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Japan's Yanai re-elected as U.N. sea tribunal judge

NEW YORK, United States - Shunji Yanai responds to questions from reporters in New York, the United States, on June 11, 2014, after being re-elected as a judge at a U.N. tribunal handling sea disputes such as resources development, for a nine-year term from October.

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Japan panel on collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) receives a report from former Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai, who heads a panel of security experts, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 15, 2014. The panel proposed that Japan defend allies under armed attack by lifting its self-imposed ban on the exercise of the right to collective self-defense, giving the nod to Abe's push for an overhaul of postwar security policy.

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Japan panel on collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) receives a report from former Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai, who heads a panel of security experts, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 15, 2014. The panel proposed that Japan defend allies under armed attack by lifting its self-imposed ban on the exercise of the right to collective self-defense, giving the nod to Abe's push for an overhaul of postwar security policy.

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Japan's Yanai elected president of int'l maritime court

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Shunji Yanai of Japan. The judge, a former Japanese ambassador to the United States, was elected on Oct. 1, 2011, as president of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for the three years through 2013

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Japan's Yanai elected as judge of int'l tribunal for sea law

NEW YORK, United States - Former Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shunji Yanai holds a news conference in New York on June 22 as he was elected the same day as one of the judges of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea which adjudicates disputes involving ocean space as well as its uses and resources.

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Yanai denies U.S. put pressure for SDF dispatch

WASHINGTON, United States - Outgoing Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai spoke in an interview with Kyodo News at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Oct. 23. He denied Washington has pressured Japan to dispatch Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to provide logistical support for the U.S.-led military campaign against terrorism.

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Tanaka hints at punishment for envoy to U.S.

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka indicates Oct. 12 she may consider imposing some kind of punishment on Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai for proposing ways for Japan to assist the U.S. military campaign against terrorism. ''It may be a warning or something like that. But I do not intend to fire him over the case,'' Tanaka told a press conference.

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Japan's U.S. envoy accused of pressuring contractor

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's outgoing ambassador to the United States, Shunji Yanai, put pressure on a major construction firm to change the design of a building (2) facing his own condominium block (1) in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward between 1995 and 1999, a source close to the case said Aug. 23. Yanai, who denies abusing his position in the Foreign Ministry to exert influence on the builder, is to resign next month over a scandal involving another Foreign Ministry official in the U.S. Photo was taken by Kyodo News helicopter.

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Tanaka agrees to Koizumi's plan to sack envoy

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show (upper row from L to R) Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Kawashima and Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai, (lower row from L to R) Japan International Cooperation Agency head Kunihiko Saito and Ambassador to Britain Sadayuki Hayashi whom Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has decided to replace after a feud with Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, a government source said August 2.

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Tanaka says Yanai should remain ambassador to U.S.

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka tells Foreign Ministry staff on Aug. 2 she intends to go through with her plan to retain Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai for the time being, despite reported instructions to the contrary from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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Consul general buys furniture for ambassador

DENVER, United States - File photo shows the Japanese consulate general in Denver, Colorado. Consul General Makoto Mizutani, 52, has been dismissed for mishandling about $81,600 in public funds. Sources close to the Foreign Ministry said in Tokyo on July 28 Mizutani spent about $5,800 in public funds for purchasing furniture in a bid to win a favor of Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai in December 1999.

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Japan's Yanai elected as judge of int'l tribunal for sea law

NEW YORK, United States - Former Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shunji Yanai holds a news conference in New York on June 22 as he was elected the same day as one of the judges of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea which adjudicates disputes involving ocean space as well as its uses and resources. (Kyodo)

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Tanaka says Yanai should remain ambassador to U.S.

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka tells Foreign Ministry staff on Aug. 2 she intends to go through with her plan to retain Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai for the time being, despite reported instructions to the contrary from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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Consul general buys furniture for ambassador

DENVER, United States - File photo shows the Japanese consulate general in Denver, Colorado. Consul General Makoto Mizutani, 52, has been dismissed for mishandling about $81,600 in public funds. Sources close to the Foreign Ministry said in Tokyo on July 28 Mizutani spent about $5,800 in public funds for purchasing furniture in a bid to win a favor of Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai in December 1999.

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Japan's Yanai elected president of int'l maritime court

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Shunji Yanai of Japan. The judge, a former Japanese ambassador to the United States, was elected on Oct. 1, 2011, as president of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for the three years through 2013 (Kyodo)

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Japan's Yanai re-elected as U.N. sea tribunal judge

NEW YORK, United States - Shunji Yanai responds to questions from reporters in New York, the United States, on June 11, 2014, after being re-elected as a judge at a U.N. tribunal handling sea disputes such as resources development, for a nine-year term from October. (Kyodo)

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Yanai denies U.S. put pressure for SDF dispatch

WASHINGTON, United States - Outgoing Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai spoke in an interview with Kyodo News at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Oct. 23. He denied Washington has pressured Japan to dispatch Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to provide logistical support for the U.S.-led military campaign against terrorism.

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Tanaka hints at punishment for envoy to U.S.

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka indicates Oct. 12 she may consider imposing some kind of punishment on Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai for proposing ways for Japan to assist the U.S. military campaign against terrorism. ''It may be a warning or something like that. But I do not intend to fire him over the case,'' Tanaka told a press conference.

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Japan's U.S. envoy accused of pressuring contractor

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's outgoing ambassador to the United States, Shunji Yanai, put pressure on a major construction firm to change the design of a building (2) facing his own condominium block (1) in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward between 1995 and 1999, a source close to the case said Aug. 23. Yanai, who denies abusing his position in the Foreign Ministry to exert influence on the builder, is to resign next month over a scandal involving another Foreign Ministry official in the U.S. Photo was taken by Kyodo News helicopter.

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Tanaka agrees to Koizumi's plan to sack envoy

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show (upper row from L to R) Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Kawashima and Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai, (lower row from L to R) Japan International Cooperation Agency head Kunihiko Saito and Ambassador to Britain Sadayuki Hayashi whom Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has decided to replace after a feud with Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, a government source said August 2.

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Yanai expresses intention to resign

WASHINGTON, July 27 Kyodo - Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai (L) said July 27 it is up to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka whether he should resign over an embezzlement scandal involving Makoto Mizutani (R), who has been dismissed as Japanese Consul General in Denver, Colorado.