Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida met with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Wednesday in Tokyo and urged him to continue making efforts to reach a final agreement with the Western powers on Tehran's controversial nuclear program. "Japan welcomes the steady implementation of the Joint Plan ...
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida will seek a consensus with his Group of Eight counterparts on urging North Korea to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula and to comply with U.N. resolutions banning nuclear and missile tests at a meeting this week in London. The two-day ...
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida effectively retracted his remarks over the weekend in which he described China's military expansion as a "threat" to the region, saying Tuesday that he instead meant to say "concern." The remarks, made in a Sunday appearance on NHK, "would not change ...
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida pledged Thursday to protect Japanese territory and called on China to refrain from escalating tensions over the Senkaku Islands. In his first foreign policy address to the Diet, Kishida said there is no territorial issue to be resolved concerning the Japanese-administered ...
