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N. Korea envoy heads to Mongolia

BEJING, China - Song Il Ho, North Korea's ambassador for normalization talks with Japan, arrives at Beijing airport on March 16, 2012. He told reporters that he will travel to Mongolia and has expressed willingness to meet with Hiroshi Nakai there. Nakai is a former Japanese minister in charge of the issue of Pyongyang's past abductions of Japanese nationals.

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Former abduction minister Nakai

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Hiroshi Nakai, chief of the House of Representatives Budget Committee and former state minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals. Nakai is considering meeting with a senior Pyongyang official in Mongolia on March 17-18, 2012, several government sources said March 15.

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Japan's Nakai, N. Korea's Song

TOKYO, Japan - Combined file photo shows Hiroshi Nakai (L), former Japanese state minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's past abduction of Japanese nationals, and Song Il Ho, the North's ambassador for normalization talks with Japan. The two are believed to have met and discussed the abduction issue in northeastern China on Jan. 9, 2012, according to sources associated with the Japanese prime minister's office.

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Japan's ex-abduction minister met senior N. Korean official

TOKYO, Japan - Combined file photos show Hiroshi Nakai (L), Japan's former state minister in charge of issues related to Pyongyang's past abduction of Japanese nationals, and Song Il Ho, North Korea's ambassador for normalization talks with Japan. The two met secretly in Changchun, China, the previous week, sources closed to the bilateral ties said July 25, 2011.

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Some Japan lawmakers see Chinese ship collision video

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai (C), chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee, speaks to reporters after viewing an edited version of video footage of collisions between a Chinese trawler and Japanese patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands, at a Diet facility in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2010. Nakai said the video ''clearly'' showed the Chinese trawler ramming into the Japanese patrol boats.

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Some Japan lawmakers see Chinese ship collision video

TOKYO, Japan - About 32 lawmakers wait to view an edited version of video footage of collisions between a Chinese trawler and Japanese patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands, at a Diet facility in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2010. Hiroshi Nakai, chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee, told reporters after the viewing that the video ''clearly'' showed the Chinese trawler ramming into the Japanese patrol boats.

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Kan at disaster drill

ITO, Japan - Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) visits Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, with state minister for disaster management Hiroshi Nakai (behind Kan) during a nationwide disaster drill on Sep. 1, 2010, the annual disaster awareness day, coinciding with the anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake.

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Ex-N. Korean jet bomber Kim visits Japan

KARUIZAWA, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, minister in charge of the North Korea abduction issue, speaks at a press conference after meeting with Kim Hyon Hui, a former North Korean spy convicted of the deadly 1987 bombing of a Korean Air jetliner, on July 20, 2010, in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture.

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National Public Safety Commission Chairman Nakai

TOKYO, Japan - National Commission on Public Safety Chairman Hiroshi Nakai speaks at a press conference after he was retained in the post at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 9, 2010.

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Nakai reappointed as minister for abduction issue

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, reappointed as the chairman of the National Commission on Public Safety and state minister for the North Korea abduction issue by Prime Minister Naoto Kan, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 8, 2010.

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Ex-N. Korean agent's May visit to Japan 'difficult'

SEOUL, South Korea - Hiroshi Nakai (L), Japan's minister in charge of issues of abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korea, speaks during a meeting of South Korean and Japanese families of the abductees on April 27, 2010. Nakai is in South Korea to discuss the abductions and human rights situation in North Korea.

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Ex-N. Korean agent's May visit to Japan 'difficult'

SEOUL, South Korea - Hiroshi Nakai, Japan's minister in charge of issues of abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korea, speaks to reporters in Seoul on April 27, 2010. Nakai said it is difficult for former North Korean agent Kim Hyon Hui now in South Korea to visit Japan in May in connection with the abductions.

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N. Korean defector says he has no knowledge of abductee Yokota

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Yokota (C) and his wife Sakie, parents of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted to North Korea from Japan as a teenager and who Pyongyang claims has died, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on April 5, 20101, after Hwang Jang Yop, a former high-ranking North Korean official who defected to South Korea in 1997, told Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo he has no knowledge of Megumi. The former secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea was in Tokyo to meet some 20 lawmakers including Hiroshi Nakai, minister in charge of abduction issues.

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Cabinet minister slapped on wrist over report of relationship

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and state minister in charge of the abduction issue, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2010, about a magazine report alleging he compromised the security of a government-built housing complex for parliamentarians by giving his girlfriend a key to the building. Nakai said he will not resign over the issue.

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Cabinet minister slapped on wrist over report of relationship

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and state minister in charge of the abduction issue, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2010, about a magazine report alleging he compromised the security of a government-built housing complex for parliamentarians by giving his girlfriend a key to the building. Nakai said he will not resign over the issue.

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Cabinet minister slapped on wrist over report of relationship

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and state minister in charge of the abduction issue, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2010, about a magazine report alleging he compromised the security of a government-built housing complex for parliamentarians by giving his girlfriend a key to the building. Nakai said he will not resign over the issue.

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Public security commission head Nakai gives 1st news conference

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, chief of the National Public Safety Commission, speaks during his first news conference following the formal inauguration of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's Cabinet on Sept. 16, 2009.

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Public security commission head Nakai arrives at PM office

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, chief of the National Public Safety Commission, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2009.

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Opposition lawmaker Nakai says no dubious use of funds

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, a main opposition Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker, tells reporters in Tokyo on March 16 that his aide mistakenly booked expenses in a 2005 political fund report and that there was no ''dubious use'' of money, denying his intention to resign his seat or give up the chairmanship of the party's Standing Officers Council.

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Opposition lawmaker Nakai says no dubious use of funds

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, a main opposition Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker, tells reporters in Tokyo on March 16 that his aide mistakenly booked expenses in a 2005 political fund report and that there was no ''dubious use'' of money, denying his intention to resign his seat or give up the chairmanship of the party's Standing Officers Council. (Kyodo)

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Ex-N. Korean jet bomber Kim visits Japan

KARUIZAWA, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, minister in charge of the North Korea abduction issue, speaks at a press conference after meeting with Kim Hyon Hui, a former North Korean spy convicted of the deadly 1987 bombing of a Korean Air jetliner, on July 20, 2010, in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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N. Korean defector says he has no knowledge of abductee Yokota

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Yokota (C) and his wife Sakie, parents of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted to North Korea from Japan as a teenager and who Pyongyang claims has died, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on April 5, 20101, after Hwang Jang Yop, a former high-ranking North Korean official who defected to South Korea in 1997, told Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo he has no knowledge of Megumi. The former secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea was in Tokyo to meet some 20 lawmakers including Hiroshi Nakai, minister in charge of abduction issues. (Kyodo)

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Kan at disaster drill

ITO, Japan - Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) visits Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, with state minister for disaster management Hiroshi Nakai (behind Kan) during a nationwide disaster drill on Sep. 1, 2010, the annual disaster awareness day, coinciding with the anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. (Kyodo)

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Japan's ex-abduction minister met senior N. Korean official

TOKYO, Japan - Combined file photos show Hiroshi Nakai (L), Japan's former state minister in charge of issues related to Pyongyang's past abduction of Japanese nationals, and Song Il Ho, North Korea's ambassador for normalization talks with Japan. The two met secretly in Changchun, China, the previous week, sources closed to the bilateral ties said July 25, 2011. (Kyodo)

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National Public Safety Commission Chairman Nakai

TOKYO, Japan - National Commission on Public Safety Chairman Hiroshi Nakai speaks at a press conference after he was retained in the post at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 9, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Nakai reappointed as minister for abduction issue

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, reappointed as the chairman of the National Commission on Public Safety and state minister for the North Korea abduction issue by Prime Minister Naoto Kan, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 8, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Ex-N. Korean agent's May visit to Japan 'difficult'

SEOUL, South Korea - Hiroshi Nakai (L), Japan's minister in charge of issues of abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korea, speaks during a meeting of South Korean and Japanese families of the abductees on April 27, 2010. Nakai is in South Korea to discuss the abductions and human rights situation in North Korea. (Kyodo)

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Ex-N. Korean agent's May visit to Japan 'difficult'

SEOUL, South Korea - Hiroshi Nakai, Japan's minister in charge of issues of abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korea, speaks to reporters in Seoul on April 27, 2010. Nakai said it is difficult for former North Korean agent Kim Hyon Hui now in South Korea to visit Japan in May in connection with the abductions. (Kyodo)

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Cabinet minister slapped on wrist over report of relationship

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and state minister in charge of the abduction issue, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2010, about a magazine report alleging he compromised the security of a government-built housing complex for parliamentarians by giving his girlfriend a key to the building. Nakai said he will not resign over the issue. (Kyodo)

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Cabinet minister slapped on wrist over report of relationship

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and state minister in charge of the abduction issue, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2010, about a magazine report alleging he compromised the security of a government-built housing complex for parliamentarians by giving his girlfriend a key to the building. Nakai said he will not resign over the issue. (Kyodo)

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Cabinet minister slapped on wrist over report of relationship

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and state minister in charge of the abduction issue, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2010, about a magazine report alleging he compromised the security of a government-built housing complex for parliamentarians by giving his girlfriend a key to the building. Nakai said he will not resign over the issue. (Kyodo)

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N. Korea envoy heads to Mongolia

BEJING, China - Song Il Ho, North Korea's ambassador for normalization talks with Japan, arrives at Beijing airport on March 16, 2012. He told reporters that he will travel to Mongolia and has expressed willingness to meet with Hiroshi Nakai there. Nakai is a former Japanese minister in charge of the issue of Pyongyang's past abductions of Japanese nationals. (Kyodo)

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Former abduction minister Nakai

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Hiroshi Nakai, chief of the House of Representatives Budget Committee and former state minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals. Nakai is considering meeting with a senior Pyongyang official in Mongolia on March 17-18, 2012, several government sources said March 15. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Nakai, N. Korea's Song

TOKYO, Japan - Combined file photo shows Hiroshi Nakai (L), former Japanese state minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's past abduction of Japanese nationals, and Song Il Ho, the North's ambassador for normalization talks with Japan. The two are believed to have met and discussed the abduction issue in northeastern China on Jan. 9, 2012, according to sources associated with the Japanese prime minister's office. (Kyodo)

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Some Japan lawmakers see Chinese ship collision video

TOKYO, Japan - About 32 lawmakers wait to view an edited version of video footage of collisions between a Chinese trawler and Japanese patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands, at a Diet facility in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2010. Hiroshi Nakai, chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee, told reporters after the viewing that the video ''clearly'' showed the Chinese trawler ramming into the Japanese patrol boats. (Kyodo)

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Some Japan lawmakers see Chinese ship collision video

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai (C), chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee, speaks to reporters after viewing an edited version of video footage of collisions between a Chinese trawler and Japanese patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands, at a Diet facility in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2010. Nakai said the video ''clearly'' showed the Chinese trawler ramming into the Japanese patrol boats. (Kyodo)

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Public security commission head Nakai gives 1st news conference

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, chief of the National Public Safety Commission, speaks during his first news conference following the formal inauguration of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's Cabinet on Sept. 16, 2009. (Kyodo)

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Public security commission head Nakai arrives at PM office

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakai, chief of the National Public Safety Commission, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2009. (Kyodo)