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Writer Yasuoka dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows prizewinning writer Shotaro Yasuoka at his Tokyo home in October 2001, when he was recognized by the Japanese government as a Person of Cultural Merit. Yasuoka died on Jan. 26, 2013. He was 92.

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Japan executes 3 death row inmates

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Justice Minister Okiharu Yasuoka meets the press at his ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 11 over the execution of three death row inmates.

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6 ministers visit Yasukuni Shrine on war anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Okiharu Yasuoka alights from his car Aug. 15 to visit Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, a Shinto memorial to war dead, for the 55th anniversary of the country's surrender in World War II. Five other cabinet members, excluding Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, visited the shrine, often seen as a symbol of Japan's militarism.

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6 ministers visit Yasukuni Shrine on war anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Okiharu Yasuoka alights from his car Aug. 15 to visit Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, a Shinto memorial to war dead, for the 55th anniversary of the country's surrender in World War II. Five other cabinet members, excluding Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, visited the shrine, often seen as a symbol of Japan's militarism.

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Japan executes 3 death row inmates

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Justice Minister Okiharu Yasuoka meets the press at his ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 11 over the execution of three death row inmates. (Kyodo)

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Election defeat brings no change to LDP drive on Constitution change

Okiharu Yasuoka (standing), head of the Liberal Democratic Party's constitutional reform panel, speaks at a panel meeting in Tokyo on July 5, 2017. The LDP, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, made clear that its historic defeat in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election will not affect its drive to revise the Constitution, despite calls from ruling coalition members to cautiously deal with the matter. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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LDP not seeking to expand SDF activities through Constitution change

Okiharu Yasuoka (standing), head of the Liberal Democratic Party's constitutional reform panel, speaks at the panel's meeting in Tokyo on June 12, 2017. The ruling LDP will not seek to expand the activities of Japan's defense forces through a possible revision of the war-renouncing article of the Constitution, Yasuoka indicated. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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LDP to focus on 4 areas in crafting Constitution amendment proposal

Okiharu Yasuoka, the head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's constitutional reform panel, addresses a panel meeting in Tokyo on June 6, 2017. The LDP plans to focus on four areas as it crafts proposals for the first-ever amendments to Japan's postwar Constitution, including revisions regarding the war-renouncing Article 9 and education, officials said the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo