What's New

April 10

• Press Release
  • African Festa 2013 Commemorating the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V)
  • Second Round of Negotiations for Japan-Canada Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)

April 9

• Japan-Mexico Joint Statement (Japanese)　 (PDF) (210KB)
• Japan-Mexico Joint Statement (Spanish) (PDF) (228KB)
• Japan-Mexico Summit Meeting
• Press Release
  • First Round of Negotiations on a Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) as well as a Japan-EU agreement covering political and other cooperation
  • Visit to Japan by His Excellency Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General

April 8

• Press Release
  • Establishment of Japan's first Public-Private Partnership to facilitate the development of new health technologies for the developing world

April 5

• Foreign Minister's Movies
• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
• Press Release
  • Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida’s Visit to The Hague and London
  • Summary of the Third Round of Negotiations for the Japan-Mongolia Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)

April 4

• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary / Deputy Director-General for Press and Public Diplomacy Naoko Saiki
• Press Release
  • Visit to Japan of Hon. Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, Chairperson of the National League for Democracy, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar

April 3

• Application for the TICAD V Booth Exhibition
• The Adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty Overview and Assessment(Overview and Assessment)
• Press Release
  • Statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan on the adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) at the UN General Assembly

April 2

• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
• Press Release
  • Visit to Japan of His Excellency Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto, President of the United Mexican States, and Mrs. Angélica Rivera de Peña
  • Statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan on the Election in Kenya

March 29

• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida

March 28

• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary / Deputy Director-General for Press and Public Diplomacy Naoko Saiki
• Press Release
  • First Round of Negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) among Japan, China and the ROK

March 27

• Courtesy Call on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by H.R.H. Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Minister of Defence, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Seventh Japan-India Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue (Overview)
• Press Release
  • Courtesy Call on Mr. Fumio Kishida, Minister for Foreign Affairs, by H.R.H. Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Minister of Defence, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • The Third Round of Negotiations for the Japan-Mongolia Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)

March 26

• Courtesy Call on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by H.E. Mr. Kigbafori Guillaume SORO, President of National Assembly, Republic of Cote d’Ivoire
• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
• Press Release
  • Visit to Japan of H.R.H. Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Minister of Defence of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

March 25

• Tokyo 2020 - the Olympic Games
• Press Release
  • Minister Kishida’s Meeting with Mr. Karel De Gucht, the European Commissioner for Trade
  • Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, on the Situation in the Central African Republic

March 22

• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
• Press Release
  • Statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan on the Adoption of the Resolution on the Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including the Establishment of a Commission of Inquiry at the 22nd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council
  • Entry into Force of the Japan-Australia Information Security Agreement (ISA)
  • Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, on the Statement released by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Leader Abdullah Ocalan

March 21

• Meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and H.R.H. Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Bahrain
• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary / Deputy Director-General for Press and Public Diplomacy Naoko Saiki
• Press Release
  • Meeting between Mr. Fumio Kishida, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and H.R.H. Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Bahrain
  • Visit to Japan of H.E. Mr. Salman Khurshid, External Affairs Minister of India
  • Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, on the Opening of National Dialogue Conference in Yemen
  • The Seventh International MANGA Award
  • Election of Mr. Motoo Noguchi, former International Judge of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, to the Chair of the Board of the Directors of the Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
  • Agreement in Principle on the Protocol Amending the Tax Convention with the United Kingdom

March 19

• Japan-CARICOM Friendship Year 2014 Event Endorsement Guidelines
• PRESS RELEASE BY THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, COSTA RICA, FINLAND, JAPAN, KENYA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM
• Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan on a series of terrorist attacks in Iraq
• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
• Press Release
  • First Round of Negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) among Japan, China and the ROK
  • Appointment of Ambassador in charge of Arctic Affairs

March 18

• Government Procurement Seminar for Fiscal Year 2013
• Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, on the Inauguration of the New Government in Tunisia

March 17

• TICAD V Ministerial Preparatory Meeting (Overview)

March 15

• Foreign Minister Kishida's Visit to the United States of America (Foreign Minister's Movie)
• Japan's ODA Data by Country 2012
• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
• Press Release
  • Final United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty

March 14

• The Japan-Sri Lanka Summit Meeting
• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary / Deputy Director-General for Press and Public Diplomacy Naoko Saiki
• Press Release
  • Visit to Japan of H.R.H. Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Bahrain
  • Visit to Japan of The Honorable Peter O'Neill, Prime Minister of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea
  • The Ninth Asian Senior-level Talks on Non-Proliferation (ASTOP-IX)

March 13

• Laureates of the Second Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize
• Press Release
  • Ninth Asian Senior-level Talks on Non-Proliferation (ASTOP-IX)

March 11

• The 21st Japan-EU Summit Meeting
• Japan-Slovenia Summit Meeting
• "Made in New Japan" - Two years after the 2011 disaster, we are building a new future. (Public Relations Office, Government of Japan)
• Press Release
  • Visit to Japan of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Peace Negotiating Panel

March 8

• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
• Press Release
  • Comment by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on the Adoption of a Resolution by the United Nations Security Council on the Nuclear Test conducted by North Korea
  • Statement by Mr. Fumio Kishida, Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the Adoption of a Resolution by the United Nations Security Council on the Nuclear Test conducted by North Korea
  • Detention of Personnel of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the Golan Heights
  • Dispatch of a Self-Defense Force Instructor to the South African National Peace Mission Training Centre (PMTC)
  • Commencement of the Intergovernmental Negotiation on the Revision of the Convention between Japan and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital Gains

March 7

• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Deputy Press Secretary / Deputy Director-General for Press and Public Diplomacy Naoko Saiki
• Press Release
  • Statement by Mr. Fumio Kishida, Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the re-appointment of the IAEA Director General

March 6

• Japan-Slovenia Summit Meeting
• Courtesy Call on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by Minister of National Defense Ismet YILMAZ of the Republic of Turkey
• Press Release
  • "GUAM+Japan" Agriculture Workshop

March 5

• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida

March 1

• International Seminar "Building smart communities in TOHOKU together with the World: collaborating with and spreading to the international community"
• Press Conference
  • Press Conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida
• Press Release
  • Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, on Dr. David M. Malone’s Assumption of Office as the United Nations University Rector
  • Assistance by the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security to the Project in Africa (Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, South Sudan)