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Japan's ex-House of Councillors President Ogi dies at 89

Japan's former House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi (background) presides at the upper house plenary session in the Diet Building in Tokyo in August 2004 as then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi addresses the upper house. The actress-turned-lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party, whose real name was Hiroko Hayashi, died of cancer on March 9, 2023, at age 89.

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Japan's ex-House of Councillors President Ogi dies at 89

Photo taken in November 2010 in Tokyo shows Japan's former House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi. The actress-turned-lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party, whose real name was Hiroko Hayashi, died of cancer on March 9, 2023, at age 89.

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(6)Funeral for Princess Takamatsu held in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono and House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi attend the funeral for Princess Takamatsu, an aunt of Emperor Akihito who died at age 92 earlier this month, held at the Toshimagaoka Cemetery in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Dec. 26.

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'Oiran' courtesan parades in Sapporo, northern Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - Freelance anchorwoman Chikage Aoyama (R) walks down the street at a festival in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2014, performing as an "oiran" traditional courtesan of the highest rank from the Edo era (1603-1867) during an "oiran parade."

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Ogi at autumn decoration ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Former House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi arrives at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2010, to attend an award ceremony for autumn decorations. Ogi became the first woman to receive the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers, one of the highest awards.

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Upper house president ends 30-year career in parliament

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi is seen off by upper house staff in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on July 27 as she ends her 30-year career as a parliamentarian. Ogi had served as president of the upper chamber of the Diet since 2004 and was the country's first female head of the upper house.

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Upper house president ends 30-year career in parliament

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi is seen off by upper house staff in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on July 27 as she ends her 30-year career as a parliamentarian. Ogi had served as president of the upper chamber of the Diet since 2004 and was the country's first female head of the upper house.

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House of Councillors celebrates 60th founding anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi (on the rostrum) addresses a celebration commemorating the 60th founding anniversary of the upper house.

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House of Councillors celebrates 60th founding anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi (2nd from R) plants a tree near the Diet building in Tokyo on May 18 in commemoration of the 60th founding anniversary of the upper house.

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Upper house head Ogi to retire from politics

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on May 11. She said she will not run in July's upper house election and retire from politics after occupying a seat there for 30 years.

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Wen urges Japan to face up to history for better ties with China

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (fore) makes a speech in the House of Representatives chamber on April 12 as Speaker Yohei Kono (back left) and House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi listen. Wen urged Japan to take ''concrete action'' to face up to wartime history and outlined China's vision for building a strategic relationship with Japan through building mutual trust and working on common interests.

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Imaizumi picked as House of Councillors vice president

TOKYO, Japan - Akira Imaizumi of the Democratic Party of Japan addresses the plenary session of the House of Councillors in the Diet on Jan. 30 after being elected vice president of the upper chamber with upper house President Chikage Ogi listening behind him.

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Japan's 166th regular Diet session opens

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi, House of Representatives Vice Speaker Takahiro Yokomichi and House of Councillors Vice President Giichi Tsunoda (from L to R) await the arrival of Emperor Akihito at the House of Councillors during the opening ceremony of the 166th regular Diet session.

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Hu says N. Korea needs to realize global reaction to N-test

BEIJING, China - Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) talks with Chikage Ogi, president of Japan's House of Councillors at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 17.

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Upper house president visits China

BEIJING, China - Japan's House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi (L) talks with Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 16.

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Upper house president visits China

BEIJING, China - Japanese House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi (L) is in talks with Lu Yongxiang, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Beijing on Oct. 15. Ogi arrived in Beijing earlier in the day for a three-day visit to China.

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Kamino wins Olympic berth

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Nobuko Yamada, Mika Ozawa, Yuka Kamino, Chikage Tanaka, and Ikue Teshigawara have been selected for the women's short-track Olympic races in Turin in February 2006.

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Lawmakers enjoy first rock concert in Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran guitarist Takeshi Terauchi (R) is all smiles as he shows off a letter of appreciation he received from House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi after giving a rock concert for the first time in the Diet auditorium on June 29.

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(2)Koizumi stresses reform drive as extra Diet session begins

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi delivers his policy speech in the House of Councillors on Oct. 12 as Diet (parliament) begins a 53-day extraordinary session, The premier put top priority on his postal privatization drive. Seated behind is upper house President Chikage Ogi.

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Ogi elected first female president of upper chamber

TOKYO, Japan - Chikage Ogi (R) speaks at a press conference, accompanied by Giichi Tsunoda (L), following their election as president and vice president of the House of Councillors on July 30. Ogi is the first woman to assume the top upper chamber post.

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Ogi becomes 1st female upper house president

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Chikage Ogi speaks in the Diet during a House of Councillors plenary session July 30 after being elected upper house president. Ogi is the first woman to serve in the post.

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Abductees' kin call on gov't to be rigid on Mangyongbong-92

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Yokota (C), the father of Megumi Yokota who was abducted in 1977 at age 13 to North Korea, hands a petition to transport minister Chikage Ogi (L) on Aug. 22, calling for strict port state checks on north Korean passenger-cargo ship Mangyongbong-92, scheduled to call at Niigata port on Aug. 25.

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(2)Ogi in China to pitch Japan's Shinkansen rail system

BEIJING, China - Japanese transport minister Chikage Ogi (L) and Chinese Vice Railways Minister Wang Zhaocheng are in talks at the Ministry of Railways in Beijing on Aug. 5. Ogi is in China to pitch Japan's Shinkansen bullet train system for China's planned high-speed railway between Shanghai and Beijing.

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(1)Ogi in China to pitch Japan's Shinkansen rail system

BEIJING, China - Japanese transport minister Chikage Ogi (L) and Chinese Vice Railways Minister Wang Zhaocheng pose for a photograph prior to their meeting at the Ministry of Railways in Beijing on Aug. 5. Ogi is in China to pitch Japan's Shinkansen bullet train system for China's planned high-speed railway between Shanghai and Beijing.

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(2)Ogi in China to pitch Japan's high-speed rail system

BEIJING, China - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (C) is briefed by Chinese officials on transport plans in Beijing while taking a train in the Chinese capital on Aug. 4. Ogi arrived in China on Aug. 3 to pitch Japan's Shinkansen high-speed rail system for a new Beijing-Shanghai route.

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Ogi in China to pitch Japan's high-speed railway system

BEIJING, China - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (R) and China National Tourism Administration Director General He Guangwei pose for a photograph prior to their talks at a Beijing hotel on Aug. 3. Ogi arrived in China on Aug. 3 to pitch Japan's Shinkansen high-speed rail system for a new Beijing-Shanghai route.

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Chikage Ogi featured in 'Visit Japan' promotion video

TOKYO, Japan - Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Chikage Ogi is featured in a tourist promotion video produced by her ministry as part of a government-led campaign to draw more overseas travelers to Japan. The ''Visit Japan'' video, which lasts 1 minute and 40 seconds, will debut on Aug. 3 during the opening ceremony of the preseason U.S. National Football League game at Tokyo Dome, where many spectators are expected to come from overseas.

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Murder suspect's parents should be executed: minister

TOKYO, Japan - State minister Yoshitada Konoike (L) walks in the Diet building along with land and transport minister Chikage Ogi (R) on July 11. Konoike ignited a firestorm of criticism with his remarks that the parents of a 12-year-old boy suspected of murdering a child in Nagasaki should be executed instead of their young son, who is exempted from criminal charges. The remarks mark a fresh blow to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi who has been taking much of the flak for a recent series of gaffes by ministers and senior lawmakers.

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Parade to mark 400th anniversary of Nihombashi bridge held

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (L in car) and Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara wave to the crowd during a parade on March 30 marking the 400th anniversary of the first Nihombashi bridge in central Tokyo. Some 4,000 people, including members of the New York City Police Department music band, took part in the parade.

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Ministerial meeting opens at World Water Forum

KYOTO, Japan - Japanese Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (at the rostrum and on screen) addresses the opening of a two-day ministerial-level meeting for the World Water Forum in Kyoto on March 22.

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Comic duo appointed to promote vacation campaign

TOKYO, Japan - Transport minister Chikage Ogi (R) names stand-up comic duo Daisuke (L) and Hanako (C) Miyagawa on Jan. 14 as ambassadors of a campaign to promote people taking time off for a relaxing vacation. The comedians, who are married to each other, were appointed to promote the idea that it is fun for couples and families to travel.

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Gov't cuts economic assessment for 2nd month in row

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi talks his seat, flanked by land minister Chikage Ogi (L), Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda (2nd from R) and Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka (R) for a meeting of his economic ministers. The government lowered its economic assessment for December for the second month in a row, noting that the business improvement has further decelerated and is leveling off on slowing exports.

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NCP leader Noda willing to return to LDP: Ogi

TOKYO, Japan - Land minister Chikage Ogi tells journalists in the Diet on Dec. 13 that New Conservative Party (NCP) leader Takeshi Noda is willing to return to the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Noda replaced Ogi in November 2001 as the NCP leader.

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N. Korean spy ship same one that ran drugs, Ogi says

TOKYO, Japan - A salvaged North Korean spy ship (in photo taken in September) appears to be the same ship that was suspected of being used for drug trafficking in the East China Sea in 1998, Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi said Dec. 6. The ship, which sank in the East China Sea last December after exchanging fire with Japan Coast Guard vessels, was raised by the coast guard and towed to Japan in September for examination.

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Transport minister inspects salvaged N. Korean spy ship

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (C) is briefed at a dockyard in Kagoshima on Oct. 7 as she inspects the North Korean spy ship salvaged Sept. 11 from the East China Sea. The ship sank Dec. 22 after exchanging fire with Japan Coast Guard patrol boats. (Pool photo)

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(1)Li Peng supports Shinkansen for Beijing-Shanghai rail project

BEIJING, China - Japanese Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (L) is greeted by Li Peng, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, in Beijing on Sept. 24.

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(2)Li Peng supports Shinkansen for Beijing-Shanghai rail project

BEIJING, China - Japanese Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (L) and Mikio Aoki, senior Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker (C) are in talks with Li Peng, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, at the People's Great Hall in Beijing on Sept. 24. Li expressed his support on Japan's Shinkansen ''bullet train'' technology in building a high-speed mass transit system linking Beijing and Shanghai.

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Tree planted for 30th anniversary of normalized relations

BEIJING, China - (From L to R, front) Former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi and Chinese Vice Premier Qian Qichen plant a tree in the suburbs of Beijing to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the normalization of relations between the two countries.

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(2)6,000 Japanese dine in Beijing to celebrate 30 yrs of ties

BEIJING, China - (From left) Former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, Chinese Vice Premier Qian Qichen and Japanese Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi attend a welcoming dinner in Beijing on Sept. 21 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China.

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Cabinet OKs belt-tightening budget framework for FY 2003

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (C), Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa (R) and Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (L) prepare to attend a cabinet meeting at the premier's office in Tokyo on Aug. 7. The cabinet approved a belt-tightening fiscal 2003 budget request framework that includes a 3% cut in public works spending and a 2% decrease in discretionary outlays, such as foreign aid.

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(1)Panel concludes multiple errors caused near-miss of JAL planes

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (L) receives a final report on the near-miss incident between two Japan Airlines (JAL) passenger planes in January 2001 from Junzo Sato, chairman of the Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission on June 12. The report concluded that air traffic control's error in giving the wrong flight numbers when asking the pilots to change course and the pilots' decision to follow air traffic control instead of the computerized Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) were two of the main causes.

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Landladies of hotels, inns call for road budgets

TOKYO, Japan - Landladies of hotels and inns in Ishikawa Prefecture ask Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (far L) July 9 to keep national budgets for road construction in local areas to boost tourism. They fear such funds will taper off in the future.

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Japan to start raising unidentified sunken ship June 25

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi speaks at a news conference at her ministry in Tokyo on June 21 about a government decision to raise an unidentified ship that sank in the East China Sea last December after a shoot-out with Japan's patrol vessels. The Japan Coast Guard is to start operations June 25 to salvage the ship believed to be from North Korea.

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Koizumi tells Ogi to step up talks with China over sunken ship

TOKYO, Japan - Transport minister Chikage Ogi speaks at a news conference at her office June 7. She said she was told by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to step up negotiations with China so Japan can raise a suspected North Korean spy boat in China's economic zone in the East China Sea before the typhoon season starts in July.

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Japan, U.S. agree to boost bilateral tourism

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans (L) and Japanese transport minister Chikage Ogi exchange notes on promotion of tourism April 19, as U.S. Ambassador Howard Baker (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) watch behind them at the premier's official residence.

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Ogi cuts tape at ceremony for Narita airport's new runway

NARITA, Japan - Transport minister Chikage Ogi (3rd from L) cuts tape at a ceremony to mark the opening of a second runway at Narita airport on April 17.

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Ogi addresses ceremony for Narita airport's 2nd runway

NARITA, Japan - Transport minister Chikage Ogi addresses a ceremony to mark the opening of a new runway at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on April 17.

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Ceremony held to open 2nd runway at Narita airport

NARITA, Japan - A ceremony to mark the opening of a new runway at Narita airport was held April 17 with transport minister Chikage Ogi and other dignitaries attending. The 2,180-meter strip supplements the existing 4,000-meter runway.

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Cabinet endorses emergency bills

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (C) is flanked by Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (L) and Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa (R) at a special cabinet meeting he called April 16 to act on three bills on Japan's response to a foreign military attack.

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Tanaka fails to reach women's 1,000-meter short track final

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Chikage Tanaka (R) fails to reach the final of the women's 1,000 meters short track speed skating event at the Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games on Feb. 23 after finishing third in her semifinal race. She came back in the consolation final to claim seventh place.