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Quake-damaged Kairakuen garden fully opened

MITO, Japan - Kobuntei, the restored three-story wooden villa of Mito feudal lord Tokugawa Nariaki at the Kairakuen garden in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, is reopened to the public on Feb. 7, 2012. The villa is the last of the facilities at the renowned Japanese garden to reopen to the public 11 months after last March's earthquake damaged the site.

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Quake-damaged Kairakuen garden fully opened

MITO, Japan - Kobuntei, the restored three-story wooden villa of Mito feudal lord Tokugawa Nariaki at the Kairakuen garden in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, is reopened to the public on Feb. 7, 2012. The villa is the last of the facilities at the renowned Japanese garden to reopen to the public 11 months after last March's earthquake damaged the site.

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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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LDP veteran Nakayama loses Diet seat

ISAHAYA, Japan - Nariaki Nakayama (L), a veteran lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party, bows as he offers a traditional ''dogeza'' apology to supporters for his failure to be reelected in Miyazaki on Aug. 30. Nakayama, a former minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism, lost his seat in the lower house.

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Nakayama again eats his words, says he will not run in election

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Nariaki Nakayama speaks to reporters in Miyazaki on Oct. 17 about his intention not to run in a House of Representatives election. Nakayama has reportedly told supporters he will seek reelection as a lower house member in a reversal of his previous announcement not to run in the next election.

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Ex-transport minister Nakayama not to run in next election

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Nariaki Nakayama of the Liberal Democratic Party speaks at a news conference about his intention not to run in the next House of Representatives election at a news conference in Miyazaki on Oct. 4. Nakayama resigned as transport minister on Sept. 28 following a series of comments generally regarded as verbal gaffes.

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Kaneko named as transport minister to replace Nakayama

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuyoshi Kaneko, former state minister in charge of administrative reform, is surrounded by reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 28 after being appointed by Prime Minister Taro Aso as land, infrastructure, transport and tourism minister to replace Nariaki Nakayama.

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Nakayama resigns as transport minister following gaffes

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Nariaki Nakayama speaks about his resignation at a news conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 28. Nakayama stepped down just days after assuming the post on Sept. 24, following a series of verbal gaffes.

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Nakayama resigns as transport minister following gaffes

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Aso Taro speaks to reporters about the resignation of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Nariaki Nakayama at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 28.

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Nakayama resigns as transport minister following gaffes

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Nariaki Nakayama speaks about his resignation at a news conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 28. Nakayama stepped down just days after assuming the post on Sept. 24, following a series of verbal gaffes.

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Nakayama calls schoolteachers' union 'cancer'

TOKYO, Japan - New Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Nariaki Nakayama speaks to reporters at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 27 after returning from Miyazaki. Nakayama said he will ''decide on his own whether to resign.'' Nakayama is embroiled in fallout from a series of comments seen as verbal gaffes he has made since his appointment on Sept. 24.

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Nakayama resigns as transport minister following gaffes

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Nariaki Nakayama (C) leaves the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 28 after submitting his resignation to Prime Minister Taro Aso. Nakayama stepped down just days after assuming the post on Sept. 24, following a series of verbal gaffes.

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Nakayama says schoolteachers' union should be disbanded

MIYAZAKI, Japan - New transport minister Nariaki Nakayama, embroiled in fallout from a series of verbal gaffes he made since his appointment this week, renews an attack on a teachers' union at a meeting in Miyazaki organized by the prefectural chapter of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sept. 27 by saying that it should be disbanded.

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Transport minister Nakayama apologizes for his remarks

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Nariaki Nakayama speaks at a news conference at his ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 26. Nakayama offered an apology for the remarks he made on Sept. 25, including one calling Japan ''ethnically homogenous.''

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Japan, EU aim to reach conclusion on ITER by July

TOKYO, Japan - European Comissioner for Science and Research Janez Potocnik speaks at a press conference after a meeting with Japan's Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nariaki Nakayama on April 12. The two sides agreed to aim for a conclusion of talks on which country should host the Internal Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) by July.

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(2)Japan again OKs nationalist text

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nariaki Nakayama (C) speaks with reporters after his ministry approved a new edition of a controversial junior high school history textbook that drew strong protests from China and South Korea.

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(3) (1)Japan again OKs nationalist text

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nariaki Nakayama speaks with reporters after his ministry approved a new edition of a controversial junior high school history textbook that drew strong protests from China and South Korea. Kyodo)

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(1)S. Korea raps Japan's education minister over island comments

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Ban Ki Moon speaks at his regular press briefing on March 30. Ban accused Japanese education minister Nariaki Nakayama of glorifying Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula in relation to an ongoing row over disputed island.

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(3)Japan launches H-2A rocket

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa (L), president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nariaki Nakaayma shake hands at Tanegashima Space Center, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Feb. 26 after Japan launched an H-2A rocket that put a transport satellite into orbit.

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Ministry to review 'education with latitude' policy

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nariaki Nakayama addresses a general meeting of the Central Council for Education, an advisory body, at a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 15. He asked the panel to review the ministry's ''education with latitude'' policy, which it introduced at public primary and junior high schools in 2002.

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Japanese students show marked declines in reading, math

TOKYO, Japan - Nariaki Nakayama, minister for education, culture, sports, science and technology, comments at a press conference on Dec. 7 on the outcome of an international student assessment test conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development which showed that the reading and math skills of Japanese high school students have markedly declined in the past three years. ''In brief, they don't study hard these days, do they?'' said Nakayama.

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Former 'comfort women' demonstrate against Japan minister's remark

SEOUL, South Korea - Some 50 people, including former ''comfort women,'' shout their protest outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Dec. 1 over remarks made by Japanese education minister Nariaki Nakayama on Japanese history textbooks. Nakayama said in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, on Nov. 27 ''It is good that references to comfort women and abductions from occupied territories are decreasing'' in history textbooks for junior high schools and high schools.

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IAEA chief ElBaradei in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei (R) shakes hands with Nariaki Nakayama, minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology, in Tokyo on Oct. 7. ElBaradei voiced hope that the North Korean nuclear issue will be settled through dialogue.

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IAEA chief ElBaradei in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei (R) shakes hands with Nariaki Nakayama, minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology, in Tokyo on Oct. 7. ElBaradei voiced hope that the North Korean nuclear issue will be settled through dialogue. (Kyodo)

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Japanese students show marked declines in reading, math

TOKYO, Japan - Nariaki Nakayama, minister for education, culture, sports, science and technology, comments at a press conference on Dec. 7 on the outcome of an international student assessment test conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development which showed that the reading and math skills of Japanese high school students have markedly declined in the past three years. ''In brief, they don't study hard these days, do they?'' said Nakayama. (Kyodo)

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Ministry to review 'education with latitude' policy

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nariaki Nakayama addresses a general meeting of the Central Council for Education, an advisory body, at a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 15. He asked the panel to review the ministry's ''education with latitude'' policy, which it introduced at public primary and junior high schools in 2002. (Kyodo)

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(3)Japan launches H-2A rocket

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa (L), president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nariaki Nakaayma shake hands at Tanegashima Space Center, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Feb. 26 after Japan launched an H-2A rocket that put a transport satellite into orbit. (Kyodo)

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(2)Japan again OKs nationalist text

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nariaki Nakayama (C) speaks with reporters after his ministry approved a new edition of a controversial junior high school history textbook that drew strong protests from China and South Korea. (Kyodo)

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(3) (1)Japan again OKs nationalist text

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nariaki Nakayama speaks with reporters after his ministry approved a new edition of a controversial junior high school history textbook that drew strong protests from China and South Korea. Kyodo)

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Japan, EU aim to reach conclusion on ITER by July

TOKYO, Japan - European Comissioner for Science and Research Janez Potocnik speaks at a press conference after a meeting with Japan's Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nariaki Nakayama on April 12. The two sides agreed to aim for a conclusion of talks on which country should host the Internal Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) by July. (Kyodo)

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Nakayama calls schoolteachers' union 'cancer'

TOKYO, Japan - New Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Nariaki Nakayama speaks to reporters at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 27 after returning from Miyazaki. Nakayama said he will ''decide on his own whether to resign.'' Nakayama is embroiled in fallout from a series of comments seen as verbal gaffes he has made since his appointment on Sept. 24. (Kyodo)

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Nakayama says schoolteachers' union should be disbanded

MIYAZAKI, Japan - New transport minister Nariaki Nakayama, embroiled in fallout from a series of verbal gaffes he made since his appointment this week, renews an attack on a teachers' union at a meeting in Miyazaki organized by the prefectural chapter of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sept. 27 by saying that it should be disbanded. (Kyodo)

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Nakayama resigns as transport minister following gaffes

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Nariaki Nakayama (C) leaves the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 28 after submitting his resignation to Prime Minister Taro Aso. Nakayama stepped down just days after assuming the post on Sept. 24, following a series of verbal gaffes. (Kyodo)

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Kaneko named as transport minister to replace Nakayama

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuyoshi Kaneko, former state minister in charge of administrative reform, is surrounded by reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 28 after being appointed by Prime Minister Taro Aso as land, infrastructure, transport and tourism minister to replace Nariaki Nakayama. (Kyodo)

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Nakayama resigns as transport minister following gaffes

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Aso Taro speaks to reporters about the resignation of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Nariaki Nakayama at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 28. (Kyodo)

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Nakayama resigns as transport minister following gaffes

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Nariaki Nakayama speaks about his resignation at a news conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 28. Nakayama stepped down just days after assuming the post on Sept. 24, following a series of verbal gaffes. (Kyodo)

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Nakayama resigns as transport minister following gaffes

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Nariaki Nakayama speaks about his resignation at a news conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 28. Nakayama stepped down just days after assuming the post on Sept. 24, following a series of verbal gaffes. (Kyodo)

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Transport minister Nakayama apologizes for his remarks

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Nariaki Nakayama speaks at a news conference at his ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 26. Nakayama offered an apology for the remarks he made on Sept. 25, including one calling Japan ''ethnically homogenous.'' (Kyodo)

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LDP veteran Nakayama loses Diet seat

ISAHAYA, Japan - Nariaki Nakayama (L), a veteran lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party, bows as he offers a traditional ''dogeza'' apology to supporters for his failure to be reelected in Miyazaki on Aug. 30. Nakayama, a former minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism, lost his seat in the lower house. (Kyodo)

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(1)S. Korea raps Japan's education minister over island comments

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Ban Ki Moon speaks at his regular press briefing on March 30. Ban accused Japanese education minister Nariaki Nakayama of glorifying Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula in relation to an ongoing row over disputed island. (Kyodo)

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Former 'comfort women' demonstrate against Japan minister's rema

SEOUL, South Korea - Some 50 people, including former ''comfort women,'' shout their protest outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Dec. 1 over remarks made by Japanese education minister Nariaki Nakayama on Japanese history textbooks. Nakayama said in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, on Nov. 27 ''It is good that references to comfort women and abductions from occupied territories are decreasing'' in history textbooks for junior high schools and high schools. (Kyodo)

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Ex-transport minister Nakayama not to run in next election

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Nariaki Nakayama of the Liberal Democratic Party speaks at a news conference about his intention not to run in the next House of Representatives election at a news conference in Miyazaki on Oct. 4. Nakayama resigned as transport minister on Sept. 28 following a series of comments generally regarded as verbal gaffes. (Kyodo)

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Nakayama again eats his words, says he will not run in election

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Nariaki Nakayama speaks to reporters in Miyazaki on Oct. 17 about his intention not to run in a House of Representatives election. Nakayama has reportedly told supporters he will seek reelection as a lower house member in a reversal of his previous announcement not to run in the next election. (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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Quake-damaged Kairakuen garden fully opened

MITO, Japan - Kobuntei, the restored three-story wooden villa of Mito feudal lord Tokugawa Nariaki at the Kairakuen garden in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, is reopened to the public on Feb. 7, 2012. The villa is the last of the facilities at the renowned Japanese garden to reopen to the public 11 months after last March's earthquake damaged the site. (Kyodo)

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Quake-damaged Kairakuen garden fully opened

MITO, Japan - Kobuntei, the restored three-story wooden villa of Mito feudal lord Tokugawa Nariaki at the Kairakuen garden in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, is reopened to the public on Feb. 7, 2012. The villa is the last of the facilities at the renowned Japanese garden to reopen to the public 11 months after last March's earthquake damaged the site. (Kyodo)