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Japan's top envoy to U.N.

Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Kimihiro Ishikane speaks at a press conference at U.N. headquarters in New York on Jan. 3, 2023, after Japan took a two-year nonpermanent seat on the U.N. Security Council for the 12th time.

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Japan's top envoy to U.N.

Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Kimihiro Ishikane speaks at a press conference at U.N. headquarters in New York on Jan. 3, 2023, as Japan took a two-year nonpermanent seat on the U.N. Security Council for the 12th time.

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Documentary film about Japanese-Brazilian youths

HAMAMATSU, Japan - (From L) Kimihiro Tsumura, professor at Hamamatsu Gakuin University, Pablo Nadayoshi, a Japanese-Brazilian living in Japan, and film director Mayu Nakamura pose for photos in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 20, 2012. They hold a poster of ''Kodoku na Tsubame tachi'' (lonely swallows), their documentary film about Japanese-Brazilian youths living in Japan.

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1970 JAL hijackers in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - The file photo taken in Pyongyang on Sept. 5, 2004 shows Japanese leftist radicals who hijacked a Japan Airlines plane to the North Korean capital in 1970. From left, Kimihiro Uomoto, Takahiro Konishi, Shiro Akagi and Moriaki Wakabayashi. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Red Army members in N. Korea intend to return home

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Former members of the Red Army Faction who hijacked a Japan Airlines jet to North Korea in 1970 -- (from L to R) Moriaki Wakabayashi, 55, Takahiro Konishi, 57, Shiro Akagi, 54 and Kimihiro Abe, 54 -- show travel documents in Pyongyang on July 9 to apply for return to Japan. They entrusted the documents to Yukio Yamanaka, who heads their Japanese support group.

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Arrest warrant issued for hijacker over 1983 abduction

TOKYO, Japan - Police obtain an arrest warrant on Sept. 25 for Kimihiro Abe (file photo), one of the nine Japanese radicals who hijacked a domestic plane to North Korea in 1970, on suspicion of abducting Keiko Arimoto to the country in 1983. Police will put Abe on the international wanted list and demand Pyongyang extradite him to Japan. (Kyodo)

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Japan, S. Korea, U.S. to press N. Korea to halt provocation

(From L) Sung Kim, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, Kimihiro Ishikane, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Kim Hong Kyun, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, are seen before their talks in Tokyo on June 1, 2016. The chief nuclear envoys agreed to increase pressure on North Korea to halt its missile launches and other provocative acts. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea, U.S. nuclear envoys meet over N. Korea

(From L) Sung Kim, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, Kimihiro Ishikane, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Kim Hong Kyun, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, shake hands before their talks in Tokyo on June 1, 2016. The chief nuclear envoys seek to strengthen trilateral coordination to rein in North Korea's nuclear and missile ambitions. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, China nuclear envoys discuss response to North Korea

Wu Dawei (L), China's special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs, and Kimihiro Ishikane, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, shake hands before their talks at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on April 5, 2016. The two envoys were expected to discuss responses to North Korea's pursuit of nuclear and missile programs. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, China nuclear envoys discuss response to North Korea

Wu Dawei (L), China's special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs, and Kimihiro Ishikane, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, shake hands before their talks at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on April 5, 2016. The two envoys were expected to discuss responses to North Korea's pursuit of nuclear and missile programs. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea, U.S. negotiators gather in Seoul

Japan, South Korea and U.S. chief negotiators for the six-way talks over North Korea's nuclear program shake hands in Seoul on Jan. 13, 2016, prior to their meeting in the wake of Pyongyang's test of what it claims was a hydrogen bomb. The three are (from L) Kimihiro Ishikane, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Hwang Joon Kook, South Korea's special envoy for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, and Sung Kim, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea prepare for possible "comfort women" deal

Kimihiro Ishikane, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, leaves the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Dec. 27, 2015, after talks with Lee Sang Deok, director general of the Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau of the South Korean Foreign Ministry, held in preparation for a foreign ministerial meeting the following day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea prepare for possible "comfort women" deal

Kimihiro Ishikane, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, arrives at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Dec. 27, 2015, for talks with Lee Sang Deok, director general of the Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau of the South Korean Foreign Ministry, to prepare for a foreign ministerial meeting the following day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S., Japan, S. Korea reaffirm commitment to N. Korea issues

Kimihiro Ishikane, chief of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, speaks to the press in Washington on Dec. 3, 2015, after meeting with his American and South Korean counterparts. The officials reaffirmed their commitment to working closely on North Korean-related issues including its nuclear program and ballistic missile development, they said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea seek to find common ground on "comfort women" issue

Kimihiro Ishikane, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, speaks to reporters in Seoul after meeting with his South Korean counterpart Lee Sang Deok on Nov. 11, 2015. The two countries are trying to find common ground on the so-called "comfort women" issue involving women procured to work in wartime brothels for the Imperial Japanese Army. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea discuss "comfort women" issue

Kimihiro Ishikane, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, arrives at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Nov. 11, 2015, to hold talks with his South Korean counterpart Lee Sang Deok. The talks are aimed at moving forward an agreement made by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun Hye the previous week to speed up talks to resolve the issue of so-called "comfort women." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea prepare for possible "comfort women" deal

Kimihiro Ishikane, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, arrives at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Dec. 27, 2015, for talks with Lee Sang Deok, director general of the Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau of the South Korean Foreign Ministry, to prepare for a foreign ministerial meeting the following day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese diplomat speaks after meeting S. Korean counterpart in Seoul

Kimihiro Ishikane, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, speaks to reporters after meeting his South Korean counterpart in Seoul on Oct. 27, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Documentary film about Japanese-Brazilian youths

HAMAMATSU, Japan - (From L) Kimihiro Tsumura, professor at Hamamatsu Gakuin University, Pablo Nadayoshi, a Japanese-Brazilian living in Japan, and film director Mayu Nakamura pose for photos in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 20, 2012. They hold a poster of ''Kodoku na Tsubame tachi'' (lonely swallows), their documentary film about Japanese-Brazilian youths living in Japan. (Kyodo)

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U.N. open debate on N. Korea missiles

Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Kimihiro Ishikane attends a U.N. Security Council open session on North Korea's nuclear and missile development at U.N. headquarters in New York on Dec. 11, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Permanent Representative of Japan to the U.N.

Kimihiro Ishikane, new Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations, speaks at a Security Council meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Nov. 19, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's regional economies improve: BOJ

Kimihiro Eto, the Bank of Japan's Osaka branch manager, speaks at a press conference at the central bank's head office in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2018, as the BOJ released its quarterly Sakura Report. Eto cited foreign tourists and exports as the main factors behind the Japanese economy's improvement. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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BOJ Nagoya branch manager Eto promoted to executive director

Photo shows Bank of Japan's Nagoya branch manager Kimihiro Eto, who was appointed as the central bank's executive director on March 3, 2017. Eto will also head the bank's Osaka branch. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wife of 1970 JAL hijackers arrested at Narita

NARITA, Japan - Tamiko Uomoto, wife of Kimihiro Uomoto, one of nine Japanese radicals who hijacked a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane to North Korea in 1970, returned to Japan from Pyongyang on Feb. 24 and was immediately arrested by police at Narita airport on suspicion of violating the passport law. (Kyodo)