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Shinzo Abe: Japan won't fight Islamic State
World News // 8 years ago
Shinzo Abe: Japan won't fight Islamic State
Japan does not plan to join the international coalition against the Islamic State, the armed group also known as Daesh, ISIS and ISIL.
Japan ratifies controversial bills that allow military to fight overseas
World News // 8 years ago
Japan ratifies controversial bills that allow military to fight overseas
Japan's parliament ratified security bills to allow the country's military to fight in overseas missions, a historic revision to Japan's pacifist constitution.
World News // 1 decade ago
Seoul announces PR effort on island issue
The Japan-South Korea island territorial issue was at a standstill Wednesday after Seoul rejected a Tokyo proposal to take it to the World Court.
Science News // 1 decade ago
Japan to scale back emissions targets
Following the shutdown of Japan's nuclear reactors in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, the country says it will have to scale back planned cuts in emissions.
World News // 1 decade ago
Okada made deputy PM in Cabinet change
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, seeking passage of a sales tax hike, Friday reshuffled his Cabinet, making Katsuya Okada the deputy prime minister.
World News // 1 decade ago
China reacts strongly to Japan request
China reacted strongly to the Japanese foreign minister's request that Beijing reduce its nuclear weapons arsenal, saying he made "irresponsible remarks."
U.S. News // 1 decade ago
Okinawans: Move U.S. air base off island
About 90,000 people rallied Sunday in Okinawa to demand a U.S. Marine air base be moved off the Japanese island.
World News // 1 decade ago
Australia, Japan disagree on whaling
Japan Sunday vowed to fight legal action by Australia to end whaling in the Southern Ocean, but wants diplomatic ties between the countries to remain strong.
World News // 1 decade ago
Okada calls for new ties with S. Korea
Visiting Japanese Foreign Minister, seeking closer ties with South Korea, said his country's occupation of Korea 100 years ago had left a "great wound."
World News // 1 decade ago
FMs: No lifting of Norkor sanctions
U.N. sanctions on North Korea won't be lifted until Pyongyang initiates moves to denuclearize, the South Korean and Japanese foreign ministers said Saturday.


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If secret agreements are revealed, will we amend the three principles, or hold to them? These are questions for political debate

Revealing 'secret' deals concerns Okada Sep 18, 2009

My only mission, my biggest mission is to achieve a change in government in the next Lower House election

Okada re-elected as opposition leader Sep 14, 2004

We'll be unburdening ourselves of the insistence of past governments that a secret agreement did not exist

Japan plans to expose secret U.S. pact Nov 24, 2009

Regarding what happened 100 years ago, Japan deprived Koreans of their nation and left a great wound on their national pride

Okada calls for new ties with S. Korea Feb 11, 2010

China is the only country among the five nuclear powers (the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China) that is increasing its nuclear arsenal

China reacts strongly to Japan request May 17, 2010

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Katsuya Okada (岡田 克也, Okada Katsuya?, born July 14, 1953) is a Japanese politician. He is a member of the House of Representatives of Japan, and the former president and current Secretary General of the Democratic Party of Japan. From September 2009 to September 2010, he served as the country's Foreign Minister.

Okada is the second son of Takuya Okada, who is a founder of Japanese retail giant AEON Group. His elder brother, Motoya Okada is the President and CEO of AEON Group. He has a younger brother and a half-sister. A native of Yokkaichi, Mie, Okada graduated from the University of Tokyo with a degree in law, and entered the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. He also studied at Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs in Harvard University.

Okada ran for the House of Representatives at the 1990 general election from LDP, representing Mie Prefecture's third district, and later joined the Takeshita faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, and followed faction leaders Tsutomu Hata and Ichirō Ozawa to join the Japan Renewal Party in 1993. Through a series of splits and mergers, Okada then became a member of the Shinshinto, Sun Party, and Minseito, finally entering the DPJ upon its merger with Minseito in 1998.

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