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ASEAN secretary general in Tokyo

Kisaburo Tokai (R), policy chief of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, holds talks with Kao Kim Hourn, secretary general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on May 24, 2024.

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Astronaut Hoshide communicates from space with Fukuda, students

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R in front) U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer, Japanese Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Kisaburo Tokai, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and astronaut Mamoru Mohri, along with a group of students communicate from Tokyo on June 8 with Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide in Japan's Kibo research laboratory in space.

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Japanese astronaut Doi talks with Fukuda, Tokai, school juniors

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (front) waves at Japanese astronaut Takao Doi (R in a monitor screen at rear), who is staying on the International Space Station in orbit some 400 kilometers above Earth, from his office on March 20. Doi talked with Fukuda, education and science minister Kisaburo Tokai and pupils of his old school.

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Okinawans protest govt's partial concession on history texts

NAHA, Japan - Peace activists and schoolteachers rally in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 27 in protest against the education ministry's decision to reject direct references in school history textbooks that the Japanese military ''forced'' civilians in Okinawa to commit mass during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. The rally was held a day after Education Minister Kisaburo Tokai approved references to the military's ''involvement'' in the mass suicides but rejected, in line with recommendation by official textbook screeners, that the military had ''forced'' the suicides, citing the lack of historical evidence.

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Panel OKs references to military's role in Okinawa mass suicides

TOKYO, Japan - Takehiko Sugiyama (L), head of the Textbook Authorization Council, hands a report to education minister Kisaburo Tokai (R) on Dec. 26 in which the council approved requests by textbook publishers to reinstate references to the Japanese military's role in forcing civilians to commit mass suicides during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

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Okinawa leaders request gov't retract instruction on textbooks

TOKYO, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (L) hands a resolution to education minister Kisaburo Tokai (R) asking him to retract his ministry's instruction to publishers to remove from history textbooks references to reports the Japanese military forced civilians to commit mass suicide during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

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Kitanoumi called in on hazing death of teen wrestler

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Sumo Association chairman and former yokozuna Kitanoumi speaks to reporters after meeting with Kisaburo Tokai, minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology, at the education ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 28. Kitanoumi briefed Tokai on the death of 17-year-old wrestler Tokitaizan who belonged to the Tokitsukaze sumo stable.

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Kitanoumi called in on hazing death of teen wrestler

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Sumo Association chairman and former yokozuna Kitanoumi (L) meets with Kisaburo Tokai, minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology, at the education ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 28 to brief him on the death of 17-year-old wrestler Tokitaizan who belonged to the Tokitsukaze sumo stable.

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Kitanoumi meets education minister over death of wrestler

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Sumo Association Chairman Kitanoumi meets with Education Minister Kisaburo Tokai (C) and Senior Vice minister of Education Kenshiro Matsunami (R) at the education ministry on Sept. 28 to explain about the hazing death of junior sumo wrestler Tokitaizan, 17, at the practice ring of his stablemaster Tokitsukaze.

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Imperial Japanese Navy officer Koyanagi

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 9 Kyodo - Undated file photo shows Imperial Japanese Navy officer Kisaburo Koyanagi. The captain committed suicide by "harakiri" disembowelment on March 7, 1929, when he was a military attache to the Japanese Embassy in Moscow. (Japan Telegraphic Communication photo)

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Kitanoumi called in on hazing death of teen wrestler

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Sumo Association chairman and former yokozuna Kitanoumi speaks to reporters after meeting with Kisaburo Tokai, minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology, at the education ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 28. Kitanoumi briefed Tokai on the death of 17-year-old wrestler Tokitaizan who belonged to the Tokitsukaze sumo stable. (Kyodo)

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Kitanoumi called in on hazing death of teen wrestler

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Sumo Association chairman and former yokozuna Kitanoumi (L) meets with Kisaburo Tokai, minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology, at the education ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 28 to brief him on the death of 17-year-old wrestler Tokitaizan who belonged to the Tokitsukaze sumo stable. (Kyodo)

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Okinawa leaders request gov't retract instruction on textbooks

TOKYO, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (L) hands a resolution to education minister Kisaburo Tokai (R) asking him to retract his ministry's instruction to publishers to remove from history textbooks references to reports the Japanese military forced civilians to commit mass suicide during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. (Kyodo)

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Panel OKs references to military's role in Okinawa mass suicides

TOKYO, Japan - Takehiko Sugiyama (L), head of the Textbook Authorization Council, hands a report to education minister Kisaburo Tokai (R) on Dec. 26 in which the council approved requests by textbook publishers to reinstate references to the Japanese military's role in forcing civilians to commit mass suicides during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. (Kyodo)

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Okinawans protest govt's partial concession on history texts

NAHA, Japan - Peace activists and schoolteachers rally in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 27 in protest against the education ministry's decision to reject direct references in school history textbooks that the Japanese military ''forced'' civilians in Okinawa to commit mass during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. The rally was held a day after Education Minister Kisaburo Tokai approved references to the military's ''involvement'' in the mass suicides but rejected, in line with recommendation by official textbook screeners, that the military had ''forced'' the suicides, citing the lack of historical evidence. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut Doi talks with Fukuda, Tokai, school juniors

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (front) waves at Japanese astronaut Takao Doi (R in a monitor screen at rear), who is staying on the International Space Station in orbit some 400 kilometers above Earth, from his office on March 20. Doi talked with Fukuda, education and science minister Kisaburo Tokai and pupils of his old school. (Kyodo)

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Astronaut Hoshide communicates from space with Fukuda, students

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R in front) U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer, Japanese Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Kisaburo Tokai, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and astronaut Mamoru Mohri, along with a group of students communicate from Tokyo on June 8 with Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide in Japan's Kibo research laboratory in space. (Kyodo)

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Kitanoumi meets education minister over death of wrestler

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Sumo Association Chairman Kitanoumi meets with Education Minister Kisaburo Tokai (C) and Senior Vice minister of Education Kenshiro Matsunami (R) at the education ministry on Sept. 28 to explain about the hazing death of junior sumo wrestler Tokitaizan, 17, at the practice ring of his stablemaster Tokitsukaze.(Kyodo)