Photo Index

Takeaki Matsumoto/Minister for Foreign Affairs

CHAPTER 1

Prime Minister Naoto Kan delivering a speech at the High-level Plenary Meeting of the 65th Session of the UN General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals (photo: Cabinet Public Relations Office, Cabinet Secretariat of Japan)

Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, right, delivering a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (January 6, 2011, Washington D.C., USA)

CHAPTER 2

Prime Minister Naoto Kan, right, and President Obama at the Joint Press Conference (November 13, Yokohama, Japan, photo: Cabinet Public Relations Office, Cabinet Secretariat)

State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Takeaki Matsumoto, right, meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Skelemani of Botswana (October 18, Tokyo, Japan)

CHAPTER 3

Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, center, attending and delivering a speech at Open Debate of the UN Security Council on Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (April 16, New York, USA)

A handling-over ceremony of an elementary school building established by Japanese assistance (Philippines)

Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, second from right, at the Foreign Ministers' Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation co-hosted by Japan and Australia (September 22, New York, USA)

A class of Myanmar refugee students staying in Japan under a resettlement operation (Tokyo, Japan)

JICA experts teaching agricultural techniques in Afghanistan (National Agricultural Experiment Stations Rehabilitation Project) (photo: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA))

Prime Minister Naoto Kan, center, announcing “the Yokohama Vision- Bogor and Beyond” at the 18th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting (November 12, Yokohama, Japan)

Kumi-odori (photo: Agency for Cultural Affairs) Kumi-odori is a traditional performing art of Okinawa. One of the Japanese plays involving chanting and dancing, with the instrumental music of the Sanshin (a three-stringed instrument), traditional flute, Chinese fiddle, So (Japanese zither), and drum, where the story unfolds with the performers narrating, posing and dancing. The play was formed in the Ryukyu Kingdom in the 18th century, and ever since has been handed down in the Okinawa Prefecture.

CHAPTER 4

A JOCV nutritionist talking with an indigenous woman called a Cholita in Bolivia (photo: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA))

An event held in Singapore to introduce Japanese food (February 25-27, 2011)

Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara at a regular press conference (January 14, 2011, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Tokyo, Japan)

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