Japanese Vice Minister Shunichi Suzuki summoned the Algerian ambassador Friday to express Tokyo's concern, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said.
Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hatsuhisa Takashima said a body matching the description of Koda was found by U.S. forces between Baghdad and Tikrit.
Taniguchi himself had no interest in whaling until he was forced to defend Japan's position, as a spokesman for the Japanese Foreign Ministry.
Japanese foreign ministry official Shinsuke Sugiyama is expected to discuss territorial disputes and North Korea's recent nuclear test during his three-day visit to Beijing that started yesterday, China Daily reports.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry said Friday the new information came from the United States, refuting an earlier account from a local resident, who said the victims were buying refreshments when they were killed.
This outcome was due largely to the determination of the Japanese Foreign Ministry to preserve the integrity of Japan's traditional policy of demanding the unconditional return of the territories and widespread skepticism in Japan over the portentous, recentralizing direction of the Soviet government under Gorbachev's leadership.
The Japanese foreign minister dismissed the denial, which he said the Defence Ministry had made to the Japanese embassy in Beijing on Thursday.
We're having discussions with foreign ministry, with the Japanese defense forces and the Prime Minister's office on the issue.
No one has the right to dispute it, " Ri Pyong Dok, a researcher on Japanese affairs at the North's Foreign Ministry, said on footage aired by TBS. "On the missile launch, we are not bound by any agreement.
In the SDI negotiations, I had to overcome strenuous opposition from some of my colleagues at Defense and at State and, ironically, the somewhat more muted concerns expressed by the Japanese counterparts from MITI and the Foreign Affairs Ministry even to get a representative from USTR into the negotiating room!
The Chinese and Japanese embassies in Cairo, and the French foreign ministry, also confirmed that their nationals were among those killed.
Japanese national broadcaster NHK reported that an unidentified Foreign Ministry official in Pyongyang acknowledged the firing of the missiles, but Ri told reporters that diplomats like himself are unaware of what the military is doing.
In Tokyo, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Japanese victims were two couples in their 60s from Tokyo, but declined to give their names.
U.S. Navy barges have been carrying fresh water to Fukushima Daiichi, and Tokyo's foreign ministry has asked Russia about using a Japanese-built ship outfitted as a floating decontamination plant.
Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai, the highest-ranking foreign ministry bureaucrat, summoned Chinese ambassador Cheng Yunghua to complain about the intrusion of patrol ships.
Japanese robotic specialists say American robots were used partly because of pressure from the foreign ministry, out of gratitude for United States troop support after the tsunami.
"This is the result of the failure of the Japanese government to resolve a domestic issue as it had promised to do, " said Kunihiko Miyake, a former foreign ministry official who is now a research director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies.
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