Press Conference Archives May 2013

31 May

• Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
  1. Opening Remarks
     • (1) Attendance at the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V)
     • (2) Government initiatives and three main pillars of our foreign policy following the incident in Algeria
  2. Crash of a U.S. Forces Japan F-15
  3. Japan-India Agreement for Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy
  4. Issue of the recognition of history
  5. Situation in North Korea

30 May

• Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary / Deputy Director-General for Press and Public Diplomacy Naoko Saiki
  1. Fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development
  2. Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize award ceremony and commemorative banquet
  3. Japan-India Summit Meeting
  4. Visit by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
  5. Election of the Members of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances
  6. Japan-U.S. Space Situational Awareness Cooperation Agreement
  7. Questions concerning the Japan-India Joint Statement
  8. Questions concerning the Japan-India agreement for cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy
  9. Questions concerning transparency in negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
  10. Follow-up questions concerning importance of the TPP for Japan
  11. Follow-up questions concerning South Korea and China to join the TPP framework
  12. Follow-up questions concerning the TPP

28 May

• Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
  1. Opening Remarks
     • Signing of the Japan-U.S. Space Situational Awareness Cooperation Agreement
  2. The Issue of the recognitions of history
  3. Situation in North Korea
  4. Incident of a missing Japanese mountain climber in Nepal
  5. Japan-India Agreement for Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy
  6. Incident of a missing Japanese mountain climber in Nepal

24 May

• Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
  1. Opening Remarks
  2. Situation in North Korea

23 May

• Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary / Deputy Director-General for Press and Public Diplomacy Naoko Saiki
  1. Tornado damage in Oklahoma
  2. Visit by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
  3. East Asia Low Carbon Growth Partnership Dialogue
  4. Launch of Japan’s Strategy on Global Health Diplomacy
  5. Pacific Alliance
  6. Questions concerning the delegation from the city of Nago
  7. Questions concerning the intercontinental missile tests by the United States
  8. Questions concerning historical issues with China and the Republic of Korea
  9. Questions concerning Prime Minister Abe’s Jet Photo
  10. Questions concerning Japan–India Civil Nuclear Cooperation
  11. Questions concerning Mr. Isao Iijima’s visit to North Korea

21 May

• Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
  1. Situation in North Korea

17 May

• Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
  1. Situation in North Korea

16 May

• Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary / Deputy Director-General for Press and Public Diplomacy Naoko Saiki
  1. Admission of Japan’s Observer status in the Arctic Council
  2. Adoption of the United Nations General Assembly resolution on Syria
  3. Fifth GUAM + Japan meeting
  4. Second round of negotiations for a Japan-Colombia Economic Partnership Agreement
  5. Visit to Japan by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia
  6. Visit to Japan by Prime Minister of India
  7. Convention between Japan and the State of Kuwait for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income

14 May

• Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
  1. Opening Remarks
     • (1) Visit to Japan by H.E. Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
     • (2) The Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction
     • (3) The Second East Asia Low Carbon Growth Partnership Dialogue
  2. Cruising of an unidentified submarine in the contiguous zone
  3. Recognition of history

10 May

• Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
  1. Issue of the Abe Administration’s Recognition of History
  2. Japan-Taiwan Fisheries Agreement
  3. Issue of the Abe Administration’s Recognition of History

9 May

• Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary / Deputy Director-General for Press and Public Diplomacy Naoko Saiki
  1. First round of negotiations for Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
  2. First Japan-US Cyber Dialogue
  3. Visit to Japan by President of the French Republic
  4. Visit to Japan by Sultan and Raja Isteri-Pengiran of Brunei Darussalam
  5. Questions concerning the history issue
  6. Questions concerning preemptive strikes
  7. Questions concerning the strengthening of Japan’s deterring power
  8. Questions concerning North Korean missiles
  9. Questions concerning comfort women
  10. Questions concerning the Japan-Taiwan Fishery Arrangement
  11. Questions concerning People’s Daily article on Japan’s sovereignty over Okinawa
  12. Questions concerning the visit of Prime Minister Abe to Russia
  13. Questions concerning China’s closure of accounts of North Korea’s Foreign Trade Bank

7 May

• Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
  1. Opening Remarks
  2. Situation in North Korea
  3. Issue of the Abe Administration’s Recognition of History
  4. Japan-France Foreign Ministers’ Meeting