Hiranuma, Uetake represent Japan at APEC ministerial meet

Hiranuma, Uetake represent Japan at APEC ministerial meet

SHANGHAI, China - Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma (R) and Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake (L) represent Japan at the ministerial meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum that began in Shanghai on Oct. 17.

Japan protests fishing off isles to S. Korea

Japan protests fishing off isles to S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake (L) leads South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong to a room at the Foreign Ministry on Aug. 2. Uetake officially protested to South Korea about South Korean fishers of saury beginning operations Aug. 1 in waters around Russian-held islands off Hokkaido which are claimed by Japan. Fishing began under a Russian-South Korean accord.

Japan protests S. Korea fishing off isles to Russia

Japan protests S. Korea fishing off isles to Russia

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake (R) meets Vassili Dobrovolsky, Russian charge d'affaires to Japan, at the Foreign Ministry on Aug. 2. Uetake officially protested to Russia about South Korean fishers of saury beginning operations Aug. 1 in waters around Russian-held islands off Hokkaido which are claimed by Japan. Fishing began under a Russia-South Korea accord.

Foreign Ministry, limo firm officials arrested

Foreign Ministry, limo firm officials arrested

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake (L), Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Kawashima (C) and Yutaka Iimura, director of the Foreign Ministry's Secretariat, apologize at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo July 16, after police arrested two ministry officials and two executives of a Tokyo-based limousine rental firm on suspicion of swindling the state out of 22 million yen by padding bills related to the Group of Eight (G-8) Okinawa summit last year.

Tanaka appears before lower house committee

Tanaka appears before lower house committee

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (L), just back from her first trip to the United States, have words with Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake, during a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on June 20.

Fukuda dismisses LDP calls for Tanaka's resignation

Fukuda dismisses LDP calls for Tanaka's resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (L) speaks with Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake during a House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee session June 6. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda later in the day dismissed calls from some ruling party officials to replace Tanaka for sparking a furor with her reported comments against U.S. missile defense policy.

Foreign Ministry bares reform proposals

Foreign Ministry bares reform proposals

TOKYO, Japan - Two Senior Vice-Foreign Ministers Seiken Sugiura (L) and Shigeo Uetake brief the media on internal reform proposals for the Foreign Ministry at a news conference June 6. The ministry compiled the proposals in the wake of a scandal in which a diplomat allegedly embezzled more than 260 million yen in government funds.

Japan protests fishing off isles to S. Korea

Japan protests fishing off isles to S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake (L) leads South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong to a room at the Foreign Ministry on Aug. 2. Uetake officially protested to South Korea about South Korean fishers of saury beginning operations Aug. 1 in waters around Russian-held islands off Hokkaido which are claimed by Japan. Fishing began under a Russian-South Korean accord.

Hiranuma, Uetake represent Japan at APEC ministerial meet

Hiranuma, Uetake represent Japan at APEC ministerial meet

SHANGHAI, China - Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma (R) and Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake (L) represent Japan at the ministerial meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum that began in Shanghai on Oct. 17.

Japan protests S. Korea fishing off isles to Russia

Japan protests S. Korea fishing off isles to Russia

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake (R) meets Vassili Dobrovolsky, Russian charge d'affaires to Japan, at the Foreign Ministry on Aug. 2. Uetake officially protested to Russia about South Korean fishers of saury beginning operations Aug. 1 in waters around Russian-held islands off Hokkaido which are claimed by Japan. Fishing began under a Russia-South Korea accord.

Fukuda dismisses LDP calls for Tanaka's resignation

Fukuda dismisses LDP calls for Tanaka's resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (L) speaks with Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake during a House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee session June 6. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda later in the day dismissed calls from some ruling party officials to replace Tanaka for sparking a furor with her reported comments against U.S. missile defense policy.

Foreign Ministry bares reform proposals

Foreign Ministry bares reform proposals

TOKYO, Japan - Two Senior Vice-Foreign Ministers Seiken Sugiura (L) and Shigeo Uetake brief the media on internal reform proposals for the Foreign Ministry at a news conference June 6. The ministry compiled the proposals in the wake of a scandal in which a diplomat allegedly embezzled more than 260 million yen in government funds.