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Japanese community papers in fierce battle in U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Shintaro Tanaka (R), editor of Weekly NY Japion, a New York-based Japanese community paper, and NY Japion President Hitoshi Onishi, hold copies of Weekly NY Japion and Chopsticks NY, respectively, in New York on Oct. 24, 2014.

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Ex-negotiator with N. Korea to take temporary academic post

TOKYO, Japan - Hitoshi Tanaka (in file photo), Japan's former top negotiator with North Korea, will become a guest professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy of the University of Tokyo for two years from April, school officials said on Feb. 14.

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(3)Koizumi does not rule out another trip to N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka (fore) and Mitoji Yabunaka, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, emerge from a meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the prime minister's office on May 6. The premier later did not rule out the possibility of his revisit to North Korea to bring the kin of five repatriated Japanese abductees to Japan.

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(2)Koizumi does not rule out another trip to N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Hitoshi Tanaka, deputy foreign minister, is surrounded by reporters as he enters the prime minister's office to brief Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi about talks with N. Korea in Beijing.

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Japan team leaves for Beijing for talks with N. Korea

NARITA, Japan - Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka (R) and Mitoji Yabunaka, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, leave Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, for Beijing on May 4 for talks with North Korea on the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by the North.

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(2)Diplomat briefs abductees' relatives on Pyongyang talks

TOKYO, Japan - Mitoji Yabunaka (2nd from L, back), head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, in Tokyo on Feb. 16 briefs a group of people whose relatives were abducted by North Korea on the outcome of talks in Pyongyang on the abduction issue. Yabunaka visited Pyongyang on Feb. 11-14 with Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka.

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Diplomat briefs abductees' relatives on outcome of Pyongyang talks

TOKYO, Japan - Mitoji Yabunaka (R), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, chats with Shigeru Yokota, the representative of a group of families of those abducted by North Korea, in Tokyo on Feb. 16 before giving group members a briefing on the outcome of talks in Pyongyang on the abduction issue. Yabunaka, together with Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka, visited Pyongyang Feb. 11-14.

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(2)Koizumi briefed on talks with N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka leaves a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 15 after briefing Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on the results of negotiations with North Korean officials to settle the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by that country. Tanaka and Mitoji Yabunaka, head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, returned from Pyongyang the previous day after their talks.

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(1)Koizumi briefed on talks with N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi leaves a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 15 after he was briefed by two diplomats on the results of their negotiations with North Korean officials to settle the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by that country. Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka and Mitoji Yabunaka, head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, returned from Pyongyang the previous day after the talks.

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(1)Japan, N. Korea to continue talks on abduction issue

NARITA, Japan - Japan's Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka returns to Narita airport on Feb. 14 after negotiations with North Korea on the abduction issue in Pyongyang. The countries agreed to continue talks on the issue without reaching any agreements.

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Ishihara suggests bomb at Tanaka home meant to draw sympathy

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, addressing a gathering of a group supporting the families of abductees to North Korea on Oct. 28, suggested that a bomb-like object found at the house of Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka in September was meant to gain him sympathy. ''There was no fuse and it didn't explode, right? There are rumors that someone speaking ill of us did it to draw people's sympathy,'' Ishihara said.

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Suspected bomb found at deputy foreign minister's home

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers stand in front of the home of Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka in Tokyo's Meguro Ward on Sept. 10 after a suspected bomb was found there. Tanaka plays a key role in making Japan's policy toward North Korea and negotiating with Pyongyang.

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Top Japan diplomat in Beijing, likely in touch with N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Hitoshi Tanaka (file photo), director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, is in Beijing, apparently approaching North Korean negotiators in a bid to set a path toward resuming stalled normalization talks between Tokyo and Pyongyang, sources close to Japan-North Korean relations said Nov. 24.

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Japan, U.S., S. Korea deliberate N. Korea policy

TOKYO, Japan - James Kelly (L), U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, Lee Tae Sik (R), South Korea's deputy foreign minister, and Hitoshi Tanaka (C), director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Bureau, shake hands before starting trilateral talks at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Nov. 9.

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Japan, S. Korea to abide by 1994 Agreed Framework

SEOUL, South Korea - Hitoshi Tanaka (L), director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau at Japan's Foreign Ministry, and South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Tai Sik shake hands in Seoul on Oct. 21 prior to their talks. They shared the view that a 1994 U.S.-N. Korean pact aimed at preventing North Korea's nuclear weapons program should remain intact.

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N. Korea promises full disclosure on abducted people's deaths

TOKYO, Japan - Hitoshi Tanaka, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, looks tearful during a session of the Audit Committee of the House of Councillors on Sept. 26. Tanaka told the committee that North Korea has expressed readiness to disclose all information regarding Japanese nationals it abducted.

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Japan-N. Korea draft declaration signed without amendment

TOKYO, Japan - Hitoshi Tanaka, Director General of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, speaks at a meeting of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Sept. 20. Tanaka admitted that Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il signed a joint draft declaration as prepared during working-level talks without amendment.

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Japan, S. Korea, U.S. hold talks in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - James Kelly (L), U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Lee Tae Sik of South Korea (C) and Hitoshi Tanaka (R), Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau chief at Japan's Foreign Ministry, shake hands at the start of their talks in Seoul on Sept. 7. Tanaka briefed the two others on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to North Korea set for Sept. 17.

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Japan official in China ahead of Koizumi-Kim summit

BEIJING, China - Hitoshi Tanaka (file photo), head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, arrives in Beijing on Aug. 31 for talks with North Korean officials to prepare for the Sept. 17 meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

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Japan diplomat in Beijing ahead of Koizumi-Kim summit

BEIJING, China - Hitoshi Tanaka (center), director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, declines to speak to reporters after arriving at Beijing airport Aug. 31 for talks with North Korean officials to prepare for the Sept. 17 meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

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Japan, N. Korea to decide on full talks in Sept.

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Hitoshi Tanaka, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry, speaks to reporters at a hotel in Pyongyang on Aug. 26 after the end of two-day talks with North Korea.

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N. Korea, Japan end talks in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok Ju (L) shakes hands with Hitoshi Tanaka, chief of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, in Pyongyang on Aug. 26 after the two countries wrapped up senior working-level talks earlier in the day.

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(2)Japan, N. Korea start 1st talks since 2000

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Hitoshi Tanaka, chief of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, sits at the table for talks with Ma Chol Su, chief of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau at the start of government-level talks at the People's Palace of Culture in central Pyongyang on Aug. 25.

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(3)Japan, N. Korea start 1st talks since 2000

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ma Chol Su, chief of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau sits at the table to begin two-day talks with Hitoshi Tanaka, chief of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, at the People's Palace of Culture in central Pyongyang on Aug. 25.

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Japan, N. Korea start 1st talks since 2000

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Hitoshi Tanaka (L), chief of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Ma Chol Su, chief of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau, shake hands at the start of government-level talks at the People's Palace of Culture in central Pyongyang on Aug. 25.

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Koizumi message on normalization conveyed to N. Korea

PYONGYANG, N. Korea - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi sends a message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on Aug. 24 through a visiting Japanese delegation saying the two countries should work to normalize bilateral ties in a serious manner. Hitoshi Tanaka (L), who heads the Japanese delegation, relays the message in a meeting with North Korean Premier Hong Song Nam (2nd from R). Tanaka is chief of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau.

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Japan gov't delegation arrives in Pyongyang for talks

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A Japanese government delegation arrives in Pyongyang via Beijing on Aug. 24 to hold talks on Aug. 25 and 26 with North Korean officials for the first time since 2000. The Japanese team is headed by Hitoshi Tanaka, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau (L front).

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Japan, S. Korea, U.S. start talks on N. Korea policy

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Lee Tae Sik of South Korea (L), Hitoshi Tanaka (C), Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau chief at Japan's Foreign Ministry, and James Kelly, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs shake hands in Tokyo's Minato Ward on April 9 before starting trilateral talks on coordinating policies on North Korea.

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U.S. reiterates intention to resume dialogue with N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - (From L to R) U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly, South Korean Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Yim Sung Joon and Hitoshi Tanaka, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, shake hands before the start of a trilateral policy consultation meeting in Seoul on Jan. 25. At the meeting, the U.S. reiterated its intention to resume the currently stalled dialogue with North Korea ''without preconditions'' and urged Pyongyang to respond positively.

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Japan, S. Korea, U.S. call for N. Korean antiterrorism actions

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - (from L to R) Hitoshi Tanaka, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Bureau, James Kelly, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, and Yim Sung Joon, South Korean deputy minister of foreign affairs and trade, shakes hands before they meet in a meeting of the Trilateral Coordination and Oversight Group. They called on North Korea to strengthen its cooperation in global efforts to combat terrorism following the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington.

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Japan, China end 2-day trade talks with no progress

BEIJING, China - The Japanese Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau Director General Hitoshi Tanaka briefs reporters in Beijing on July 4 after Japan and China ended trade talks without a breakthrough. The two countries remained at odds over Japan's emergency import curbs on three farm products, the bulk of which come from China, and China's retaliatory punitive tariffs on Japanese exports of three products.

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U.S. reiterates intention to resume dialogue with N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - (From L to R) U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly, South Korean Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Yim Sung Joon and Hitoshi Tanaka, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, shake hands before the start of a trilateral policy consultation meeting in Seoul on Jan. 25. At the meeting, the U.S. reiterated its intention to resume the currently stalled dialogue with North Korea ''without preconditions'' and urged Pyongyang to respond positively.

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Ex-negotiator with N. Korea to take temporary academic post

TOKYO, Japan - Hitoshi Tanaka (in file photo), Japan's former top negotiator with North Korea, will become a guest professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy of the University of Tokyo for two years from April, school officials said on Feb. 14. (Kyodo)

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Japan diplomat in Beijing ahead of Koizumi-Kim summit

BEIJING, China - Hitoshi Tanaka (center), director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, declines to speak to reporters after arriving at Beijing airport Aug. 31 for talks with North Korean officials to prepare for the Sept. 17 meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. (Kyodo)

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Japan gov't delegation arrives in Pyongyang for talks

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A Japanese government delegation arrives in Pyongyang via Beijing on Aug. 24 to hold talks on Aug. 25 and 26 with North Korean officials for the first time since 2000. The Japanese team is headed by Hitoshi Tanaka, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau (L front). (Kyodo)

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Japan, S. Korea to abide by 1994 Agreed Framework

SEOUL, South Korea - Hitoshi Tanaka (L), director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau at Japan's Foreign Ministry, and South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Tai Sik shake hands in Seoul on Oct. 21 prior to their talks. They shared the view that a 1994 U.S.-N. Korean pact aimed at preventing North Korea's nuclear weapons program should remain intact. (Kyodo)

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N. Korea promises full disclosure on abducted people's deaths

TOKYO, Japan - Hitoshi Tanaka, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, looks tearful during a session of the Audit Committee of the House of Councillors on Sept. 26. Tanaka told the committee that North Korea has expressed readiness to disclose all information regarding Japanese nationals it abducted. (Kyodo)

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Japan keep quarterfinal dream alive with clinical win over Samoa

(From L) Japan's Hitoshi Ono, Amanaki Mafi, Fumiaki Tanaka, Kosei Ono and Hendrik Tui celebrate after beating Samoa 26-5 in a Rugby World Cup Pool B match at Stadium MK in Milton Keynes, England, on Oct. 3, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Eyeglasses shop operator JIN to open 1st branch in U.S.

Hitoshi Tanaka, president of Japanese low-cost eyeglasses shop operator JIN Co., holds a pair of eyeglasses at the company's first branch in the United States in San Francisco on April 7, 2015. The company unveiled the outlet to the media prior to its opening on April 10. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(2)Koizumi does not rule out another trip to N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Hitoshi Tanaka, deputy foreign minister, is surrounded by reporters as he enters the prime minister's office to brief Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi about talks with N. Korea in Beijing. (Kyodo)

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Japan team leaves for Beijing for talks with N. Korea

NARITA, Japan - Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka (R) and Mitoji Yabunaka, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, leave Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, for Beijing on May 4 for talks with North Korea on the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by the North. (Kyodo)

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Japanese community papers in fierce battle in U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Shintaro Tanaka (R), editor of Weekly NY Japion, a New York-based Japanese community paper, and NY Japion President Hitoshi Onishi, hold copies of Weekly NY Japion and Chopsticks NY, respectively, in New York on Oct. 24, 2014. (Kyodo)

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(2)Koizumi briefed on talks with N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka leaves a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 15 after briefing Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on the results of negotiations with North Korean officials to settle the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by that country. Tanaka and Mitoji Yabunaka, head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, returned from Pyongyang the previous day after their talks. (Kyodo)

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(2)Diplomat briefs abductees' relatives on Pyongyang talks

TOKYO, Japan - Mitoji Yabunaka (2nd from L, back), head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, in Tokyo on Feb. 16 briefs a group of people whose relatives were abducted by North Korea on the outcome of talks in Pyongyang on the abduction issue. Yabunaka visited Pyongyang on Feb. 11-14 with Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka. (Kyodo)

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(1)Koizumi briefed on talks with N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi leaves a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 15 after he was briefed by two diplomats on the results of their negotiations with North Korean officials to settle the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by that country. Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka and Mitoji Yabunaka, head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, returned from Pyongyang the previous day after the talks. (Kyodo)

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(1)Japan, N. Korea to continue talks on abduction issue

NARITA, Japan - Japan's Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka returns to Narita airport on Feb. 14 after negotiations with North Korea on the abduction issue in Pyongyang. The countries agreed to continue talks on the issue without reaching any agreements. (Kyodo)

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(3)Koizumi does not rule out another trip to N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka (fore) and Mitoji Yabunaka, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, emerge from a meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the prime minister's office on May 6. The premier later did not rule out the possibility of his revisit to North Korea to bring the kin of five repatriated Japanese abductees to Japan. (Kyodo)

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Diplomat briefs abductees' relatives on outcome of Pyongyang tal

TOKYO, Japan - Mitoji Yabunaka (R), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, chats with Shigeru Yokota, the representative of a group of families of those abducted by North Korea, in Tokyo on Feb. 16 before giving group members a briefing on the outcome of talks in Pyongyang on the abduction issue. Yabunaka, together with Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka, visited Pyongyang Feb. 11-14. (Kyodo)

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Ishihara suggests bomb at Tanaka home meant to draw sympathy

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, addressing a gathering of a group supporting the families of abductees to North Korea on Oct. 28, suggested that a bomb-like object found at the house of Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka in September was meant to gain him sympathy. ''There was no fuse and it didn't explode, right? There are rumors that someone speaking ill of us did it to draw people's sympathy,'' Ishihara said. (Kyodo)

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Suspected bomb found at deputy foreign minister's home

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers stand in front of the home of Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka in Tokyo's Meguro Ward on Sept. 10 after a suspected bomb was found there. Tanaka plays a key role in making Japan's policy toward North Korea and negotiating with Pyongyang. (Kyodo)