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Katayama, secretary general of LDP in upper house, set to lose

TOKYO, Japan - Toranosuke Katayama, secretary general of the House of Councillors caucus of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to supporters in Okayama on July 29 after his defeat in the day's election appears certain.

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Abe names new LDP executives

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe (4th from L) joins hands with new party executives he named on Sept. 25 at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo. The executives (from L to R) are Acting Secretary General Nobuteru Ishihara, General Council Chairman Yuya Niwa, Secretary General Hidenao Nakagawa, Abe, Policy Research Council Chairman Shoichi Nakagawa, the party's upper house caucus leader Mikio Aoki and the caucus Secretary General Toranosuke Katayama.

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Veteran Aoki promoted to head of LDP upper house caucus

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Aoki (L), new chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's House of Councillors caucus, and Toranosuke Katayama, new secretary general of the group, speak to reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on July 26.

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Ruling parties debate privacy bills amid opposition boycott

TOKYO, Japan - Opposition party members vacate seats (shown in photo) as the ruling coalition begins a question and answer session April 14 on a new set of privacy-protection bills and the opposition's counterproposal in a House of Representatives special committee meeting. Hiroyuki Hosoda (standing), state minister on information-technology policy, answers questions in the session. Home affairs minister Toranosuke Katayama is seated on right.

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(1)Posts minister Katayama presents stamps to Kabuki actors

TOKYO, Japan - Posts minister Toranosuke Katayama (C) presents two kinds of stamps now on sale, which commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Kabuki play, to Kabuki actors Onoe Kikugoro (L) and Ichikawa Danjuro (R) at the Kabukiza theater in Tokyo's Higashi-Ginza district.

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Asian forum for World Summit on Information Society ends

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama addresses the closing session of an Asian forum held in preparation for a World Summit on Information Society in Tokyo on Jan. 15. Some 600 government and private-sector delegates from about 50 Asian countries and territories attended the three-day conference.

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About 24% of Yokohama residents reject resident registry

TOKYO, Japan - Yokohama Mayor Hiroshi Nakada (R) meets with home affairs minister Toranosuke Katayama in Tokyo on Oct. 16. The Yokohama city government said earlier in the day that 839,539 residents, or some 24% of its population, have chosen not to have their personal data registered in a newly launched national resident registry network.

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Post services panel inaugurated

TOKYO, Japan - Postal services minister Toranosuke Katayama (standing R) addresses a 14-member panel to prepare for a public corporation to take over the state-run postal services at an inaugural meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 15. Seated at right is Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), who also serves as chairman of the panel.

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Ikuta appointed head of postal reform panel

TOKYO, Japan - Posts minister Toranosuke Katayama (L) hands an official appointment letter to Masaharu Ikuta, chairman of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., to become head of a government committee to prepare for the conversion of the state-run postal services to a new public entity. At background are 13 other committee members.

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(2)Mitsui O.S.K.'s Ikuta appointed head of new postal firm

TOKYO, Japan - Masaharu Ikuta (R), chairman of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., beams as he receives the letter of appointment as head of a new public corporation to be established in April 2003 to run the nation's postal services from Minister of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Toranosuke Katayama (L).

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(2)5 cabinet ministers visit Yasukuni Shrine on anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama arrives at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to pay tribute to war dead on the 57th anniversary of the end of World War II. Four other cabinet ministers also visited the shrine.

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(3)Resident registry network launched amid criticism

TOKYO, Japan - Home affairs minister Toranosuke Katayama speaks at his office Aug. 5 as a controversial national resident registry network was launched the same day.

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1st meeting on Asian broadband strategy held

TOKYO, Japan - Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama (C) speaks at the International Conference for Asia Broadband Strategy in Tokyo on July 22. Experts and business executives from China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand discussed enhancing broadband infrastructure in the Asian region.

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Minister admits hurdle high to enter into mail service

TOKYO, Japan - Postal minister Toranosuke Katayama speaks at a meeting of a House of Representatives panel July 4. He admitted the hurdle is set high for private companies to enter into the mail service on a full-scale basis, prompting no firms so far to plan to do so when the field becomes open in the spring of 2003.

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Diet starts deliberating personal info protection bill

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi watches as Posts Minister Toranosuke Katayama, who is in charge of public management and home affairs, leaves the rostrum after introducing a bill to protect personal information in the House of Representatives on April 25. The lower house immediately started deliberating the bill that critics fear may violate the freedom of expression guaranteed in the Constitution.

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Katayama leasing Okayama Pref. house to gangster

OKAYAMA, Japan - Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama has been leasing this Okayama Prefecture house (photo taken March 4) to a senior gangster for nearly two years, sources close to the case said March 5.

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China, Japan agree on broader cooperation in IT

BEIJING, China - Japanese Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama (L) and Chinese Information Industry Minister Wu Jichuan exchange notes on promotion of cooperation in the field of information technology (IT). Katayama and Wu also agreed on launching trilateral telecom ministerial talks on a regular basis, along with South Korea.

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Katayama meets with Yang

SEOUL, South Korea - Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama (R) and South Korean Communication Minister Yang Seung Taik (L) shake hands before they begin talks in Seoul on Jan. 9.

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Japan's Katayama inspects World Cup soccer stadium in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Japan's Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama (R) inspects a stadium in Seoul to be used for this year's World Cup soccer finals, which is to be co-hosted by Japan and South Korea.

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Katayama retains post in new cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Toranosuke Katayama speaks at a news conference April 26 after being retained as minister of public management, home affairs and posts and telecommunications.

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Panel meets to redraw lower house constituencies

TOKYO, Japan - Home Affairs Minister Toranosuke Katayama addresses in a Tokyo hotel on Dec. 25 a government panel tasked with redrawing House of Representatives single-seat constituencies in 10 prefectures. The Council on the House of Representatives Electoral Districts began discussions on reorganizing the constituencies in response to the results of a recent national census.

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Panel proposes breakup of NTT unless competition is boosted

TOKYO, Japan - Sho Nasu (L), chairman of the Telecommunications Council, a government advisory panel, hands a report to issued a report Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama on Dec. 21. The report called for the dismantling of the current holding company structure of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) unless competition is enhanced in Japan's telecommunications market.

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China, Japan agree on broader cooperation in IT

BEIJING, China - Japanese Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama (L) and Chinese Information Industry Minister Wu Jichuan exchange notes on promotion of cooperation in the field of information technology (IT). Katayama and Wu also agreed on launching trilateral telecom ministerial talks on a regular basis, along with South Korea.

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Katayama leasing Okayama Pref. house to gangster

OKAYAMA, Japan - Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama has been leasing this Okayama Prefecture house (photo taken March 4) to a senior gangster for nearly two years, sources close to the case said March 5.

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About 24% of Yokohama residents reject resident registry

TOKYO, Japan - Yokohama Mayor Hiroshi Nakada (R) meets with home affairs minister Toranosuke Katayama in Tokyo on Oct. 16. The Yokohama city government said earlier in the day that 839,539 residents, or some 24% of its population, have chosen not to have their personal data registered in a newly launched national resident registry network. (Kyodo)

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Katayama meets with Yang

SEOUL, South Korea - Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama (R) and South Korean Communication Minister Yang Seung Taik (L) shake hands before they begin talks in Seoul on Jan. 9.

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Japan's Katayama inspects World Cup soccer stadium in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Japan's Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama (R) inspects a stadium in Seoul to be used for this year's World Cup soccer finals, which is to be co-hosted by Japan and South Korea.

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Asian forum for World Summit on Information Society ends

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama addresses the closing session of an Asian forum held in preparation for a World Summit on Information Society in Tokyo on Jan. 15. Some 600 government and private-sector delegates from about 50 Asian countries and territories attended the three-day conference. (Kyodo)

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Post services panel inaugurated

TOKYO, Japan - Postal services minister Toranosuke Katayama (standing R) addresses a 14-member panel to prepare for a public corporation to take over the state-run postal services at an inaugural meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 15. Seated at right is Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), who also serves as chairman of the panel. (Kyodo)

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Ikuta appointed head of postal reform panel

TOKYO, Japan - Posts minister Toranosuke Katayama (L) hands an official appointment letter to Masaharu Ikuta, chairman of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., to become head of a government committee to prepare for the conversion of the state-run postal services to a new public entity. At background are 13 other committee members. (Kyodo)

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(2)Posts minister Katayama presents stamps to Kabuki actors

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows two kinds of stamps now on sale, which commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Kabuki play. Posts minister Toranosuke Katayama presented the stamps Jan. 22 to Kabuki actors Onoe Kikugoro and Ichikawa Danjuro at the Kabukiza theater in Tokyo's Higashi-Ginza district. (Kyodo)

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Abe names new LDP executives

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe (4th from L) joins hands with new party executives he named on Sept. 25 at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo. The executives (from L to R) are Acting Secretary General Nobuteru Ishihara, General Council Chairman Yuya Niwa, Secretary General Hidenao Nakagawa, Abe, Policy Research Council Chairman Shoichi Nakagawa, the party's upper house caucus leader Mikio Aoki and the caucus Secretary General Toranosuke Katayama. (Kyodo)

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Katayama, secretary general of LDP in upper house, set to lose

TOKYO, Japan - Toranosuke Katayama, secretary general of the House of Councillors caucus of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to supporters in Okayama on July 29 after his defeat in the day's election appears certain. (Kyodo)

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Japan political party leaders' debate

Toranosuke Katayama, co-head of the Japan Innovation Party, speaks in a parliamentary debate with other party leaders in Tokyo on June 19, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan political party leaders' debate

Combined photo shows Japanese political party leaders in a parliamentary debate in Tokyo on June 19, 2019 -- (from R) Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of the Liberal Democratic Party, Yukio Edano of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Yuichiro Tamaki of the Democratic Party for the People, Kazuo Shii of the Japanese Communist Party and Toranosuke Katayama of the Japan Innovation Party. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takaichi now Japan's longest-serving internal affairs minister

Sanae Takaichi, a close confidante of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, heads to a Cabinet meeting at the premier's office in Tokyo on June 20, 2017. Takaichi tied with Toranosuke Katayama as Japan's longest-serving internal affairs and communications minister with 1,022 days in office. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Veteran Aoki promoted to head of LDP upper house caucus

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Aoki (L), new chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's House of Councillors caucus, and Toranosuke Katayama, new secretary general of the group, speak to reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on July 26. (Kyodo)

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Ruling parties debate privacy bills amid opposition boycott

TOKYO, Japan - Opposition party members vacate seats (shown in photo) as the ruling coalition begins a question and answer session April 14 on a new set of privacy-protection bills and the opposition's counterproposal in a House of Representatives special committee meeting. Hiroyuki Hosoda (standing), state minister on information-technology policy, answers questions in the session. Home affairs minister Toranosuke Katayama is seated on right. (Kyodo)

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(1)Posts minister Katayama presents stamps to Kabuki actors

TOKYO, Japan - Posts minister Toranosuke Katayama (C) presents two kinds of stamps now on sale, which commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Kabuki play, to Kabuki actors Onoe Kikugoro (L) and Ichikawa Danjuro (R) at the Kabukiza theater in Tokyo's Higashi-Ginza district. (Kyodo)

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Post services panel inaugurated

TOKYO, Japan - Postal services minister Toranosuke Katayama (standing R) addresses a 14-member panel to prepare for a public corporation to take over the state-run postal services at an inaugural meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 15. Seated at right is Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), who also serves as chairman of the panel. (Kyodo)

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(2)Mitsui O.S.K.'s Ikuta appointed head of new postal firm

TOKYO, Japan - Masaharu Ikuta (R), chairman of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., beams as he receives the letter of appointment as head of a new public corporation to be established in April 2003 to run the nation's postal services from Minister of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Toranosuke Katayama (L). (Kyodo)

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(3)Resident registry network launched amid criticism

TOKYO, Japan - Home affairs minister Toranosuke Katayama speaks at his office Aug. 5 as a controversial national resident registry network was launched the same day.

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1st meeting on Asian broadband strategy held

TOKYO, Japan - Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama (C) speaks at the International Conference for Asia Broadband Strategy in Tokyo on July 22. Experts and business executives from China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand discussed enhancing broadband infrastructure in the Asian region.

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Minister admits hurdle high to enter into mail service

TOKYO, Japan - Postal minister Toranosuke Katayama speaks at a meeting of a House of Representatives panel July 4. He admitted the hurdle is set high for private companies to enter into the mail service on a full-scale basis, prompting no firms so far to plan to do so when the field becomes open in the spring of 2003.

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Diet starts deliberating personal info protection bill

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi watches as Posts Minister Toranosuke Katayama, who is in charge of public management and home affairs, leaves the rostrum after introducing a bill to protect personal information in the House of Representatives on April 25. The lower house immediately started deliberating the bill that critics fear may violate the freedom of expression guaranteed in the Constitution.

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Katayama retains post in new cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Toranosuke Katayama speaks at a news conference April 26 after being retained as minister of public management, home affairs and posts and telecommunications.

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Panel meets to redraw lower house constituencies

TOKYO, Japan - Home Affairs Minister Toranosuke Katayama addresses in a Tokyo hotel on Dec. 25 a government panel tasked with redrawing House of Representatives single-seat constituencies in 10 prefectures. The Council on the House of Representatives Electoral Districts began discussions on reorganizing the constituencies in response to the results of a recent national census.

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Panel proposes breakup of NTT unless competition is boosted

TOKYO, Japan - Sho Nasu (L), chairman of the Telecommunications Council, a government advisory panel, hands a report to issued a report Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama on Dec. 21. The report called for the dismantling of the current holding company structure of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) unless competition is enhanced in Japan's telecommunications market.