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Prime Video's 'Harlan Coben's Lazarus' New York Screening

Richard Armitage attending Prime Video's 'Harlan Coben's Lazarus' New York Screening held at the Regal Union Square on October 14, 2025 in New York City, NY Photo bySteven Bergman/AFF/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Prime Video's 'Harlan Coben's Lazarus' New York Screening

Richard Armitage attending Prime Video's 'Harlan Coben's Lazarus' New York Screening held at the Regal Union Square on October 14, 2025 in New York City, NY Photo bySteven Bergman/AFF/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Ex-U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Armitage dies

Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage makes a speech at Keio University in Tokyo on June 8, 2018. A longtime Asia hand who had close connections with Japan, Armitage died on April 13, 2025, at the age of 79.

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Ex-U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Armitage dies

Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage meets the press at the Japanese prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 22, 2024. A longtime Asia hand who had close connections with Japan, Armitage died on April 13, 2025, at the age of 79.

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Japan foreign minister in Washington

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (R) holds talks with former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (L) in Washington on Jan. 20, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan foreign minister in Washington

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (L) shakes hands with former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage in Washington on Jan. 20, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Armitage holds talks with Japan PM Kishida

Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage meets the press in Tokyo on May 22, 2024, after holding talks with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

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Armitage holds talks with Japan PM Kishida

Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage meets the press in Tokyo on May 22, 2024, after holding talks with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

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World Peace Forum participants in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Sun Jianguo (L), deputy chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, holds conversations with former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (R) after delivering a speech at the World Peace Forum in Beijing on June 22, 2014.

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Koike meets with Armitage

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese defense Minister Yuriko Koike (L) and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage pose for a photo after their talks at a Washington hotel on Aug. 8.

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Ex-U.S. official Armitage

TOKYO, Japan - Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage attends a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on July 14, 2014.

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Armitage speaks at U.S.-Japan Research Institute debate

WASHINGTON, United States - Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage speaks at a discussion event hosted by the U.S.-Japan Research Institute in Washington on Feb. 27, 2014.

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Ex-U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Armitage gives interview

WASHINGTON, United States - Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage speaks during an interview with Kyodo News on March 7, 2013 at his office in Arlington, Virginia.

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Armitage in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage leaves the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 22, 2012, after holding talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

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Armitage says China testing Japan over territorial row

TOKYO, Japan - Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage speaks in a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Sept. 15, 2010. Armitage said China's handling of a recent bilateral row over a ship collision case seems to be a way of ''testing'' Japan.

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Armitage calls for Iran-style incentives in talks with N. Korea

WASHINGTON, United States - Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Washington.

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Japan, U.S. should cope with ascent of China: Armitage

WASHINGTON, United States - Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage responds to questions in an interview with Kyodo News in Washington on Sept. 14. He expressed hope that the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, following a victory for his ruling political party in the House of Representatives election, will closely cooperate with the United States to cope with the ascent of China.

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U.S. hopes for Japan's extension of SDF deployment in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (L) and Japanese Defense Agency Director General Yoshinori Ono poses for photos before they begin talks at the Defense Agency on Oct. 12. Armitage said he hopes Japan will extend its humanitarian troop deployment in Iraq beyond mid-December.

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Armitage meets Kawaguchi

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (R) shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 2.

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Armitage hopeful next 6-way talks on N. Korea to be held 'soon'

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage responds to questions from reporters at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Feb. 2. He said the next round of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions will hopefully be held ''soon.''

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Armitage talks with Ishiba

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (L) and Defense Agency Director General Shigeru Ishiba (R) prepare to sit down for talks at the Defense Agency in Tokyo on Feb. 2.

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(2)Donors pledge $4.5 bil. to help rebuild Sri Lanka

TOKYO, Japan - Yasushi Akashi (R), Japan's envoy in charge of Sri Lankan issues, speaks at a press conference June 10 at a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward after the end of the two-day Tokyo Conference on Reconstruction and Development of Sri Lanka. U.S. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage sits beside him.

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(1)Donors pledge $4.5 bil. to help rebuild Sri Lanka

TOKYO, Japan - Yasushi Akashi (L), Japan's envoy in charge of Sri Lankan issues, shakes hands with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe after the Tokyo Conference on Reconstruction and Development of Sri Lanka ended June 10 at a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. At right is U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.

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Armitage hails decision to dispatch SDF to Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is surrounded by reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 10 after talking with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda.

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U.S. honors lawmaker Shiina for promoting ties

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (R) presents the Secretary of State's Award for Distinguished Service to Japanese House of Councillors member Motoo Shiina (L) on behalf of Secretary of State Colin Powell at the U.S. ambassador's official residence in Tokyo on June 9. (Pool photo)

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Armitage holds talks with Kawaguchi in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (L) shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi prior to their talks in Tokyo on June 9.

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Armitage meets the press in Kabul

KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (L) speaks at a news conference in Kabul on May 9. He said that Afghan leader Hamid Karzai's government holds little power beyond the capital Kabul, suggesting any withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan will take time.

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Abductees' kin urge U.S. for support on N. Korea sanctions

WASHINGTON, United States - Shigeru Yokota (R), who heads a group of Japanese families with relatives who were abducted to North Korea, shakes hands with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage in Washington on March 5. Yokota urged the U.S. government to support economic sanctions by the U.N. Security Council against N. Korea. Yokota is accompanied by (from R to L) his wife Sakie, Toru Hasuike and Teruaki Masumoto.

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Armitage says new pact with N. Korea should be comprehensive

WASHINGTON, United States - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage meets Japanese reporters at the Department of State in Washington on Jan. 17. Armitage said any new arrangement with North Korea should be comprehensive, covering both its uranium enrichment and plutonium-based nuclear programs.

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Japan, U.S. remain apart over farm trade liberalization

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tadamori Oshima speaks to reporters at the U.S. State Department in Washington on Jan. 8 after meeting with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. Oshima failed to narrow the gap between Japan and the United States on how to reduce tariffs on agricultural products in a new round of global trade talks.

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Ishiba meets Armitage

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Agency chief Shigeru Ishiba (R) shakes hands with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage at his ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 9 prior to their talks.

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U.S. sees need for more U.N. talk before war decision

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage shakes hands with Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 9 prior to their talks. In a series of talks with Japanese leaders, Armitage said that Washington sees the need for more talks in the United Nations before deciding on whether to attack Iraq.

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Armitage says U.S. hopes to find solution for Soga's husband

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage outside the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 9 after meeting Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda there. He reportedly told Fukuda the United States hopes to find a solution in the case of Charles Jenkins, the American husband in North Korea of Hitomi Soga. Jenkins faces charges of desertion from the U.S. Army if he comes to Japan.

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Japan, U.S. discuss Iraq, N. Korea, Asia-Pacific peace

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (L) and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (R) pose for a photograph before the start of two days of ''strategic dialogue talks'' on medium- and long-term diplomatic, security and economic issues in Tokyo on Aug. 28. They agreed to keep close contact regarding Washington's possible military strike against Iraq.

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Japan, U.S. begin vice-ministerial talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi (L) and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage shake hands in Tokyo on Aug. 28 at the outset of their talks on diplomatic, security and economic issues.

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Armitage urges Japan to mull support for U.S. attack on Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is surrounded by reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 27 after meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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U.S. asks Japan for ship, plane for Afghan campaign

WASHINGTON, United States - New Komeito party Secretary General Tetsuzo Fuyushiba (L) shakes hands with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (2nd from R) as Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Taku Yamasaki (2nd from L) and New Conservative Party Secretary General Toshihiro Nikai (R) watch. Later in the day, the three coalition officials met separately with U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who asked Japan to dispatch a destroyer with a state-of-the-art Aegis air defense system as part of its support for the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan.

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Armitage believes sunken mystery ship was N. Korean

WASHINGTON, United States - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told Japanese reporters Jan. 11 that he believes an unidentified ship that sank in the East China Sea in December after an exchange of fire with Japanese patrol boats was from North Korea.

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Tanaka sees Armitage report as core of U.S. security policy

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka listens to an opposition questioner at a session of the House of Representatives Security Committee on June 14. Tanaka said she sees the (Richard) Armitage report, which calls for Japan to lift its constitutional ban against the use of the right to collective self-defense, as the core of current U.S. security policy.

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Armitage noncommittal on Okinawa request for airport time limit

WASHINGTON, United States - Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine (C) shakes hands with Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Richard Armitage, with Secretary of State Colin Powell standing by, during a photo session at the State Department in Washington on May 15. In a meeting with Inamine, Armitage was noncommittal to a request made by Okinawa Prefecture for imposing a time limit on the U.S. military's use of a new airport to be built in the southernmost Japanese prefecture.

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Armitage meets with Lim

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Unification Minister Lim Dong Won (R) greets U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (L) at his office in Seoul on May 10. Lim told Armitage South Korea hopes the United States will resume stalled talks with North Korea at an early date.

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Armitage meets with Kim

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean President Kim Dae Jung and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage pose for photographers before their talks at the Blue House presidential palace in Seoul on May 9. Kim told Armitage he hopes the U.S. government completes policy review soon and resumes stalled dialogue with North Korea.

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Defense agency chief greets Armitage

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Agency Director General Gen Nakatani (R) greets U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (L) at the agency May 8.

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Armitage briefs Japan on U.S. missile defense plan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (R) and Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Ryozo Kato exchange greetings at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on May 8. Armitage briefed Kato and other Japanese government officials on President George W. Bush's missile defense proposal.

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Armitage proposes conditional time limit on airport use

WASHINGTON, United States - The photo shows Richard Armitage, a former senior U.S. defense official, who proposed in an interview with Kyodo News in Washington on March 31 that a time limit be conditionally set on the U.S. military's use of a planned airport in Okinawa to break the impasse over the relocation of a U.S. military facility in the southernmost Japanese prefecture. Armitage is an adviser to Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush.

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Armitage believes sunken mystery ship was N. Korean

WASHINGTON, United States - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told Japanese reporters Jan. 11 that he believes an unidentified ship that sank in the East China Sea in December after an exchange of fire with Japanese patrol boats was from North Korea.

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Japan, U.S. should cope with ascent of China: Armitage

WASHINGTON, United States - Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage responds to questions in an interview with Kyodo News in Washington on Sept. 14. He expressed hope that the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, following a victory for his ruling political party in the House of Representatives election, will closely cooperate with the United States to cope with the ascent of China. (Kyodo)

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Armitage calls for Iran-style incentives in talks with N. Korea

WASHINGTON, United States - Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Washington. (Kyodo)

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Koike meets with Armitage

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese defense Minister Yuriko Koike (L) and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage pose for a photo after their talks at a Washington hotel on Aug. 8. (Kyodo)

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Armitage holds talks with Kawaguchi in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (L) shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi prior to their talks in Tokyo on June 9. (Kyodo)