan and South Korea. (World Cup 2002)

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Chion-in Temple's Main Hall proposed as national treasure

TOKYO, Japan - A cultural council proposed to culture minister Atsuko Toyama on April 19 that Chion-in Temple's Main Hall in Kyoto be designated a national treasure.

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Chion-in Temple's Sammon gate proposed as national treasure

TOKYO, Japan - A cultural council proposed to culture minister Atsuko Toyama on April 19 that Chion-in Temple's Sammon, a two-story gate in Kyoto, be designated a national treasure. The Sammon is the largest existing two-story, dual-layered gate in Japan.

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Afghan education minister meets Toyama

TOKYO, Japan - Abdul Rasoul Amin (L), education minister of the Afghan interim authority, shakes hands with Japan's education minister Atsuko Toyama prior to their meeting at the education ministry in Tokyo on April 17. Amin is in Japan on a four-day visit.

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1,400 attend memorial for victims of school stabbing spree

OSAKA, Japan - About 1,400 people attend a memorial service on Feb. 16 for eight children who were killed when a man went on a stabbing spree last June at Ikeda Elementary School attached to the state-Run Osaka Kyoiku University. Education minister Atsuko Toyama as well as local government officials and school alumni took part in the service held at a local hall in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture.

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Education panel proposes dismissed teachers surrender licenses

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiko Torii (R), chairman of the Central Education Council, presents an interim report summarizing his panel's recommendations on education reform to Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama on Dec. 25. The panel proposed taking away the licenses of teachers who are dishonorably dismissed.

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Japan promises educational support to Afghanistan

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama (R) meets with representatives of a group of Afghan nongovernmental organizations at her ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 14. Toyama promised Japan would provide long-term educational support to Afghanistan as part of its aid to help rebuild the war-torn country.

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Gov't asks panel to consider education law revisions

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama (L) asks Yasuhiko Torii, chairman of the Central Council for Education, her advisory panel, on Nov. 26 to recommend within a year whether Japan's 1947 Fundamental Law of Education should be revised. Toyama said a study of revisions to the law is necessary to deal with changes in the times and society, nurture creativity, and foster respect for tradition and culture.

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(3)H-2A rocket lifts off, releases mirror ball into orbit

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama (L) watches the launch of the H-2A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center on the island of Tanegashima in Kagoshima Prefecture on Aug. 29.

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3 gov't space agencies to be integrated in 2003

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama announces the integration of three government-affiliated space agencies at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 21. The National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), and the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL) will be integrated into a new entity by fiscal 2003.

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Osaka gives news conference

MOSCOW, Russia - Osaka Mayor Takafumi Isomura waves his hand as he takes a seat at a news conference in a Moscow hotel July 12 to present Osaka's bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics. At right is Japanese Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama.

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Education minister visits scene of school murders

OSAKA, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama gets briefings during a visit July 5 to Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, where a man killed eight children and injured 13 others and two teachers June 8.

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Crown prince, princess attend UNESCO ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (L) and Princess Masako (2nd from L) are greeted by Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama (2nd from R) at the entrance of a hall in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district on July 2. The imperial couple attended a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of Japan's joining UNESCO. (Pool photo)

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Education minister visits school where 8 children were slain

OSAKA, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama arrives at Ikeda Elementary School, Osaka Prefecture, on July 5, where a man killed eight schoolchildren and injured 13 other students and two teachers last month. Toyama, the first member of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet to visit the scene of the June 8 slaying, prayed for the peace of the dead children's souls and met the state-run school's principal.

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Ministers attend 'town meetings'

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama (far L) and Nobuteru Ishihara (R), state minister in charge of administrative reform, listen to questions at a ''town meeting'' gathering in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan.

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Education ministers gives news conference

TOKYO, Japan - Education Minister Atsuko Toyama speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on June on the incident in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, in which a knife-wielding man stabbed eight children to death and injured 15 others including teachers.

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S. Korean envoy conveys textbook revision demand to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (R) talks with Education Minister Atsuko Toyama (L) on May 11 to explain the South Korean government's demand for revisions to Japanese textbooks it claims distort history.

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Toyama, new education minister

TOKYO, Japan - Atsuko Toyama, chief of the National Museum of Western Art, arrives at the prime minister's official residence April 26 after being appointed education minister.

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Gov't asks panel to consider education law revisions

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama (L) asks Yasuhiko Torii, chairman of the Central Council for Education, her advisory panel, on Nov. 26 to recommend within a year whether Japan's 1947 Fundamental Law of Education should be revised. Toyama said a study of revisions to the law is necessary to deal with changes in the times and society, nurture creativity, and foster respect for tradition and culture.

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Japan promises educational support to Afghanistan

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama (R) meets with representatives of a group of Afghan nongovernmental organizations at her ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 14. Toyama promised Japan would provide long-term educational support to Afghanistan as part of its aid to help rebuild the war-torn country.

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Education panel proposes dismissed teachers surrender licenses

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiko Torii (R), chairman of the Central Education Council, presents an interim report summarizing his panel's recommendations on education reform to Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama on Dec. 25. The panel proposed taking away the licenses of teachers who are dishonorably dismissed.

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Afghan educators meet Japan's education minister

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama (C) meets with a group of Afghan school administration officials at her ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 26. The Afghan group includes officials from the government's primary and secondary education bureaus as well as the head of a women's school. (Kyodo)

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Education panel recommends mandating student community work

TOKYO, July 29 Kyodo - Atsuko Toyama (L), Japan's education minister, receives a report on education policy from Yasuhiko Torii, chairman of an advisory panel to Toyama, at a hotel July 29 in Tokyo's Minato Ward. The panel recommended schoolchildren be required to take part in community activities, and that this be a part of student evaluations. (Kyodo)

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Hirayama calls for preservation of Iraqi cultural assets

TOKYO, Japan - UNESCO goodwill ambassador Ikuo Hirayama (C), flanked by Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi (L) and culture minister Atsuko Toyama (R), meets reporters in Tokyo on May 12. He appealed for the preservation of Iraqi cultural assets. (Kyodo)

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1,400 attend memorial for victims of school stabbing spree

OSAKA, Japan - About 1,400 people attend a memorial service on Feb. 16 for eight children who were killed when a man went on a stabbing spree last June at Ikeda Elementary School attached to the state-Run Osaka Kyoiku University. Education minister Atsuko Toyama as well as local government officials and school alumni took part in the service held at a local hall in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture.

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Swimmer Kitajima vows gold at Athens Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima (L) shows education minister Atsuko Toyama the gold medals he won in the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke events at the just-ended world swimming championships in Barcelona. Kitajima promised to win gold meals in next year's Athens Olympics. (Kyodo)

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Diet OKs bill giving nat'l colleges more autonomy

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama gestures her appreciation July 9 after the House of Councillors approved a set of bills to turn state-run universities into independent administrative institutions in April 2004 amid concerns that the legislation will not do enough to curb government involvement in higher education. The legislation will take effect on Oct. 1. (Kyodo)

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3 governors request admission policy change for ethnic schools

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the prefectural governments of Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo (standing on the left side) jointly submit a request to an education ministry official, asking Education Minister Atsuko Toyama to make graduates of Asian ethnic schools automatically eligible to sit for university entrance exams. They handed the written request on on behalf of the governors of the three prefectures. (Kyodo)

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Panel urges drastic change to education law

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiko Torii (L), chairman of the Central Education Council, a government advisory panel, hands a report recommending a drastic revision of the basic education law to Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama on March 20. The report specifically advocated the idea of cultivating patriotism and public spirit in schools with an emphasis on individual dignity. (Kyodo)

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Gov't voices regret over high court ruling on Monju reactor

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama speaks at a press conference at her ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 27. Toyama expressed the government's regret over a Nagoya High Court ruling that nullified its original approval of construction of the Monju experimental fast-breeder nuclear reactor. (Kyodo)

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Ceremony held to honor 16 as Persons of Cultural Merit

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Tanaka (L), one of 16 recipients of this year's Persons of Cultural Merit awards, receives a citation from Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Nov. 5. Tanaka, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was also awarded this year's Order of Culture on Nov. 3. (Kyodo)

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Nobel laureate Tanaka meets science minister

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Tanaka (R), who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with an American and Swiss, meets science minister Atsuko Toyama in Tokyo on Oct. 21. (Kyodo)

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Chion-in Temple's Sammon gate proposed as national treasure

TOKYO, Japan - A cultural council proposed to culture minister Atsuko Toyama on April 19 that Chion-in Temple's Sammon, a two-story gate in Kyoto, be designated a national treasure. The Sammon is the largest existing two-story, dual-layered gate in Japan.

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(3)H-2A rocket lifts off, releases mirror ball into orbit

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama (L) watches the launch of the H-2A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center on the island of Tanegashima in Kagoshima Prefecture on Aug. 29.

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3 gov't space agencies to be integrated in 2003

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama announces the integration of three government-affiliated space agencies at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 21. The National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), and the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL) will be integrated into a new entity by fiscal 2003.

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Osaka gives news conference

MOSCOW, Russia - Osaka Mayor Takafumi Isomura waves his hand as he takes a seat at a news conference in a Moscow hotel July 12 to present Osaka's bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics. At right is Japanese Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama.

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Ministers attend 'town meetings'

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama (far L) and Nobuteru Ishihara (R), state minister in charge of administrative reform, listen to questions at a ''town meeting'' gathering in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan.

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Education ministers gives news conference

TOKYO, Japan - Education Minister Atsuko Toyama speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on June on the incident in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, in which a knife-wielding man stabbed eight children to death and injured 15 others including teachers.

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S. Korean envoy conveys textbook revision demand to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (R) talks with Education Minister Atsuko Toyama (L) on May 11 to explain the South Korean government's demand for revisions to Japanese textbooks it claims distort history.