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Philippines decorates JICA's Ogata for helping Mindanao peace talks

TOKYO, Japan - Philippine President Benigno Aquino (L) and Sadako Ogata, former head of the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the U.N. refugee agency, pose for a photo at a hotel in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2013, after Ogata received the Order of Sikatuna from Aquino for her contribution to peace talks between the Philippine government and rebel leaders in Mindanao. The order is given to individuals who have provided exceptional service to the Philippines. Aquino is in Tokyo to attend a Japan-ASEAN summit.

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Ex-UNHCR Ogata given award in U.S.

WASHINGTON, United States - Former U.N. high commissioner for refugees Sadako Ogata gives an address on Oct. 23, 2014, in Washington, the United States, as she received the Pragmatist and Idealist Award from a major think tank, Stimson Center, for her contribution to strengthening global security.

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Davos Forum

DAVOS, Switzerland - Former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata (3rd from R) takes part in a ceremony to open a sake barrel in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2014. It was part of the Japan Night event in the Swiss resort hosting the World Economic Forum.

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Ex-U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Ogata

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata. At a high-level meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on May 8, 2013, Ogata called for greater support from the international community for some of the world's most vulnerable people, including those threatened by internal violence, health pandemics and climate change.

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Mexico decoration

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto awards the Order of Aztec Eagle to former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata, Mazda Motor Corp. President Takashi Yamanouchi and former Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone for their contributions to bilateral friendship at the Mexican Embassy in Tokyo on April 10, 2013.

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Japan event in Davos

DAVOS, Switzerland - Japanese singer MISIA (R), who has been appointed as an honorary ambassador for the fifth round of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama in June 2013, speaks about aid for Africa during an event to introduce Japanese food on Jan. 24, 2013 in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum was being held. At left is Sadako Ogata, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and former president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) receives the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, from Christine Lagarde (R), the chief of the International Monetary Fund, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech after receiving the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech after receiving the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata (L) receives the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata delivers a speech after receiving the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - (From L to R) Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata attend a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012, to receive the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group. The other recipient was record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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UNRWA Commissioner General Grandi in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Filippo Grandi (R), commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and Sadako Ogata, special adviser to the president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, attend a symposium in Tokyo on Aug. 8, 2012.

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Afghan development conference in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Participants at an international conference on Afghan development, including (from L to R, front) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and adviser to the Foreign Ministry and former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata, pose for photos in Tokyo on July 8, 2012.

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Departing JICA chief Ogata

TOKYO, Japan - Sadako Ogata, chief of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, speaks at a news conference at the organization's headquarters in Tokyo on March 29, 2012, two days before stepping down as JICA chief.

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JICA President Ogata

CAIRO, Egypt - Japan International Cooperation Agency President Sadako Ogata speaks in Cairo, Egypt, to diplomatic circles on March 19, 2012. She said the Japanese aid organization will offer a broad range of support to Egypt and other countries that have experienced the ''Arab Spring'' democratization movements while paying attention to correcting social inequalities.

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Univ. of Tokyo's Tanaka to head JICA

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows University of Tokyo Vice President Akihiko Tanaka. Tanaka, a professor of international politics, will replace Sadako Ogata as president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency effective April 1, 2012, Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba said Jan. 17, 2012.

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Kan at Davos forum

DAVOS, Switzerland - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L, front) meets with former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan (R, front) and Japan International Cooperation Agency President Sadako Ogata (C, front) in Davos on Jan. 29, 2011. Kan was in the Swiss resort to attend an annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

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JICA chief Ogata visits Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sadako Ogata (L), chief of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, meets with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Rafie al-Issawi in Baghdad on Oct. 10, 2009. Ogata became the first leader of the Japanese public foreign aid entity to visit Iraq since the U.S. invaded the country in 2003.

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Ogata seeks boost in Japan's ODA, mulls aid for displaced people

TOKYO, Japan - Sadako Ogata, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, speaks during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on May 25. Ogata urged the Japanese government to boost its official development assistance.

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Japan to pay Afghan police salaries: envoys

WASHINGTON, United States - Sadako Ogata (R), Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso's special envoy to support Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaks during a news conference in Washington on March 9. Ogata and Motohide Yoshikawa (L), the Japanese ambassador to Spain who doubles as the special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said they met U.S. Special Representative Richard Holbrooke and told him that Japan will pay half a year's salary for about 80,000 police officers in Afghanistan, worth $124 million, to help reconstruct the war-ravaged country.

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Ogata says China's development in Tokyo's interest

BEIJING, China - Sadako Ogata, head of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, speaks at a press conference at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on March 24.

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Ogata sends message to Aichi Expo forum

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Sadako Ogata, former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, speaks in a video message to participants in a forum on the environment and peace at the 2005 World Exposition at Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on July 9.

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Annan's advisory body to present U.N. reform report

NEW YORK, United States - Sadako Ogata, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and U.N. high commissioner for refugees from 1991 to 2000, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on Nov. 6. An advisory panel that was appointed by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and includes Ogata concluded its last meeting in New York and will present its final report to Annan on Dec. 2.

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World Bank sets up development learning center in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - World Bank President James Wolfensohn (C) speaks in Tokyo on June 1, flanked by Japanese Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki (R) and Sadako Ogata, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Wolfensohn was attending a ceremony to set up a World Bank development learning center in Tokyo in collaboration with the Japanese government.

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Japan aid agency not to provide aid to Iraq at this point

OSAKA, Japan - Sadako Ogata, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, said May 26 in Osaka that the government's aid disbursement body, at this point, is not considering providing assistance to Iraq due to deteriorating security there.

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Ogata say JICA will strengthen its role in Africa

NAIROBI, Kenya - Sadako Ogata, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), speaks at a press conference in Nairobi on April 29 at the end of her four-day trip to Kenya.

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Ogata delivers speech on Japan's foreign aid

TOKYO, Japan - Sadako Ogata, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and former U.N. high commissioner for refuges, speaks at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on March 22 about Japan's foreign assistance.

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JICA's Ogata meets Cambodian leaders

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Sadako Ogata (L, front), president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), meets with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (R) in Phnom Penh on March 15 to discuss the reconstruction of Cambodia.

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(1)Emperor decorates four with Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - Four recipients of this year's Order of Culture pose (front, seated) with their spouses Nov. 3 at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. From L to R, they are poet Makoto Ooka, physicist Kazuhiko Nishijima, pathologist Wataru Mori, and former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata.

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(2)Emperor decorates 4 with Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - Sadako Ogata, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, smiles at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3 after she and three other people were awarded the Order of Culture by Emperor Akihito.

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(2)Ogata named JICA's new chief

TOKYO, Japan - Newly appointed Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) chief Sadako Ogata speaks at a news conference at the Foreign Ministry on Oct. 1. The former U.N. high commissioner for refugees said her agency will seek cooperation with development institutions in other countries to effectively promote development assistance.

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(1)Ogata named JICA's new chief

TOKYO, Japan - Newly appointed Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) chief Sadako Ogata (L) receives a letter of appointment signed by Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi on Oct. 1. Ogata, 76, became the first non-Foreign Ministry retiree to lead the organization. She will continue to serve as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's special representative for assistance to Afghanistan.

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Ogata urges cease-fire to warlords in northern Afghanistan

MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan - Japanese envoy Sadako Ogata (R) meets with the leaders of warring factions in northern Afghanistan, including the ethnic Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostam and his Tajik rival Atta Mohammad -- and other Afghan officials in Mazar-e-Sharif on July 7 and urged them to stop fighting each other. Ogata said she told the warlords that Japan cannot provide financial help to rebuild Afghanistan unless there is security in the country.

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Ogata arrives in Kabul for reconstruction talks

KABUL, Afghanistan - Sadako Ogata (L, front), Japanese government representatives on Afghan reconstruction affairs, chats with Japanese Ambassador to Afghanistan Kinichi Komano at Kabul international airport July 6. She visited Kabul for talks on ways to help rebuild the country.

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Koizumi meets Karzai

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) shakes hands with Afghan President Hamid Karzai prior to their talks Sept. 12 at a New York hotel. At center is Sadako Ogata, who is representing Japan in helping Afghan reconstruction.

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(2)U.N. disarmament confab on terrorism opens in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Sadako Ogata, former U.N. high commissioner for refugees, lectures at a U.N. disarmament conference Aug. 7 in Kyoto. The three-day conference to discuss disarmament and security issues opened the same day amid the growing threat of terrorism.

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(1)Ogata pledges Japan's support in talks with Karzai

KABUL, Afghanaistan - Japanese government representative Sadako Ogata (L) is in talks with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai in Kabul on June 15. Ogata pledged Japan's total support for Afghanistan's reconstruction.

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(1)Ogata pledges Japan's support in talks with Karzai

KABUL, Afghanistan - Japanese government representative Sadako Ogata speaks with the media after her meeting with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai in Kabul on June 15.

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U.N. fact-finding team meets in Geneva

GENEVA, Switzerland - Sadako Ogata (L), former U.N. high commissioner for refugees, talks with former Finish President Martti Ahtisaari, in Geneva on April 24 to prepare for their U.N.-commissioned mission to probe the Israeli army's alleged massacre at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. The three-member U.N. fact-finding team -- Ogata, Ahtisaari, and Cornelio Sommaruga, former president of the International Committee of the Red Cross -- arrived in Geneva earlier in the day.

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Ogata declines to comment on foreign minister's post

TOKYO, Japan - Sadako Ogata, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's special envoy on Afghan affairs, is asked by Japanese reporters at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Jan. 30 about reports that Koizumi has asked her to be foreign minister to replace Makiko Tanaka. Ogata said she had no comment to make on the matter.

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Ogata would be suitable foreign minister, Kanzaki says

TOKYO, Japan - New Komeito party leader Takenori Kanzaki tells a news conference Jan. 30 he thinks Sadako Ogata, currently Japan's envoy on Afghan affairs, would be an appropriate person to succeed Makiko Tanaka as Japan's foreign minister.

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Ogata asks Koizumi to help Afghan refugees, telecom network

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) shake hands with Sadako Ogata, his special envoy on Afghan affairs, at his official residence in Tokyo on Jan. 23. Ogata, who co-chaired an international donors conference on reconstruction of Afghanistan in Tokyo earlier this week, asked for Japan to help Afghan refugees and provide aid in areas such as telecommunications.

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Ogata, Annan discuss Afghanistan

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's special envoy on Afghan affairs Sadako Ogata (L) meets with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on Jan. 22 at a Tokyo hotel following the conclusion of a two-day international donor conference on the reconstruction of Afghanistan in the Japanese capital.

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Reps from Afghan reconstruction conference meet press

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Afghan affairs envoy Sadako Ogata (C), who co-chaired the Tokyo meeting on rebuilding Afghanistan, attends a news conference at a Tokyo hotel Jan. 22 after the meeting. From L to R are European Commissioner Chris Patten, Miguel Nadal, Spain's secretary of state for foreign affairs, U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, Saudi Arabian Finance Minister Ibrahim Bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Assaf, Afghan Finance Minister Hedayat Amin Arsala and Afghan Reconstruction Minister Amin Farhang.

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(2)Donors end Afghan aid meeting with $4.5 bil. pledge

TOKYO, Japan - Participants sit in the closing session of a two-day conference on reconstruction assistance to Afghanistan in Tokyo on Jan. 22. Seated at the front table are Co-Chair Sadako Ogata (2nd from L) and Interim Afghan authority leader Hamid Karzai (2nd from R).

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Ogata meets press after Afghan aid conference

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Afghan affairs envoy Sadako Ogata attends a news conference at a Tokyo hotel Jan. 22 after the international conference on reconstructing Afghanistan. She said the meeting was ''a great success.''

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(2)Confab on Afghanistan enters into full talks

TOKYO, Japan - Sadako Ogata, Japan's special representative for Afghan affairs, and other delegates at an international donors conference on reconstructing Afghanistan hold full talks on ways to help the country. Ogata is co-chairing the conference.

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(2)Int'l donors confab on Afghan reconstruction begins in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Sadako Ogata, a special envoy of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, addresses an international conference on reconstruction of Afghanistan at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 21. Ogata is co-chairing the two-day conference, which started the same day with representatives from about 60 nations attending.

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Afghan NGOs should directly receive int'l aid: Japan NGO

TOKYO, Japan - A member of a Japanese nongovernmental organization (NGO) hands a report to Sadako Ogata (R), Japan's special envoy for Afghanistan, on Jan. 19 calling on her to enable Afghan NGOs to directly receive international donations for the country's reconstruction. He met Ogata at a Tokyo hotel prior to a two-day ministerial meeting, to be co-chaired by Ogata, on the reconstruction of Afghanistan to be convened Jan. 21 in Tokyo.