Press Releases

1. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs transfers documents with historical significance to the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry that are more than 30 years old, in principle, and make them available to the public. Of these, documents related to important cases that are expected to receive many inquiries are selected and made public in December every year after a special review (identification of information to be restricted for the public use) by the Committee for the Promotion of the Declassification of Diplomatic Records (referred to as "special declassification").
2. On June 19th, the 33rd meeting of the Committee for the Promotion of the Declassification of Diplomatic Records, headed by Ms. YOSHIKAWA Yuumi, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
3. At the meeting, the members of the Committee reviewed the declassification of diplomatic records on the exchanges of VIP visits to/from the United States and China in 1992.

［Note］To promote the declassification of diplomatic records in a transparent manner, the rules on the declassification of diplomatic records were set in 2010 and the Committee for the Promotion of the Declassification of Diplomatic Records was also established based on the rules.

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　Members of the committee (PDF)