Press Conference by the Press Secretary Archive
March 2010

25 March: Deputy Press Secretary Hidenobu Sobashima

  1. Efforts toward nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
  2. Release of the 2nd Term Report by the Japan-ROK Joint History Research Committee
  3. VIP visits
  4. Questions concerning efforts toward disarmament

18 March: Deputy Press Secretary Hidenobu Sobashima

  1. Draft basic law on climate change countermeasures
  2. COP15 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
  3. Visit to Japan by H.E. Bernard Kouchner, the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the French Republic
  4. Visit by Parliamentary Vice Minister Chinami Nishimura to Russia and Beijing
  5. 26th Annual Conference of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group
  6. Oku-Inoue Commemorative Youth UN Visit Program to visit the UN Headquarters
  7. VIP Visits
  8. Questions concerning Japan's defense under the US nuclear umbrella
  9. Question concerning Japan's ability to develop nuclear weapons
  10. Questions concerning the Chinese Yuan
  11. Questions concerning worldwide nuclear disarmament
  12. Follow-up question concerning Japan's defense under the US nuclear umbrella
  13. Questions concerning the proposal at CITES COP15 to list Atlantic bluefin tuna in Appendix 1
  14. Question concerning CO2 emissions reduction targets
  15. Questions concerning the visit by Parliamentary Vice Minister Chinami Nishimura to Russia

11 March: Deputy Press Secretary Hidenobu Sobashima

  1. Appointment of Mr. Yoshihisa Endo as Executive Director of the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) Information Sharing Centre (ISC)
  2. Japan-Romania summit meeting
  3. Reports on the so-called "secret agreements"
  4. Publication of Japan's ODA White Paper 2009
  5. VIP Visits

4 March: Deputy Press Secretary Hidenobu Sobashima

  1. Co-Chairs summary of the Eighth Informal Meeting on Further Actions against Climate Change
  2. Japanese cooperation to Chile for the earthquake disaster
  3. Statement by Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Chinami Nishimura at the Human Rights Council
  4. VIP visits
  5. Questions regarding the meeting between Japanese government officials and U.S. Ambassador John Roos
  6. Questions regarding the meeting between U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Vice Minister Motoji Yabunaka
  7. Questions regarding Bluefin Tuna

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