Press Conference Archives August 2025

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (August 29, 2025, 4:00 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Visit to the State of Kuwait
  • (2) Japan-Serbia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
  • (3) Japan-Australia Foreign and Defence Ministerial Consultations (“2+2”)
• Foreign Minister IWAYA’s Visit to the State of Kuwait
• China’s Military Parade Commemorating the “80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression” (Growing Rapprochement between China, North Korea, and Russia)
• Promotion of China’s Military Parade Commemorating the “80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression”
• Situation in the Gaza Strip (The UN’s Announcement on “Famine”)
• Japan-Australia Foreign and Defence Ministerial Consultations (“2+2”)
• Impact of U.S. Tariff Measures on India
• Japan’s Response to a U.S.-North Korea Summit Meeting
• Presidential Election of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (August 27, 2025, 5:39 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-Answer Session

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (August 8, 2025, 1:45 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Japan-Peru Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
• Japan-U.S. Consultation on U.S. Tariff Measures
• Japan-Russia Relations (Former Soviet Union’s Entry into the War against Japan, Northern Territories Issue)
• TICAD 9
• Visit to Yasukuni Shrine
• Liberal Democratic Party’s Joint Plenary Meeting of Party Members of Both Houses of the Diet

Press Conference by Foreign Press Secretary KITAMURA Toshihiro (August 6, 2025, 3:45 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
  • Expo-Related Visits to Japan by Foreign Dignitaries

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (August 5, 2025, 12:01 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Foreign Minister IWAYA’s Visit to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• The Transfer of Defense Equipment to Ukraine
• Japan-U.S. Consultation on U.S. Tariff Measures
• Efforts toward a World without Nuclear Weapons
• Joint Development and Production of Australia’s New General Purpose Frigates
• Anti-Japanese Sentiment in China

Press Conference by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi (August 1, 2025, 3:21 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) The Situation in Myanmar (The Lifting of the State of Emergency)
  • (2) Visit to Japan by the Executive Secretary of the CTBTO and the President-designate of the NPT Review Conference
• The Balance between the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons and Extended Deterrence
• Japan-ROK Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
• Diplomatic Recognition of Palestine
• Japan-U.S. Consultation on U.S. Tariff Measures (Reciprocal Tariffs, Tariffs on Automobiles)
• Japan-U.S. Consultation on U.S. Tariff Measures (Investment in the U.S.)
• Japan-ROK Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
• Japan-U.S. Consultation on U.S. Tariff Measures (The Timing of the U.S. Announcement on the Effective Date)