The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is an executive department of the Government of Japan, and is responsible for the country's foreign policy and international relations.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is a cabinet-level ministry in the Government of Japan. Its English name was Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications (MPHPT) prior to 2004. It is housed in the 2nd Building of the Central Common Government Office at 2-1-2 Kasumigaseki in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
The six-party talks aimed to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program. There was a series of meetings with six participating states in Beijing:
Cho Tae-yong is a South Korean career diplomat with over three decades of experience who served as South Korea's National Security Advisor from March to December of 2023. On January 16, 2024, he was appointed Director of the National Intelligence Service of South Korea.
Kōichirō Matsuura is a Japanese diplomat. He is the former Director-General of UNESCO. He was first elected in 1999 to a six-year term and reelected on 12 October 2005 for four years, following a reform instituted by the 29th session of the General Conference. In November 2009, he was replaced by Irina Bokova.
Ryozo Kato is a Japanese lawyer and career diplomat who served as the Japanese Ambassador to the United States from 2001 to 2008. He also served as the Commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball.
Kenichiro Sasae is a retired Japanese diplomat who served as Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2010 - 2012 and Japan's ambassador to the United States from 2012 - 2018. He is currently President of the Japan Institute of International Affairs.
Katsumi Satō was a Japanese human rights activist, editor, and critic.
Georgy Toloraya, is a Russian diplomat, Expert, Panel of Experts, UN Security Council Committee established pursuant to SC Resolution 1718 (2006), Executive Director of Russian National Committee on BRICS research, Honorary Director, Center of Russian Strategy in Asia, Institute of Economics Russian Academy of Sciences, visiting professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO).
The administrative structure of the government of the Empire of Japan on the eve of the Second World War broadly consisted of the Cabinet, the civil service, local and prefectural governments, the governments-general of Chosen (Korea) and Formosa (Taiwan) and the colonial offices. It underwent several changes during the wartime years, and was entirely reorganized when the Empire of Japan was officially dissolved in 1947.
Gilad Cohen is an Israeli diplomat in the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Cohen serves as the Ambassador of Israel to Japan since October 2021. From 2017 to 2021, he served as the Deputy Director General for Asia and Pacific division at the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2014 to 2017, he served as the Deputy Director General for Coordination and Policy Planning, in the Israel Foreign Ministry.
Keizō Hayashi was a Japanese civil servant, general officer and the first Chairman of Joint Staff Council (JSC), a post equivalent to Chief of the General Staff in other countries, from 1954 to 1964. He was instrumental in founding the post-war Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) in 1954.
The Japan Institute of International Affairs is a foreign policy and security think-tank in Japan. It was established in December 1959. It was modelled on the Royal Institute of International Affairs and other institutions. Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida was the first chair of JIIA. Its current chairman is Kenichiro Sasae, the former head of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the United States of America.
Choe Son-hui is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Korea. Previously the First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, she was appointed Minister on 11 June 2022, becoming the first woman to hold the position and is one of few North Korean women holding a high-level office.
Toru Takahashi was a Japanese computer network researcher and businessman. He was credited with contributing to the spread of the Internet into Japan and the rest of Asia in the 1990s and was a pivotal figure in the early commercial development of the Internet. For this reason, he was often called the "Father of the Internet" in Japan.
The Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency is an agency established under the Japanese Ministry of Defense that handles project management, technology management, research and development, and procurement of defense equipment for the Japan Self-Defense Forces. ATLA is a part of the defense policy of then-Prime Minister Shinzō Abe to bolster the military by streamlining and reforming the country's defense industry and military equipment acquisition.
Julie Jiyoon Chung, birth name as Chung Ji-yoon, is a Korean-American diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka since 2022. She previously served as Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the United States Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA). Her first overseas assignment was in Guangzhou, China. Chung has later served in several posts in Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Colombia and Iraq.
Yasumasa Nagamine is a Japanese jurist who has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Japan since 2021.
Hideo Tarumi (垂秀夫) is a Japanese diplomat who served as the Ambassador to China, from November 2020 to December 2023.
Lee Hee-sup is a South Korean diplomat and the Secretary-General of the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat between China, Japan, and Korea, which is an international organization established with a vision to promote Lasting Peace, Common Prosperity, and Shared Culture among the three countries.
