Toshifumi Kitamura
Japanese FM Koichiro Gemba, seen here in April 2012, had been due to sign the landmark agreement with South Korea's ambassador Shin Kak-Soo. The pact will be the first such accord since Tokyo's colonial rule ended in 1945. South Korea postponed at the last minute the signing of a landmark military agreement with Japan, amid anger in Seoul over the planned pact with a former colonial ruler.
