Yukihiko Ikeda

was a Japanese bureaucrat and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) politician who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 1997. Ikeda was known to be "Mr. No" in the political life. Following the death of his father in 1944, he moved to Nakajima Honmachi, Hiroshima where his father's family lived. Ikeda studied law at the University of Tokyo and graduated in March 1961. and worked as bureaucrat there. He served as a lawmaker ten times until his retirement. He served in the post until 5 November 1991 and was succeeded by Sohei Miyashita. Ikeda replaced Yōhei Kōno as foreign minister. He led Japan's attempts to solve the hostage crisis in Peru in the 1990s. He was part of Koichi Kato's faction in the LDP.

Ikeda died of rectum cancer in Tokyo on 28 January 2004 at age 66.

Honours From the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia

Senior Third Rank Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun