Press Conference Archives April 2018

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (April 30, 2018, 9:20 a.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-Answer Session

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (April 27, 2018, 9:50 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-Answer Session

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (April 27, 2018, 9:22 a.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Visit to Jordan by Minister Kono
  • (2) Overseas safety measures during the long holidays
• Visit to Jordan by Minister Kono
• ROK-North Korea Summit Meeting
• U.S.-North Korea Summit Meeting
• Inauguration of the Honorable Mike Pompeo as the U.S. Security of State
• ROK-North Korea Summit Meeting
• Efforts to Install a Statue of a Worker in Front of the Consulate-General of Japan in Busan
• Meeting with Prime Minister Abe

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary Norio Maruyama (April 25, 2018, 4:33 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • Visit to Japan by His Majesty the King Carl XVI Gustaf and Her Majesty the Queen Silvia of the Kingdom of Sweden

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (April 21, 2018, 5:15 p.m.)

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (April 20, 2018, 8:50 a.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• (1) Visit of Minister for Foreign Affairs Kono to Canada, Switzerland, and Belgium
  • (2) Administrative streamlining, etc. at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
• Administrative Streamlining, etc. at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Gender Issues
• Visits to Yasukuni Shrine
• NPT Review Conference Preparatory Committee
• North Korea Situation (Establishment by the Security Council of a New Committee for Denuclearization)

Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary Toshihide Ando (April 18, 2018, 4:32 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Holding of the Ninth Round Meeting of the Japan-China High-Level Consultation on Maritime Affairs
  • (2) Holding of the 14th Intergovernmental Consultation on Japan-China Cultural Exchange
• Media reports of a visit to North Korea by Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (April 17, 2018, 3:09 p.m.)

• G7 Foreign Ministers’ Statement
• Matter concerning the Administrative Vice Minister in the Ministry of Finance
• G7 Leaders’ Statement on Syria
• Matter concerning the Administrative Vice Minister in the Ministry of Finance
• Syrian situation

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (April 16, 2018, 2:18 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-Answer Session

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (April 15, 2018, 8:25 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-Answer Session

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (April 14, 2018, 6:20 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-Answer Session

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (April 13, 2018, 8:26 a.m.)

• US President Trump’s Instructions to Review a Return to TPP
• Visit to Japan by President Moon Jae-in of the ROK
• Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Investigation Report
• Visit to Japan by State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi of the People’s Republic of China
• US President Trump’s Instructions to Review a Return to TPP
• OPCW Investigation Report

Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary Toshihide Ando (April 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Visit to Japan by Mr. Wang Yi, State Councilor and Foreign Minister for the People’s Republic of China
  • (2) Visit to Japan by the Secretary General of the OECD Gurria
• Visit to Japan by State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (April 10, 2018, 9:12 a.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • Schedule for Director General-Level Working Meetings Related to Joint Economic Activities on the Four Northern Islands
• Visit by Foreign Minister Kono to the Republic of Korea
• Abductions Issue
• Dual Citizenship
• Director General-Level Working Meetings Related to Joint Economic Activities on the Four Northern Islands
• Japan-Russia Relationship
• Use of Chemical Weapons
• Abductions Issue
• US Case on Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights
• US-North Korea Summit Meeting
• Ministry of Finance’s Moritomo Issue and Ministry of Defense’s Daily Report Issue

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (April 6, 2018, 8:44 a.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • Reorganization of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau
• North Korea Situation (North Korea’s Announcement of a Return to the Six-Party Talks)
• China-Russia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
• Reorganization of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau
• North Korea Situation (North Korea’s Announcement of a Return to the Six-Party Talks)

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary Norio Maruyama (April 5, 2018, 4:31 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Prime Minister of Iraq to Visit Japan
  • (2) Japan’s Friendship Ties Program
• North Korea (Statements by Foreign Minister Kono)
• Japan-ROK Summit Meeting

Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (April 3, 2018, 8:48 a.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • Establishment of the United Nations Sanctions Division of the Foreign Policy Bureau and the G20 Summit Secretariat
• Response to Next Year’s Events
• Visit to the Republic of Korea by Minister Kono
• North Korea Situation (Comments by Minister Kono)
• US Measures on Steel and Aluminum Imports (China’s Response Measures)