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Diet summons key figure in HIV scandal

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 24 Kyodo - Takeshi Abe, former head of the Health and Welfare Ministry's AIDS study team and former vice president of Teikyo University, raises his hand to testify as unsworn witness at a House of Representatives committee session in Tokyo in April 1996 over his connection with HIV infections through tainted blood products in the early 1980s. An expert on hemophilia treatment, Abe is regarded as the key figure who influenced a ministry decision to continue the use of unheated blood products in 1984.(Kyodo)

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Japan-China high-level dialogue

(from L) Japanese Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Toshiko Abe, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, are pictured ahead of a high-level cultural exchange dialogue in Beijing on Dec. 25, 2024.

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Japan PM Abe's new Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 2 Kyodo - Japan's new Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya (R) attends an attestation ceremony with Emperor Akihito (L) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2018. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe can be seen in the center. (Pool photo)

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Okinawa governor tells Abe he wants to talk with Obama on G-7 sidelines

TOKYO, May 23 Kyodo - Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks to reporters after meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on May 23, 2016. Onaga asked Abe for an opportunity to talk directly with U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the May 26-27 Group of Seven summit in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, following the arrest of an American military base worker in connection with the death of a woman in Okinawa.

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Over 2.5-percentage-point cut in corporate tax eyed

TOKYO, Japan - Takeshi Noda (C), chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Research Commission on the Tax System, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, on Dec. 26, 2014, for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Prior to their meeting, Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Akira Amari said it is "necessary" to cut Japan's 35 percent effective corporate tax rate by "more than 2.5 percentage points."

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Okinawa municipalities against Ospreys

TOKYO, Japan - Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga (2nd from L in front row) and other leaders of about 30 municipalities in Okinawa Prefecture hold a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2013. They handed a petition to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe calling on him to rescind the Japanese government's approval of the deployment of Osprey transport aircraft at a U.S. base in the island prefecture.

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Baseball: Abe's 3-run shot lifts CL to All-Star sweep

SENDAI, Japan - Veteran Rakuten slugger Takeshi Yamasaki delights the local fans at Fullcast Stadium in Sendai on July 21 with a two-run homer in the first inning of Game 2 in the All-Star series. Their delight was short-lived as the Central League outslugged the Pacific League for an 11-5 victory and a two-game sweep of the series.

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Hemophilia expert Abe found innocent in HIV trial

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs filing HIV suits meet the press in Tokyo on March 28 after the Tokyo District Court acquitted Takeshi Abe, once Japan's top hemophilia expert, of professional negligence resulting in the death of one of his patients from AIDS in 1991. The court said there was little possibility Abe, former vice president of Teikyo University, could have foreseen the scale of the tragedy.

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People line up to hear prosecutors' arguments in Abe case

TOKYO, Japan - People line up outside the Tokyo District Court on July 26 for tickets to hear the prosecution's closing arguments in the trial of Takeshi Abe. A former top authority on hemophilia, Abe is at the center of a scandal involving the HIV infection of nearly 1,500 hemophiliacs by unheated blood-clotting agents.

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Ex-AIDS study group chief Abe testifies

Takeshi Abe, former chief of the Health and Welfare Ministry's AIDS study group, testifies July 23 as a sworn witness before the Diet over ministry-sanctioned provision of HIV-tainted blood products to hemophiliacs.

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Abe testifies

Takeshi ABE, former chief of the Health and Welfare Ministry's AIDS study group, testifies on April 17, 1996 before the Health and Welfare Committee of the House of Councilors over ministry-sanctioned provision of HIV-tainted blood products to hemophiliacs.

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Baseball: Abe's 3-run shot lifts CL to All-Star sweep

SENDAI, Japan - Veteran Rakuten slugger Takeshi Yamasaki delights the local fans at Fullcast Stadium in Sendai on July 21 with a two-run homer in the first inning of Game 2 in the All-Star series. Their delight was short-lived as the Central League outslugged the Pacific League for an 11-5 victory and a two-game sweep of the series. (Kyodo)

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Okinawa governor criticizes Abe for neglecting Okinawa

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks to reporters in Naha on May 26, 2016, following a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the previous night. The governor criticized Abe for telling Obama that moving the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Station Futenma from a crowded residential area to a less populated coastal area within Okinawa is the only solution to remove the dangers posed by the air base. Onaga has called for relocating the base outside Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa governor decries no mention of SOFA revision by Abe, Obama

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks to reporters in Naha, Japan on May 25, 2016, after a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo. Onaga expressed disappointment that the leaders failed to show a willingness to respond to calls to revise a bilateral accord defining the handling of U.S. base personnel in Japan in the wake of the arrest of a civilian U.S. base worker over the death of a local woman. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa governor decries no mention of SOFA revision by Abe, Obama

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks to reporters in Naha, Japan on May 25, 2016, after a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo. Onaga expressed disappointment that the leaders failed to show a willingness to respond to calls to revise a bilateral accord defining the handling of U.S. base personnel in Japan in the wake of the arrest of a civilian U.S. base worker over the death of a local woman. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa governor tells Abe he wants to talk with Obama on G-7 sidelines

(From L) Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga meet at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 23, 2016. Onaga asked Abe to have an opportunity to speak directly to U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the May 26-27 Group of Seven summit, following the arrest of an American base worker in connection with the death of a woman in Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa governor tells Abe he wants to talk with Obama on G-7 sidelines

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks to reporters after meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on May 23, 2016. Onaga asked Abe for an opportunity to talk directly with U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the May 26-27 Group of Seven summit in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, following the arrest of an American military base worker in connection with the death of a woman in Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa governor tells Abe he wants to talk with Obama on G-7 sidelines

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meet at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 23, 2016. Onaga asked Abe to have an opportunity to speak directly to U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the May 26-27 Group of Seven summit, following the arrest of an American military base worker in connection with the death of a woman in Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe to meet with Okinawa governor over death of local woman

Undated combined photo shows Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga. The two are scheduled to meet at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 23, 2016, over the arrest of an American base worker in connection with the death of a local woman which stoked anger among islanders already feeling burdened with the heavy U.S. military presence. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Legal battle over Okinawa base relocation comes to halt

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks with reporters after meeting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 4, 2016, following Abe's announcement earlier in the day that he has decided to suspend landfill work in Okinawa to build a replacement facility for a U.S. air base in the prefecture. Onaga has demanded that the Futenma base be relocated outside Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Legal battle over Okinawa base relocation comes to halt

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (L) shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 4, 2016, following Abe's announcement earlier in the day that he has decided to suspend landfill work in Okinawa to build a replacement facility for a U.S. air base in the prefecture. Onaga has demanded that the Futenma base be relocated outside Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Legal battle over Okinawa base relocation comes to halt

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (L) sits down with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 4, 2016, following Abe's announcement earlier in the day that he has decided to suspend landfill work in Okinawa to build a replacement facility for a U.S. air base in the prefecture. Onaga has demanded that the Futenma base be relocated outside Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Legal battle over Okinawa base relocation comes to halt

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (L) shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 4, 2016, following Abe's announcement earlier in the day that he has decided to suspend landfill work in Okinawa to build a replacement facility for a U.S. air base in the prefecture. Onaga has demanded that the Futenma base be relocated outside Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Legal battle over Okinawa base relocation comes to halt

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks with reporters after meeting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 4, 2016, following Abe's announcement earlier in the day that he has decided to suspend landfill work in Okinawa to build a replacement facility for a U.S. air base in the prefecture. Onaga has demanded that the Futenma base be relocated outside Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa revokes approval for U.S. base relocation work

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at his office in Tokyo on Oct. 13, 2015, after Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga officially revoked the approval his predecessor issued to the central government for landfill work to relocate a key U.S. military base within the southernmost island prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe re-elected unopposed as LDP leader

Takeshi Noda, chief administrator of the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election, announces the re-election unopposed of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the ruling party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe, Okinawa gov. hold talks over base relocation

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) and Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (R) shake hands during a meeting in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2015, on the planned relocation of a U.S. military base within Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe, Okinawa Gov. Onaga hold talks over base relocation

Combined photo taken Sept. 7, 2015, in Tokyo shows a meeting between the central government officials (L), including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and the Okinawa government representatives (R), including Gov. Takeshi Onaga, over a planned relocation of a U.S. military base within Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese PM Abe, Okinawa Gov. hold talks over base relocation

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (far R) speaks to Japanese government representatives, including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (3rd from L), during a meeting in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2015, about a planned relocation of a U.S. military base within Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe, Okinawa Gov. Onaga attend talks over base relocation

Photo shows Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga. The two attended a meeting in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2015, about the planned relocation of a U.S. military base within Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe meets with Okinawa Gov. Onaga

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) meets with Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga at his office in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2015. Onaga requested Abe earmark over 300 billion yen in the fiscal 2016 budget for developing Japan's southernmost island prefecture. The plan to relocate a U.S. military base within Okinawa also remains a huge issue between the national and the prefectural governments. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa Gov. Onaga meets with PM Abe

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (C) meets with reporters after talking with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2015. Onaga requested Abe earmark over 300 billion yen in the fiscal 2016 budget for developing Japan's southernmost island prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe meets with Okinawa Gov. Onaga

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) meets with Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga at his office in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2015. Onaga requested Abe earmark over 300 billion yen in the fiscal 2016 budget for developing Japan's southernmost island prefecture. The plan to relocate a U.S. military base within Okinawa also remains a huge issue between the national and the prefectural governments. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa marks 70th anniv. of WWII battle

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) heads to offer a flower during a memorial service at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa on June 23, 2015, to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of a World War II ground battle in the prefecture. At right is Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga, who is at odds with Abe over a plan to relocate a key U.S. military base within the prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa marks 70th anniv. of end of WWII battle

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga head to offer flowers at the state-run grave in the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 23, 2015, as the day marked the 70th anniversary of the end of the World War II battle that claimed more than 200,000 lives. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa governor presents "kariyushi" shirt to PM Abe

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (C) meets with reporters after presenting a formal "kariyushi" Okinawan shirt to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 25, 2015. They did not refer to the pending issue of relocating a U.S. military base within Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa governor presents "kariyushi" shirt to PM Abe

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (C) presents a formal "kariyushi" Okinawan shirt to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 25, 2015. They did not refer to the pending issue of relocating a U.S. military base within Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa governor presents "kariyushi" shirt to PM Abe

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (L) shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 25, 2015, as Onaga presented a formal "kariyushi" Okinawan shirt to the premier. They did not refer to the pending issue of relocating a U.S. military base within Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe, Okinawa governor remain apart over Futenma relocation

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks to reporters after his first meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on April 17, 2015. The two remained apart over the planned relocation of a U.S. air base within the island prefecture, with Onaga demanding that the state halt relocation work. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe, Okinawa governor remain apart over Futenma relocation

Combined photo shows Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (L) and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who held their first talks at Abe's office in Tokyo on April 17, 2015. They remained apart over the planned relocation of a U.S. air base within the island prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe, Okinawa governor remain apart over Futenma relocation

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga hold their first talks at Abe's office in Tokyo on April 17, 2015, in an effort to defuse tensions over the planned relocation of a U.S. air base within the island prefecture. They remained apart over the issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe, Okinawa gov. hold 1st talks over Futenma relocation

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga shake hands before their first talks at Abe's office in Tokyo on April 17, 2015, in an effort to defuse tensions over the planned relocation of a U.S. air base within the island prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe, Okinawa gov. hold 1st talks over Futenma relocation

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga heads for his first meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Abe's office in Tokyo on April 17, 2015, in an effort to defuse tensions over the planned relocation of a U.S. air base within the island prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe, Okinawa gov. hold 1st talks over Futenma relocation

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga shake hands before their first talks at Abe's office in Tokyo on April 17, 2015, in an effort to defuse tensions over the planned relocation of a U.S. air base within the island prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe's new Cabinet

Japan's new Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya (R) attends an attestation ceremony with Emperor Akihito (L) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2018. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe can be seen in the center. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Over 2.5-percentage-point cut in corporate tax eyed

TOKYO, Japan - Takeshi Noda (C), chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Research Commission on the Tax System, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, on Dec. 26, 2014, for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Prior to their meeting, Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Akira Amari said it is "necessary" to cut Japan's 35 percent effective corporate tax rate by "more than 2.5 percentage points." (Kyodo)

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Imperial Palace ceremony for Order of Culture recipients

Six recipients of this year's Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, pose for a photo with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2019, after attending the award ceremony. The six (from L) are Akira Yoshino, 71, a co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, mathematical engineering scholar Shunichi Amari, 83, photographer Takeyoshi Tanuma, 90, Kyogen actor Nomura Man, 89, political scientist Takeshi Sasaki, 77, and immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi, 68. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-India defense talks

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R), Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya (R) and Iwaya's Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh (L) hold talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 2, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Diet summons key figure in HIV scandal

Japan-China high-level dialogue

Japan PM Abe's new Cabinet

Okinawa governor tells Abe he wants to talk with Obama on G-7 sidelines

Over 2.5-percentage-point cut in corporate tax eyed

Okinawa municipalities against Ospreys

Baseball: Abe's 3-run shot lifts CL to All-Star sweep

Top court rules stories on Abe's HIV role not defamatory

Hemophilia expert Abe found innocent in HIV trial

People line up to hear prosecutors' arguments in Abe case

Ex-AIDS study group chief Abe testifies

Abe testifies

Baseball: Abe's 3-run shot lifts CL to All-Star sweep

Top court rules stories on Abe's HIV role not defamatory

Okinawa governor criticizes Abe for neglecting Okinawa

Okinawa governor decries no mention of SOFA revision by Abe, Obama

Okinawa governor decries no mention of SOFA revision by Abe, Obama

Okinawa governor tells Abe he wants to talk with Obama on G-7 sidelines

Okinawa governor tells Abe he wants to talk with Obama on G-7 sidelines

Okinawa governor tells Abe he wants to talk with Obama on G-7 sidelines

Abe to meet with Okinawa governor over death of local woman

Legal battle over Okinawa base relocation comes to halt

Legal battle over Okinawa base relocation comes to halt

Legal battle over Okinawa base relocation comes to halt

Legal battle over Okinawa base relocation comes to halt

Legal battle over Okinawa base relocation comes to halt

Okinawa revokes approval for U.S. base relocation work

Abe re-elected unopposed as LDP leader

PM Abe, Okinawa gov. hold talks over base relocation

PM Abe, Okinawa Gov. Onaga hold talks over base relocation

Japanese PM Abe, Okinawa Gov. hold talks over base relocation

PM Abe, Okinawa Gov. Onaga attend talks over base relocation

PM Abe meets with Okinawa Gov. Onaga

Okinawa Gov. Onaga meets with PM Abe

PM Abe meets with Okinawa Gov. Onaga

Okinawa marks 70th anniv. of WWII battle

Okinawa marks 70th anniv. of end of WWII battle

Okinawa governor presents "kariyushi" shirt to PM Abe

Okinawa governor presents "kariyushi" shirt to PM Abe

Okinawa governor presents "kariyushi" shirt to PM Abe

Abe, Okinawa governor remain apart over Futenma relocation

Abe, Okinawa governor remain apart over Futenma relocation

Abe, Okinawa governor remain apart over Futenma relocation

Abe, Okinawa gov. hold 1st talks over Futenma relocation

Abe, Okinawa gov. hold 1st talks over Futenma relocation

Abe, Okinawa gov. hold 1st talks over Futenma relocation

Japan PM Abe's new Cabinet

Over 2.5-percentage-point cut in corporate tax eyed

Imperial Palace ceremony for Order of Culture recipients

Japan-India defense talks