Koizumi's aide Okamoto cancels trip to Iraq

Koizumi's aide Okamoto cancels trip to Iraq

NARITA, Japan - Yukio Okamato, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's top diplomatic adviser, is surrounded by reporters at Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Nov. 30 before leaving for the Middle East. Okamoto, who will visit Iran and Syria, canceled his trip to Iraq following an ambush in which two Japanese diplomats in northern Iraq were killed on Nov. 29.

Japan to send troops to Iraq despite risk of attack

Japan to send troops to Iraq despite risk of attack

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Yukio Okamoto, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's top diplomatic adviser, says at a news conference at a Baghdad hotel Nov. 5 that Japan will send troops to Iraq as planned although Japanese military personnel and diplomats may be attacked by Iraqi insurgents.

Koizumi to appoint Okamoto as adviser to Cabinet Office

Koizumi to appoint Okamoto as adviser to Cabinet Office

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Okamaoto (file photo), a foreign policy analyst, will be named as special adviser to the Cabinet Office by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda says in Tokyo on Sept. 19.

Fukuda must show own principles, G-8 to test leadership: Okamoto

Fukuda must show own principles, G-8 to test leadership: Okamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Okamoto, a former diplomat who was a top adviser to former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. (Kyodo)

Japanese diplomacy analyst Okamoto dies from coronavirus

Japanese diplomacy analyst Okamoto dies from coronavirus

Photo taken in May 2015 shows Yukio Okamoto, a diplomacy analyst who had been an adviser to past Japanese prime ministers. Okamoto, a former Japanese Foreign Ministry official and senior research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, died on April 24, 2020, aged 74, after contracting the novel coronavirus, according to a company he had headed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Koizumi's aide Okamoto cancels trip to Iraq

Koizumi's aide Okamoto cancels trip to Iraq

NARITA, Japan - Yukio Okamato, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's top diplomatic adviser, is surrounded by reporters at Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Nov. 30 before leaving for the Middle East. Okamoto, who will visit Iran and Syria, canceled his trip to Iraq following an ambush in which two Japanese diplomats in northern Iraq were killed on Nov. 29. (Kyodo)

Japan to send troops to Iraq despite risk of attack

Japan to send troops to Iraq despite risk of attack

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Yukio Okamoto, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's top diplomatic adviser, says at a news conference at a Baghdad hotel Nov. 5 that Japan will send troops to Iraq as planned although Japanese military personnel and diplomats may be attacked by Iraqi insurgents. (Kyodo)