Diplomatic Bluebook 2023
Photo Index
2022 Major events around the world and in Japan (January to July)
Special Feature
- Welcome ceremony on the occasion of the Japan-Ukraine Summit Meeting (March 21, 2023, Kyiv, Ukraine; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Signing ceremony for the exchange of notes on financial assistance (April 28, Tokyo)
- SDF aircraft transporting humanitarian relief supplies for UNHCR. The transported supplies were delivered to displaced people via UNHCR (May 13, Romania; Photo: Ministry of Defense website)
- Generators provided by Japan installed near temporary housing (© UNHCR)
- Cambodian Mine Action Center experts training members of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the use of mine detectors (January 17, 2023, Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia; Photo: JICA)
- G7 Elmau Summit: Session on the situation in Ukraine (June 27, Elmau, Germany; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting (November 3, Münster, Germany)
- Adoption of UN General Assembly resolution (October, Source: UN website)
- Oral arguments by Ukraine before the ICJ (Source: UN Photo/ICJ-CIJ/Frank van Beek. Courtesy of the ICJ.)
- Exterior view of the ICC (Source: ICC-CPI)
- Ukrainian wheat transported from Ukraine to Somalia with Japanese assistance (©WFP/Jamal Ali)
- Meeting between Foreign Minister Hayashi and IAEA Director General Grossi (May 19, Tokyo)
- Prime Minister Kishida shaking hands during a meeting with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, who attended the state funeral (September 26, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Prime Minister Kishida delivering a memorial address (September 27, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Foreign Minister Hayashi holding a meeting with Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, who attended the state funeral (September 27, Tokyo)
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- Prime Minister Kishida's visit to Indonesia (April 29, Jakarta, Indonesia; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-U.S.-ROK Summit Meeting (June 29, Madrid, Spain; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-China Summit Meeting (November 17, Thailand, Bangkok; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Opening ceremony for Japan Festival Shenyang, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the normalization of Japan-China relations (June 11, Shenyang, China)
- Reception to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the normalization of Japan-China relations, hosted by the 50th anniversary of the normalization of Japan-China relations Executive Committee for Promotion of Japan-China Exchange (September 29, Tokyo)
- Chinese maritime structures confirmed to have been built near the geographical equidistant line between Japan and China (Photo: Ministry of Defense) For details
- Chinese maritime structures confirmed to have been built near the geographical equidistant line between Japan and China (Photo: Ministry of Defense) For details
- Photo from the photo album of President Khurelsukh (called “Khurlee”). President Khurelsukh is in the center of the front row (1994, Aomori Prefecture)
- President Khurelsukh and members of the TAKAMURA family reunited in Mongolia (Photo: TAKAMURA family)
- Japan-ROK Summit Meeting (November 13, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-ROK Summit Meeting (March 16, 2023, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-Indonesia Summit Meeting (April 29, Bogor, Indonesia; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Welcome ceremony during Prime Minister Kishida's visit to Thailand (May 2, Bangkok, Thailand; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Miyake paying a courtesy call to President-elect Ramos-Horta as a Special Envoy of Prime Minister Kishida (May 18, Dili, Timor-Leste)
- Foreign Minister Hayashi paying a courtesy call to President Marcos as a Special Envoy of Prime Minister Kishida (June 30, Manila, Philippines)
- Japan-Viet Nam Summit Meeting (May 1, Hanoi, Viet Nam; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Second Japan-India 2+2 Foreign and Defence Ministerial Meeting (September 8, Tokyo)
- State Minister for Foreign Affairs Takei paying a courtesy call to Princess Wangchuck of Bhutan (November 22, Thimphu, Bhutan)
- Ambassadors to Japan and other representatives of each country showing their thoughts in calligraphy at the “Kakizome Party” kickoff event for the Exchange Year (January 27, Tokyo)
- Exchange Year banner set up on the main road at the Shimokitazawa Curry Festival (October, Tokyo)
- Japan-Australia Leaders Meeting (May 24, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-Palau Summit Meeting (September 9, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- 25th ASEAN-Japan Summit (November 11, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- 23rd ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers' Meeting (August 4, Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
- 17th EAS (November 13, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-U.S. Summit Meeting (May 23, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-U.S. Summit Meeting (May 23, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Tea ceremony hosted by Mrs. KISHIDA, spouse of Prime Minister Kishida (May, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Courtesy call on Prime Minister Kishida by Vice President Harris of the U.S. (September 26, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office) *Created by digitally processing the website of the Prime Minister's Office of Japan
- Japan-U.S. Foreign Ministers' Meeting (November 4, Munich, Germany)
- Japan-U.S. Summit Meeting (January 13, 2023, Washington, D.C. the U.S.; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-U.S. Summit Meeting (January 13, 2023, Washington, D.C. the U.S.; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Economic “2+2” (July 29, Washington, D.C. the U.S.)
- Summit-level meeting on the launch of the IPEF (May 23, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-Canada Summit Meeting (January 12, 2023, Ottawa, Canada; Photo: Cabinet Public Affaris Office)
- Japan-Canada Foreign Ministers' Meeting and Working Dinner (October 11, Tokyo)
- Prime Minister Kishida delivering a commemorative address at the ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the reversion of Okinawa to Japan (May 15, Okinawa; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-Cuba Summit Meeting (September 28, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-Panama Foreign Ministers' Meeting (September 26, Tokyo)
- Japan-Suriname Foreign Ministers' Meeting (September 21, New York, the U.S.)
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Akimoto meeting with Prime Minister Browne (October 4, Antigua and Barbuda)
- Japan-Mexico Foreign Ministers' Meeting (September 26, Tokyo)
- Mexican trainees studying in a Japanese laboratory
- Japanese trainees posing for a commemorative photo on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Japan-Honduras Foreign Ministers' Meeting (July 4, Tokyo)
- Japan-El Salvador Foreign Ministers' Meeting (September 26, Tokyo)
- Japan-Costa Rica Foreign Ministers' Meeting (November 8, Tokyo)
- Japan-Brazil Foreign Ministers' Meeting (September 22, New York, the U.S.)
- Japan-Argentina Foreign Ministers' Meeting (July 7, Bali, Indonesia)
- Japan-Chile Summit Meeting (November 17, Bangkok, Thailand; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-Uruguay Summit Meeting (October 28, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-Colombia Foreign Ministers' Meeting (September 21, New York, the U.S.)
- Signing ceremony of the Japan-UK Reciprocal Access Agreement (January 11, 2023, London, UK; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Prime Minister Kishida being welcomed by President Macron (January 9, 2023, Paris, France; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-Italy Summit Meeting (January 10, 2023, Rome, Italy; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-Spain Summit Meeting (June 29, Madrid, Spain; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Foreign Minister Hayashi shaking hands with NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg at the Meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs (April 7, Brussels, Belgium)
- Prime Minister Kishida attending Partner Countries' Session in the NATO Summit (June 29, Madrid, Spain; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Prime Minister Kishida shaking hands with NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg during his visit to Japan (January 2023, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Prime Minister Kishida and Prime Minister Sunak shaking hands at the signing of the Japan-UK RAA (January 11, 2023, London, the UK; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-Moldova Summit Meeting (December 3, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Ceremony to hand over medical equipment through the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of the Government of Japan's support for displaced persons (November 1, Chișinău, Moldova)
- The Ninth Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the “Central Asia plus Japan” (December 24, Tokyo)
- Japan-Georgia Foreign Ministers' Meeting (December 15, Tokyo)
- Concert by “Japanese Drum (Wadaiko) Group Sai” (November 20, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan)
- Piano recital by NAKAMURA Tempei (July 18, Baku, Azerbaijan)
- Meeting between Foreign Minister Hayashi and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Benjamin Gantz (August 30, Tokyo)
- Meeting between Prime Minister Kishida and former Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (September 28, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Japan-Turkey Summit Meeting (September 20, New York, the U.S.; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Takagi delivers remarks at the completion ceremony of the “Hartha Thermal Power Station Rehabilitation Project” funded with yen loans (November 3, Basra, Iraq)
- Japan-Jordan Summit Meeting (September 27, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Foreign Minister Hayashi and Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and Special Envoy to Japan Sultan Al Jaber of UAE holding up the signed Joint Declaration of the CSPI Framework Document signing ceremony (September 28, Tokyo)
- Her Imperial Highness Princess Tsuguko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Sultanate of Oman Al Busaidi and her spouse, and Governor of Yamanashi Prefecture NAGASAKI Kotaro, attending the Oman-Yamanashi Jewelry Exhibition hosted by the Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman in Japan (Photo: Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman in Tokyo)
- Meeting between Prime Minister Kishida and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman (September 28, Tokyo Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Undersecretary for Financial Affairs of the Ministry of Finance and National Economy Yusuf Abdulla Humood and Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Honda signed the Japan-Bahrain Investment Agreement in the presence of Minister of Finance and National Economy Salman
- Performance by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Western Army Band and others at the Military Music: Oman and the World (Photo: Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Western Army Band, Ministry of Defense)
- Japan-Egypt Summit Video Conference Meeting (August 27, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Foreign Minister Hayashi pays a courtesy call to Tunisian President Kais Saied as Special Envoy of the Prime Minister (August 26, Tunis, Tunisia)
- State Minister for Foreign Affairs Yamada takes a commemorative photo after meeting with Minister of Industry Ahmed Zaghdar (December 18, Algiers, Algeria)
- Prime Minister Kishida shakes hands with Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch of Morocco (September 28, Tokyo; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Koto performance by MIYAZAKI Mieko (June 29, Algiers, Algeria)
- Around 1,300 aikido martial artists from across Algeria attended the signing ceremony for the Grant Assistance for Cultural Grassroots Project and representatives of aikido, Japanese fencing (kendo), and the art of drawing the Japanese sword (iaido) demonstrated their performances.
- Prime Minister Kishida delivering a speech at the TICAD 8 Opening Session (August 27, Tunis, Tunisia)
- Group photo at the Fourth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize Award Ceremony (August 28, Tunis, Tunisia)
- Foreign Minister Hayashi presiding over the TICAD 8 Closing Ceremony (August 28, Tunis, Tunisia)
- State Minister for Foreign Affairs Suzuki meeting with Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Raychelle Awuor Omamo(May 3, Nairobi, Kenya)
- Japan-Rwanda Summit Meeting (November 14, Bali, Indonesia. Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Foreign Minister Hayashi pays courtesy call to King Mswati III of Eswatini (August 27, Tunis, Tunisia)
- Working lunch between Foreign Minister Hayashi and Prime Minister Achi of Côte d'Ivoire (August 27, Tunis, Tunisia)
- Japan-Senegal Summit Meeting (December 19, Tokyo. Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
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- Japan-U.S. “2+2” (January 2023, Washington D.C., U.S.)
- Japan-U.S. “2+2” (January 2023, Washington D.C., U.S.)
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs YOSHIKAWA Yuumi, and Ginowan Mayor MATSUGAWA Masanori, interacting with students (October 2, Ginowan City, Okinawa Prefecture)
- Students giving a group presentation (October 2, Ginowan City, Okinawa Prefecture)
- Japan-Australia “2+2” (December 9, Tokyo)
- Meeting between Prime Minister Kishida and NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg (June 29, Spain, Madrid; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- ■ Uotsuri Island of Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture
- Conflict sensitivity training for WFP staff (the author is on the right of the screen) (Photo: Maria Roxanne Nicola, WFP)
- Former MILF combatant receiving support for improving their livelihoods (Photo: Maria Roxanne Nicola, WFP)
- Prime Minister Kishida delivering the general debate speech at the NPT Review Conference (August 1, New York, the U.S. Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons (December 10-11, Hiroshima City. Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Prime Minister Kishida delivering a speech at the High-Level Meeting of the Friends of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (September 21, New York, U.S. Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- IAEA Director General Grossi paying a courtesy call to Prime Minister Kishida (May 20, Tokyo. Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- IAEA mission team at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (September, Ukraine. Photo: IAEA)
- With the Section Heads at the first department meeting after assuming office as Director (at the IAEA Headquarters; the author is in the center) (September, Vienna, Austria)
- Prime Minister Kishida delivering an address at the General Debate of the UN General Assembly (September 20, New York, U.S. Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- Prime Minister Kishida and UN Secretary-General Guterres signing the guestbook at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (August 6, Hiroshima. Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- State Minister for Foreign Affairs Odawara attending the election for non-permanent members of the UN Security Council─the moment when Japan was elected (Left in the photo) (June 9, New York)
- G4 Foreign Ministers before their meeting (September 22, New York, U.S.)
- Ministerial Meeting of the G4 countries on UN Security Council Reform (September 22, New York, U.S.)
- The author
- Oral proceedings in ITLOS (the author is second from the top left)
- President Guðni Jóhannesson of Iceland (left) and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous (right) delivering speeches at WAW!2022 (December 3, Tokyo)
- President Guðni Jóhannesson of Iceland (left) and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous (right) delivering speeches at WAW!2022 (December 3, Tokyo)
- Discussions at WAW!2022 (December 3, Tokyo)
- Prime Minister Kishida giving the opening remarks (December 3, Tokyo)
- Speakers at the High-Level Roundtable (December 3, Tokyo)
- Session 9: Women's Participation in Peace and Security
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Dr. Denis Mukwege, participating online (December 3, Tokyo)
- Submission of the report from the Advisory Panel on the Revision of the Development Cooperation Charter to Foreign Minister Hayashi (December 9, Tokyo)
- The author (center) distributing emergency relief supplies from Japan in Vinnytsia, Central Ukraine (Photo: Anita Rudyk, UNHCR)
- Engaging in psychological and social support activities for children at evacuation shelters, in Vinnytsia, Central Ukraine (Photo: Anita Rudyk, UNHCR)
- Engaging in psychological and social support activities for children at evacuation shelters, in Vinnytsia, Central Ukraine (Photo: Anita Rudyk, UNHCR)
- Capacity building training for the Vietnam Coast Guard (lecture on drift forecasting) (August, Phu Quoc, Vietnam; Photo: JICA)
- Capacity building training for the Vietnam Coast Guard (lecture introducing narcotics operations) (August, Phu Quoc, Vietnam; Photo: JICA)
- Document exchange and signing ceremony for grant aid to improve medical equipment mainly in the field of mother and child health (November 22, Thimphu, Bhutan)
- Handover ceremony for equipment donations supporting the Last One Mile (June 8, Guatemala City, Guatemala)
- Class at the Japan Center (April 15, Bukhara, Uzbekistan; Photo: JICA/SHIBUYA Atsushi)
- “Rebuilding Livelihoods and Capacities of Conflict-Affected Small-Scale Fisheries Households in Aden and Hadramout (RELACC)” joint grant aid project for Yemen with the UNDP (April 22, Aden, Yemen; Photo: UNDP)
- Threshing training for farmers in Madagascar to double rice production (April 28, Analamanga, Madagascar; Photo: JICA)
- Refugees living in Uganda learning rice cultivation techniques together with host community members (August, Adjumani, Uganda; Photo: JICA/HISANO Takeshi)
- First Step: Sekai wo Tsunagu Ainoshirushi, Television drama currently being aired (as of February 2023) (Japanese only)
- Efforts for a free and open ocean Documentary movie about ODA involving the ocean
- First session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution held in Uruguay
- Marine litter along the coast of Tsushima City (Photo: Ministry of the Environment)
- Main session of the Second UN Ocean Conference (Lisbon, Portugal)
- Marine plastic litter objects on display near the venue of the Second UN Ocean Conference (Lisbon, Portugal)
- COP15 venue (Montreal, Canada)
- The author
- The Twelfth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (June, Geneva, Switzerland; Photo: World Trade Organization)
- G7 Elmau Summit (June 28, Elmau, Germany; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- G20 Bali Summit (November 15, Bali, Indonesia; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting (November, Bangkok, Thailand; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
- The sea in Mauritius
- The author with a purchased fish
- Policy promotion video, “Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP)” (English) (Posted on MOFA's YouTube channel from March 17, 2022)
- Exchanges during the Al Qassim Date Festival (the author on the far right) (August)
- A video post of Ambassador Iwai eating with his hand in the traditional Saudi-Arabian style, when visiting a provincial region. The video was played 340,000 times. (May, Najran, Saudi Arabia)
- “Linking the Spanish-speaking Parts of Latin America and the Caribbean Through Calligraphy” (From January to February, Central and South America)
- Japan Festival Support Program by JF (Deer Dance (Shishi-Odori) from Tohoku was performed at the Israel Festival) (September, Jerusalem, Israel; Photo courtesy of JF)
- Japan-China exchange event on dinosaurs (July 30, Beijing, China)
- Japanese musical instrument concert to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Friendship between Japan and Bangladesh (October 15, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
- “Un an avec Tora san” held at the Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris (The Japan Cultural Institute in Paris) (Photo: JF, ©Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris/©Shochiku)
- NIHONGO Partners providing support in classes (September, Prachin Buri, Thailand; Photo: JF)
- JET information session at a career fair at the University of St. Thomas (September, Houston, U.S.)
- International friendly football match, “JapaFunCup” (June 2019, Fukushima Prefecture. ©JFA Photo: JF)
- NIHONGO Partners introducing folded paper cranes (orizuru) at the assigned school (September, Thailand. Photo: JF)
- NIHONGO Partners chatting with students and teachers at their assigned school (September, Thailand. Photo: JF)
- Promoting studying abroad in local cities
- The author giving a presentation at the Second Japan Alumni Conference
- A networking event in Mexico City
- Presenting Japan-related books in local cities
- OH Sadaharu speaking at the Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) Symposium 2022 (October, Kyushu National Museum. Photo: JF)
- Prime Minister Kishida received a courtesy call from UNESCO Director-General Azoulay (January 9, 2023, Paris, France; Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office)
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- The author briefing the UN Security Council under the agenda item “threats to international peace and security.” (December, New York, the U.S. Photo: UN Office for Disarmament Affairs)
- Opening of the photo exhibition “Women Making the World Safe from Biological and Toxin Weapons: 50 Years of the BWC” (the author is the fourth from the right) (November, Geneva, Switzerland. Photo: UN Office for Disarmament Affairs)
- The signature and ratification ceremony for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (the author is in the center) (September, New York, the U.S. Photo: UN Office for Disarmament Affairs)
- The author in the ICAO Headquarters Council Chamber. After working in the Civil Aviation Bureau at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, he has been working at the ICAO Secretariat since 2008, and has been in his current position since 2015.
- Standing ovation when the CORSIA was agreed to at the ICAO Assembly in 2016
- Standing ovation when the CORSIA was agreed to at the ICAO Assembly in 2016
- Psychological first aid for refugees in three regions in Western Ukraine (photo: IVY and its associate organization STEP-IN)
- Opening ceremony of a school in Nepal (Photo: Shanti Volunteer Association)
- Students studying in a PC classroom in Iraq (Photo: IVY)
- Maintenance committee discussing infrastructure that was constructed in a Myanmar project (Photo: Terra People Association)
- Receiving the medal from the President of Madagascar with the judoka (the author is on the right)
- Ceremony to present Judo uniforms donated by Fukui Prefecture and the NPO JUDOs (the author is third from the right)
- Foreign Minister Hayashi listening to Fukushima governor Uchibori at the Fukushima Revitalization Reception (July 25, Tokyo)
- “Local to Global” project: Foreign Minister Hayashi inspecting the exterior of Oura Cathedral (November 12, Nagasaki Prefecture)
- Presentation by a participating local government organization at a Regional Promotion Seminar (October 14, Tokyo)
- Photo at the World Nishikigoi Summit (November 6, Niigata Prefecture; Photo: World Nishikigoi Summit Executive Committee
- Reception organized by Fukushima Prefecture during a Diplomats' Study Tour (November 29, Fukushima Prefecture)
- PR video from Shizuoka Prefecture streamed from the social media account of the Embassy of Japan in China as part of the Project to Support Overseas Presentations to Promote the Attractiveness of Regions
- ■ Page for Tabi-Regi and Overseas Residential Registrations
- Press Conference by Foreign Minister Hayashi (August 10, Tokyo)
- MOFA's official website
- MOFA's official Twitter account
- Roundtable dialogue, “Yamagata to Global” (December 11, Yamagata Grand Hotel)
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Uesugi taking a commemorative photograph with children participating in the “Children's Kasumigaseki Tour Day”
- “Lectures on the International Situations” (September 28, UN Association of Japan Fukuoka Head Office)
- International Issues Presentation Contest (November 5, Nihonbashi Social Education Center)
- Periodical journal “Diplomacy”
- “MOFA for Kids” top page
- “MOFA's Work on Videos”
- “Diplomat's Test for Kids”
- In the kitchen
- Sushi roll (makizushi) demonstration on Japan Day
- Vegetable sushi
- Autumn appetizer
- Front exterior of the old building
- Triple arches and central staircase
- Front of the old building: Group photograph with those involved in the construction work
- In consultation with workers at the construction site (the author is on the far right)
- Discussions among seminar students, using the Diplomatic Bluebook as the study material
