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Suspicious fire breaks out at ex-post minister Noda's Gifu office

GIFU, Japan - Police investigators and firefighters examine the office of former Posts and Telecommunications Minister Seiko Noda in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture on Aug. 10 after a fire broke out at the office earlier in the day. The police said several items were stolen.

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Japan women lawmakers meet S. Korean parliament chief

SEOUL, South Korea - Seiko Noda (3rd from R, front row), chairwoman of the General Council of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and other female Japanese lawmakers meet Chung Ui Hwa (R), speaker of the National Assembly of South Korea, in Seoul on July 21, 2014.

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Japan lawmaker Noda speaks with S. Korea parliament chief

SEOUL, South Korea - Seiko Noda (L), chairwoman of the General Council of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks with Chung Ui Hwa (R), speaker of the National Assembly of South Korea, in Seoul on July 21, 2014.

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U.S. Ambassador Kennedy meets female LDP lawmakers

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (3rd from L) attends a meeting with female lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, including Seiko Noda (far R), chairwoman of the LDP's General Council, at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on March 31, 2014. LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba (standing) also attended the meeting.

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LDP General Council meeting

Tokyo, Japan - Seiko Noda (standing), chair of the General Council of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a meeting of the council in Tokyo at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2013. (From front) Sanae Takaichi, head of the LDP Policy Research Council, LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba and Prime Minster Shinzo Abe.

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New LDP team

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Noda speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2012, after she was picked as chief of the General Council of the Liberal Democratic Party.

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New LDP team

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Liberal Democratic Party's new leadership team join hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2012, after LDP President Shinzo Abe (3rd from L) formed it. They are (from L) General Council chief Seiko Noda, Vice President Masahiko Komura, President Abe, Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba, policy chief Sanae Takaichi and election strategy chief Takeo Kawamura.

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New LDP team

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Noda (L) and Sanae Takaichi smile during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2012, after they were picked as chief of the General Council and policy chief of the Liberal Democratic Party.

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Lawmaker Noda calls baby son 'mentor'

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese lawmaker Seiko Noda is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2012, about the controversy over her childbearing at age 50 about a year ago. Noda, a six-term lower house legislator and a member of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, gave birth to her son Masaki in January 2011 through artificial insemination. She said Masaki is her ''mentor'' who trains her as a politician.

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Lawmaker Noda calls baby son 'mentor'

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese lawmaker Seiko Noda is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2012, about the controversy over her childbearing at age 50 about a year ago. Noda, a six-term lower house legislator and a member of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, gave birth to her son Masaki in January 2011 through artificial insemination. She said Masaki is her ''mentor'' who trains her as a politician.

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Noda registers marriage

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Seiko Noda, former post and telecommunications minister and a House of Representatives member of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party. The 50-year-old lawmaker, who gave birth to a boy on Jan. 6, 2011, after in vitro fertilization, revealed on her blog Feb. 22, 2011, that she and her common-law husband had registered their marriage, with her husband adopting her family name, following the birth. Noda is a vocal advocate of a legal change to allow married couples to bear separate names.

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Lawmaker Noda gives birth to boy

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo, taken on May 17, 2010, shows Seiko Noda, a House of Representatives member from the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party. The 50-year-old lawmaker, once touted as a potential candidate to become Japan's first female premier, gave birth to a baby boy at a Tokyo hospital on Jan. 6, 2011, marking a successful end to years of fertility treatment.

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Senior lawmaker announces pregnancy

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Noda (R), a senior lawmaker of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, hugs LDP lawmaker Seiko Hashimoto during a fundraising party for Noda in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2010. The former postal minister officially announced she is pregnant as she turned 50 the same day.

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Senior lawmaker announces pregnancy

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Noda, a senior lawmaker of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, smiles during a fundraising party in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2010. The former postal minister officially announced she is pregnant as she turned 50 the same day.

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Consumer Affairs Agency launched amid doubts over personnel changes

TOKYO, Japan - Consumer affairs minister Seiko Noda (L) and Shunichi Uchida, chief of the newly established Consumer Affairs Agency, are photographed alongside a name board for the agency during an inaugural ceremony in Tokyo on Sept. 1. The government agency aimed at better protecting consumers was launched the same day, marking the first establishment of a new administrative organ since the 1971 creation of the Environment Agency.

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Consumer Affairs Agency launched

TOKYO, Japan - Consumer Affairs Minister Seiko Noda (L) and Shunichi Uchida, chief of the newly established Consumer Affairs Agency, pose during an inaugural ceremony for the agency in Tokyo on Sept. 1. It marked the first establishment of a new administrative organ since the 1971 creation of the Environment Agency. (Pool photo)

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Consumer Affairs Agency launched

TOKYO, Japan - Consumer Affairs Minister Seiko Noda (L) and Shunichi Uchida, chief of the newly established Consumer Affairs Agency, unveils the agency's sign during an inaugural ceremony in Tokyo on Sept. 1. It marked the first establishment of a new administrative organ since the 1971 creation of the Environment Agency. (Pool photo)

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Flowery Noda relieved to gain reelection

GIFU, Japan - Consumer Affairs Minister Seiko Noda of the Liberal Democratic Party celebrates in Gifu City on Aug. 31 after securing reelection as a House of Representatives member in the general election. Noda suffered an embarrassing loss as a Cabinet member in the No. 1 single-seat constituency of Gifu Prefecture but regained a seat in the proportional representation block.

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Flowery Noda relieved to gain reelection

GIFU, Japan - Consumer Affairs Minister Seiko Noda of the Liberal Democratic Party celebrates in Gifu City on Aug. 31 after securing reelection as a House of Representatives member in the general election. Noda suffered an embarrassing loss as a Cabinet member in the No. 1 single-seat constituency of Gifu Prefecture but regained a seat in the proportional representation block.

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Noda visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Consumer affairs minister Seiko Noda speaks to reporters after paying homage at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Noda was the only member of Prime Minister Taro Aso's Cabinet who visited the war-linked shrine on the 64th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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Noda visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Consumer affairs minister Seiko Noda is photographed after paying homage at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Noda was the only member of Prime Minister Taro Aso's Cabinet who visited the war-linked shrine on the 64th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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Noda visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Consumer affairs minister Seiko Noda heads to the central part of Yasukuni Shine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Noda was the only member of Prime Minister Taro Aso's Cabinet who visited the war-linked shrine on the 64th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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Gov't to launch Consumer Affairs Agency on Sept. 1

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Noda (C), Japan's state minister in consumer affairs, prepares to attend a Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office Aug. 11. At the meeting, the government decided to launch the Consumer Affairs Agency, a new government body aimed at better serving consumer interests following a spate of food-related scandals in Japan, on Sept. 1.

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Astronaut Wakata talks to people on Earth

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata (L in the display) is seen waving from the International Space Station to people including Japanese space development minister Seiko Noda (C) at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo during a space to Earth talk session on July 26.

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Upper house starts deliberations on consumer agency

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese state minister of consumer affairs Seiko Noda (front) explains to lawmakers about the bills to form a new government agency to comprehensively deal with consumer affairs during a House of Councillors plenary session on April 22. In the background is Prime Minister Taro Aso.

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Bills for consumer affairs agency clear lower house committee

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Noda (C), Japan's state minister of consumer affairs, greets opposition lawmakers after a House of Representatives committee cleared bills April 16 to form a new government agency to deal with consumer affairs in a unanimous vote, paving the way for the body to be set up as early as this fall.

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Debates at lower house budget committee begins

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Noda, state minister in charge of consumer affairs, speaks at a House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting on Jan 8.

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Consumers' annual losses estimated at 3.4 tril. yen in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's state minister for consumer affairs Seiko Noda speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26. The government earlier in the day estimated consumers' losses from vicious business practices in Japan at 3,392.2 billion yen in fiscal 2007.

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Consumer minister Noda's party ticket bought by Amway Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Noda, state minister in charge of consumer affairs, speaks at a new conference in Tokyo on Oct. 17. Noda said that networking marketing company Amway Japan Ltd. bought eight fundraising tickets for her party for 160,000 yen from 2002 to April this year.

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Consumer affairs minister Noda visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Consumer affairs minister Seiko Noda (front) emerges from Yasukuni Shrine after paying a visit to the Shinto shrine dedicated to the war-dead on Aug. 15, the 63rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.

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Seiko Noda takes office as consumer affairs minister

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Noda (R), the newly appointed state minister for consumer affairs, meets with her predecessor, Fumio Kishida, during an office-taking ceremony at her office in Tokyo on Aug. 4. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who assumed office 10 months ago, reshuffled his Cabinet on Aug. 1, replacing all but four Cabinet members, most of them incumbents from the Cabinet of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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'Postal Rebel' Noda appointed as state minister

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Noda 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 consumer affairs in the Cabinet reshuffle.

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LDP formally decides to readmit 11 'postal rebels'

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Noda, one of the 11 former rebel Diet members of the Liberal Democratic Party who were readmitted to the party on Dec. 4, is surrounded by journalists after she and other former rebels met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the LDP headquarters.

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Lower house approves Japan Post privatization plan

TOKYO, Japan - Former post minister Seiko Noda (L) casts an affirmative vote for a set of bills to privatize Japan Post -- the centerpiece of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's reform initiative -- during a plenary session of the House of Representatives. Noda, a former member of the governing Liberal Democratic Party and now an independent, voted almost identical bills in the previous Diet session.

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New parliamentarians step into lower house after election

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Noda (R), former posts and telecommunications minister, shakes hands with Kiyomi Tsujimoto, a Social Democratic Party member who was convicted in a financial scandal, as they arrive at the Diet to attend a special session after the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election.

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Dissident Noda certain to be reelected in Gifu

GIFU, Japan - Seiko Noda, former posts and telecommunications minister, reacts at her election campaign office in Gifu Sept. 11 as she was certain to retain her House of Representatives seat in the day's election.

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Ex-posts minister Noda to marry NCP lawmaker Tsuruho

TOKYO, Japan - Yosuke Tsuruho (L), a House of Coucillors lawmaker in the New Conservative Party, and Seiko Noda, former posts and telecommunications minister of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, pose for photographers in Tokyo on May 2 after announcing their engagement at a press conference. Noda, 40, became the youngest minister in postwar Japan at the age of 37 in the cabinet of the late Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi in 1998.

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Ex-posts minister Noda to marry lawmaker Tsuruho

GIFU, Japan - File photos show former Posts and Telecommunications Minister Seiko Noda (L) and Yosuke Tsuruho, a House of Councillors lawmaker in the New Conservative Party. The two will marry as early as August, her supporters said May 2. Noda is a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

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7 cabinet members visit Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Seven cabinet members visit Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, dedicated to Japan's war dead, on Aug. 15, on the 54th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. Posts and Telecommunications Minister Seiko Noda (R) is among the seven ministers. Before and during World War II the shrine was a bastion of government-sponsored Shintoism and a symbol of Japanese militarism.

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BT chief pay courtesy call on Posts Minister Noda

TOKYO, Japan - Peter Bonfield (L), chief executive of British Telecommunications PLC (BT), shakes hands with Japanese Posts and Telecommunications Minister Seiko Noda as he arrives at the posts ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 12. Bonfield was in Japan to finalize a deal to acquire a stake in Japan Telecom Co. along with AT and T Corp. of the United States.

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Japan-China ministerial meeting held in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Shi Guangsheng (L), China's minister of foreign trade and economic cooperation, welcomes Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (C) and Posts and Telecommunications Minister Seiko Noda (R) at the start of a 40-minute Japan-China ministerial meeting in Beijing on July 8. Komura and Noda are accompanying Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi on his official visit to China.

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Parliamentarians in kimono

Clad in traditional kimono, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Seiko Noda (R) and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Secretary General Yoshiro Mori pose for photographers prior to the opening of the ordinary Diet (parliament) session Jan. 19. Few Japanese wear kimono in attending routine business these days.

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30-plus Diet members wear kimonos to Diet session

Posts and Telecommunications Minister Seiko Noda arrives Jan. 19 at the Diet building in a bright green kimono. More than 30 Diet members responded to a call from a parliamentary group promoting the usage of traditional Japanese clothing by donning kimonos at an opening ceremony of the 150-day regular Diet session.

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Japanese minister in charge of policies related to children

Seiko Noda, minister in charge of gender equality and policies related to children, speaks during a plenary session of the House of Councillors in Tokyo on May 18, 2022.

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Japanese minister in charge of policies related to children

Seiko Noda, minister in charge of gender equality and policies related to children, speaks during a plenary session of the House of Councillors in Tokyo on May 18, 2022, on bills for the launch of a new government agency coordinating child policies.

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Japan PM Kishida at Cabinet meeting

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C), Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Tetsuo Saito (L) and Seiko Noda, the minister in charge of regional revitalization, attend a Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 10, 2022, wearing face masks for protection against the coronavirus.

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Japan PM Kishida at Cabinet meeting

(From L) Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Seiko Noda, the minister in charge of regional revitalization, attend a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on April 28, 2022, wearing masks for protection against the coronavirus.

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Japan PM Kishida at Cabinet meeting

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) attends a Cabinet meeting at his office in Tokyo on April 19, 2022, alongside Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (L) and Seiko Noda, the minister in charge of regional revitalization.

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Japan PM Kishida at Cabinet meeting

(From L) Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Seiko Noda, minister in charge of regional revitalization, attend a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on April 15, 2022, wearing masks for protection against the coronavirus.

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Japan PM Kishida at Cabinet meeting

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) attends a Cabinet meeting at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 21, 2022, alongside Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (L) and Seiko Noda, the minister in charge of regional revitalization.