Press Conference Archives August 2017

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary Norio Maruyama (August 30, 2017, 4:36 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) The Attacks in Northern Areas of Rakhine State in Myanmar and the Release of the Final Report by the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State
  • (2) Attendance by State Minister for Foreign Affairs Nakane at the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting of the Forum for East Asia - Latin America Cooperation
  • (3) Visit to Sri Lanka by Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Iwao Horii
  • (4) “Central Asia plus Japan” Dialogue - Tenth Tokyo Dialogue
• Visit to Japan by Prime Minister May of the United Kingdom

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (August 29, 2017, 3:25 p.m.)

• Opening remarks
• Question-and-answer session

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (August 29, 2017, 11:16 a.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • Japan-US Foreign Ministers’ Telephone Talk
• Japan-ROK and Japan-China Foreign Ministers’ Telephone Talks
• Speech by High School Peace Ambassador at the UN Conference on Disarmament
• Japan-US Foreign Ministers’ Telephone Talk
• Sanction Resolutions by the UN Security Council

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (August 29, 2017, 8:00 a.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-answer session

Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary Toshihide Ando (August 9, 2017, 4:35 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • Earthquake in Sichuan Province
• Japan-U.S. Security Consultative Committee “2+2” Meeting

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (August 4, 2017, 11:14 a.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • Attendance at the Peace Memorial Ceremonies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the ASEAN-related Foreign Ministers’ Meetings
• Instructions from the Prime Minister
• Relations with Neighboring Countries
• Regarding ASEAN
• Constitutional Amendment
• Relations with Neighboring Countries
• Nuclear Policy
• Issues Related to the Okinawa Military Bases
• Regarding ASEAN
• Japan-Russia Relations
• Regarding ASEAN
• Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA)
• Visits to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• LDP Presidential Election

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (August 3, 2017, 9:04 p.m.)

• Opening remarks
  • Inauguration speech of Foreign Minister Taro Kono
• Japan-U.S. Nuclear Energy Agreement
• ODA
• Relations with neighboring countries
• Comfort women issue
• Constitutional Amendment / Impression of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Japan-China relations
• Disarmament and non-proliferation
• Japan-Russia relations
• Middle East issues and acceptance of immigrants
• Japan-U.S. relations in the areas of climate change and the TPP
• Japan-ROK agreement

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (August 8, 2017, 11:52 a.m.)

• Opening remarks
  • Farewell Address by the Minister
• Question-and-answer session

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary Norio Maruyama (August 2, 2017, 4:40 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Emergency Grant Aid to the Philippines in response to the evacuees from the armed conflict in Mindanao
  • (2) Marine monitoring project
• Comments by a US Senator

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (August 1, 2017, 10:30 a.m.)

• Strengthening sanctions on North Korea
• Concrete actions to enhance defense capabilities against North Korea
• China’s military strength
• East China Sea resource development issue
• Joint appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense
• Foreign policy issues
• Establishment of a task force on the Japan-ROK agreement
• Joint appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense