Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

Ex-envoy's kin unveils hidden WWII classified telegrams

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuko Ichihara (L), a niece of the wife of a late Japanese diplomat, shows the bounded volume of classified diplomatic telegrams from World War II that she found while sorting out belongings of a deceased relative in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2014. The documents secretly kept by Ryuji Takeuchi, Japan's ambassador to the United States after the war, shows that Japan's wartime foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China.

E

Japan's ex-envoy to China Niwa gives interview

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa speaks during an interview with Kyodo News on March 12, 2013 in Tokyo.

E

Japan's ex-envoy to S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Nov. 22, 2012. Muto, who dealt with bilateral tension over a territorial dispute in the summer of the year, called for a "mature relationship between adults" in which bilateral cooperation can be advanced where possible.

E

Japan's ex-envoy to U.N. appointed undersec'y general

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 5, 2010, shows U.N. Security Council President Yukio Takasu speaking to reporters at the United Nations headquarters in New York. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on April 25, 2012, announced the appointment of Takasu, former Japanese ambassador to the United Nations, as new undersecretary general for management to succeed Angela Kane.

E

Ex-envoy Shimoda

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Takeso Shimoda, a former Japanese ambassador to the United States, in 1988.

E

Ex-envoy says papers on Japan-U.S. secret pacts possibly dumped

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Togo, the former chief of the Foreign Ministry's treaties bureau, talks to reporters in Tokyo on March 19, 2010, after speaking about so-called Japan-U.S. secret pacts as an unsworn witness during a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. Togo told the panel that key documents related to the secret pacts may have been discarded before an administrative information disclosure law took effect in 2001.

E

Ex-envoy learns from riot lesson, heads China center in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Koreshige Anami, a former ambassador to China and now executive director of the Japan Foundation China Center, is interviewed by Kyodo News on Aug. 5.

E

N. Korea is stable, China's ex-envoy to Pyongyang says

Liu Hongcai (R), China's former ambassador to North Korea, holds talks with a group of Japanese lawmakers in Beijing on May 8, 2015. The vice minister at the Chinese Communist Party's international department said the situation in North Korea is "basically stable." (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

Japan's ex-envoy to U.S. Kuriyama dies at 83

Photo taken in March 2006 shows former Japanese Ambassador to the United States Takakazu Kuriyama, who died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on April 1, 2015, at 83. He was involved in the bilateral talks for the 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japan from U.S. control. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

Ex-envoy calls for U.S.-N. Korea talks over nuke issue

Joshua Pollack, a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Washington on Nov. 22, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

Ex-envoy calls for U.S.-N. Korea talks over nuke issue

Robert Gallucci, who was the chief U.S. negotiator for a now-defunct 1994 nuclear freeze deal with North Korea, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Washington on Nov. 29, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

FM Wang greets Japan's ex-envoy Miyamoto in Beijing

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi shakes hands with former Japanese Ambassador to China Yuji Miyamoto in Beijing on Oct. 27, 2015, ahead of a symposium between the two countries and South Korea. Miyamoto pointed out at the symposium that 70 percent of the problems existing between Japan and China are due to misunderstanding or lack of understanding. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

Japan's ex-envoy to U.N. appointed undersec'y general

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 5, 2010, shows U.N. Security Council President Yukio Takasu speaking to reporters at the United Nations headquarters in New York. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on April 25, 2012, announced the appointment of Takasu, former Japanese ambassador to the United Nations, as new undersecretary general for management to succeed Angela Kane. (Kyodo)

E

Ex-envoy says papers on Japan-U.S. secret pacts possibly dumped

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Togo, the former chief of the Foreign Ministry's treaties bureau, talks to reporters in Tokyo on March 19, 2010, after speaking about so-called Japan-U.S. secret pacts as an unsworn witness during a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. Togo told the panel that key documents related to the secret pacts may have been discarded before an administrative information disclosure law took effect in 2001. (Kyodo)

E

Ex-envoy Shimoda

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Takeso Shimoda, a former Japanese ambassador to the United States, in 1988. (Kyodo)

E

Ex-envoy's kin unveils hidden WWII classified telegrams

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuko Ichihara (L), a niece of the wife of a late Japanese diplomat, shows the bounded volume of classified diplomatic telegrams from World War II that she found while sorting out belongings of a deceased relative in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2014. The documents secretly kept by Ryuji Takeuchi, Japan's ambassador to the United States after the war, shows that Japan's wartime foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China. (Kyodo)