Asia Policy Events, Monday April 20, 2026

ISHIGAKI RESORT DEVELOPMENT AND THE BIODIVERSITY CRISIS. 4/20, 1:00-2:00pm (JST), Midnight-1:00am (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ). Speakers: Seiji Hayama, Director, Wild Bird Society of Japan; Tomoko Oda, Field Project Leader, Wildlife Group, Conservation Division, WWF Japan.

THE ENIGMA OF JAPANESE POWER, FOUR DECADES LATER. 4/20, 3:00-4:00pm (JST), 2:00-3:00am (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ). Speaker: Karel van Wolferen, Former President, FCCJ.  PURCHASE BOOK

PAKISTAN AT THE CENTER: A YEAR OF CHANGE AT HOME AND ABROAD FOR ISLAMABAD. 4/20, 9:00-10:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Stimson. Speakers: Christopher Clary, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University at Albany; Elizabeth Threlkeld, Senior Fellow and Director, South Asia Program, Stimson Center; Asfandyar Mir, Senior Fellow, South Asia Program, Stimson Center. Moderator: Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow, South Asia Program, Stimson Center.

STRATEGIC FORCES PRIORITIES: A CONVERSATION WITH SENATOR DEB FISCHER. 4/20, 9:30-10:30am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: CSIS, HTK Series, Aerospace Security Project, Missile Defense Project, Project on Nuclear Issues, Defense and Security. Speakers: Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE), Chair, Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces; Heather Williams, Director, Project on Nuclear Issues, Senior Fellow, Defense and Security Department; Tom Karako, Director, Missile Defense Project, Senior Fellow, Defense and Security Department; Kari A. Bingen, Director, Aerospace Security Project, Senior Fellow, Defense and Security Department.

THE IMPACT OF THE IRAN WAR ON TURKEY. 4/20, 11:00am-Noon (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Middle East Institute (MEI). Speakers: Serhat Güvenç, Head of Faculty of Economics, Administrative, and Social Sciences at Kadir Has University; Jason Campbell, Senior Fellow, MEI; Gönül Tol, Senior Fellow, MEI. 

HOW THE IRAN WAR IS SHIFTING REGIONAL DYNAMICS. 4/20, 1:00-2:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Middle East Institute. Speakers: Yasmine Farouk is the Project Director of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula at International Crisis Group; Mirette F. Mabrouk is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute; Kenneth M. Pollack (Moderator) is Vice President for Policy at the Middle East Institute.  

AI AND NATIONAL SECURITY: WHO'S REALLY IN CONTROL? 4/20, 6:00-7:15pm (BST), 1:00-2:15pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Chatham House. Speakers: Joyce Hakmeh, Associate Fellow, International Security Programme; General Sir Richard Barrons KCB CBE, Senior Consulting Fellow, International Security Programme; John Thornhill, Innovation Editor, Financial Times; Katja Bego, Senior Research Fellow, Europe Programme.

LESSONS FROM CANADA ON ALLIED BURDEN-SHARING IN GLOBAL WMD THREAT REDUCTION. 4/20, 3:00-4:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Stimson. Speakers: Troy Lulashnyk, Director General, Peace and Security Programs, Global Affairs Canada; Timothy Edwards, Director, Weapons Threat Reduction Program, Global Affairs Canada; Moderator: Brian Finlay, President and CEO, Stimson Center.

THE CHINESE ECONOMY AND FUTURE OF SINO-US ECONOMIC RELATIONS. 4/20, 3:30-5:00pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: School of International Service, American University. Speakers: Liqing Zhang, Professor of Economics, Director of Center for International Finance Studies and Former Dean of School of Finance with Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing, China; Randall Henning; Professor of International Economic Relations (IER) at SIS. 

WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST: IMPACT ON ASIA'S SEA LANES. 4/20, 10:00am (SGT), 10:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Yokosuka Council on Asia Pacific Studies (YCAPS). Speakers: Collin Koh Swee Lean, Senior Fellow, Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, a constituent unit of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS); John Bradford, Japan Foundation Indo-Pacific Partnerships Fellow, Executive Director, YCAPS, Adjunct Senior Fellow, RSIS; Fang Yang, Asia Maritime Security Analyst at Ambrey; Adrian Ang U-Jin, Research Fellow and Coordinator, US Program within the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, RSIS, Nanyang Technological University. 

Takaichi’s Obscure Response to War in Iran

What is the significant situation with the U.S. war in Iran

By Takuya Nishimura, Senior Fellow, Asia Policy Point
Former editorial writer for the Hokkaido Shimbun
You can find his blog, J Update here.
March 9, 2026

Japan received the news of the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran with some surprise even though, back in mid-January, the Foreign Ministry had advised Japanese citizens in Iran to evacuate immediately. Despite the Japanese government’s position that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine violated international law, the Sanae Takaichi administration has declined to assess the legality of the bombing in Iran. Takaichi has taken a limited public role: she watches, waits, and does what is necessary to evacuate Japanese citizens in the region. Meanwhile, markets in Japan have been volatile considering fundamental concerns about the availability of oil and liquified natural gas (LNG) from the Middle East.

Takaichi was in Tokyo when she received the first report of the U.S. attack. It was February 28 and she was scheduled to leave for Kanazawa, Ishikawa, to give a campaign speech supporting Governor Hiroshi Hase in an election on March 8. Although the war’s outbreak gave Takaichi a full agenda of things to do, she made no change to her schedule.

Asked about that decision in discussions at the Committee on Budget in House of Representatives, Takaichi insisted that her decision was not inappropriate, because she was kept informed on developments in Iran and could make a decision regardless of her geographic location. Although she did not say so, her support of Hase was probably a high personal priority: like Takaichi, Hase was a longtime member of Shinzo Abe’s faction and served in the Diet from 1995 to 2022. In any case, despite Takaichi’s support, Hase was not reelected.

The response of the Takaichi administration to the war in Iran has been slow in coming and has not yet fully emerged. After a security conference with the ministers on the evening of February 28, the Chief Cabinet Secretary (CCS), Minoru Kihara, stressed the government’s effort to collect information and to protect Japanese citizens in the region. Asked about a legal basis for the attack by the U.S., Kihara did not answer directly and instead rebuked Iran for its development of nuclear weapons.

By contrast, when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, then prime minister Fumio Kishida accused Russia of a breach of the United Nations Charter that directs all members to refrain from “threat or use of force against the territory integrity of political independence of any state.” Takaichi has refrained from making a similar interpretation of international law even after the leadership in Iran announced the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in a military strike.

In the debate in the Lower House Budget Committee on March 2, the chairwoman of the Japan Communist Party, Tomoko Tamura, asked Takaichi to persuade the U.S. and Israel to stop their attack. Takaichi said that she did not have sufficient information about the war. “Our government refrains from making legal judgments,” Takaichi said, adding that she did not know whether the U.S. and Israel strikes were in self-defense and that Japan had been supporting nuclear talks by the U.S., Iran, and other interested countries.

Rather than focusing on the war, Takaichi is taking this time to implement her conservative agenda. Given the unstable international security environment, her administration is removing restrictions on exporting military weapons. On March 6, the LDP and Japan Innovation Party publicly recommended revisions to the “three principles for transfer of defense equipment” to unleash Japan’s exports of lethal weapons.

In a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Tokyo on March 6, Takaichi emphasized the importance of Canada in promoting a “free and open Indo-Pacific.” They agreed to continue to cooperate to enhance the supply chain for crucial minerals to protect against Chinese restraints. In a telephone conversation with German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on March 5, Takaichi also shared concerns about supply chains with him. Takaichi is more concerned about the Indo-Pacific and China than about the Middle East and Iran although Japan relies heavily on oil production there.

Over a month before the attacks in Iran, on January 16, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs raised the level of warning for travelers in Iran to Level 4, the highest level, which is a recommendation to evacuate immediately. Takaichi’s top priority at the beginning of the war was how to keep the 200 Japanese citizens in Iran safe. This challenge has broadened after strikes by Iran in other Middle Eastern countries where Japanese citizens also live, work, and travel. There have been no reports so far of Japanese victims of the war although two Japanese are in custody in Iran.

Japan’s greatest concern is not political but economic. Japan depends on the Middle East for over 95 percent of its crude oil. Japanese ships loaded with crude oil or LNG must pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has warned that Iranian Revolutionary Guards will fire on any ship trying to pass through the strait. The strait is effectively closed since the military attack by the U.S. and Israel started. (Historians may recall the Nissho Maru incident in 1953 when a Japanese tanker was one of the few that breeched the British blockade of the Strait to eventually deliver oil to Japan.)

To avoid a panic, Takaichi has stressed that Japan has sufficient reserves of crude oil. “We have an oil reserve for 254 days,” she said in the discussion in the Lower House budget committee. Crude oil prices have since been extremely volatile. On March 9, the per-barrel price of crude oil opened at $98 and rose to nearly $120. Later in the day, President Trump said that the war, which he described as “a little excursion” was “very complete, pretty much.”

The price fell sharply, and later in the day in the U.S. crude oil was trading in the range of $85 to $90. The Japanese stock market closed on March 9 before Trump’s remarks. Given the then concerns about the negative impact of the continuing closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the Nikkei 225 index plunged significantly by about 3,000 points, or just over 5 percent.

The Takaichi administration abolished the temporary gasoline tax at the end of 2025. Since then, the retail price of gasoline in Japan has apparently declined. Oil price hikes caused by the war in Iran are likely to exceed the benefit of that tax cut. In the intensive debate on Iran at Lower House Budget Committee on March 9, Takaichi promised to take additional measures to support price of gasoline, electricity and gas supply without forming any supplemental budget.

Over ten years ago, in 2015, former prime minister Shinzo Abe said that the closing of the Strait of Hormuz might be a “survival threatening situation” in which Japan could exercise its right of collective self-defense and use force. Will Japan attack Iran if Iran blocks the strait? “We do not think that we have reached that situation,” said CCS Kihara, who described the war, at the moment, as not a “survival threatening situation [存立危機事態].”

In the March 9 discussion, Takaichi also declined to recognize the war in Iran as a “significant influence situation [重要影響事態]” in which Japan may have to give logistical support to its American ally. Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi explained that Japan had not received any request from the U.S. for that logistical support. Although Japan has various concepts of a “situation,” it is not clear how it pictures current situation in Iran.

Monday in Washington, March 11, 2019

ROUNDTABLE ON INDIAN INVESTMENT. 3/11, 10:00am-Noon, Washington, DC. Sponsors: Wilson Center; NASSCOM. Speakers: Carlos Gutierrez, chair, Albright Stonebridge Group, and former U.S. secretary of commerce; Karen Campbell, associate director—Economics & Country Risk, IHS Markit; Peter Bendor-Samuel, CEO, Everest Group; Jonathan Samford, senior vice president, Organization for International Investment (OFII); Raju Chinthala, senior advisor for India, Indiana Economic Development Corporation; Daniel Griswold, senior research fellow and co-director, Trade and Immigration Project, Mercatus Center, George Mason University. Invitation only. Livestream.

CHINA'S HYPERSONIC MISSILE ADVANCES AND U.S. DEFENSE RESPONSES. 3/11, 10:45-Noon. Sponsor: Hudson. Speakers: Dr. Thomas Karako, Senior Fellow and Director, Missile Defense Project, International Security Program, CSIS; Dr. Austin Long, Nuclear Policy Advisor, Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Policy Division, Joint Staff J5, Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff; Roger Zakheim, Washington Director, Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute; Rebeccah Heinrichs, Senior Fellow, Hudson. 

CANADIAN NUCLEAR LABORATORIES SMR DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. 3/11, Noon-1:00pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Global America Business Institute (GABI). Speakers: Dr. Kathryn McCarthy, Vice President for Research & Development, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories; Dr. Corey McDaniel, Vice President for Business Development, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories.

LAUNCH OF INTERNATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE: REBUILDING THE QUAD? 3/11, Noon-1:30pm. Sponsor: Stimson Center. Speakers: Yuki Tatsumi, Co-Director, East Asia Program, Stimson Center; Yasuhito Jibiki, Assistant Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University; Pamela Kennedy, Research Associate, East Asia Program, Stimson Center; Kate Stevenson, Fellow, Australia-Japan Research Centre; Akriti Vasudeva, Research Associate, South Asia Program, Stimson Center.

HOW PAKISTAN NAVIGATES THE SAUDI ARABIA-IRAN RIVALRY. 3/11, 1:00-2:30pm. Sponsor: United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Speakers: Ankit Panda, Senior Editor, The Diplomat; Karen Young, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Alex Vatanka, Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute; Moderator: Amb. Richard Olson, Former United States Ambassador to Pakistan and United Arab Emirates. 

HOW RUSSIA IS SURVIVING WESTERN SANCTIONS. 3/11, 2:00-3:00pm. Sponsors: Wilson Center; Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security. Speaker: Martin Gilman, Martin Gilman, Professor of Economics, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Former Senior Resident Representative, Moscow Office, International Monetary Fund (1996-2002).

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THE ARC OF CONTAINMENT: BRITAIN, THE UNITED STATES, AND ANTICOMMUNISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. 3/11, 4:00-5:30pm. Sponsors: Wilson Center. Speaker: author Wen-Qing Ngoei, assistant professor of history at Nanyang Technological University; Moderators: Christian F. Ostermann, Director, History and Public Policy Program; Cold War International History Project; North Korea Documentation Project; Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center; Eric Arnesen, Fellow, Professor of History, The George Washington University. PURCHASE BOOK

CHINA: KIDNAPPED BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY. 3/11, 4:00-5:00pm. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics (IWP). Speaker: Mr. Chen Guangcheng, Chinese Lawyer, Visiting Fellow at the Catholic University of America, Distinguished Senior Fellow in Human Rights at the Witherspoon Institute, and Senior Distinguished Advisor to the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice.

REPORT: THE KREMLIN PLAYBOOK 2: THE ENABLERS. 3/11, 5:00-6:30pm, Washington, DC. Sponsors: Europe Program, CSIS; Center for the Study of Democracy. Speakers: Heather Conley, Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic; and Director, Europe Program, CSIS; Juan Zarate, Senior Adviser, Transnational Threats Project and Human Rights Initiative, CSIS; Moderator: Bob Schieffer, CSIS Trustee. 

Prime Minister of Japan's Schedule September 23-30, 2013

September 23, 2013 (Mon)

AM

09:15 Departure from private residence in Tomigaya to attend Koreisai Festival

09:30 Arrive at the Imperial Palace

11:16 Departure from the Imperial Palace

11:35 Arrival at private residence

PM

04:10 Departure from private residence

04:38 Arrival at Haneda Airport

04:47 Interviews with media outlets on the presence of Japan in the international community and the North America visit

September 24, 2013 (Tue) (Local Time September 23)

Arrive Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Aiprort followed by an interview with CTV and a dinner hosted by Canadian Speaker of the Senate Noel Kinsella

September 25, 2013 (Wed) (Local Time September 24)

Attend a welcoming ceremony at the Capitol building followed by a summit meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Offers flowers at Ground Zero

September 26, 2013 (Thu) (Local Time September 25)

Arrive in New York City at the Pierre Hotel to attend a lunch hosted by the Hudson Institute and gives a speech; Foreign Minister Kishida Fumio also be in attendance. Afterwards, speak at the New York Stock Exchange, visit Ground Zero and attend a reception hosted by Japan Society

September 27, 2013 (Fri) (Local Time September 26)

Attend a summit meeting with Iranian President Rhouhani at the UN Millenium Hotel. Afterwards go the the UN General Assembly for a high level speech on nuclear disarmament. Finally, attend in a summit meeting with Pakistani politician and industrialist Naway Sharif

September 28. 2013 (Sat) (Local Time September 28)

Have breakfast and then go to JFK international Airport. Depart for Haneda at 4:50am

September 29, 2013 (Sun)

AM

10:00 At private residence (no visitors)

11:36 Departure from residence

11:44 Arrive at Shibuya salon “Hair Guest” for a haircut

PM

01:15 Depart from salon

01:26 Arrive at private residence

03:29 Meeting with Shigeru Kitamura, Cabinet Informtion Officer

04:39 Meeting with President of Mongolia Tsakhiaglin Elbegdorj

September 30, 2013 (Mon)

AM

08:00 At private residence in Tomigaya

09:51 Depart from private residence

10:09 Arrive at the Imperial Palace for bookkeeping

10:18 Depart from the Imperial Palace

10:26 Arrive at office

10:27 Meeting with Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Saiki Akitaka

11:16 Meeting with Hiramatsu Kenji, Comprehensive Foreign Policy Director and Kozuki Toyohisa, General Director of the European Affairs Bureau

11:40 Isa Ijima, Cabinet Secretariat in attendance

11:59 Forest and Fisheries Permanent Secretary Yoshitsugu Minagawa in attendance

PM

12:15 Depart from office

12:51 Arrive at the Hotel Okura

01:05 Meeting with Prince Andrew of Britain on the Kensington Terrace

01:31 Keynote address at the Anglo-Japanese Conference on Security and Cooperation hosted by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

01:55 Depart from the Hotel Okura

02:00 Arrive at office

02:26 Meeting with Aso Taro, Chief Cabinet Secretary; Amari Akira, Finance Minister; and Chief Cabinet Secretary SugaYoshihide.

03:23 Advisory meeting on Asian Cultural Exchange

04:00 Meeting with Kitamura Shigeru, Cabinet Information Officer and Kinomura Kenichi, Minister of Defense Information

04:30 Kitamura leaves

04:48 Special Cabinet meeting begins

04:53 Special Cabinet meeting ends

05:12 Meeting with Tokuji Hideshi from the Defense Policy Bureau

06:45 Depart from office

06:55 Arrive at the Imperial Palace for Decision on Senior Vice-Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries

09:24 Depart from the Imperial Palace

09:31 Arrive at office

09:49 Photo shoot with Deputy Ministers

10:01 Meeting with Deputy Ministers

10:46 Letters of appointment to parliamentary secretary

11:03 Commemorative photo with parliamentary secretary

11:36 Arrival at private residence

11:45 No visitors

Prime Minister of Japan's Schedule March 19-25

March 19, 2012 (MON)

AM
08:51 Office of PM
09:03 Mr. Maehara, chairperson of DPJ Policy Research Council
09:36 Mr. Tatsuo Hirano, Minister for Reconstruction in the Response to the East Japan Earthquake
09:54 Mr. Edano, Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry; Mr. Adachi, Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry; Mr. Takahara, Director-General, Agency for Natural resources and Energy; Mr. Fukano, Director-General of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency; Mr. Sengoku, DPJ Deputy Chair of Politicy Research Council
10:42 Mr. Adachi, Mr. Takahara, and Mr. Fukano leave
10:43 Mr. Saito, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, joins 11:03 Mr. Edano, Mr. Saito, Mr. Sengoku, leave
11:11 Mr. Yonemura, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Crisis Management; and Mr. Kitamura, Head of Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office
11:32 Both leave

PM
01:01 The Frontier Subcommittee of the Council on National Strategy and Policy – Frontier of Happiness Panel
01:19 Office of PM
03:23 Mr. Sonoda, Parliamentary Secretary of Cabinet Office; and Mr. Shimizu, Councillor of Cabinet Office
04:01 Video Message Recording for Japan Professional Boxing Association
04:30 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
05:01 Reconstruction Promotion Committee
05:32 Meeting with Prime Minister of Timor-Leste Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
06:00 Signing ceremony
06:03 Saw off Prime Minister Gusmao
06:07 Employment Strategy Dialogue
06:31 Mr. Okada, Deputy Prime Minister
06:58 Residence of PM

March 20, 2012 (TUE)

AM
09:33 Imperial Palace, ceremony for spring equinox
10:36 Office of PM

PM
01:30 Courtesy call from Governor Yuzaki of Hiroshima Prefecture and others
01:58 Press interviews
01:59 Interview ends
02:29 Conversation with Ms. Sawako Agawa, Writer
03:37 Meeting ends
03:38 Mr. Saito, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; Mr. Nagashima, Special Advisor to PM; Mr. Bessho, Foreign Ministry councilor in charge of political affairs; and Mr. Fukano, Director-General of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency
04:56 Meeting with Mr. Morihiro Hosokawa, former Prime Minsiter, and Mr. Akira Miyawaki, Professor Emeritus of Yokohama National School; Mr. Nagahama, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, also attends
05:45 Residence of PM

March 21, 2012 (WED)

AM
06:45 Mr. Nagahama, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; and Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
07:25 Both leave
07:51 Office of PM
08:01 Ministerial meeting
08:56 Imperial Palace, Welcome ceremony for Amir of Kuwaiti Sheikh Al-Sabah
09:54 Parliament
10:00 The Upper House Plenary Session

PM
12:33 Office of PM
02:56 Mr. Tatsuo Hirano, Minister for Reconstruction in the Response to the East Japan Earthquake
03:01 Mr. Saito, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, joins
03:33 Both leave
04:30 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
05:17 Ministerial Council on Monthly Economic Report and Other Relative Issues
05:33 Mr. Taketoshi, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
05:48 Residence of PM
06:39 Banquet at the Imperial Palace for Amir of Kuwaiti Sheikh Al-Sabah
09:07 Residence of PM

March 22, 2012 (THU)

AM
09:33 Office of PM
09:55 Mr. Taketoshi, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
10:00 Mr. Taketoshi leaves

PM
01:55 Mr. Kanazawa, Administrative Vice Minister of Defense
02:30 Conversation with participants of DPJ student internship program; Mr. Keisuke Tsumura, Director-General of Youth Agency, also attends
02:40 Mr. Sasae, Administrative Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs
03:03 Three DPJ/Government Executive Meeting
03:38 Mr. Edano, Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry; Mr. Adachi, Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry
04:05 Mr. Okada, Deputy Prime Minister
04:45 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
05:31 Welcome Amir of Kuwaiti Sheikh Al-Sabah, at the residence of PM; Photo shooting
05:34 Summit meeting with Sheikh Al-Sabah; Mr. Edano also attends
06:14 Signing ceremony
06:23 Dinner ceremony hosted by Prime Minister
07:25 Saw off Sheikh Al-Sabaha
07:29 Residence of PM

March 23, 2012 (FRI)

AM
06:33 Mr. Nagahama, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretar; and Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
07:47 Mr. Nagahama leaves
07:53 Mr. Tezuka leaves
07:55 Parliament
08:10 Ministerial meeting
08:53 Mr. Nakatsuka, Senior Vice Minister of Cabinet Office / Senior Vice Minister for Reconstruction
08:56 Mr. Azumi, Minister of Finance
09:00 The Upper House Budget Committee

PM
12:28 The Upper House Plenary Session
01:00 The Upper House Budget Committee
05:42 Office of PM
05:51 Joint Meeting of the Headquarters for Administrative Reform Implementation and the Headquarters to Promote Civil Service Reform
06:16 Mr. Kitamura, Head of Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office; and Mr. Nishi, Director-General of the Bureau of Defense Policy, Ministry of Defense; Mr. Kinomura, Chief of Defense In
06:30 Mr. Nishi and Mr. Kinomura leaves
06:42 Mr. Kitamura leaves
06:43 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
07:38 Residence of PM

March 24, 2012 (SAT)

AM
Spent the morning at residence of PM

PM
03:59 The First Gathering with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda Hosted by Japan Akademeia, at Hotel the Prince Park Tower Tokyo, Shibakoen, Tokyo
05:52 Haircut at Ginza Matsunaga at Yaesu, Tokyo
06:58 Residence of PM

March 25, 2012 (SUN)
AM
11:11 Office of PM
11:31 Meeting with Prime Minister Harper of Canada
11:53 Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Noda

PM
01:17 Joint Press Statement
01:25 See off Prime Minister Harper at the PM residence entrance
02:00 Exchange opinions with members of the Frontier Subcommittee of the Council on National Strategy and Policy
03:29 The meeting adjourned
03:47 Mr. Saito, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; Mr. Fukano, Director-General of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency; Mr. Bessho, Foreign Ministry councilor in charge of political affairs
04:17 Mr. Saito, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
04:31 Recording of video message for the Korean media on the Nuclear Summit
04:36 Residence of PM
06:24 Dinner with Mr. Fujii, DPJ Head of Tax Research Commission; and Mr. Kaname Tajima, DPJ Lower House member, at the Japanese restaurant “Suiren” in the Capitol Hotel Tokyu
09:17 Residence of PM

Prime Minister of Japan's Schedule December 14-15

December 15, 2011

AM
08:52 The office of PM
09:11 Ministerial Meeting on the Overseas Deployment of Integrated Infrastructure Systems
09:24 Council for Science and Technology Policy
10:02 Mr. Furukawa, Minister of State for National Policy; Mr. Ogushi, Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office
10:26 Mr. Hosono, Minister of State for the Nuclear Power Policy and Administration; Mr. Fukano, Director-General of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency; Mr. Sugawara, Director-General of Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; Mr. Sagisaka, Director-General of the Environment Management Bureau, Ministry of Environment.
10:56 Photo and Video Shooting for DPJ publicity

PM
01:30 Hotel Le Port Koujimachi, Hiraka-cho, Tokyo. Gave remarks at the Symposium of Advanced Accelerator Association Promoting Science and Technology.
01:52 The office of PM
02:01 Mr. Uematsu, Head of Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office
02:25 Mr. Nagashima, Special Advisor to PM
03:36 Mr. Azumi, Minister of Finance; Mr. Katsu, Administrative Vice-Minister of Finance; Mr. Manago, Director General of the Budget Bureau, Ministry of Finance
04:38 Everyone leaves
04:47 Meeting of the Forum for Consultations between the National and Regional Governments
05:00 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
05:16 Mr. Norihiro Okuda, Ambassador of Japan to the Arab Republic of Egypt, and others
05:53 The Council on National Strategy and Policy
07:07 Receives advice from Mr. Masaru Nishio, President of the Local Government System Research Council
07:22 Mr. Furukawa, Minister of State for National Policy
07:29 The residence of PM

December 14, 2011

AM
09:22 The office of PM
09:24 Mr. Edano, Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry
09:31 Mr. Fujimura, Chief Cabinet Secretary, and Mr. Saito, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, join
10:00 Phone conversation with Prime Minister Harper of Canada
10:18 Mr. Kawabata, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications; Mr. Fukuda, Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications; Mr. Goto, Senior Vice Minister of Cabinet Office; Mr. Tsugawa, Parliamentary Secretary of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism; Mr. Fujimura, Chief Cabinet Secretary.
10:52 Mr. Genba, Minister of Foreign Affairs
11:28 Mr. Maehara, Chairperson of DPJ Policy Research Council
11:57 Mr. Maehara leaves

PM
12:41 Mr. Suematsu, Special Advisor to PM
01:17 Mr. Takahashi, Deputy Director-General, Cabinet Office Secretariat of the International Peace Cooperation Headquarters
01:58 Mr. Sasae, Administrative Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs
02:41 Mr. Tadashi Maeda, Special Advisor to the Cabinet
03:04 Mr. Ishida, Senior Vice Minister of Cabinet Office; Mr. Takashi Onishi, President of Science Council of Japan; Mr. Masuo Aizawa, Executive Member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy.
03:10 Mr. Onishi and Mr. Aizawa leave
03:29 Mr. Ishida leaves
03:30 Mr. Nishi, Director-General of the Bureau of Defense Policy, Ministry of Defense
03:56 Mr. Katagiri, Commissioner-General of National Police Agency
04:21 Mr. Katagiri leaves
05:20 The Lower House 1st Diet Members’ Building
05:22 Made remarks at the DPJ Administrative Reform Research Council General Assembly.
05:31 The office of PM
05:36 Mr. Yamaoka, Minister for the Abduction Issue
06:12 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
07:01 At “Ichiyoshi”, a Japanese restaurant, dinner with Mr. Ritsuo Hosokawa, DPJ Lower House Member; Mr. Yoshiaki Takaki, DPJ Lower House Member; and Mr. Nagahama, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
09:52 The residence of PM