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Japan, German police discuss security for G-8 summit in Hokkaido

TOKYO, Japan - Jorg Ziercke (L), president of Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office, shakes hands with Japan's National Police Agency head Iwao Uruma (R) at the agency in Tokyo on Aug. 13. Ziercke paid a courtesy call on Uruma after senior officials of the German police office and their Japanese counterparts discussed security measures for the Group of Eight summit to be held in July next year at the Lake Toya hot-spa resort area in Hokkaido.

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Top bureaucrats hold presumably last agenda-setting meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Iwao Uruma, the chair of twice-weekly meetings of administrative vice ministers, speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 14 after the top bureaucrats held their last meeting under the government of Prime Minister Taro Aso. The Democratic Party of Japan, which is set to form a coalition government on Sept. 16, advocates abolishing the meetings to give elected officials greater decision-making power.

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Uruma says his remarks as 'senior gov't official' misdirected

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Iwao Uruma responds to questions at a session of the House of Councillors Budget Committee on March 9. Uruma said his remarks last week on a Nishimatsu Construction Co.-linked fundraising scandal were misdirected when he was quoted by the media as an unidentified ''senior government official.''

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Uruma says his remarks as 'senior gov't official' misdirected

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Iwao Uruma responds to questions at a session of the House of Councillors Budget Committee on March 9. Uruma said his remarks last week on a Nishimatsu Construction Co.-linked fundraising scandal were misdirected when he was quoted by the media as an unidentified ''senior government official.'' (Kyodo)

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Recipients of Grand Cordon of Order of Rising Sun at photo session

Recipients of Japan's Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun attend a photo session at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 8, 2015. They are (from L) Iwao Uruma, former chief of the National Police Agency, Tsuyoshi Takagi, former head of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, Tadamasa Kodaira, former chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, Tadashi Okamura, former head of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, former Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare, Kosuke Hori, former home affairs minister, former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, Etsuhiko Shoyama, former president of Hitachi Ltd., Hiromasa Yonekura, former chairman of Keidanren, Nancy Pelosi, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Yoshihito Karasawa, former president of the Japan Medical Association, and Toshitsugu Saito, former chief of the Defense Agency. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, German police discuss security for G-8 summit in Hokkaido

TOKYO, Japan - Jorg Ziercke (L), president of Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office, shakes hands with Japan's National Police Agency head Iwao Uruma (R) at the agency in Tokyo on Aug. 13. Ziercke paid a courtesy call on Uruma after senior officials of the German police office and their Japanese counterparts discussed security measures for the Group of Eight summit to be held in July next year at the Lake Toya hot-spa resort area in Hokkaido. (Kyodo)

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Top bureaucrats hold presumably last agenda-setting meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Iwao Uruma, the chair of twice-weekly meetings of administrative vice ministers, speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 14 after the top bureaucrats held their last meeting under the government of Prime Minister Taro Aso. The Democratic Party of Japan, which is set to form a coalition government on Sept. 16, advocates abolishing the meetings to give elected officials greater decision-making power. (Kyodo)