Press Conference Archives November 2017

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary Norio Maruyama (November 29, 2017, 4:34 p.m.)

• Missile Launch by North Korea

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (November 29, 2017, 6:45 a.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-Answer Session

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (November 29, 2017, 8:40 a.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Presidency of the United Nations Security Council
  • (2) Visit to Okinawa Prefecture
• Missile Launch by North Korea
• Statement by Secretary of State Tillerson
• Presidency of the United Nations Security Council

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary Norio Maruyama (November 22, 2017, 4:32 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Japonism 2018
• (2) Japan’s Friendship Ties Programs
• Eminent Persons Group for a Substantial Progress of Nuclear Disarmament

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (November 21, 2017, 9:43 a.m.)

• Re-designation of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism by the United States
• Minister Kono’s visit to Russia
• Re-designation of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism by the United States
• Visit to North Korea by a special envoy of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping
• Re-designation of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism by the United States
• Relationship between China’s dispatch of a special envoy and re-designation of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism
• Visit to North Korea by a special envoy of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (November 17, 2017, 9:54 a.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Visit to Bangladesh
  • (2) Contributions to UNESCO
• Visit to Bangladesh
• High School Student Peace Ambassadors at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament
• Japan-China Relations
• Visit to Bangladesh
• Telephone Talk with Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi
• Adoption of a Draft Report by the United Nations Human Rights Council

Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary Toshihide Ando (November 15, 2017, 4:37 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• (1) Visit to Japan by the Foreign Minister of Maldives
• (2) Japan’s Friendship Ties Program

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (November 14, 2017, 10:19 a.m.)

• Japan-China Relations
• High School Student Peace Ambassadors at the UN Conference on Disarmament
• Japan-ROK Relations
• ASEAN

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (November 10, 2017, 10:40 a.m.)

• Agreement in Principle at the TPP Ministerial Meeting
• US-ROK Leaders’ Dinner Banquet

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary Norio Maruyama (November 8, 2017, 4:34 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • Japan’s Friendship Ties Programs

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (November 2, 2017, 3:37 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Remarks upon Reappointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs
  • (2) Attendance at the APEC Da Nang Ministerial Meeting in Vietnam
• Visit by US President Trump
• Speech by a Japanese Atomic Bombing Victim at the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony
• Japan-Russia Relations
• Visit by US President Trump to Japan
• “Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy”
• Reflections on Experience as Minister for Foreign Affairs

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (November 1, 2017, 9:26 a.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Truck Attack in Manhattan, New York
  • (2) Holding of Director-General-Level Working Groups on Joint Economic Activities
  • (3) Adoption of the Draft Resolutions Submitted by Japan to the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (Resolution on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects & Resolution on the Arms Trade Treaty)
• UNESCO
• Join Economic Activities
• Adoption of the Draft Resolution on Nuclear Disarmament Submitted to the United Nations
• UNESCO
• China-ROK Efforts Related to the Deployment of THAAD