Press Conferences

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (September 19, 2025, 6:50 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary KITAMURA Toshihiro (September 17, 2025, 3:45 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks:
  • Dialogue with Students: My Proposal

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (September 16, 2025, 2:47 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Joint Statement by Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Japan and Papua New Guinea
  • (2) JICA Africa Hometown
• Japan’s Current Assessment of Recognizing Palestinian Statehood
• JICA Africa Hometown
• Reports on Prime Minister ISHIBA’s Visit to the Republic of Korea (ROK)

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (September 12, 2025, 5:08 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Japan-Belgium Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
• Detention of Japanese Nationals in the State of Georgia, United States
• Situation in the Middle East (Japan’s Current Consideration of Recognizing Palestinian Statehood)
• Situation in the Middle East (Israel’s Attack on Qatar)
• Situation in the Middle East (Japan’s Current Assessment of Recognizing Palestinian Statehood)
• “Sado Island Gold Mines” Memorial Ceremony
• Japan-India Relations, Japan-Australia-India-U.S. (Quad)
• Detention of Japanese Nationals in the State of Georgia, United States
• Presidential Election of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
• Possible Harm to a Japanese National in Suzhou, China

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary KITAMURA Toshihiro (September 10, 2025, 3:45 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks: Diplomatic Schedule
• Large-scale Protest Activities in Nepal

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (September 9, 2025, 2:48 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Strategic Dialogue between the Foreign Ministers of Japan and Bahrain
• Strategic Dialogue between the Foreign Ministers of Japan and Bahrain
• The Impact of the Presidential Election of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Diplomacy
• Japan-Republic of Korea (ROK) Relations
• Attendance at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly
• Situation in Palestine (Disarmament of Hamas)
• Detention of Japanese Nationals in the U.S.
• The Security of Japan and Japan-Australia-India-U.S. (Quad)
• “Sado Island Gold Mines” Memorial Ceremony
• Message on the 80th Year Since the End of World War II
• UN General Assembly (Attendance at the Conference on Palestine), Detention of Japanese Nationals in the U.S.

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (September 5, 2025, 4:47 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Japan-Panama Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
• Japan-U.S. Consultation on U.S. Tariff Measures
• “Sado Island Gold Mines” Memorial Ceremony
• Diplomatic Recognition of Palestine
• Public Opinion and External Communications Concerning Foreign Nationals
• Calls Within the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for the Prime Minister’s Resignation
• Presidential Election of the LDP

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary KITAMURA Toshihiro (September 3, 2025, 3:44 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • Emergency Assistance to Eastern Afghanistan in Response to the Earthquake

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (September 2, 2025, 3:06 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-Answer Session
  • Situation in Palestine
  • Iranian Nuclear Issue
  • Developments Surrounding the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (August 29, 2025, 4:00 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Visit to the State of Kuwait
  • (2) Japan-Serbia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
  • (3) Japan-Australia Foreign and Defence Ministerial Consultations (“2+2”)
• Foreign Minister IWAYA’s Visit to the State of Kuwait
• China’s Military Parade Commemorating the “80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression” (Growing Rapprochement between China, North Korea, and Russia)
• Promotion of China’s Military Parade Commemorating the “80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression”
• Situation in the Gaza Strip (The UN’s Announcement on “Famine”)
• Japan-Australia Foreign and Defence Ministerial Consultations (“2+2”)
• Impact of U.S. Tariff Measures on India
• Japan’s Response to a U.S.-North Korea Summit Meeting
• Presidential Election of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (August 27, 2025, 5:39 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-Answer Session