Press Conference Archives March 2021

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary YOSHIDA Tomoyuki (March 31, 2021, 3:47 p.m.)

• Situation in Myanmar (Stance of the Government of Japan)
• Situation in Myanmar (U.S. Order for its Government Personnel to Leave Myanmar)
• Situation in Myanmar (Protecting Japanese Nationals)
• Situation in Myanmar (Urging by the Government of Japan)
• Situation in Myanmar (Secretary of State Blinken’s Statement on Investment in Myanmar)
• Situation in Myanmar (Economic Cooperation for Myanmar)
• Special Measures Agreement (SMA) on Host Nation Support (HNS)
• Japan-Republic of Korea (ROK) Director-General Level Talks

Press Conference by Foreign Minister MOTEGI Toshimitsu (March 26, 2021, 6:07 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Japan-Indonesia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and “2+2”
• Issue of the Name “Sea of Japan” (Response of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command)
• Resumption of Allowing New Entry into Japan by Foreign Nationals (Foreign Exchange Students)
• Human Rights Situation of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Statements by the Spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary YOSHIDA Tomoyuki (March 24, 2021, 3:48 p.m.)

• Statement by Next Commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) (Taiwan)
• Japan-U.S. “2+2” (China’s Objection)

Press Conference by Foreign Minister MOTEGI Toshimitsu (March 23, 2021, 4:36 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Expanded Edition of the “Golgo 13 Overseas Safety Manual”
• Human Rights Situation of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
• Low Altitude Flying by Helicopters of the U.S. Forces Japan
• Expanded Edition of the “Golgo 13 Overseas Safety Manual”
• First Trial for the Canadians Detained in China
• Situation in Yemen
• Situation in Afghanistan

Press Conference by Foreign Minister MOTEGI Toshimitsu (March 19, 2021, 6:20 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Use of LINE for Work
• Meeting of the Top Diplomats of the United States and China
• Japan-U.S. Security Consultative Committee (Japan-U.S. “2+2”) (China’s Objection)
• The EU’s Sanctions Against China
• In-Person Diplomacy with China
• U.S.-Republic of Korea (ROK) “2+2”

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary YOSHIDA Tomoyuki (March 17, 2021, 3:47 p.m.)

• Visit to the United States by Prime Minister Suga (Vaccination for the Purpose of Diplomacy)
• Japan-U.S. Security Consultative Committee (Japan-U.S. “2+2”)
• Visit to Japan by the Minister of Defence of Ukraine (Novel Coronavirus Countermeasures)
• Situation in Myanmar

Press Conference by Foreign Minister MOTEGI Toshimitsu (March 12, 2021, 10:49 a.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
• Visit to the United States by Prime Minister Suga
• U.S. Foreign Policy on Asia
• Situation in the Middle East (Collaboration with the United States, Australia, and India)
• Situation in Yemen
• China’s Proposal to Provide its Vaccine to the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
• Japan-U.S. Security Consultative Committee (Japan-U.S. “2+2”)

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary YOSHIDA Tomoyuki (March 10, 2021, 3:46 p.m.)

• Situation in Myanmar (Use of the Title “Foreign Minister”)
• Japan-Australia-India-U.S. Summit Telephone Meeting

Press Conference by Foreign Minister MOTEGI Toshimitsu (March 9, 2021, 11:10 a.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
• Vaccine-Related Support for Developing Countries
• Vaccine-Related Support for Developing Countries
• Situation in Myanmar
• Novel Coronavirus (Border Enforcement Measures)
• Situation in Myanmar (ODA for Myanmar)

Press Conference by Foreign Minister MOTEGI Toshimitsu (March 5, 2021, 1:37 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• National People’s Congress (NPC) of China
• Plan for Drill in the Waters Off the Senkaku Islands by the U.S. Forces Japan
• Vaccine Cooperation Between Japan, the United States, Australia, and India
• National Public Service Ethics Act

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary YOSHIDA Tomoyuki (March 3, 2021, 3:46 p.m.)

• Appointment of Foreign Deputy Press Secretary ONO Hikariko as Cabinet Public Relations Secretary
• Japan-Republic of Korea (ROK) Relations (President’s Address at the March First Independence Movement Day Ceremony)
• Appointment of Foreign Deputy Press Secretary ONO Hikariko as Cabinet Public Relations Secretary

Press Conference by Foreign Minister MOTEGI Toshimitsu (March 2, 2021, 2:09 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Surveillance Activities by France Against Ship-to-Ship Transfers
• Host Nation Support (HNS) for the U.S. Forces Japan (Diet Deliberations)
• 10 Years Since the Great East Japan Earthquake (Handling of Water Treated by the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS))
• Senkaku Islands (Announcement by the Chinese Ministry of National Defense and the Foreign Ministry Spokesperson’s Statement)
• Senkaku Islands (Statement by the Pentagon Press Secretary of the United States)
• Situation in the Middle East
• Situation in Hong Kong (Simultaneous Indictment of Democracy Proponents)
• Japan-ROK Relations (President’s Address at the March First Independence Movement Day Ceremony)