Foreign Ministry officials dismissed over fraud

Foreign Ministry officials dismissed over fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Iimura (C), along with other officials, apologizes on Aug. 6 while announcing the dismissal of two ministry officials following their indictment in the day on charges of swindling the state out of about 22 million yen in public funds by padding bills related to last year's Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa.

Foreign Ministry, limo firm officials arrested

Foreign Ministry, limo firm officials arrested

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake (L), Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Kawashima (C) and Yutaka Iimura, director of the Foreign Ministry's Secretariat, apologize at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo July 16, after police arrested two ministry officials and two executives of a Tokyo-based limousine rental firm on suspicion of swindling the state out of 22 million yen by padding bills related to the Group of Eight (G-8) Okinawa summit last year.

Jenkins hopes to be with Soga, daughters: Japanese official

Jenkins hopes to be with Soga, daughters: Japanese official

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Charles Jenkins (R), his wife Hitomi Soga (2nd from R) and their two daughters -- Mika (2n from L) and Belinda -- stand at poolside at the official residence of Japanese Ambassador Yutaka Iimura in Jakarta on July 11. Soga, a repatriated Japanese abductee, and her husband and the daughters are in Jarakta for a family reunion. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

Three Japanese envoys named

Three Japanese envoys named

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi announced on July 26 named (from L to R) Hiroharu Koike as ambassador to the Netherlands, Yutaka Iimura as ambassador to Indonesia and Akio Kawato as ambassador to Uzbekistan. (Kyodo)

Foreign Ministry officials dismissed over fraud

Foreign Ministry officials dismissed over fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Iimura (C), along with other officials, apologizes on Aug. 6 while announcing the dismissal of two ministry officials following their indictment in the day on charges of swindling the state out of about 22 million yen in public funds by padding bills related to last year's Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa.