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FOREIGN MINISTRY

JAPAN
Nov 8, 2014
Americans consider Japan most important Asian country, survey suggests
Japan is regarded among the American public and opinion leaders as the most important country in Asia, according to the results of an annual survey by the Foreign Ministry.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2014
Japan to consider removing appeal for donations for former 'comfort women'
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday his ministry will consider removing a 1995 appeal for donations for former "comfort women" — females, mostly Asian, who served at wartime brothels for the Japanese military — from the ministry's website.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2014
Foreign Ministry to seek funding for 15 new diplomatic offices overseas
The Foreign Ministry will request a larger budget for fiscal 2015 due in part to costs to open 15 new diplomatic offices abroad, according to government sources.
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2014
Japan seeks help from Syrian rebels to help free suspected captive
Japanese officials met with the leader of a major Syrian rebel group in Turkey on Monday night to seek its assistance in securing the release of a Japanese man believed to have been captured in northern Syria by the Islamic State militant group.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 15, 2014
Japan imposes asset freeze on North Korean shipping firm
The government on Friday froze the assets of the operator of a North Korean ship seized for smuggling arms, the Foreign Ministry announced, just as Tokyo is engaged in talks with Pyongyang to return Japanese citizens kidnapped decades ago by North Korean agents.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 13, 2014
Japan to protest Russia's military drills on disputed islands
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday the government will lodge a protest with Russia over military exercises on an islet chain off Hokkaido at the heart of a territorial dispute.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2014
Kennedy presents birthday cake to Kishida
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy presented a birthday cake to Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday, his 57th birthday.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2014
Career diplomat to lead Tokyo's international outreach efforts
Akio Miyajima, deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in Britain, will take up a new post leading the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's foreign affairs activities, the central government said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jun 23, 2014
Abe looks to put his stamp on foreign aid
Next up for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe? Figuring out how to put official development assistance (ODA) to "strategic" use so the international aid program can help Japan make a more "proactive contribution" to world peace, one of Abe's pet policy goals.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2014
Fans in Brazil face high crime: ministry
Japanese soccer fans in the Brazilian city of Recife are braving one of the highest homicide rates in the world to see their team open its World Cup campaign.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 12, 2014
Book on whistleblower Snowden details U.S. spying on Japan
A new book on the U.S. National Security Agency documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden will disclose new information on how the U.S. spies on Japan.
JAPAN
Dec 16, 2013
Redress was sought for '83 KAL jet downing
Japan drew up a claim in 1986 for just over ¥3.4 billion in damages from the Soviet Union for the 28 Japanese killed in the 1983 shoot-down of Korean Air Flight 007 over Soviet airspace, recently disclosed Foreign Ministry documents reveal.
JAPAN
Oct 23, 2013
Japan to join child custody pact in April
The government plans to join the international treaty for settling cross-border child custody disputes in April.
JAPAN
Jul 17, 2013
Diplomat disciplined for disparaging LDP lawmaker on Facebook
The Foreign Ministry slapped a ministry official with a disciplinary warning Wednesday for disparaging a ruling party lawmaker on Facebook, saying the posting damaged public trust in national civil servants.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2013
Hague pact 'too late' for divorcee
For one Japanese mother long separated from her children after the failure of an international marriage, the Diet's expected ratification of an international treaty to help settle cross-border child custody disputes arouses mixed feelings.
JAPAN
May 10, 2013
Lower House OKs Hague convention bill
The Lower House on Thursday approved a bill needed to ratify an international treaty on settling cross-border child custody disputes, making it certain the Diet will enact it this summer following Upper House deliberations.
JAPAN / History
Mar 8, 2013
Ministry in '45 torched 8,000 secret files
The Foreign Ministry burned about 8,000 files of highly classified documents shortly before the nation's surrender on Aug. 15, 1945, according to Japanese diplomatic records declassified Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 23, 2013
Hague pledge fails to appease U.S. lobbyists
U.S. groups lobbying for the return of children abducted by a parent across international borders react with skepticism to Japan's plan to ratify the Hague Convention.
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2001
Two panels created on diplomacy
In what may be a sign of renewed frictions between key Cabinet figures, Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka launches a private advisory panel on diplomatic issues.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
One dead, three missing as heavy rain batters Tohoku
Camera footage shows the Mogami River bursting its banks in Tozawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on Friday morning.
Brazil issues apology for persecuting Japan immigrants during WWII
Enea Almeida (right), chair of the Brazilian amnesty commission, shakes hands with the representative for Japanese immigrants on Thursday in Brasilia.
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
Summer in Japan is now consistently brutal enough to drive you indoors and keep you there until autumn.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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