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Woman picks flowers on field left untrimmed during relocation

NAGANOHARA, Japan - Takeko Takeuchi, 62, gathers flowers in an unattended field in Naganohara, Gunma Prefecture, on Sept. 20, 2009. The field would have been submerged had the Yamba Dam been constructed as planned. She says she was too busy to take care of the field, moving to a relocation site before the new administration of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pledged to cancel the costly dam project.

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Man stares at pillar of old home vacated for aborted dam project

NAGANOHARA, Japan - Goichiro Takeuchi, 64, stares at a pillar of a roughly 90-year-old home in Naganohara, Gunma Prefecture, on Sept. 20, 2009. He and his wife vacated the house in anticipation of the Yamba Dam construction. They moved to a relocation site before the new administration of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pledged to cancel the costly dam project in Gunma Prefecture.

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Ex-Vice Foreign Minister Takeuchi to be Supreme Court justice

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese government has decided to appoint former Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (file photo) as a Supreme Court justice, replacing Osamu Tsuno, who will retire, government officials said Thursday. Takeuchi, 65, held the top bureaucratic post at the Foreign Ministry from February 2002 to January 2005, assisting with then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to North Korea in September 2002 and May 2004, and helping strengthen Japan-U.S. relations.

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Chinese activists land on disputed Senkaku Islands

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (L) summons Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Dawei (R) to the Foreign Ministry on March 24 to complain about the seven Chinese activists who landed on the main island of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea earlier in the day.

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S. Korea envoy reiterates regret over Koizumi's Yasukuni visit

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Cho Se Hyung (R) calls Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi at the Foreign Ministry on Jan. 5 to reiterat his country's regret over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Tokyo's war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Jan. 1.

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Japan, China to cooperate for 6-way N. Korea talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (R) and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo pose for photographs prior to their talks in Tokyo on Nov. 13. Japan agreed with China to promote cooperation in holding another round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions in December.

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Japan, China begin preparations for next round of 6-way talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (R) shakes hands with China's Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo at the outset of talks in Tokyo on Nov. 13 to prepare for another round of six-nation talks to try to resolve the standoff over North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

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Japan, China to discuss next round of 6-way talks on N. Korea

NARITA, Japan - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo arrives at Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Nov. 12 for talks with Japanese counterpart Yukio Takeuchi to prepare for another round of six-nation negotiations on North Korea's nuclear weapons development program.

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Japan, S. Korea agree on trilateral work on N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (L) and Yim Sung Joon, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung's envoy, shake hands at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 11. The two officials agreed that Japan, South Korea and the United States should work together to bring the North Korea nuclear crisis to a peaceful resolution.

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Japan, U.S. discuss Iraq, N. Korea, Asia-Pacific peace

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (L) and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (R) pose for a photograph before the start of two days of ''strategic dialogue talks'' on medium- and long-term diplomatic, security and economic issues in Tokyo on Aug. 28. They agreed to keep close contact regarding Washington's possible military strike against Iraq.

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Japan, U.S. begin vice-ministerial talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (L) and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage shake hands in Tokyo on Aug. 28 at the outset of their talks on diplomatic, security and economic issues.

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Japan, China agree asylum seekers to go to 3rd nation

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Dawei is surrounded by members of the media at the Foreign Ministry on May 15 as he emerges from a meeting with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi. Japan and China agreed that five North Korean asylum seekers seized by Chinese police at a Japanese consulate in northeastern China on May 8 will depart for a third country.

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Japan calls on China to hand over 2 N. Korean asylum seekers

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (L) calls Wu Dawei, Chinese Ambassador to Japan, to the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on May 9 to protest against entry of Chinese police into the Japanese Consulate General in Shanyang, northeastern China, to seize North Korean asylum seekers.

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Takeuchi replaces Nogami as vice foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - Newly-appointed Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi speaks at a news conference Feb. 19 at his ministry in Tokyo. The former ambassador to Indonesia succeeded Yoshiji Nogami, who Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi sacked for causing disruptions in the Diet last month in a dispute with then Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka.

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Envoy to Indonesia to become vice foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi tells reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 7 that she has decided to appoint Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Yukio Takeuchi as vice foreign minister to succeed Yoshiji Nogami in the ministry's top bureaucratic post.

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Japan's envoy to Indonesia Takeuchi to become vice foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Yukio Takeuchi (photo) will become vice foreign minister, Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawagauchi said on Feb. 7. The appointment will take effect upon cabinet approval after Takeuchi returns to Japan.

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Japan, U.S., S. Korean officials mull N. Korea policies

TOKYO, Japan - Jang Jai Ryong (L), South Korean deputy foreign and trade minister, Wendy Sherman (C), counselor of the U.S. State Department, and Yukio Takeuchi (R), Japan's deputy vice foreign minister for foreign policy, shake hands in Tokyo on May 12 prior to their meeting aimed to compare notes on their North Korea policies amid a flurry of diplomatic initiatives from Pyongyang.

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Japan, China to discuss next round of 6-way talks on N. Korea

NARITA, Japan - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo arrives at Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Nov. 12 for talks with Japanese counterpart Yukio Takeuchi to prepare for another round of six-nation negotiations on North Korea's nuclear weapons development program. (Kyodo)

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Japan, China begin preparations for next round of 6-way talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (R) shakes hands with China's Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo at the outset of talks in Tokyo on Nov. 13 to prepare for another round of six-nation talks to try to resolve the standoff over North Korea's nuclear ambitions. (Kyodo)

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Woman picks flowers on field left untrimmed during relocation

NAGANOHARA, Japan - Takeko Takeuchi, 62, gathers flowers in an unattended field in Naganohara, Gunma Prefecture, on Sept. 20, 2009. The field would have been submerged had the Yamba Dam been constructed as planned. She says she was too busy to take care of the field, moving to a relocation site before the new administration of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pledged to cancel the costly dam project. (Kyodo)

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Man stares at pillar of old home vacated for aborted dam project

NAGANOHARA, Japan - Goichiro Takeuchi, 64, stares at a pillar of a roughly 90-year-old home in Naganohara, Gunma Prefecture, on Sept. 20, 2009. He and his wife vacated the house in anticipation of the Yamba Dam construction. They moved to a relocation site before the new administration of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pledged to cancel the costly dam project in Gunma Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Vice Foreign Minister Takeuchi to be Supreme Court justice

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese government has decided to appoint former Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (file photo) as a Supreme Court justice, replacing Osamu Tsuno, who will retire, government officials said Thursday. Takeuchi, 65, held the top bureaucratic post at the Foreign Ministry from February 2002 to January 2005, assisting with then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to North Korea in September 2002 and May 2004, and helping strengthen Japan-U.S. relations. (Kyodo)

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Takeuchi replaces Nogami as vice foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - Newly-appointed Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi speaks at a news conference Feb. 19 at his ministry in Tokyo. The former ambassador to Indonesia succeeded Yoshiji Nogami, who Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi sacked for causing disruptions in the Diet last month in a dispute with then Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka.

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Japan's envoy to Indonesia Takeuchi to become vice foreign minis

TOKYO, Feb. 7 Kyodo - Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Yukio Takeuchi (photo) will become vice foreign minister, Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawagauchi said on Feb. 4. The appointment will take effect upon cabinet approval after Takeuchi returns to Japan.

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Envoy to Indonesia to become vice foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi tells reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 7 that she has decided to appoint Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Yukio Takeuchi as vice foreign minister to succeed Yoshiji Nogami in the ministry's top bureaucratic post.

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S. Korea envoy reiterates regret over Koizumi's Yasukuni visit

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Cho Se Hyung (R) calls Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi at the Foreign Ministry on Jan. 5 to reiterat his country's regret over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Tokyo's war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Jan. 1. (Kyodo)

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Japan, China to cooperate for 6-way N. Korea talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (R) and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo pose for photographs prior to their talks in Tokyo on Nov. 13. Japan agreed with China to promote cooperation in holding another round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions in December. (Kyodo)

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Japan, S. Korea agree on trilateral work on N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (L) and Yim Sung Joon, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung's envoy, shake hands at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 11. The two officials agreed that Japan, South Korea and the United States should work together to bring the North Korea nuclear crisis to a peaceful resolution. (Kyodo)

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Japan, U.S. discuss Iraq, N. Korea, Asia-Pacific peace

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (L) and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (R) pose for a photograph before the start of two days of ''strategic dialogue talks'' on medium- and long-term diplomatic, security and economic issues in Tokyo on Aug. 28. They agreed to keep close contact regarding Washington's possible military strike against Iraq. (Kyodo)

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Japan, U.S. begin vice-ministerial talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (L) and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage shake hands in Tokyo on Aug. 28 at the outset of their talks on diplomatic, security and economic issues.

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Japan, China agree asylum seekers to go to 3rd nation

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Dawei is surrounded by members of the media at the Foreign Ministry on May 15 as he emerges from a meeting with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi. Japan and China agreed that five North Korean asylum seekers seized by Chinese police at a Japanese consulate in northeastern China on May 8 will depart for a third country.

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Japan calls on China to hand over 2 N. Korean asylum seekers

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (L) calls Wu Dawei, Chinese Ambassador to Japan, to the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on May 9 to protest against entry of Chinese police into the Japanese Consulate General in Shanyang, northeastern China, to seize North Korean asylum seekers.

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Japan, S. Korea, U.S. mull N. Korea policies

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Deputy Foreign and Trade Minister Jang Jai Ryong (L) and U.S. State Department Counselor Wendy Sherman (C) talk to Japanese Deputy Vice Minister for Foreign Policy Yukio Takeuchi (R) ahead of their meeting March 30 aimed to coordinate policies on North Korea before the April 4 resumption of negotiations between Tokyo and Pyongyang on establishing diplomatic ties.