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(1)LDP's Hirasawa criticized over trip for N. Korea talks

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuei Hirasawa, a lawmaker with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, resigned April 2 as parliamentary secretary at the public management ministry after returning from a secret trip to China apparently to have talks with North Korean officials.

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(2)LDP's Hirasawa criticized over trip for N. Korea talks

TOKYO, Japan - Former Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Taku Yamasaki returns to Narita airport after a secret trip to China apparently to have talks with North Korean officials. He traveled with Katsuei Hirasawa, an LDP lawmaker, who resigned the same day as parliamentary secretary at the public management ministry after returning from the trip.

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Lawmakers group demands return of abductees in 1 month

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuei Hirasawa (standing), a House of Representatives legislator, speaks at a meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 4 of lawmakers supporting families of Japanese abducted to North Korea. The suprapartisan lawmakers urged Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to realize the return to Japan of surviving abductees within a month.

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Lawmakers group demands return of abductees in 1 month

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuei Hirasawa (standing), a House of Representatives legislator, speaks at a meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 4 of lawmakers supporting families of Japanese abducted to North Korea. The suprapartisan lawmakers urged Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to realize the return to Japan of surviving abductees within a month. (Kyodo)

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(2)LDP's Hirasawa criticized over trip for N. Korea talks

TOKYO, Japan - Former Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Taku Yamasaki returns to Narita airport after a secret trip to China apparently to have talks with North Korean officials. He traveled with Katsuei Hirasawa, an LDP lawmaker, who resigned the same day as parliamentary secretary at the public management ministry after returning from the trip. (Kyodo)

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(1)LDP's Hirasawa criticized over trip for N. Korea talks

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuei Hirasawa, a lawmaker with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, resigned April 2 as parliamentary secretary at the public management ministry after returning from a secret trip to China apparently to have talks with North Korean officials. (Kyodo)

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New Japan PM Suga's Cabinet

Japanese Reconstruction Minister Katsuei Hirasawa speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo in the small hours of Sept. 17, 2020, after the launch of new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's Cabinet.

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Members of Japan PM Suga's Cabinet

Combined file photo shows (from L) Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, who is also in charge of the abduction issue, Reconstruction Minister Katsuei Hirasawa and Hachiro Okonogi, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister in charge of disaster management. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga formed his Cabinet in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020.

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Japan's new Cabinet under PM Suga

Katsuei Hirasawa enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020, after being named reconstruction minister in the Cabinet of Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.