Press Conference Archives February 2025

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (February 28, 2025, 4:01 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Visit to Japan by H.E. Ms. Batmunkh Battsetseg, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mongolia
• G7 Leaders’ Video Conference (Joint Statement)
• G20 / Multilateral Cooperation
• Situation surrounding Ukraine (President Zelenskyy’s Visit to the U.S.)
• U.S. Tariff Measures
• Forced Repatriation of Uyghurs by Thailand Authorities
• Closure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• Support for Ukraine
• Diet Deliberations

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary KITAMURA Toshihiro (February 26, 2025, 3:45 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • Exhibition on “Japan and Bulgaria: A Journey of Friendship and Exchange”
• G7 Leaders’ Video Conference (Joint Statement)

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (February 25, 2025, 2:47 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) A Look Back on G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
  • (2) Visit of H.E. Mr. Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland to Japan
• G7 Leaders’ Video Conference (Significance of the Conference)
• G7 Leaders’ Video Conference (Joint Statement, Japan’s Role in G7)
• United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution on Peace in Ukraine
• Situation in Ukraine (Efforts to the Ceasefire)
• German Bundestag Election, Surge of Right-Wing Parties, and Other Developments

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (February 21, 2025, 6:05 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-Answer Session

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (February 18, 2025, 4:09 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Passing of Mr. ARIMOTO Akihiro
  • (2) Foreign Minister Iwaya’s Attendance at the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (South Africa)
  • (3) Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
• TPNW
• Signing of the U.S. Executive Order to Rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America
• Japan-Syria Relations (Reopening of the Embassy of Japan, etc.)
• The Reliability of the Japan-U.S. Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security
• TPNW

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (February 15, 2025, 6:34 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-Answer Session

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (February 14, 2025, 11:39 a.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Japan-Palau Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
  • (2) Japan-U.S.-Republic of Korea (ROK) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
• Japan-U.S.-ROK Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
• Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
• U.S. Tariff Measures (Presidential Memorandum)
• U.S.-Russia Summit Telephone Talk (Situation in Ukraine)
• Munich Security Conference (Situation in Ukraine)
• U.S.-Russia Summit Telephone Talk (Japan-Russia Relations)
• TPNW, Nuclear Disarmament
• Abductions Issue (Cooperation between Japan and the U.S.)

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (February 12, 2025, 4:18 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Accompanying Prime Minister Ishiba on His Visit to the U.S.
  • (2) Attendance at the Munich Security Conference and G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
• Prime Minister Ishiba and Minister Iwaya’s Visit to the U.S.
• Situation in Ukraine (Cooperation among the G7)
• Reports on the Closure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• Sanctions by the U.S. against the International Criminal Court (ICC)
• Situation in the Gaza Strip (Migration of Residents to Outside the Region)
• Situation in North Korea (Missing Records of Japan-North Korea Negotiations)
• Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
• Japan-China Relations (Relocation of a Buoy by China)
• Japan-China Relations (China’s Protest against the United States-Japan Joint Leaders’ Statement)
• A Japanese Victim in Hungary
• Remarks by the U.S. President Trump (Gaza Strip, Greenland, Canada, and Ukraine)

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (February 4, 2025, 5:21 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Prime Minister Ishiba’s Visit to the U.S.
  • (2) Visit of Director General Grossi of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Japan
• Entry into Force of Legislation on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Israel
• U.S. Tariff Measures
• (1) Medical Assistance for the Sick and Wounded in the Gaza Strip and (2) Prime Minister Ishiba’s Visit to the U.S.
• Prime Minister Ishiba’s Visit to the U.S.