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Visit to N. Korea burial site for Japanese

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sanji Kitaoka (R) on June 19, 2013, visits with other bereaved Japanese family members a site in the suburbs of Pyongyang which is believed to contain the remains of Japanese who died in what is now North Korea around the end of World War II. Kitaoka's mother and elder sister died in Pyongyang.

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Visit to N. Korea burial site for Japanese

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sanji Kitaoka (front) offers prayers on June 19, 2013, along with other bereaved Japanese family members at a site in the suburbs of Pyongyang which is believed to contain the remains of Japanese who died in what is now North Korea around the end of World War II. Kitaoka's mother and elder sister died in Pyongyang.

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Japan-U.S. secret pacts confirmed, gov't policy shift expected

TOKYO, Japan - Shinichi Kitaoka (R), a University of Tokyo professor who headed a Foreign Ministry panel investigating Japan-U.S. secret pacts on nuclear arms and other issues, speaks during a news conference at the ministry on March 9, 2010. The panel concluded that secret pacts were reached by Japan and the United States in the Cold War era, leading the Japanese government to end its decades-long official denial of their existence.

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Japan-U.S. secret pacts confirmed, gov't policy shift expected

TOKYO, Japan - Shinichi Kitaoka, a University of Tokyo professor who headed a Foreign Ministry panel investigating Japan-U.S. secret pacts on nuclear arms and other issues, speaks during a news conference at the ministry on March 9, 2010. The panel concluded that secret pacts were reached by Japan and the United States in the Cold War era, leading the Japanese government to end its decades-long official denial of their existence.

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Chinese, Japanese academics to hold next history talks in March

BEIJING, China - Shinichi Kitaoka, professor at the University of Tokyo, speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing after the end of the first two-day meeting of a panel on joint history research. The panel brings together 10 researchers and scholars from Japan and China.

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Japan, China appoint 20 experts to start joint history study

TOKYO, Japan - Japan and China have each appointed a 10-member team to kick off joint history research next week. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R) meets with Japanese members headed by former U.N. ambassador Shinichi Kitaoka (C) at his office on Dec. 18.

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Japan to propose amending U.N. Charter within 1st half of 2005

NEW YORK, United States - Shinichi Kitaoka, Japan's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in New York on Oct. 20. He said that Japan plans to submit a resolution to the United Nations within the first half of next year recommending the General Assembly amend the U.N. Charter.

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Japan to propose amending U.N. Charter within 1st half of 2005

NEW YORK, United States - Shinichi Kitaoka, Japan's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in New York on Oct. 20. He said that Japan plans to submit a resolution to the United Nations within the first half of next year recommending the General Assembly amend the U.N. Charter. (Kyodo)

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Japan, China appoint 20 experts to start joint history study

TOKYO, Japan - Japan and China have each appointed a 10-member team to kick off joint history research next week. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R) meets with Japanese members headed by former U.N. ambassador Shinichi Kitaoka (C) at his office on Dec. 18. (Kyodo)

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Panel on premier's WWII anniversary statement ends 3rd meeting

Japan Post Holdings Co. President Taizo Nishimuro (R), chief of an expert panel on a statement to be issued this summer by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, and his deputy Shinichi Kitaoka, president of the International University of Japan, speak to the press after the panel's third meeting in Tokyo on April 2, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Post chief Nishimuro, others eyed for war anniversary panel

Photo shows Shinichi Kitaoka, president of the International University of Japan. The Japanese government is arranging to include Kitaoka on a panel of experts on a war anniversary statement to be issued in summer 2015 by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a source familiar with the matter said Feb. 18, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JICA chief at press conference

Japan International Cooperation Agency President Shinichi Kitaoka attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 2, 2016, as several Japanese nationals taking part in JICA projects were involved in a hostage situation in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JICA chief at press conference

Japan International Cooperation Agency President Shinichi Kitaoka attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 2, 2016, as several Japanese nationals taking part in JICA projects were involved in a hostage situation in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JICA chief at press conference

Japan International Cooperation Agency President Shinichi Kitaoka attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 2, 2016, as several Japanese nationals taking part in JICA projects were involved in a hostage situation in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JICA chief at press conference

Japan International Cooperation Agency President Shinichi Kitaoka attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 2, 2016, as several Japanese nationals taking part in JICA projects were involved in a hostage situation in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan names new ambassadors

Combined photo taken May 10, 2016, shows (from L) Hajime Kitaoka, Japanese consul general in Edinburgh, Ichiro Ogasawara, minister for the embassy of Japan in France, and Yoshihiro Yamamura, Japanese consul general in St. Petersburg. The Japanese government appointed them on May 24 as envoy to Tajikistan, head of the diplomatic mission in Madagascar and ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, respectively. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panel to advise "aggression" to be included in war anniv. Statement

Shinichi Kitaoka, deputy head of a government advisory panel on a World War II anniversary statement to be issued by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 21, 2015, after the last session of the panel. A member of the panel indicated the same day it is leaning toward proposing to Abe that his statement use the term "aggression" in describing Japan's wartime action. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe statement on WWII anniv. need not refer to "aggression": panelist

Shinichi Kitaoka, acting chief of an expert panel on the war anniversary statement to be issued by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaks at a symposium in Tokyo on April 10, 2015. The International University of Japan president said the statement need not include the expressions "colonial rule and aggression" and "apology" used in a statement 20 years ago. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panelist wants Abe to acknowledge Japan waged "war of invasion"

Photo shows Shinichi Kitaoka, president of the International University of Japan, who serves as the acting chairman of an expert panel on a war anniversary statement to be issued by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the summer of 2015. At a symposium in Tokyo on March 9, 2015, Kitaoka said he wants the premier to acknowledge Japan waged "a war of invasion." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New JICA chief Kitaoka holds 1st press conference

Shinichi Kitaoka, new president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, holds his first press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2015, since assuming the post on Oct. 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese, Japanese academics to hold next history talks in March

BEIJING, China - Shinichi Kitaoka, professor at the University of Tokyo, speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing after the end of the first two-day meeting of a panel on joint history research. The panel brings together 10 researchers and scholars from Japan and China. (Kyodo)

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Japan-U.S. secret pacts confirmed, gov't policy shift expected

TOKYO, Japan - Shinichi Kitaoka, a University of Tokyo professor who headed a Foreign Ministry panel investigating Japan-U.S. secret pacts on nuclear arms and other issues, speaks during a news conference at the ministry on March 9, 2010. The panel concluded that secret pacts were reached by Japan and the United States in the Cold War era, leading the Japanese government to end its decades-long official denial of their existence. (Kyodo)

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Japan-U.S. secret pacts confirmed, gov't policy shift expected

TOKYO, Japan - Shinichi Kitaoka (R), a University of Tokyo professor who headed a Foreign Ministry panel investigating Japan-U.S. secret pacts on nuclear arms and other issues, speaks during a news conference at the ministry on March 9, 2010. The panel concluded that secret pacts were reached by Japan and the United States in the Cold War era, leading the Japanese government to end its decades-long official denial of their existence. (Kyodo)

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Japan-U.S. secret pacts confirmed, gov't policy shift expected

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (R) receives a report from University of Tokyo Professor Shinichi Kitaoka, who headed a ministry panel probing alleged Japan-U.S. secret pacts, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on March 9, 2010. The panel concluded that secret pacts on nuclear arms and other issues were reached in the Cold War era, leading the Japanese government to end its decades-long official denial of their existence. (Pool Photo) (Kyodo)

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JOC, JICA sign partnership accord

Japanese Olympic Committee Chairman Yasuhiro Yamashita (R) and Japan International Cooperation Agency President Shinichi Kitaoka pose for a photo in Tokyo on July 27, 2020, after the JOC and JICA signed a partnership agreement to promote contribution to the world via sport.