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APEC trade ministers start talks with focus on WTO

CHEJU, South Korea - Hachiro Okonogi (L), senior vice minister at the Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry, attends a two-day trade ministers' meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum on Cheju Island, South Korea, on June 2.

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Men Found on Boat in North East Japan Say they came From N. Korea

AKITA, Japan,-Nov. 24 Kyodo - A boat carrying eight men claiming to be fishermen from North Korea has washed ashore in the north eastern Japan prefecture of Akita, police said Friday. The police received a call from a resident in the city of Yurihonjo around 11:30 p.m. Thursday about suspicious men at the seaside. They later found the men on the wooden boat at a nearby marina. The men had no life-threatening injuries and appeared to speak Korean, the police said. They have been taken into protective custody. Hachiro Okonogi, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, told reporters after a Cabinet meeting that the men have said they were fishing before the boat broke down and washed ashore. In November 2015 a wooden boat drifted ashore in the city of Noshiro in Akita and skeletal remains of two men were found inside the vessel and nearby.

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Japan PM Suga after Yokohama mayoral election

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo on Aug. 23, 2021, a day after his close aide Hachiro Okonogi lost in the Yokohama mayoral election.

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Japan PM Suga after Yokohama mayoral election

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo on Aug. 23, 2021, a day after his close aide Hachiro Okonogi lost in the Yokohama mayoral election.

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Yokohama mayoral election

Hachiro Okonogi, a Liberal Democratic Party candidate backed by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, bows to supporters after losing to opposition-backed Takeharu Yamanaka in the Yokohama mayoral election on Aug. 22, 2021.

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Yokohama mayoral election

Hachiro Okonogi, a Liberal Democratic Party candidate backed by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, speaks after losing to opposition-backed Takeharu Yamanaka in the Yokohama mayoral election on Aug. 22, 2021.

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Yokohama mayoral election

Supporters of Hachiro Okonogi, a Liberal Democratic Party candidate backed by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, are pictured after the former National Public Safety Commission chairman's loss in the Yokohama mayoral election on Aug. 22, 2021.

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Yokohama mayoral election

Hachiro Okonogi, a Liberal Democratic Party candidate backed by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, speaks after losing to opposition-backed Takeharu Yamanaka in the Yokohama mayoral election on Aug. 22, 2021.

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APEC trade ministers start talks with focus on WTO

CHEJU, South Korea - Hachiro Okonogi (L), senior vice minister at the Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry, attends a two-day trade ministers' meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum on Cheju Island, South Korea, on June 2. (Kyodo)

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Japan PM Suga at Cabinet meeting

(From L) Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Hachiro Okonogi, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, prepare to attend a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on June 25, 2021, wearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan's new public safety chief Tanahashi

Yasufumi Tanahashi, seen in this file photo, was appointed by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga as chairman of the National Public Safety Commission on June 25, 2021, to succeed Hachiro Okonogi.

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Japan's new public safety chief Tanahashi

Yasufumi Tanahashi (C) of the Liberal Democratic Party speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 25, 2021. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga appointed Tanahashi as chairman of the National Public Safety Commission the same day to succeed Hachiro Okonogi.

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Japan PM Suga at Cabinet meeting

(From L) Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Hachiro Okonogi, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, prepare to attend a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on June 22, 2021.

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Japan's new public safety chief Tanahashi

Yasufumi Tanahashi (C) of the Liberal Democratic Party speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 25, 2021. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga appointed Tanahashi as chairman of the National Public Safety Commission the same day to succeed Hachiro Okonogi.

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Japan PM Suga, public safety chief Okonogi

Hachiro Okonogi (front R), chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, prepares to attend a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on June 25, 2021, with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga coming into the room. Okonogi is set to resign from the post to run in the Yokohama mayoral election in August.

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Cabinet reshuffle amid waning support for PM Abe

Liberal Democratic Party lower house member Hachiro Okonogi arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2017, to be named as disaster management minister in a Cabinet reshuffle. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Cabinet meeting

(From L) Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Hachiro Okonogi, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, prepare to attend a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on May 14, 2021.

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Japan PM Suga visits mentor's grave

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga visits the grave of former House of Representatives lawmaker Hikosaburo Okonogi in Yokohama on Sept. 21, 2020. Suga served as Okonogi's secretary for 11 years from 1975.

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Japan PM Suga visits mentor's grave

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga visits the grave of former House of Representatives lawmaker Hikosaburo Okonogi in Yokohama on Sept. 21, 2020. Suga served as Okonogi's secretary for 11 years from 1975.

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Japan PM Suga visits mentor's grave

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga visits the grave of former House of Representatives lawmaker Hikosaburo Okonogi in Yokohama on Sept. 21, 2020. Suga served as Okonogi's secretary for 11 years from 1975.

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Japan PM Suga visits mentor's grave

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga visits the grave of former House of Representatives lawmaker Hikosaburo Okonogi in Yokohama on Sept. 21, 2020. Suga served as Okonogi's secretary for 11 years from 1975.

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Japan PM Suga visits mentor's grave

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga meets the press after visiting the grave of former House of Representatives lawmaker Hikosaburo Okonogi in Yokohama on Sept. 21, 2020. Suga served as Okonogi's secretary for 11 years from 1975.

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New Japan PM Suga's Cabinet

Hachiro Okonogi, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, 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 Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's Cabinet.

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Members of Japan PM Suga's Cabinet

Combined file photo shows (from L) Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, who is also in charge of the abduction issue, Reconstruction Minister Katsuei Hirasawa and Hachiro Okonogi, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister in charge of disaster management. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga formed his Cabinet in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020.

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Japan's new Cabinet under PM Suga

Hachiro Okonogi enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020, after being named chairman of the National Public Safety Commission in the Cabinet of Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Japan's new Cabinet under PM Suga

Hachiro Okonogi enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020, after being named chairman of the National Public Safety Commission in the Cabinet of Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Scenes of Japan's Disaster Prevention Day

Wearing an emergency suit, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) attends a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2017, Japan's Disaster Prevention Day, together with Hachiro Okonogi, state minister for disaster management. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cabinet reshuffle amid waning support for PM Abe

Liberal Democratic Party lower house member Hachiro Okonogi arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2017, to be named as disaster management minister in a Cabinet reshuffle. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Kokumin Bank chief gets 30-month prison term

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Okonogi (L), former president of the now-defunct Kokumin Bank, and Hideyuki Suzuki (R), former vice president of the bank, enters the Tokyo District Court building on Aug. 30 to hear a ruling on them over the bank's illegal loans. Okonogi was sentenced to two and a half years in prison while Suzuki was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for four years. (Kyodo)

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4 execs of failed Kokumin Bank held over loan scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Suzuki (C), former vice president of the failed Kokumin Bank, is arrested in Tokyo on Nov. 30 on suspicion of dubious lending to a Tokyo karaoke-parlor management company. Suzuki, 66, was nabbed along with Yukio Okonogi, 66, president of the second-tier regional bank when the loans were made and two other former bank executives.