Now chief cabinet secretary, he is a Koizumi protégé.
What has hurt most, however, is the enmity of Yasuo Fukuda, the chief cabinet secretary.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga declined to say whether Japan would pay the ransom.
Yukio Edano, the chief cabinet secretary, called the law "a major step forward".
Japanese chief Cabinet spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters that no debris fell on Japanese territory.
The Fukui ruling will not derail that, the chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, insists.
In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura called the Chinese actions "extremely regrettable".
Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yoshito Sengoku, expressed displeasure over Mr. Dai's overnight protest.
But the chief cabinet secretary, Yukio Edano, stressed that there had been no radiation leak.
Yukio Edano, the outspoken chief cabinet secretary, has been one voice of relative clarity.
In Tokyo, Yoshihide Suga, the chief cabinet secretary, brushed off the market plunge.
