Getty Images 5 months ago

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (C) and Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone (R) walk together prior to their joint press conference in Tokyo on June 30, 2009.

Getty Images 6 months ago

Japan Minister of Foreign Affairs Hirofumi Nakasone (R), Italy Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs Stania Craxi (2nd R) and Ireland Political Director David Donoghue (C) listen to opening remarks during the 9th Asia-Europe (ASEM) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Hanoi on May 25, 2009.

Getty Images 6 months ago

Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone (L) meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo on May 3, 2009.

Japan's Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone (L) looks on while attending a joint news conference with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki in Tehran, May 2, 2009.

Japan's Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone (L) and his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki gesture to each others after a joint news conference in Tehran, May 2, 2009.

Getty Images 6 months ago

Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki (R) speaks at a press conference with his Japanese counterpart Hirofumi Nakasone (L) in Tehran on May 2, 2009.

Getty Images 6 months ago

Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki (R) speaks during a press conference with his Japanese counterpart Hirofumi Nakasone (L) in Tehran on May 2, 2009.

Getty Images 6 months ago

Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki (R) meets his Japanese counterpart Hirofumi Nakasone (L) in Tehran on May 2, 2009.

AP Photo 9 months ago

China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, center on left, talks with Japanese counterpart Hirofumi Nakasone, center on right, during a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009.

Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone (R) talks to his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi (not pictured) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, February 28, 2009. Sitting to his left is Japanese ambassador to China Yuji Miyamoto.

Japan's Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone attends a joint news conference with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki in Tehran, May 2, 2009.

Japan's Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone attends a news conference in Perth May 1, 2009. Nakasone is in Australia in a two-day official visit.

AP Photo 9 months ago

Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone talks to Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi, unseen, during a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009.

Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone talks to his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi (not pictured) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, February 28, 2009. Sitting to his left is Japanese ambassador to China Yuji Miyamoto.

AP Photo 2 months ago

Japan's New Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada smiles as he speaks with outgoing Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone during a handover ceremony at Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009.

AP Photo 2 months ago

Japan's New Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, left, shakes hands with outgoing Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone during a handover ceremony at Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009.

AP Photo 4 months ago

Foreign ministers and representatives from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) pose for photos during ASEAN Regional Forum in Phuket, Thailand, Thursday, July 23, 2009.

AP Photo 4 months ago

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives for a group photo as foreign ministers and representatives from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations smile during the ASEAN Regional Forum in Phuket, Thailand, Thursday, July 23, 2009.

Getty Images 4 months ago

Foreign ministers and representatives from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) pose during a the ASEAN Regional Forum in Phuket on July 23, 2009.

Getty Images 4 months ago

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives for a group photo as foreign ministers and representatives from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) smile during the ASEAN Regional Forum in Phuket on July 23, 2009.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (C) arrives for a group photo with foreign ministers and representatives from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) during the ASEAN Regional Forum in Phuket July 23, 2009.

Foreign ministers and representatives from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) pose during ASEAN Regional Forum in Phuket July 23, 2009.

Getty Images 4 months ago

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) shares a light moment with his Laos counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith (2nd L) as Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith (C) shakes hands with his Japanese counterpart Hirofumi Nakasone (2nd R) before the start of the Southeast Asian Nations...

Getty Images 4 months ago

Japan's Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone looks on before the start of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum Retreat on the Thai island of Phuket on July 23, 2009.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) shares a light moment with his Laos' counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith (2nd L) as Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith (C) shakes hands with his Japan's counterpart Hirofumi Nakasone (2nd R) before the start of Association of Southeast Asi...