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Negroponte reaffirms support for Japan on N. Korea abductions

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte (L) talks with Kyoko Nakayama (R), Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's special adviser in charge of abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korea, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 3.

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Ex-abduction minister Nakayama, husband join Sunrise Party of Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama (R), former minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, said in Tokyo on June 21, 2010, that she and her husband, former transport minister Nariaki Nakayama (L), have joined the Sunrise Party of Japan. The party was formed in April this year by defectors from the Liberal Democratic Party.

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Ex-abduction minister Nakayama, husband join Sunrise Party of Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama (R), former minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, said in Tokyo on June 21, 2010, that she and her husband, former transport minister Nariaki Nakayama (L), have joined the Sunrise Party of Japan. The party was formed in April this year by defectors from the Liberal Democratic Party.

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Mondale assures Nakayama of help on N. Korea abduction issue

WASHINGTON, United States - Kyoko Nakayama, special adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, speaks at a news conference in Washington on Jan. 9. Nakayama said former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Walter Mondale assured her that he will relay Tokyo's concern about the issue to his friends joining the next administration of President-elect Barack Obama.

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Kyoko Nakayama appointed as special gov't adviser

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama (C), flanked by Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) and Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura (L), bows at the prime minister office on Sept. 29 after Aso appointed her as his special adviser on the issue of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals.

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Prime Minister Fukuda reshuffles his Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 1 after being appointed a state minister in charge of the declining birthrate issue and the abduction issue in the Cabinet Reshuffle.

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Japan, U.S. reaffirm cooperation on abduction issue

TOKYO, Japan - Christopher Hill, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 26 after talks with Kyoko Nakayama, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's special adviser on the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals.

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Abe's adviser Nakayama set to win upper house seat

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama, special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on July 29 after becoming assured of winning a House of Councillors seat in the day's upper house election.

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Female pro golfer's father, abduction adviser to seek election seat

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama, special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the issue of North Korea's abduction of Japanese nationals, speaks at a press conference at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters on June 11 after announcing her bid for the House of Councillors election in July on an LDP ticket.

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Japan urges N. Korea to return abductees, warns of further steps

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki (L) and Kyoko Nakayama, a special adviser to Prime Minister Shizo Abe on the North Korean abduction issue, speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 16 after an inaugural meeting of the government task force on the issue.

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U.N. resolution referring to abductions called for by kin

TOKYO, Japan - Relatives of Japanese abductees and their supporters on Oct. 10 called on the government to seek a U.N. Security Council resolution against N. Korea's claimed nuclear test that also mentions the abduction issue. Shigeru Yokota (L) handed a statement calling for such a U.N. motion to Kyoko Nakayama (R), Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's special advisor in charge of the abduction issue, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo the same day.

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Nakayama, gov't advisor on N. Korea abduction issue, resigns

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama, the Cabinet Secretariat adviser on the North Korean abduction issue, enters the prime minister's office Sept. 29. Nakayama conveyed her intentions to Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda during a meeting at the office and Hosoda accepted her resignation.

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Soga departs for Jakarta to meet husband, daughters

NARITA, Japan - Repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga waves as she leaves Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on July 8 for Jakarta to be reunited with her husband and daughters living in North Korea. At left is Kyoko Nakayama (L), adviser to the Cabinet Secretariat on the North Korean abduction issue.

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(2)Gov't gets Soga's understanding on candidate reunion sites

SADO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (L, back), a repatriated victim of abduction by North Korea, meets Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiken Sugiura (L, front) and Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama (2nd from L, front) in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on May 30. Sugiura and Nakayama visited Sado to discuss candidate sites for her to meet her American husband and two daughters living in North Korea. (Pool photo)

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5 children of Chimuras, Hasuikes reunited with parents

TOKYO, Japan - Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama (C) greets former Japanese abductees Kaoru and Yukiko Hasuike, and Yasushi and Fukie Chimura, and the couples' sons and daughters at a Tokyo hotel on May 22. (Pool photo)

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Chimura's children greeted by Nakayama in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama (L) greets the second son, O Kyong Ho, 16, and daughter, O Kyong Ae, 22, of former Japanese abductee Yasushi Chimura at a Tokyo hotel on May 22. The children arrived in Tokyo from Pyongyang to be reunited with their parents. (Pool photo)

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5 abductees meet Abe

NIIGATA, Japan - The five Japanese (seated in center) now back home after being abducted to North Korea in 1978 meet Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (R) and Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama (R, background) at a Niigata hotel Dec. 19. The returnees removed their North Korean badges in the meeting. (Pool photo)

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Soga meets gov't special adviser Nakayama

TOKYO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (R), one of five Japanese abducted to North Korea and now back in Japan, presents a Sado Island doll to Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama at Nakayama's office in Tokyo on Nov. 29.

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(2)Abe, Nakayama meet Hitomi Soga

MANO, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) and Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama (L) sit down with Hitomi Soga (2nd from R), abducted to North Korea in 1978 and now visiting Japan, her father Shigeru (3rd from R) and younger sister Tomiko Kaneko (R) at her family home in Mano on Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture, on Nov. 6. (Pool photo)

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Abe, Nakayama visit Hasuikes in Niigata

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (2nd from R) and Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama (R) meet with Kaoru Hasuike (2nd from L) and his wife Yukiko, both of whom North Korea abducted in 1978, at Hasuike's home in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, on Nov. 5 to brief them on the government policy for normalization talks with North Korea. (Pool photo)

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Abe, Nakayama pay visit to Chimuras in hometown

OBAMA, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (3rd from R) and Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama (4th from R) visit Yasushi Chimura (2nd from R) and his wife Fukie (R), both of whom North Korea abducted in 1978, in their hometown of Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Nov. 3. Abe and Nakayama are expected to discuss the normalization talks between Japan and North Korea held Oct. 29 and 30 in Kuala Lumpur. (Pool photo)

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(1)N. Korean girl confirmed to be Megumi Yokota's daughter

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama (R), a special Cabinet Secretariat adviser on the abduction issue, presents Shigeru Yokota (C) on Oct. 24 with a report containing the result of blood tests on Kim Hye Gyong, a North Korean girl. The tests proved that the girl has been confirmed to be the daughter of Megumi Yokota, one of the Japanese nationals North Korea abducted and now lists as dead. At left is Yokota's wife Sakei.

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Gov't informs abductees' relatives of probe results

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (Back L) and Kyoko Nakayama (Front L), a special liaison between the government and relatives of Japanese abducted to North Korea, meet representatives of the abductees to inform them about a government mission's probe in Pyongyang. (Pool photo)

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Nakayama heads liaison office for abductees' families

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama (L), the Cabinet Secretariat's special adviser who is in charge of liaison with the relatives of Japanese abducted to North Korea, addresses liaison office members in an opening meeting in Tokyo on Sept. 27.

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Gov't launches panel on abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe speaks at the inaugural meeting of a special cabinet panel formed by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to address the concerns of the relatives of Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. The panel decided to demand that North Korea provide detailed information on the abductees. Seated at right former Ambassador to Uzbekistan Kyoko Nakayama, who was appointed the Cabinet Secretariat's special adviser. Nakayama is expected to look after the kin of abductees, particularly their psychological welfare.

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Nakayama, gov't advisor on N. Korea abduction issue, resigns

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama, the Cabinet Secretariat adviser on the North Korean abduction issue, enters the prime minister's office Sept. 29. Nakayama conveyed her intentions to Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda during a meeting at the office and Hosoda accepted her resignation. (Kyodo)

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Japan urges N. Korea to return abductees, warns of further steps

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki (L) and Kyoko Nakayama, a special adviser to Prime Minister Shizo Abe on the North Korean abduction issue, speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 16 after an inaugural meeting of the government task force on the issue. (Kyodo)

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Negroponte reaffirms support for Japan on N. Korea abductions

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte (L) talks with Kyoko Nakayama (R), Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's special adviser in charge of abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korea, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 3. (Kyodo)

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Kyoko Nakayama appointed as special gov't adviser

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama (C), flanked by Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) and Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura (L), bows at the prime minister office on Sept. 29 after Aso appointed her as his special adviser on the issue of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals. (Kyodo)

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Mondale assures Nakayama of help on N. Korea abduction issue

WASHINGTON, United States - Kyoko Nakayama, special adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, speaks at a news conference in Washington on Jan. 9. Nakayama said former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Walter Mondale assured her that he will relay Tokyo's concern about the issue to his friends joining the next administration of President-elect Barack Obama. (Kyodo)

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Soga meets gov't special adviser Nakayama

TOKYO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (R), one of five Japanese abducted to North Korea and now back in Japan, presents a Sado Island doll to Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama at Nakayama's office in Tokyo on Nov. 29. (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED)Gov't informs abductees' relatives of probe results

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (Back L) and Kyoko Nakayama (Front L), a special liaison between the government and relatives of Japanese abducted to North Korea, meet representatives of the abductees to inform them about a government mission's probe in Pyongyang. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Nakayama heads liaison office for abductees' families

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama (L), the Cabinet Secretariat's special adviser who is in charge of liaison with the relatives of Japanese abducted to North Korea, addresses liaison office members in an opening meeting in Tokyo on Sept. 27. (Kyodo)

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Gov't launches panel on abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe speaks at the inaugural meeting of a special cabinet panel formed by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to address the concerns of the relatives of Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. The panel decided to demand that North Korea provide detailed information on the abductees. Seated at right former Ambassador to Uzbekistan Kyoko Nakayama, who was appointed the Cabinet Secretariat's special adviser. Nakayama is expected to look after the kin of abductees, particularly their psychological welfare. (Kyodo)

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Japanese Kokoro leader Nakayama at press conference

Japanese Kokoro leader Kyoko Nakayama attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 10, 2016, following voting in the upper house election. The party could not win a seat in the election. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Campaigning kicks off for upper house election

Kyoko Nakayama, leader of the Party for Japanese Kokoro, gives her first stump speech in official campaigning for the House of Councillors election, which started on June 22, 2016, in Tokyo. Nakayama called for revising the Constitution so it reflects Japanese traditions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nakayama to head small opposition party

House of Councillors lawmaker Kyoko Nakayama (R) files her candidacy for the presidential election of the small opposition Party for Future Generations on Aug. 28, 2015, in Tokyo. As there were no other candidates, Nakayama was elected as new chief to replace Takeo Hiranuma (L). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, U.S. reaffirm cooperation on abduction issue

TOKYO, Japan - Christopher Hill, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 26 after talks with Kyoko Nakayama, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's special adviser on the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals. (Kyodo)

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Prime Minister Fukuda reshuffles his Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 1 after being appointed a state minister in charge of the declining birthrate issue and the abduction issue in the Cabinet Reshuffle. (Kyodo)

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Soga departs for Jakarta to meet husband, daughters

NARITA, Japan - Repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga waves as she leaves Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on July 8 for Jakarta to be reunited with her husband and daughters living in North Korea. At left is Kyoko Nakayama (L), adviser to the Cabinet Secretariat on the North Korean abduction issue. (Kyodo)

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Abe's adviser Nakayama set to win upper house seat

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama, special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on July 29 after becoming assured of winning a House of Councillors seat in the day's upper house election. (Kyodo)

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Soga expresses thanks to Indonesia for reunion

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Kyoko Nakayama, adviser to the Japanese Cabinet Secretariat on the abduction issue, released a message from repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga about the July 9 reunion in Jakarta with her American husband Charles Jenkins and their two North Korea-born daughters at a Jakarta hotel on July 10. Soga expressed gratitude to the Indonesian government and people for their role in realizing the reunion. Nakayama was accompanying Soga. (Kyodo)

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Female pro golfer's father, abduction adviser to seek election s

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama, special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the issue of North Korea's abduction of Japanese nationals, speaks at a press conference at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters on June 11 after announcing her bid for the House of Councillors election in July on an LDP ticket. (Kyodo)

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(2)Gov't gets Soga's understanding on candidate reunion sites

SADO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (L, back), a repatriated victim of abduction by North Korea, meets Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiken Sugiura (L, front) and Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama (2nd from L, front) in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on May 30. Sugiura and Nakayama visited Sado to discuss candidate sites for her to meet her American husband and two daughters living in North Korea. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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5 children of Chimuras, Hasuikes reunited with parents

TOKYO, Japan - Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama (C) greets former Japanese abductees Kaoru and Yukiko Hasuike, and Yasushi and Fukie Chimura, and the couples' sons and daughters at a Tokyo hotel on May 22. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Chimura's children greeted by Nakayama in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama (L) greets the second son, O Kyong Ho, 16, and daughter, O Kyong Ae, 22, of former Japanese abductee Yasushi Chimura at a Tokyo hotel on May 22. The children arrived in Tokyo from Pyongyang to be reunited with their parents. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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U.N. resolution referring to abductions called for by kin

TOKYO, Japan - Relatives of Japanese abductees and their supporters on Oct. 10 called on the government to seek a U.N. Security Council resolution against N. Korea's claimed nuclear test that also mentions the abduction issue. Shigeru Yokota (L) handed a statement calling for such a U.N. motion to Kyoko Nakayama (R), Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's special advisor in charge of the abduction issue, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo the same day. (Kyodo)

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Ex-abduction minister Nakayama, husband join Sunrise Party of Jap

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama (R), former minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, said in Tokyo on June 21, 2010, that she and her husband, former transport minister Nariaki Nakayama (L), have joined the Sunrise Party of Japan. The party was formed in April this year by defectors from the Liberal Democratic Party. (Kyodo)

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Ex-abduction minister Nakayama, husband join Sunrise Party of Jap

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama (R), former minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, said in Tokyo on June 21, 2010, that she and her husband, former transport minister Nariaki Nakayama (L), have joined the Sunrise Party of Japan. The party was formed in April this year by defectors from the Liberal Democratic Party. (Kyodo)

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Abductee Soga asks for gov't help

TOKYO, Nov. 27 Kyodo - Hitomi Soga (C), one of five Japanese abducted to North Korea and now back in Japan, is about to leave the prime minister's office Nov. 27 after her meeting with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (R) and Kyoko Nakayama, an adviser at the Cabinet Secretariat to the victims of the kidnapping cases. Soga asked for government help in settling the abduction issue. (Kyodo)