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Abe adviser Iijima

NAGANO, Japan - Isao Iijima, adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, delivers a speech in his hometown of Tatsuno in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, on July 28, 2013. Iijima said he believes Japan and China could hold summit talks soon.

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Abe briefed by adviser about N. Korea trip

TOKYO, Japan - Isao Iijima (C), an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leaves the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 21, 2013, after briefing Abe about his recent visit to North Korea.

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Abe briefed by adviser about N. Korea trip

TOKYO, Japan - Isao Iijima (C), an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leaves the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 21, 2013, after briefing Abe about his recent visit to North Korea.

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Abe aide Iijima

BEIJING, China - Isao Iijima, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is pictured at Beijing airport before leaving for Japan on May 18, 2013, following a four-day visit to North Korea. He arrived in Tokyo the same day.

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Abe aide Iijima

BEIJING, China - Isao Iijima, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is pictured at Beijing airport before leaving for Japan on May 18, 2013, following a four-day visit to North Korea. He arrived in Tokyo the same day.

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Abe aide Iijima

BEIJING, China - Isao Iijima, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is pictured at Beijing airport before leaving for Japan on May 18, 2013, following a four-day visit to North Korea. He arrived in Tokyo the same day.

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Abe aide Iijima

BEIJING, China - Isao Iijima, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is pictured at Beijing airport before leaving for Japan on May 18, 2013, following a four-day visit to North Korea. He arrived in Tokyo the same day.

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Abe aide ends N. Korea visit

BEIJING, China - Isao Iijima, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaks to reporters after he arrived at Beijing airport on May 17, 2013, following a four-day visit to North Korea.

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Abe aide ends N. Korea visit

BEIJING, China - Isao Iijima (C), an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is surrounded by reporters after he arrived at Beijing airport on May 17, 2013, following a four-day visit to North Korea.

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Abe aide ends N. Korea visit

BEIJING, China - Isao Iijima, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, gets into a car after he arrived at Beijing airport on May 17, 2013, following a four-day visit to North Korea.

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Abe aide ends N. Korea visit

BEIJING, China - Isao Iijima (C), an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, arrives at Beijing airport on May 17, 2013, after visiting North Korea for four days.

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Abe adviser meets N. Korea party secretary

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Isao Iijima, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, arrives at Pyongyang's airport on May 14, 2013. Iijima held talks the following day with Kim Yong Il, a secretary of North Korea's Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang, the North's official Korean Central News Agency reported.

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Japan official in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Isao Iijima (R), an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, shakes hands with Kim Chol Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, upon arrival at Pyongyang airport in North Korea on May 14, 2013.

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Japan official in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Isao Iijima, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, arrives at Pyongyang airport in North Korea on May 14, 2013.

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Japan official in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Isao Iijima (C), an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, arrives at Pyongyang airport in North Korea on May 14, 2013.

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Japan official in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Isao Iijima (R), an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, arrives at Pyongyang airport in North Korea on May 14, 2013.

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Koizumi aide now honorary Sierra Leone consul general

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Isao Iijima, who served as a top aide to former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Iijima said June 21, 2012, he became the honorary consul general of Sierra Leone in Tokyo on June 1 at the request of the West African country.

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(1)Koizumi failed to pay pension dues for 11 months

TOKYO, Japan - Isao Iijima, a secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, speaks at a press conference May 14. He said the premier had failed to pay mandatory pension dues for a total of 11 months before he became a lawmaker.

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Koizumi asks Tanaka to address embezzlement allegations

TOKYO, Japan - Isao Iijima, secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, speaks to reporters April 17 in Tokyo after delivering a letter from Koizumi to former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka. It asked for her cooperation in his Liberal Democratic Party probes into allegations she misused her secretaries' state-paid salaries.

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(1)Koizumi failed to pay pension dues for 11 months

TOKYO, Japan - Isao Iijima, a secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, speaks at a press conference May 14. He said the premier had failed to pay mandatory pension dues for a total of 11 months before he became a lawmaker. (Kyodo)