Press Conferences

December 11

• Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary Masato Otaka（December 11, 2019, 4:30 p.m.）
  1. Opening Remarks
     • (1) Adoption of the Olympic Truce Resolution
     • (2) Achievement of “Sport for Tomorrow” for 10 Million People
     • (3) Decision on the Winners of the 13th Japan International MANGA Award

December 10

• Press Conference by Foreign Minister MOTEGI Toshimitsu（December 10, 2019, 10:50 a.m.）
  1. Opening Remarks
     • (1) Notification of the Entry into Force of the Japan-U.S. Trade Agreement and the Japan-U.S. Digital Trade Agreement
     • (2) Visits to Sri Lanka, Spain, and Russia by Minister MOTEGI
  2. Volcano Eruption on White Island in New Zealand
  3. Shooting of a Japanese National in Jalalabad
  4. Visit to Russia by Minister MOTEGI
  5. Stationing Cost for the U.S. Forces Japan
  6. Japan-Republic of Korea (ROK) Relations (Japan-ROK Director-General Level Policy Dialogue)
  7. Tweet Concerning the Rising Sun Flag by the Government of the ROK
  8. Japan-Russia Relations (Negotiations for Concluding a Peace Treaty)

December 6

• Press Conference by Foreign Minister MOTEGI Toshimitsu（December 6, 2019, 9:58 a.m.）
  1. Shooting of a Japanese National in Jalalabad
  2. Visit to Japan by President Rouhani of Iran
  3. Overseas Visits by Minister MOTEGI
  4. Visit to Japan as a State Guest by President Xi Jinping of China (Significance)
  5. President Trump’s Statement Regarding Japan Taking on More of the Cost Burden for the U.S. Forces Japan

December 4

• Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary Masato Otaka（December 4, 2019, 4:30 p.m.）
  1. Opening Remarks
     • The Olympic Truce Resolution and the Attendance at the United Nations General Assembly by Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games President MORI Yoshiro
  2. Olympic Truce Resolution (Co-Sponsoring Countries)
  3. Shooting of a Japanese National in Jalalabad

December 3

• Press Conference by Foreign Minister MOTEGI Toshimitsu（December 3, 2019, 2:32 p.m.）
  1. The Japan-U.S. Trade Agreement and the Japan-U.S. Digital Trade Agreement
  2. Japan-Republic of Korea (ROK) Relations (Report in Shukan Bunshun)
  3. The Passing Away of Former Prime Minister NAKASONE Yasuhiro
  4. Holding a Japan-ROK Summit Meeting
  5. Situation in Iran (Meeting with Foreign Minister Araghchi)
  6. Minister MOTEGI’s Policy on Overseas Visits
  7. Japan-China-ROK Trilateral Summit
  8. State of Conservation Report on the “Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution”
  9. Dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to the Middle East