Press Conference Archives August 2013

30 August

• Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
  1. Opening Remarks
     • (1) Visit to Brazil and Argentina
  2. Situation in Syria
  3. Requisition of civilians from the Korean Peninsula
  4. IOC Session

29 August

• Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary / Deputy Director-General for Press and Public Diplomacy Koichi Mizushima
  1. Foreign Minister Kishida’s visit to Hungary and Ukraine

21 August

• Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
  1. Opening Remarks
     • (1) Visit to Hungary and Ukraine
     • (2) Visit to Japan by President of Turkmenistan and Prime Minister of Mongolia
  2. Court decision of the retrial of “Requisition of Civilians from the Korean Peninsula”
  3. Prime Minister Abe’s speech at the Memorial Ceremony for the War Dead
  4. Japan-Russia relations
  5. Japan-ROK relations
  6. Right to collective self-defense

8 August

• Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
  1. Opening Remarks
     • (1) ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit
  2. Senkaku Islands
  3. Visit to the Yasukuni Shrine
  4. U.S.'s Participation in the Sochi Winter Olympics
  5. U.S. Forces' helicopter crash accident in Okinawa
  6. Japan-ROK relations

2 August

• Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
  1. Opening Remarks
     • (1) Trip to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  2. Deputy Prime Minister Aso's remarks on Nazi regime
  3. Visit to the Yasukuni Shrine
  4. Trip to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  5. Additional deployment of the Osprey
  6. Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau
  7. Visit to the Yasukuni Shrine
  8. Joint Statement on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons
  9. Japan-China relations
  10. Japan-ROK relations

1 August

• Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary / Deputy Director-General for Press and Public Diplomacy Koichi Mizushima
  1. Foreign Minister Kishida's Visit to the Middle East
  2. Prime Minister's Visit to Southeast Asia
  3. Iftar hosted by Prime Minister Abe
  4. Selection of the Youth Special Communicators for a World without Nuclear Weapons