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2001

	Yoshinori Ohno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After graduation he joined the Ministry of Finance in 1958 and traveled to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship.
		Ohno ran for governor of Kagawa Prefecture in 1978 but lost.
		He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1986 for the first time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yoshinori_Ohno (160 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Japan to Reassure Asian Countries About Defense Changes
		Ohno said Japan's defense orientation is being revised in light of potential instability in Northeast Asia - he specifically mentioned North Korea and the Taiwan Strait - and said he would be explaining this in the countries he visits.
		Ohno defended a loosening of the law banning export of weapons.
		Ohno said he would like to see the rule further relaxed to allow Japan to export old warships to Asian nations for the battle against terrorism and piracy.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-1-7/25565.html (444 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Japan’s Defense Minister Yoshinori Ohno was more guarded.
		Ohno noted that Japan also recently approved a bill to streamline its response to a missile threat from neighboring North Korea, allowing the defense minister to order incoming missiles be shot down without first seeking the approval of the Cabinet or the parliament.
		Wright, head of the United States Forces, Japan, and Ohno spoke at a reception marking the 10th anniversary of a program to introduce Marines to Japanese culture.
	www.armytimes.com /print.php?f=1-292925-994132.php (437 words)

	Japanese defense chief promises to help Indonesia for next three months
		Japanese defense chief Yoshinori Ohno promised Sunday to keep Japanese troops in Indonesia to help victims of the Asian tsunami disaster for the next three months, as requested by Jakarta.
		Ohno, director general of the Defence Agency, met with Indonesian Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono who asked Japan to continue providing emergency relief aid and rescue personnel for the next three months, especially in hard-hit Aceh province, according to Jiji Press.
		The commitment was expressed after Ohno issued an order Friday to dispatch some 1,000 Japanese troops to Indonesia to help tsunami victims.
	www.terradaily.com /2005/050109095419.2lme09nc.html (375 words)

	Yorkshire CND - Japan to develop missile defense system with US - 6/6/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The defense agency will include in its budget for the next fiscal year some "several billion yen (tens of millions of dollars)" for the project, Yoshinori Ohno told Japanese reporters in Singapore Sunday.
		Ohno also stressed the need to develop and produce the interceptor missiles as soon as possible, major media said.
		Ohno said Japan and the United States would jointly carry out the first missile interception test for the sea-based Standard Missile 3 interceptor next March in Hawaii.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/bmd/japan52.htm (262 words)

	Rice, Rumsfeld, Japanese Ministers Review Security Alliance - US Department of State
		From left, Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Japanese Defense Minister Yoshinori Ohno.
		Ohno said the agreement helps both countries meet such shared objectives as assuring "the security of Japan and peace in the region," which he specified as preventing the proliferation of dangerous weapons of mass destruction, halting North Korea's nuclear program, and responding to humanitarian needs such as the tsunami in Southeast Asia.
		We did in fact have a discussion of our global efforts together which are extensive, a relationship as General Ohno said, a relationship that was once only about the defense of Japan or perhaps about the stability in the region, has truly become a global alliance.
	usinfo.state.gov /eap/Archive/2005/Oct/30-317059.html (2375 words)

	The Militant - December 21, 2004 -- Pursuing Baathists, Washington increases forces in Iraq to 150,000
		Reports in the media indicated that Ohno’s visit was a prelude to Tokyo extending its troop deployment in Iraq beyond December 14, when they were scheduled to depart.
		The U.S. Department of Defense said the increased number of troops in Iraq is needed to maximize stability in the country prior to elections currently scheduled for January 30.
		Japanese defense minister Yoshinori Ohno gave a positive assessment of the performance of Tokyo’s 550 troops, stationed in the southern city of Samawah.
	www.themilitant.com /2004/6847/684703.html (2194 words)

	US to shift 7,000 Marines from Japan -DAWN - International; October 30, 2005
		The base realignment unveiled by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his Japanese counterpart, Yoshinori Ohno, also boosts bilateral military cooperation in areas ranging from disaster relief to ballistic missile defence to counterproliferation.
		Mr Ohno told reporters ‘we are in fact opening a new era’ in the evolution of the bilateral alliance beyond its initial narrow role of protecting Japan to cover contingencies in areas surrounding the Pacific Ocean island nation.
		Mr Ohno, in a nod to sensitive public opinion at home and in neighbouring Asian countries invaded by Imperial Japan, stressed that Japanese activities would adhere to its war-renouncing constitution and ‘not involve use of force’.
	www.dawn.com /2005/10/30/int8.htm (290 words)

	FT.com / Home UK / UK - Japan defence body set for promotion to ministry status (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yoshinori Ohno, head of the agency since September, said: "We should change from an agency to a full ministry this year.
		He said it was possible the ruling Liberal Democratic party would bring the issue to parliament in November in conjunction with proposals for constitutional amendments, a process that will be even more crucial in determining the future role of Japan's armed forces.
		Mr Ohno said Japan would remain a pacifist nation with strong civilian control of its armed forces.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/c68ccf9e-611b-11d9-af5a-00000e2511c8.html (449 words)

	Japan's Defence Chief Upbeat on Security in Iraq
		On returning from a visit to Iraq, Yoshinori Ohno, head of the defence agency, said in a statement on Monday: "I was satisfied that the security situation in the area is stable and that the troops' activities are being welcomed by the people of Samawah."
		He added, in remarks that the opposition Democratic Party of Japan dismissed as a "performance" intended to clear the way for an extension: "I realised once again that there is a great demand for repairs to roads and schools and for medical support, so the troops' humanitarian and reconstruction work remains important."
		Mr Ohno said that Japan could ask the UK to play a similar role.
	www.aina.org /news/20041206102723.htm (469 words)

	USPACOM Article
		Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld listens to Minister of State for Defense of Japan Yoshinori Ohno's remarks during a news briefing in the Pentagon Oct. 29.
		Rumsfeld, Ohno and other U.S. and Japanese officials had met earlier to discuss transformation and realignment of the U.S.-Japan Alliance.
		Minister Ohno said through a translator that when he was the Japanese finance minister he was known as "Mr.
	www.pacom.mil /articles/articles2005/051103story1.shtml (984 words)

	DBLP: Yoshiaki Shirai
		Yoshinori Ohno, Jun Miura, Yoshiaki Shirai: Tracking Players and Estimation of the 3D Position of a Ball in Soccer Games.
		Yoshinori Kuno, Tomoyuki Ishiyama, Satoru Nakanishi, Yoshiaki Shirai: Combining Observations of Intentional and Unintentional Behaviors for Human-Computer Interaction.
		Nobutaka Shimada, Yoshiaki Shirai, Yoshinori Kuno, Jun Miura: 3-D Pose Estimation and Model Refinement of an Articulated Object from a Monocular Image Sequence.
	www.vldb.org /dblp/db/indices/a-tree/s/Shirai:Yoshiaki.html (1379 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Japan, US closer to agreement on relocation of military base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Japan's Defence Minister Yoshinori Ohno says Japan and the United States are narrowing differences over where to relocate a US military base in Japan.
		Mr Ohno says Tokyo hopes to resolve the matter in a day or two.
		Moving the Marines' Futenma air base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa is a key sticking point in talks on the realignment of US forces in Japan, part of Washington's plan to transform its military globally into a more flexible force.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/news/stories/s1490508.htm (249 words)

	U.S.-Japan Security Alliance
		Remarks With Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Japanese Minister of State for Defense Yoshinori Ohno, and Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura
		We are very pleased to have Minister Machimura and Minister Ohno, the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Foreign Affairs here, and to welcome Secretary Rice.
		Last but not least, I would like to pay my heartfelt respect to the outstanding leadership exercised by, on the Japanese side, Minister Ohno, and on the U.S. side, Secretary Rumsfeld.
	www.state.gov /secretary/rm/2005/55775.htm (1787 words)

	Yorkshire CND - Japan Hopes to Expand Missile Defense Cooperation With U.S. Next Year - 7/6/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Japan plans to embark next year on the development stage of a joint missile defense system with the United States, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday.
		The Japanese defense agency is expected to include tens of millions of dollars for the project in next year’s budget, agency chief Yoshinori Ohno told the Asahi Shimbun Sunday.
		Ohno also said Tokyo and Washington have plans to conduct the first joint test of the sea-based Standard Missile 3 interceptor next March in Hawaii, according to AFP (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, June 6).
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/bmd/japan66.htm (184 words)

	IndustryWeek : Going It Together
		"The first thing is that both sides must be prepared to compromise," says Yoshinori Ohno, president of Sumitomo NACCO Materials Handling Co. Ltd.
		For his part, Yoshinori Ohno refers to his American colleagues as "nice guys" -- although he notes with a smile that U.S. managers "begin every discussion by assuming they are correct.
		The most critical moment in the life of the joint venture occurred in 1989, when NACCO acquired Hyster Co., a U.S. forklift producer with extensive capabilities in the development and manufacture of IC machines -- the very types of products that the SNMH joint venture was producing.
	www.industryweek.com /ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=1347 (1668 words)

	The Epoch Times \| US and Japan Urge North Korea to Return to Talks
		While President Bush includes North Korea in his so-called Axis of Evil, he says Washington has no intention of invading the country, and is willing to make that guarantee in writing as part of the six-party talks.
		Secretary Rice and Foreign Minister Machimura also met with U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Japanese Defense Minister Yoshinori Ono to discuss China's continuing military growth and security in Taiwan.
		The United States and Japan said easing tensions across the Taiwan Strait is a common strategic objective.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-2-20/26548.html (497 words)

	U.S. Air Force AIM Points: Japan, U.S. face rough going on military realignment
		He added that the report in the autumn would allow "at least a progress update on how well the talks are going."
		Japanese Defence Minister Yoshinori Ohno, speaking at the same event, referred to the discussions as a "big problem."
		"The realignment will forecast the relationship between the United States and Japan for 100 years to come," Ohno added.
	aimpoints.hq.af.mil /display.cfm?id=5315 (348 words)

	US Policy article
		North Korea must make commitment to end those programs in a "transparent manner subject to verification," said a joint statement issued at the conclusion of the February 19 meeting of the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee (SCC) in Washington.
		Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hosted their Japanese counterparts, Minister for Foreign Affairs Nobutaka Machimura and Minister of State for Defense Yoshinori Ohno.
		At a news conference following the meeting, Rice said that the return to the talks, which also involve China, Russia and South Korea, is the "only way for North Korea to achieve better relations."
	www.uspolicy.be /Article.asp?ID=863D593D-0841-4CEB-BED0-D6100D714B4C (841 words)

	Rice, Rumsfeld, Japanese Ministers Review Security Alliance
		The meeting of the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee, or "2 + 2 Ministerial," was hosted by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and included Rice, her Japanese counterpart Nobutaka Machimura and Japan's defense minister Yoshinori Ohno.
		Rumsfeld noted that the U.S.-Japan security relationship has existed for a half-century and "remains a bulwark of peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region."
		The meeting came one day after Japan announced it had agreed to base a Nimitz-class U.S. aircraft carrier at the port of Yokosuka, which would be the first time a nuclear-powered carrier has been allowed to use Japan as its home port.
	newsblaze.com /story/20051031065645nnnn.nb/newsblaze/IRAN0001/Iran.html (2401 words)

	June 07, 2005 (defense procurement, military acquisition, defence purchasing) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Japan's Defense Agency Chief Yoshinori Ohno says Japan has completed the joint technology research stage on a missile defense system it has been researching with the United States, and will include several billion yen (tens of millions of dollars) in its next fiscal year budget to start developing the system.
		Kyodo News also quotes him as saying they would also like to expand the scope of the missile defense system, so it will have the capability to respond to decoys that are used to avoid anti-missile interceptors.
		Production will begin following a five-year development phase that ends in fiscal 2011, but Ohno also stressed the need to develop and produce the interceptor missiles as soon as possible.
	www.defenseindustrydaily.com /2005/06/07 (1066 words)

	Japan says hostage taking in Iraq not affecting Japanese troops' aid role - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		TOKYO (AFX) - The head of the Japan Defense Agency said activities of Japanese troops in Iraq would not be affected by reports of a Japanese national had been taken hostage in the war-torn nation.
		Yoshinori Ohno, the defense minister, said there had been no change in public safety in Samawa, the southern Iraqi city where some 600 Japanese troops were providing humanitarian help.
		Security in Samawa 'has not worsened', Ohno told reporters.
	www.forbes.com /home/feeds/afx/2005/05/10/afx2012262.html (456 words)

	DefenseLINK News: U.S., Japanese Leaders Recommend Closer Ties, Troop Shifts
		Some 7,000 Marines of the headquarters of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force will relocate from Okinawa, Japan, to Guam over the next six years as part of recommendations accepted by the United States and Japan today.
		The Japanese government will fund the greater portion of recommended relocations, officials said.
		Defense Secretary of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan Nobutaka Machimura (left) and Minister of State for Defense of Japan Yoshinori Ohno conducted a news briefing in the Pentagon Oct. 29 to discuss transformation and realignment of the U.S.-Japan Alliance.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Oct2005/20051029_3186.html (1023 words)

	DoD News: News Briefing with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
		SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Good morning. We are very pleased to have Minister Machimura and Minister Ohno, the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Foreign Affairs here, and to welcome Secretary Rice.
		Last but not least, I would like to pay my heartfelt respect to the outstanding leadership exercised by, on the Japanese side, Minister Ohno, and on the U.S. side, Secretary Rumsfeld.
		PRESS: Minister Ohno, in your opening statement you described Japan's desire to play a greater role in "the peace and security around the world." What kinds of new missions might Japan be willing to undertake to do that? Mr.
	www.defenselink.mil /transcripts/2005/tr20051029-secdef4183.html (1128 words)

	The Front Line - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		And it must do so within a defense budget being shrunk to help contain mammoth fiscal deficits.
		Coming from elsewhere, Ohno's statement might seem uneventful.
		But in a region with vivid memories of Japan's World War II atrocities, rife with ancient animosities and modern rivalries, any assertions of Japan's military might have been met with fierce opposition.
	www.forbes.com /home/free_forbes/2005/0919/154.html (828 words)

	DefenseLink Photos: Home Page Photos
		Rumsfeld and Ohno discussed U.S.-Japan Alliance Transformation and Realignment.
		Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. James Bowman
		U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. James L. Harper Jr.
	www.pentagon.mil /HomePagePhotos/HomePagePhotos.aspx?Month=200510 (2068 words)

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