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Nagano Gov. Tanaka peps up quake victims

NAGAOKA, Japan - A woman from the quake-hit Village of Yamakoshi, central Niigata Prefecture, is moved to tears as she received a gist from Nagano Governor Yasuo Tanaka in Nagaoka on Dec. 26.

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Japan general election eve

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka, head of the New Party Nippon, makes a stump speech in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 15, 2012, on the eve of the general election.

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Japan general election

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows (top column, from R to L) Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, president of the Democratic Party of Japan, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, president of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, Yukiko Kada, head of the Tomorrow Party of Japan, Natsuo Yamaguchi, head of the New Komeito party, (center column, from R to L) former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, head of the Japan Restoration Party, Kazuo Shii, head of the Japanese Communist Party, Yoshimi Watanabe, head of Your Party, Mizuho Fukushima, head of the Social Democratic Party, (bottom column, from R to L) Kenko Matsuki, acting leader of the New Party Daichi, Shozaburo Jimi, head of the People's New Party, Yasuo Tanaka, head of the New Party Nippon, and Yoichi Masuzoe, head of the New Renaissance Party, while making stump speeches at various locations across the country on Dec. 4, 2012, as official campaigning kicked off the same day for the Dec. 16 general election.

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Japan general election

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka, head of the New Party Nippon, makes a stump speech in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 4, 2012, after official campaigning kicked off for the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Japan general election

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka, head of the New Party Nippon, makes a stump speech in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 4, 2012, after official campaigning kicked off for the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Outgoing Defense Minister Ichikawa

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa heads for a Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 13, 2012. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has decided to replace Ichikawa with Naoki Tanaka, a ruling Democratic Party of Japan member in the House of Councillors, later in the day.

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Tanaka to become new defense minister

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Naoki Tanaka, a ruling Democratic Party of Japan member of the House of Councillors. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, DPJ chief, has decided to appoint Tanaka as defense minister, replacing Yasuo Ichikawa who was censured in the upper house in December 2011, DPJ lawmakers said Jan. 13, 2012.

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Defense Minister Ichikawa

NAHA, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa leaves the site of his press conference in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, in southern Japan on the night of Dec. 2, 2011. He held the conference after meeting with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima at the prefectural government office in Naha to offer an apology over an indiscreet comment made by one of his ministry's officials. In reference to the government's plan to relocate a key U.S. military base in Okinawa, Satoshi Tanaka, chief of the Okinawa Defense Bureau, allegedly used a Japanese term implying an act of sexual violence against women.

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Okinawa Gov. Nakaima

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima speaks with reporters after meeting with Japanese Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa at the prefectural government office in Naha on the night of Dec. 2, 2011. Ichikawa visited the governor to offer an apology over an indiscreet comment made by one of his ministry's officials. In reference to the government's plan to relocate a key U.S. military base in Okinawa, Satoshi Tanaka, chief of the Okinawa Defense Bureau, allegedly used a Japanese term implying an act of sexual violence against women.

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Defense minister apologizes to Okinawa gov.

NAHA, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (L) bows deeply to Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (R front) in a gesture of apology over an indiscreet comment made by one of his ministry's officials at the prefectural government office in Naha on the night of Dec. 2, 2011. In reference to the government's plan to relocate a key U.S. military base in Okinawa, Satoshi Tanaka, chief of the Okinawa Defense Bureau, allegedly used a Japanese term implying an act of sexual violence against women.

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Defense minister apologizes to Okinawa gov.

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (R) stands up to terminate a meeting with Japanese Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (L) at the prefectural government office in Naha on the night of Dec. 2, 2011. Ichikawa visited the governor to offer an apology over an indiscreet comment made by one of his ministry's officials. In reference to the government's plan to relocate a key U.S. military base in Okinawa, Satoshi Tanaka, chief of the Okinawa Defense Bureau, allegedly used a Japanese term implying an act of sexual violence against women.

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Kan attends labor federation's New Year party

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Nobuaki Koga (L), Prime Minister Naoto Kan (2nd from L), New Party Nippon leader Yasuo Tanaka (R) and Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima (2nd from R) break the cover of a sake barrel using wooden hammers during a toast at a New Year gathering organized by the labor union association at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2011.

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Campaigning gets under way for upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - New Party Nippon leader Yasuo Tanaka delivers a stump speech in Tokyo's Yurakucho district on June 24, 2010, as official campaigning began for the July 11 House of Councillors election.

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People's New Party, New Party Nippon form parliamentary group

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei (R), leader of the People's New Party, and Yasuo Tanaka, head of the New Party Nippon, hold a joint news conference at parliament in Tokyo on June 8, 2010, after they agreed to form a parliamentary group in the House of Representatives as they look toward this summer's House of Councillors election.

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Nagano governor to retire

NAGANO, Japan - Nagano Gov. Jin Murai says he will not run in the August gubernatorial election in a press conference in Nagano on May 13, 2010. Murai served a four-year term after beating then-incumbent Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka in the previous election.

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Tanaka wins in general election

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka, chief of the small opposition New Party Nippon, celebrates after winning a House of Representatives seat in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 30. Tanaka beat Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, a former secretary general of the New Komeito party, in the No. 8 single-seat constituency of the prefecture.

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New Party Nippon leader Tanaka in general election

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka, leader of the small opposition New Party Nippon, is photographed on arriving at his campaign office in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, after the House of Representatives election on Aug. 30.

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New Party Nippon's Hirayama certified as upper house member

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Hirayama (file photo) of New Party Nippon was certified on Aug. 30 as a member of the House of Councillors to replace party colleague Yasuo Tanaka, who ran in the House of Representatives election the same day.

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Official campaign begins for Japan's lower house election

AMAGASAKI, Japan - New Party Nippon leader Yasuo Tanaka stumps in front of his office in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 18 as the official campaign started for the Aug. 30 House of Representatives election in Japan.

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16 major CO2 emitters end meeting in Hokkaido

TOYAKO, Japan - Leaders of 16 major greenhouse gas emitters and representatives from international organizations pose for photos after their meeting at the Windsor Hotel Toya in Toyako, Hokkaido on July 9. (From L to R) are IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South African President Thabo Mbeki, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, U.S. President George W. Bush, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, South Korean President Lee Myung Bak, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick, OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka wins upper house seat

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka, leader of New Party Nippon and former Nagano governor, speaks to reporters after he was elected to the House of Councillors July 29.

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New Party Nippon leader Tanaka stumps at Tokyo's Tsukiji

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka, leader of the New Party Nippon, kicks off his House of Councillors election campaign at Tokyo's Tsukiji district July 12.

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Party chiefs engage in pension debate ahead of election

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Tamisuke Watanuki, head of the People's New Party, Kazuo Shii, head of the Japanese Communist Party, Ichiro Ozawa, head of the Democratic Party of Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also head of the Liberal Democratic Party, Akihiro Ota, head of the New Komeito party, Mizuho Fukushima, head of the Social Democratic Party and Yasuo Tanaka, head of the New Party Nippon, pose for photos after the end of their joint forum discussion at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on July 11.

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Ex-Nagano Gov. Tanaka declares candidacy for upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Nagano Gov. and New Party Nippon leader Yasuo Tanaka (R) officially declares his candidacy for July's House of Councillors election as his party's proportional-representation candidate at a press conference in Tokyo on June 4. Tanaka also announced the party's decision to field journalist Yoshifu Arita (L) as another proportional-representation candidate.

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Woman sues gov't over recognition as Minamata Disease patient

OSAKA, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka (R), a lawyer for an 81-year-old woman who filed a lawsuit on May 16 demanding the state and Kumamoto Prefecture recognize her as having Minamata Disease mercury poisoning, speaks to reporters in Osaka after filing the suit with the Osaka District Court

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Nagano Gov. Murai reverses no-dam policy set by predecessor

NAGANO, Japan - Nagano Gov. Jin Murai speaks at a press conference at his office on Feb. 8. He announced the reversal of a high-profile ''no-dam'' policy his predecessor had set. The central Japan prefecture has been working to resume an Asakawa River dam project since Murai beat two-term incumbent Yasuo Tanaka in last August's election.

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Murai defeat incumbent Tanaka in Nagano gubernatorial election

NAGANO, Japan - Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka speaks to his supporters in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on Aug. 6 after losing the Nagano gubernatorial election to Jin Murai, a former House of Representatives member from the Liberal Democratic Party.

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Murai defeat incumbent Tanaka in Nagano gubernatorial election

NAGANO, Japan - Jin Murai, a former House of Representatives member from the Liberal Democratic Party, and his wife Tatsuko, celebrate at a hotel in Nagano on Aug. 6 after Murai defeated Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka in the Nagano gubernatorial election.

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Incumbent Tanaka, ex-lawmaker Murai run for Nagano governor

NAGANO, Japan - Incumbent Yasuo Tanaka speaks at his election campaign office in Nagano after filing his candidacy for the Aug. 6 Nagano gubernatorial election.

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Political party leaders make last appeal to voters

TOKYO, Japan - Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka, who heads the newly formed New Party Nippon, stumps in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Sept. 10, one day before the House of Representatives election.

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New Party Nippon's Tanaka speaks ahead of general election

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka, Nagano governor and head of the newly-created New Party Nippon, speaks at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Sept. 7 ahead of the Sept. 11 general election.

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Party leaders make campaign speech

TOKYO, Japan - Nagano Governor Yasuo Tanaka, who heads the New Party Japan, delivers a speech in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Sept. 4.

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Party leaders on the stumping

NAGOYA, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka, governor of Nagano Prefecture and leader of New Party Nippon, goes on shaking hands with people during his stumping tour in Nagoya on Sept. 3.

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Party leaders deliver first election speeches

KARUIZAWA, Japan - Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka, who heads the newly formed New Party Nippon, speaks in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Aug. 30, the first day of official campaigning for the Sept. 11 general election.

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Upper house member Hasegawa switches to another new party

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors member Kensei Hasegawa (R) speaks to reporters at a hotel in Tokyo on Aug. 24 with Yasuo Tanaka, Nagano governor and leader of new political party Nippon, looking on. Hasegawa said he joined Nippon, switching from the People's New Party.

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New party launched by LDP rebels

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Hiroyuki Arai, a member of the House of Councillors, Takashi Aoyama, former House of Representatives member, Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka, and former lower house members Koki Kobayashi and Makoto Taki join hands Aug. 21 to launch a new political party, named Nippon. The four lawmakers broke ranks with the Liberal Democratic Party and voted against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Japan Post privatization bills.

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Another new party to be launched by LDP rebels

TOKYO, Japan - Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka responds to questions from reporters in Tokyo on Aug. 21 on a new party to be launched by Koki Kobayashi, one of rebels within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and Hiroyuki Arai, who has left the party. Tanaka may head the new party.

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Resident registry network vulnerable to hackers

NAGANO, Japan - Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka holds up a chart during a press conference at the Nagano prefectural government building in Nagano on Dec. 16 while briefing reporters about a security test for Japan's online resident registry network.

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DPJ unveils 'cabinet roster' with 'Mr. Yen' as MOF head

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan (R), president of the Democratic Party of Japan, on Nov. 4 introduced his nominees for key posts in a cabinet he would form if the party wins the Nov. 9 general election. Kan said if he becomes premier he will appoint former Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Eisuke Sakakibara (2nd from L) as finance minister, reformist Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka (3rd from L) as minister for decentralization, and Yasuyo Yamazaki (L), a former partner in U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs, as land, infrastructure and transport minister.

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Nagano implements smoking ban in pref. facilities

NAGANO, Japan - Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka posts a notice banning smoking at nearly all prefectural public facilities on a billboard in the prefectural government building in Nagano city on Sept. 9. Nagano is the first prefecture in Japan to implement a complete ban on smoking at its facilities, including schools and police stations.

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Nagano gov't to review resident registry network

NAGANO, Japan - Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka speaks at a press conference in Nagano on Aug. 15 about his prefectural government plan to review the system used to submit information on residents to the central government for the national resident registry network.

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Nagano Gov. Tanaka receives Special Olympics flag

DUBLIN, Ireland - Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka (C) receives the Special Olympics flag from Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern (R) on June 29 on behalf of his prefecture, which is to become the first venue to host the games outside the United States and Europe. The event was initiated in a bid to engage the handicapped.

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Nagano Gov. Tanaka meets Taiwan's Chen to promote tourism

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian (R) is in talks with Japan's Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka at his office in Taipei on March 28. Chen told Tanaka his visit will help boost bilateral exchanges between Japan and Taiwan.

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Brazil honors Nagano Gov. Tanaka

NAGANO, Japan - Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka (L) is awarded the National Order of the Southern Cross by Brazilian Ambassador to Japan Ivan Cannabrava at the Nagano prefectural office in the city of Nagano on March 13. The Brazilian government gave the award to Tanaka in gratitude for his support of Brazilian nationals in the prefecture.

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(2)Nagano Gov. Tanaka starts working

NAGANO, Japan - Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka addresses citizens at the Nagano prefectural government office Sept. 5 as he starts working after being reelected governor Sept. 1.

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(1)Nagano Gov. Tanaka starts working

NAGANO, Japan - Citizens welcome Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka at the prefectural government office Sept. 5 as he starts working after being reelected governor Sept. 1.

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Nagano Gov. Tanaka hopes to improve ties with assembly

ASAHI, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka, who was reelected as governor of Nagano Prefecture on Sept. 1, speaks to reporters in the village of Asahi in the prefecture on Sept. 2 about his hopes for his second-term in office, saying he wants to mend relations with the prefectural assembly.

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(3) Tanaka set to be elected again as Nagano gov.

ASAHI, Japan - Former Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka speaks to reporters after he was assured of victory according to exit polls Sept. 1. Tanaka ran in the election again after resigning in July due to the prefectural assembly's no-confidence motion against him.

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(2) Tanaka set to be elected again as Nagano gov.

ASAHI, Japan - Former Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka shakes hands with supporters after he was assured of victory according to exit polls Sept. 1. Tanaka ran in the election again after resigning in July due to the prefectural assembly's no-confidence motion against him.

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Tanaka set to be elected again as Nagano gov.

ASAHI, Japan - Former Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka waves to supporters after he was assured of victory according to exit polls Sept. 1. Tanaka ran in the election again after resigning in July due to the prefectural assembly's no-confidence motion against him.