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Foreign wives in tsunami-hit area find comfort in church support

OFUNATO, Japan - Yukie Nogami (3rd from R), a sister of the Rome-headquartered Institute of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, joins a post-Mass event, surrounded by Gina Konishi (3rd from L), Jocelyn Sumigama (bottom) and their friends at a Catholic church in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on Nov. 18, 2012. (Photo by Yuichiro Izawa)

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Ex-diplomat Nogami named adviser to Mizuho Corporate Bank

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Corporate Bank has named former Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami (file photo) as its adviser, bank sources said June 4.

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Anglo-Japanese rugby match commemorates slain diplomat Oku

LONDON, England - Japanese Ambassador to Britain Yoshiji Nogami (L) hands a trophy to the captain of a British rugby team after a match played in western London on Nov. 26 to commemorate slain Japanese diplomat Katsuhiko Oku's contribution to friendship between the two countries. The match was held between a team of Japanese businessmen and students living in Britain and a team of British graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities. Oku, who was killed in Iraq in 2003, was a rugby player when he studied at Oxford University.

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Japan's Nogami wins Woodone Open Hiroshima golf

HIGASHI-HIROSHIMA, Japan - Japan's Takao Nogami holds up the trophy after winning the Woodone Open Hiroshima at Hiroshima Country Club, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 10.

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House panel head opposes Nogami's nomination as UK envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Teruhiko Mashiko, a Democrataic Party of Japan member of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, releases a statement by the panel's chairman Takashi Yonezawa at a press conference at the Diet building in Tokyo on Aug. 31. Yonezawa, who is currently on an overseas trip abroad, expressed opposition to the goverment's plan to name former Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami as ambassador to Britain.

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2 die as jet ski collides with motorboat in Toyama

TOYAMA, Japan - Police officers investigate a jet ski on a beach in the city of Toyama on July 4 after it collided with a motor boat off the beach. Tadayuki Miyamoto, 33, and Rumiko Nogami, 34, who were riding the ski jet, were killed in the accident.

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Tanaka raps Koizumi for keeping bureaucrat Nogami in office

TOKYO, Japan - Former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, after a House of Representatives session on March 6, criticizes Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for retaining Yoshiji Nogami within the Foreign Ministry. Koizumi dismissed Tanaka and former Vice Foreign Minister Nogami over their conflict over the ministry's decision to bar two Japanese aid groups from an Afghan aid conference in Tokyo.

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Takeuchi replaces Nogami as vice foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - Newly-appointed Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi speaks at a news conference Feb. 19 at his ministry in Tokyo. The former ambassador to Indonesia succeeded Yoshiji Nogami, who Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi sacked for causing disruptions in the Diet last month in a dispute with then Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka.

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Envoy to Indonesia to become vice foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi tells reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 7 that she has decided to appoint Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Yukio Takeuchi as vice foreign minister to succeed Yoshiji Nogami in the ministry's top bureaucratic post.

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Peace Boat members demand gov't explain NGO issue

TOKYO, Japan - About 20 members of the nongovernmental organization Peace Boat call on the government Jan. 30 to explain the initial exclusion of two NGOs from a recent Afghan aid conference. The issue led to the dismissal Jan. 29 of both Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka and Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami. The members gathered in front of the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo.

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Koizumi says took 'responsibility' with sackings

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi responds to questions during a House of Councillors Budget Committee session Jan. 30. Koizumi said he decided to dismiss Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka and Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami as a way to take responsibility for conflicts in the Foreign Ministry complicating Diet business. The empty seat (R, background) was vacated by Tanaka.

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Nogami sacked by Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami fields questions from reporters at the prime minister's official residence Jan. 29 in Tokyo after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi notified him of his decision to dismiss him following a conflict over the Foreign Ministry's decision to bar two Japanese nongovernmental organizations from last week's Afghan aid conference in Tokyo.

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Koizumi decides to sack Tanaka, Nogami

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi gives a news conference at his official residence in Tokyo in the early hours of Jan. 30 to announce his decision to dismiss Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka and Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami. The announcement followed their conflict over the Foreign Ministry's decision to bar two Japanese nongovernmental organizations from last week's Afghan aid conference in Tokyo.

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Tanaka-Nogami clash over NGO remarks continues

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (R) returns to her seat after answering questions at the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in the Diet in Tokyo on Jan. 28. Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami (L) looks on. Tanaka and Nogami continue to clash over whether political pressure played a role in the decision to bar two Japanese nongovernmental organizations from an international Afghan donor conference.

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Tanaka surrounded by reporters in Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka is surrounded by reporters in the Diet building Jan. 25 after a morning cabinet meeting. In the previous day's lower house Budget Committee session, Tanaka said Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami told her influential lawmaker Muneo Suzuki had pressured the Foreign Ministry to bar two nongovernmental organizations from a Tokyo conference on Afghan aid, an allegation Nogami has flatly denied.

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Tanaka, Nogami clash over ban of NGOs from conference

TOKYO, Japan - Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami, speaking at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 24, denies Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka's statement Nogami told her influential lawmaker Muneo Suzuki had pressured the ministry to bar two nongovernmental organizations from Jan. 21-22 conference on reconstruction of Afghanistan in Tokyo.

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S. Korean envoy expresses regret over Koizumi shrine visit

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (R) shakes hands with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 14. The envoy expressed regret at Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit the previous day to Yasukuni Shrine honoring Japan's war dead as well as war criminals.

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Kato to be named new Japanese envoy to Washington

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show (from L to R) Deputy Foreign Minister Ryozo Kato, who will be named new Japanese ambassador to the United States, and Deputy Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami, who will succeed Kato. Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka said Aug. 3 that their appointments will be approved at a cabinet meeting Aug. 10.

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Japan, U.S. resume talks on NTT phone hookup rates

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Richard Fisher (C) chats with Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami (R) at the Foreign Ministry on July 14 before resuming negotiations over telephone hookup rates charged by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT).

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Tanaka, Nogami clash over ban of NGOs from conference

TOKYO, Japan - Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami, speaking at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 24, denies Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka's statement Nogami told her influential lawmaker Muneo Suzuki had pressured the ministry to bar two nongovernmental organizations from Jan. 21-22 conference on reconstruction of Afghanistan in Tokyo.

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Tanaka-Nogami clash over NGO remarks continues

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (R) returns to her seat after answering questions at the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in the Diet in Tokyo on Jan. 28. Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami (L) looks on. Tanaka and Nogami continue to clash over whether political pressure played a role in the decision to bar two Japanese nongovernmental organizations from an international Afghan donor conference.

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Nogami sacked by Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami fields questions from reporters at the prime minister's official residence Jan. 29 in Tokyo after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi notified him of his decision to dismiss him following a conflict over the Foreign Ministry's decision to bar two Japanese nongovernmental organizations from last week's Afghan aid conference in Tokyo.

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Koizumi decides to sack Tanaka, Nogami

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi gives a news conference at his official residence in Tokyo in the early hours of Jan. 30 to announce his decision to dismiss Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka and Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami. The announcement followed their conflict over the Foreign Ministry's decision to bar two Japanese nongovernmental organizations from last week's Afghan aid conference in Tokyo.

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Koizumi says took 'responsibility' with sackings

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi responds to questions during a House of Councillors Budget Committee session Jan. 30. Koizumi said he decided to dismiss Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka and Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami as a way to take responsibility for conflicts in the Foreign Ministry complicating Diet business. The empty seat (R, background) was vacated by Tanaka.

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Tanaka raps Koizumi for keeping bureaucrat Nogami in office

TOKYO, Japan - Former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, after a House of Representatives session on March 6, criticizes Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for retaining Yoshiji Nogami within the Foreign Ministry. Koizumi dismissed Tanaka and former Vice Foreign Minister Nogami over their conflict over the ministry's decision to bar two Japanese aid groups from an Afghan aid conference in Tokyo.

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House panel head opposes Nogami's nomination as UK envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Teruhiko Mashiko, a Democrataic Party of Japan member of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, releases a statement by the panel's chairman Takashi Yonezawa at a press conference at the Diet building in Tokyo on Aug. 31. Yonezawa, who is currently on an overseas trip abroad, expressed opposition to the goverment's plan to name former Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami as ambassador to Britain. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Nogami wins Woodone Open Hiroshima golf

HIGASHI-HIROSHIMA, Japan - Japan's Takao Nogami holds up the trophy after winning the Woodone Open Hiroshima at Hiroshima Country Club, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 10. (Kyodo)

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Ex-diplomat Nogami named adviser to Mizuho Corporate Bank

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Corporate Bank has named former Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami (file photo) as its adviser, bank sources said June 4. (Kyodo)

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2 die as jet ski collides with motorboat in Toyama

TOYAMA, Japan - Police officers investigate a jet ski on a beach in the city of Toyama on July 4 after it collided with a motor boat off the beach. Tadayuki Miyamoto, 33, and Rumiko Nogami, 34, who were riding the ski jet, were killed in the accident. (Kyodo)

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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi decided to sack Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (L) and Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami (R)

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi decided to sack Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (L) and Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami (R) late Tuesday following their conflict over whether or not Nogami mentioned the name of a senior lawmaker in reference to the ministry's decision to bar two Japanese nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from last week's Afghan aid conference in Tokyo.

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Japan's 1st segmented mirror telescope near completion

Kyoto University associate professor Daisaku Nogami talks about an optical infrared telescope, employing Japan's first segmented mirror design, at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's Okayama Astrophysical Observatory in Asakuchi, Okayama Prefecture, on March 7, 2015. The 3.8-meter telescope with new technology, which is an academia-industry collaboration and led by a team of experts from Kyoto University, is due to be completed by the end of March. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Free agent pitcher Nogami to join Giants

Ryoma Nogami of the Seibu Lions pitches against the Rakuten Eagles at MetLife Dome in Tokorozawa, Japan, on Oct. 16, 2017. Nogami decided to sign with the Yomiuri Giants for 2018, according to a source familiar with the matter. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Anglo-Japanese rugby match commemorates slain diplomat Oku

LONDON, England - Japanese Ambassador to Britain Yoshiji Nogami (L) hands a trophy to the captain of a British rugby team after a match played in western London on Nov. 26 to commemorate slain Japanese diplomat Katsuhiko Oku's contribution to friendship between the two countries. The match was held between a team of Japanese businessmen and students living in Britain and a team of British graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities. Oku, who was killed in Iraq in 2003, was a rugby player when he studied at Oxford University. (Kyodo)

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Takeuchi replaces Nogami as vice foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - Newly-appointed Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi speaks at a news conference Feb. 19 at his ministry in Tokyo. The former ambassador to Indonesia succeeded Yoshiji Nogami, who Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi sacked for causing disruptions in the Diet last month in a dispute with then Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka.

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Envoy to Indonesia to become vice foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi tells reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 7 that she has decided to appoint Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Yukio Takeuchi as vice foreign minister to succeed Yoshiji Nogami in the ministry's top bureaucratic post.

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Avian flu outbreak confirmed in western Japan

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato (R) and agriculture minister Kotaro Nogami (2nd from R) attend a ministerial meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2020, after an outbreak of a highly pathogenic avian flu was confirmed at a chicken farm in Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture.

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Avian flu outbreak confirmed in western Japan

Japanese agriculture minister Kotaro Nogami speaks to reporters following a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2020, after an outbreak of a highly pathogenic avian flu was confirmed at a chicken farm in Mitoyo in Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan.

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Avian flu outbreak confirmed in western Japan

Japanese agriculture minister Kotaro Nogami speaks at a task force meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2020, after an outbreak of a highly pathogenic avian flu was confirmed at a chicken farm in Mitoyo in Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan.

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New Japan PM Suga's Cabinet

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Kotaro Nogami speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo in the small hours of Sept. 17, 2020, after the launch of new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's Cabinet.

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Members of Japan PM Suga's Cabinet

Combined file photo shows (from L) Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Norihisa Tamura, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Kotaro Nogami and Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshi Kajiyama. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga formed his Cabinet in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020.

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Japan's new Cabinet under PM Suga

Kotaro Nogami enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020, after being named agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister in the Cabinet of Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Japan's new Cabinet under PM Suga

Kotaro Nogami enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020, after being named agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister in the Cabinet of Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Aftermath of torrential rain in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 8, 2020, shows a railroad bridge over the Nogami River in Kokonoe in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, destroyed in torrential rains.

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Football: Kobe v Hiroshima in J-League

Vissel Kobe's Andres Iniesta (R) and Sanfrecce Hiroshima's Yuki Nogami vie for the ball during the first half of a J-League football match in Kobe, western Japan, on April 14, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Kobe v Hiroshima in J-League

Vissel Kobe's Andres Iniesta (L) and Sanfrecce Hiroshima's Yuki Nogami vie for the ball during the first half of a J-League football match in Kobe, western Japan, on April 14, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Asian Games 2018: women's marathon

Keiko Nogami (L) of Japan and Kim Hye Song (R) of North Korea run through a mist station during the women's marathon at the Asian Games in Jakarta on Aug. 26, 2018. Nogami won silver, while Kim won bronze. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Researchers develop crystal material offering brighter red light

NAGOYA, Japan - A Japanese research group said April 2 it has developed a material from tin oxide micro crystals that can emit red light (R) at four times the brightness of current materials (L), and can be used to improve plasma TVs and fluorescent lights. The group is led by Masayuki Nogami, an engineering professor at the Nagoya Institute of Technology. Photo was provided by the institute. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean envoy expresses regret over Koizumi shrine visit

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (R) shakes hands with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 14. The envoy expressed regret at Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit the previous day to Yasukuni Shrine honoring Japan's war dead as well as war criminals.

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Kato to be named new Japanese envoy to Washington

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show (from L to R) Deputy Foreign Minister Ryozo Kato, who will be named new Japanese ambassador to the United States, and Deputy Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami, who will succeed Kato. Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka said Aug. 3 that their appointments will be approved at a cabinet meeting Aug. 10.