Press Conference Archives April 2024

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (April 30, 2024, 11:15 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-Answer Session

Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (April 26, 2024, 3:46 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Foreign Minister Kamikawa’s Attendance at the 2024 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, and Visit to Africa and Southwest Asia
• The Message to the “Global South” During the Foreign Minister’s Visit
• The Passage of U.S. Additional Support to Ukraine, the U.S. Reaction to Prime Minister Kishida’s Address at Congress, and the Use of Russian Frozen Assets
• Acceptance of Foreign Nationals
• Buddhist Statue Stolen from Tsushima
• Public Expectations for Your Appointment to the Next Prime Minister
• Incident in Italy Involving a Japanese National

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary KOBAYASHI Maki (April 24, 2024, 3:45 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • Meeting of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons
• Visit to Yasukuni Shrine and Other Activities (Annual Spring Rites)
• Meeting of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons

Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (April 23, 2024, 1:16 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Japan to host the 48th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM48)
• Japan’s Role in the Situation in the Middle East
• UNRWA (Final Report of the Independent Review Group)
• Security Council Resolution on Full United Nations Membership for Palestine
• Situation in the Gaza Strip
• Hong Kong National Security Law
• High-Level Conference on Peace in Ukraine
• LDP Vice-President Aso’s Visit to the U.S.
• The Case of a Missing Chinese Professor

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (April 19, 2024, 12:32 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-Answer Session

Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (April 16, 2024, 4:10 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Foreign Minister’s Attendance at the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
  • (2) Diplomatic Bluebook 2024
  • (3) Advisory Panel on Sustainability of the International Community
• Situation in the Middle East (Japan’s Approaches to Iran and Protection of Japanese People)
• Situation in the Middle East (Attack against a Diplomatic Mission and Sanctions against Iran)
• Situation in the Middle East (Japan’s Approaches to Israel)
• Japan-Iran Foreign Ministers’ Telephone Talk
• Situation in the Middle East (Diplomatic Recognition of Palestine)
• Diplomatic Bluebook (Extended Deterrence)
• Command and Control of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and the U.S. Forces
• Japan-Israel Foreign Ministers’ Telephone Talk
• Prime Minister Kishida’s Official Visit to the U.S.

Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (April 9, 2024, 10:41 a.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Foreign Minister Kamikawa’s Visit to the U.S.
• Prime Minister Kishida’s Official Visit to the U.S.
• Japan-U.S.-Philippines Summit
• Cooperation with AUKUS

Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (April 5, 2024, 2:58 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Condolences and Support to Taiwan
  • (2) Opening Ceremony for the New Exhibition Room of the Diplomatic Archives
• Japan-China-ROK Trilateral Summit
• Prime Minister Kishida’s Official Visit to the U.S.
• Support for Ukraine
• U.S.-Israel Summit Telephone Talk
• Attack on the Embassy of Iran in Syria
• Political Funds Issue
• Remark by a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan (Israel’s Participation)

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary KOBAYASHI Maki (April 3, 2024, 3:45 p.m.)

• Earthquake in Taiwan

Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (April 2, 2024, 4:20 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Summary of Japan’s United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Presidency in the Month of March
• Attack on the Embassy of Iran in Syria
• Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
• Advisory Panel of Experts on Climate Change
• Coal-Fired Power Project in Bangladesh
• Lifting of Temporary Suspension of Funding to UNRWA
• Israeli Settlement Activities
• Contact with the North Korean Side

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (April 2, 2024, 9:55 a.m.)

• Opening Remarks