National Jul 20, 2021
Top Japanese and U.S. officials began talks on Tuesday to discuss regional security issues, including those related to China and North Korea.
National / Politics Jul 6, 2021
Takeo Akiba, close aide to Suga, named Japan's top national security adviser
Akiba, who was also close with former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will succeed Shigeru Kitamura on Wednesday.
National / Politics Jun 19, 2021
Senior Japanese diplomat Takeo Akiba to be new national security adviser
The change to Akiba, a close aide to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his predecessor Shinzo Abe, is likely to give the Foreign Ministry more say in diplomacy and security policies.
National Jul 9, 2020
U.S. envoy arrives in Japan for talks on North Korea and Hong Kong
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun arrived in Tokyo on Thursday to discuss China's crackdown on Hong Kong and the stalled effort to denuclearize North Korea. Biegun, the top American envoy for North Korea, held talks over dinner with Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Akiba ...
National / Politics Dec 19, 2019
Japanese officials and U.S. envoy agree to stay in step on North Korea
The top U.S. envoy for North Korea agreed with senior officials of the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday to continue working closely together amid a standstill in denuclearization talks with Pyongyang. Stephen Biegun and Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Akiba confirmed the importance of trilateral cooperation with ...
National Aug 30, 2018
Tokyo protests Beijing's exclusion of Sankei Shimbun reporter from covering diplomatic meeting
by Tomohiro Osaki
The ban runs counter to Japan’s support for “basic human rights, including freedom of expression, and the rule of law,” the government’s top spokesman said.
National / Politics Mar 6, 2018
Japanese official allegedly did not rule out building nuclear weapons storage site in Okinawa
Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Akiba did not rule out the possibility of a nuclear weapons storage site being built in Okinawa Prefecture in comments he allegedly made in 2009 when he was a minister at the Japanese Embassy in Washington, a U.S. researcher said ...