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Prime Minister Abe says he will resign as prime minister

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to speak at a hastily arranged news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 12. Abe announced his resignation. On the left is Chief Cabinet Secretary Kaoru Yosano.

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Abe reshuffles Cabinet, party leadership with veteran lawmakers

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) is flanked by Defense Minister Masahiko Komura (L) and Chief Cabinet Secretary Kaoru Yosano (R) at the first meeting of his reshuffled Cabinet at his office on Aug. 27.

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Abe reshuffles Cabinet, party leadership with veteran lawmakers

TOKYO, Japan - New Chief Cabinet Secretary Kaoru Yosano announces the roster of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reshuffled Cabinet at a press conference on Aug. 27. Abe reshuffled his 11-month Cabinet and revamped his party leadership, in hopes of reviving his embattled administration following his Liberal Democratic Party crushing defeat in the July 29 upper house election.

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Kaoru Yosano tapped to become chief Cabinet secretary

TOKYO, Japan - Kaoru Yosano, a former education minister who has been tapped to become the chief Cabinet secretary in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's new Cabinet, enters the Prime Minister's Office on Aug. 27 as Abe prepares to appoint a new Cabinet lineup later in the day.

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New Chief Cabinet Secretary Yosano known as policy expert

TOKYO, Japan - New Chief Cabinet Secretary Kaoru Yosano announces the roster of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reshuffled Cabinet at a press conference on Aug. 27. Having held various key Cabinet portfolios including education, trade and economic policy, Yosano is known as a policy expert in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

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Unpublished piece by poet Yosano found

NAGANO, Japan - Tokuko Kasuga holds a strip of paper bearing an unpublished piece of work written by Akiko Yosano (1878-1942), a renowned writer of 31-syllable Japanese "tanka" poems, in Nagano, central Japan, on Aug. 27, 2014. Kasuga says she was once told by her adopted mother the poem was written by Yosano when the author was young.

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Unpublished piece by poet Yosano found

NAGANO, Japan - A strip of paper bearing an unpublished piece of work by Akiko Yosano (1878-1942), a renowned writer of 31-syllable Japanese "tanka" poems, is shown in Nagano, central Japan, on Aug. 27, 2014.

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Famous poet Yosano Akiko's handwritten poem found

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Hiroshi Noguchi of Wakayama Prefecture holds a newly discovered handwritten poem by well-known poet Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) and the stone mentioned in the poem in this undated photo taken in Tanabe City. The poem was found with the stone in Noguchi's home. Noguchi's grandfather Ritaro was a rock collector.

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Best Japanese souvenir

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Unryu Japanese paper lamp manufactured by Hirose Sosaku Kogei in Yosano, Kyoto Prefecture. The product won the grand prize at the 2013 contest for Japanese souvenirs chosen from the perspective of foreigners, the Japan Tourism Agency said on Feb. 22, 2013.

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Yosano to retire from politics

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japanese veteran lawmaker Kaoru Yosano. He will not run in the next general election and will retire from politics due to health problems, sources close to him said on Sept. 5, 2012. Yosano joined the Cabinet of then Prime Minister Naoto Kan as economic and fiscal policy minister in January 2011 and played a major role in drawing up Japan's controversial sales tax hike plan.

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Centennial of Japanese poet Yosano's visit to Vladivostok

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - People offer flowers at a monument of Japanese poet Akiko Yosano at Far Eastern National University in Vladivostok, Russia, on May 19. 2012, during a ceremony to commemorate the centennial anniversary of her visit to the city.

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Minister Yosano at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese economic and fiscal policy minister Kaoru Yosano speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on June 30, 2011, following an agreement between the government and Prime Minister Naoto Kan's Democratic Party of Japan on social security and tax reform plans the same day.

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Japan economy in May

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (2nd from R) and economic and fiscal policy minister Kaoru Yosano (R) attend a meeting of Cabinet ministers on a monthly report on the Japanese economy for May at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 24, 2011.

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Japan economy shrinks

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's economic and fiscal policy minister Kaoru Yosano speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 19, 2011. Japan's economy shrank an annualized real 3.7 percent in the January-March quarter, marking the second consecutive quarter of contraction.

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Cabinet meeting on Libya

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (2nd from R) and members of his Cabinet -- (from L) Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, economic and fiscal policy minister Kaoru Yosano and Justice Minister Satsuki Eda -- attend a Cabinet meeting to discuss the situation in the Middle East and North Africa at a Diet building in Tokyo on March 7, 2011.

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Kan meets head of governors' group

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Fukuoka Gov. Wataru Aso, president of the National Governors' Association, pose ahead of their meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 4, 2011. Kan told Aso he will instruct economic and fiscal policy minister Kaoru Yosano to include local opinions at a meeting on tax and social security reform.

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Japan welcomes China's becoming world's No.2 economy

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's economic and fiscal policy minister Kaoru Yosano speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on the country's gross domestic product data for the Oct.-Dec. quarter and the whole of 2010. ''We welcome China's economic advancement as a neighboring country,'' Yosano said after the Cabinet Office announced preliminary GDP data for 2010 that showed Japan falling into third place and China becoming the world's No. 2 economy.

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State minister Yosano in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's new economics minister Kaoru Yosano speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2011. Yosano said the government is aiming to state in June how much the consumption tax rate needs to be raised to help sustain Japan's social security system.

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Cabinet reshuffle in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Kaoru Yosano, Japan's new minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy and social security reform, speaks in a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2011, after a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the same day. Yosano, who left the small opposition Sunrise Party of Japan which he co-headed before joining Kan's Cabinet, expressed his willingness to tackle the country's fiscal woes.

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Cabinet reshuffle in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (2nd from L), Justice Minister Satsuki Eda (2nd from R), Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (L) and Kaoru Yosano (R), state minister for economic and fiscal policy, attend the first Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo after Kan's Cabinet reshuffle on Jan. 14, 2011.

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Japanese Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Satsuki Eda (C) fixes the tie of Kaoru Yosano, minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, ahead of a group photograph of members of the new Cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2011. Eda and Yosano were among the newcomers to the Cabinet.

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Japan Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Kaoru Yosano, Japan's new minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, and social security reform, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2011. Prime Minister Naoto Kan reshuffled his Cabinet the same day.

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Japan Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran lawmaker Kaoru Yosano is surrounded by reporters in front of his home in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2011, before his anticipated assignment to the post of minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy in a Cabinet reshuffle later in the day.

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Japan Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran lawmaker Kaoru Yosano (C) answers reporters' questions in Tokyo after notifying the tiny opposition Sunrise Party of Japan on Jan. 13, 2011, of his intention to leave. Prime Minister Naoto Kan is expected to appoint Yosano to a government post in an anticipated Cabinet reshuffle.

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Ozawa, Yosano play go

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa (L) and Kaoru Yosano, co-leader of the small opposition Sunrise Party of Japan, shake hands before playing go in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2010. Ozawa won the game, which was shown live on the Nico Nico Douga video-sharing website.

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Ozawa, Yosano play go

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa (L) and Kaoru Yosano, co-leader of the small opposition Sunrise Party of Japan, play go in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2010. Ozawa won the game, which was shown live on the Nico Nico Douga video-sharing website.

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Baseball star Nakahata to run in upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Yomiuri Giants infielder Kiyoshi Nakahata officially announces at a hotel in Tokyo on May 11, 2010, that he will run in the upper house election this summer in the proportional representation section on the ticket of the Sunrise Party of Japan led by former ministers Kaoru Yosano and Takeo Hiranuma.

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Hiranuma, Yosano launch new party to oppose DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - Five founding members of the Sunrise Party of Japan and Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara (far R) pose for photographers during a news conference in Tokyo to launch the new party on April 10, 2010. (From L) Former Cabinet Office Senior Vice Minister Yoshio Nakagawa, former transport minister Takao Fujii, former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano, former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma, former Acting Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party Hiroyuki Sonoda and Ishihara.

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Hiranuma, Yosano launch new party to oppose DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - Former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano (L) and former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma pose for photographers during a news conference to launch a new party at a Tokyo hotel on April 10, 2010. Yosano, Hiranuma and three other veteran lawmakers launched the Sunrise Party of Japan amid questions about its ability to be a potent alternative to existing parties.

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Hiranuma, Yosano launch new party to oppose DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - Five founding members of the Sunrise Party of Japan and Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara (far R) pose for photographers during a news conference in Tokyo to launch the new party on April 10, 2010. (From L) Former Cabinet Office Senior Vice Minister Yoshio Nakagawa, former transport minister Takao Fujii, former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano, former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma, former Acting Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party Hiroyuki Sonoda and Ishihara.

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Hiranuma, Yosano launch new party to oppose DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - Former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma speaks during a news conference to launch a new party at a Tokyo hotel on April 10, 2010. Hiranuma, who became the head of the Sunrise Party of Japan, launched the party with Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano and three other veteran lawmakers amid questions about its ability to be a potent alternative to existing parties.

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Hiranuma's party to pursue 'medium welfare, medium cost-bearing'

TOKYO, Japan - Former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma is surrounded by reporters in Tokyo on April 8, 2010, after a meeting with the prospective founding members of the new party called ''Tachiagare Nippon'' (Stand Up, Japan). Former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano, former Liberal Democratic Party Acting Secretary General Hiroyuki Sonoda, former Cabinet Office senior vice minister Yoshio Nakagawa and former transport minister Takao Fujii took part in the meeting to discuss the policies of the party, which will be headed by Hiranuma.

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Yosano says new party to map schedule for fiscal rehabilitation

TOKYO, Japan - Former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on April 6, 2010. Yosano, who has tendered a letter of resignation to the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, said the new party he will form with former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma and other like-minded lawmakers this week will map out a concrete schedule for Japan to achieve economic growth and fiscal rehabilitation.

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Yosano, Hiranuma confirm plans to launch new party this week

TOKYO, Japan - Former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma, an independent who left the LDP in 2005, answers questions from reporters after meeting with former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano in Tokyo on April 5, 2010. Hiranuma and Yosano, who is set to leave the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party after severely criticizing the party leadership, confirmed in the meeting their plans to launch a new party by the end of this week.

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Yosano prepares to launch new party

TOKYO, Japan - Former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano, who submitted a letter of resignation to the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on April 5, 2010. Yosano met with Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone to convey his intention to form a new political party.

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Yosano prepares to launch new party

TOKYO, Japan - Former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano (L) shakes hands with Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone on April 5, 2010. Yosano, who submitted a letter of resignation to the Liberal Democratic Party, sought Nakasone's understanding of his intention to form a new political party.

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Yosano to leave LDP, launch new party

TOKYO, Japan - Former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano speaks to reporters at the headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on April 3, 2010, after submitting a letter of resignation to LDP President Sadakazu Tanigaki. The veteran of the opposition party said he will launch a new party ahead of the upper election in the summer.

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Yosano to leave LDP, launch new party

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party President Sadakazu Tanigaki speaks to reporters at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on April 3, 2010, after receiving a letter of resignation from former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano. Tanigaki said it was a shame the veteran politician had chosen to quit the opposition party, indicating he will accept Yosano's resignation.

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Dissident Yosano in parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran lawmaker Kaoru Yosano waits for the start of a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on March 16, 2010. Yosano, a heavyweight of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, has expressed intention to form a new party.

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Dissidents Hatoyama, Yosano in parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran lawmakers Kunio Hatoyama (L) and Kaoru Yosano chat in the plenary room of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on March 16, 2010. Hatoyama and Yosano are at the center of a high-profile move of seeking a new party as a key national election comes up.

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Dissidents Hatoyama, Yosano in parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran lawmakers Kunio Hatoyama (R) and Kaoru Yosano chat in the plenary room of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on March 16, 2010. Hatoyama and Yosano are at the center of a high-profile move of seeking a new party as a key national election comes up.

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Dissidents Hatoyama, Yosano in parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran lawmakers Kunio Hatoyama (L) and Kaoru Yosano chat in the plenary room of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on March 16, 2010. Hatoyama and Yosano are at the center of a high-profile move of seeking a new party as a key national election comes up.

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LDP's Yosano slams Hatoyama as 'king of tax evasion'

TOKYO, Japan - Main opposition Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Kaoru Yosano speaks during a session of the House of Representatives Budget Committee in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2010. The former finance minister called Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama the ''king of tax evasion,'' criticizing him for insisting that he was not aware that his mother had provided 1.2 billion yen to his office over a seven-year period.

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Fujii resigns as Japan finance minister

TOKYO, Japan - This Sept. 17, 2009, file photo shows then Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii (L) and his predecessor Kaoru Yosano chatting during a handover ceremony at the Finance Ministry the day after Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama launched his new Cabinet. Fujii was replaced with Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Jan. 6, 2010, after tendering his resignation.

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Fujii vows to make 'no mistake' in steering Japan's economy

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's new Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii (L) shake hands with former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo as he takes over from Yosano.

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Finance Minister Yosano loses seat in constituency

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano of the Liberal Democratic Party put his hands together and bows to supporters at his campaign office in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Aug. 30, 2009, in a gesture of apology after losing in his single-seat constituency in the House of Representatives election. But Yosano was reelected under the proportional representation system that gives a candidate a second chance.

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Japan's FY 2010 spending to be capped at record 52.7 tril. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso (2nd from L) addresses a policy meeting attended by Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano (L), and senior government and ruling bloc officials at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 30.

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Japan, S. Korea share stance on economic recovery, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano (R) and his South Korean counterpart Yoon Jeung Hyun (L) stand for photos at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on June 27.

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Japan, S. Korea share stance on economic recovery, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano (L) talks with his South Korean counterpart Yoon Jeung Hyun (R) at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on June 27.

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Japan's finance minister faces donations scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano speaks at a news conference at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on June 24 about reported allegations that his fund management body might have received illegal donations from a dummy political organization for more than a decade.