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Emperor meets with disabled awardees

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, accompanied by Empress Masako, speaks in front of disabled people at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 12, 2025, after they received awards from the health minister for their contribution to society. (Pool photo)

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Emperor meets with disabled awardees

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (2nd from R) and Empress Masako meet with disabled people at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 12, 2025, after they received awards from the health minister for their contribution to society. (Pool photo)

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Emperor meets with disabled awardees

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (3rd from R) and Empress Masako meet with disabled people at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 12, 2025, after they received awards from the health minister for their contribution to society. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko (L) attends a traditional Lao ritual to wish for people's health and good luck in Vientiane on Nov. 18, 2025, during her official trip to Laos. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko (back, L) attends a traditional Lao ritual to wish for people's health and good luck in Vientiane on Nov. 18, 2025, during her official trip to Laos. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko (back, far L) attends a traditional Lao ritual to wish for people's health and good luck in Vientiane on Nov. 18, 2025, during her official trip to Laos. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko attends a traditional Lao ritual to wish for people's health and good luck in Vientiane on Nov. 18, 2025, during her official trip to Laos. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess visits maternal and child health center

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (C) chats with attendees of a symposium at a maternal and child health center in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess visits maternal and child health center

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko attends a symposium at a maternal and child health center in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Growth record of world's smallest surviving baby

Photo taken on May 23, 2019, shows the growth record of Ryusuke Sekino, which was kept by nurses and nursery staff at an intensive care unit for newborns in a hospital in the central Japan city of Nagano. The Japanese baby boy was admitted to the hospital after his birth weighing just 285 grams in October 2018. He was discharged from the hospital in good health the following April and was believed to be the smallest surviving baby in the world at the time.

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Growth record of world's smallest surviving baby

Photo taken on May 23, 2019, shows the growth record of Ryusuke Sekino, which was kept by nurses and nursery staff at an intensive care unit for newborns in a hospital in the central Japan city of Nagano. The Japanese baby boy was admitted to the hospital after his birth weighing just 285 grams in October 2018. He was discharged from the hospital in good health the following April and was believed to be the smallest surviving baby in the world at the time.

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NAMI 2025 Mental Health Gala - LA

Japanese-American actress, dancer, and singer Lisa Yamada arrives at the National Alliance On Mental Illness (NAMI) 2025 Mental Health Gala Presented by Maybelline held at The Beverly Hills Hotel on May 8, 2025 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States. Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NAMI 2025 Mental Health Gala - LA

Japanese-American actress, dancer, and singer Lisa Yamada arrives at the National Alliance On Mental Illness (NAMI) 2025 Mental Health Gala Presented by Maybelline held at The Beverly Hills Hotel on May 8, 2025 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States. Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NAMI 2025 Mental Health Gala - LA

Japanese-American actress, dancer, and singer Lisa Yamada arrives at the National Alliance On Mental Illness (NAMI) 2025 Mental Health Gala Presented by Maybelline held at The Beverly Hills Hotel on May 8, 2025 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States. Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NAMI 2025 Mental Health Gala - LA

Japanese-American actress, dancer, and singer Lisa Yamada arrives at the National Alliance On Mental Illness (NAMI) 2025 Mental Health Gala Presented by Maybelline held at The Beverly Hills Hotel on May 8, 2025 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States. Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan crown princess at ceremony

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko attends a ceremony in Tokyo on April 22, 2025, recognizing people and groups for their contribution to the promotion of maternal and child health.

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Japan crown princess at ceremony

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko speaks during a ceremony in Tokyo on April 22, 2025, recognizing people and groups for their contribution to the promotion of maternal and child health.

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Japan crown princess at ceremony

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko attends a ceremony in Tokyo on April 22, 2025, recognizing people and groups for their contribution to the promotion of maternal and child health.

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Japanese health minister in parliament

Japanese health minister Takamaro Fukuoka speaks during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Feb. 14, 2025.

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Japanese health minister in parliament

Japanese health minister Takamaro Fukuoka speaks during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Feb. 14, 2025.

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Japanese health minister in parliament

Japanese health minister Takamaro Fukuoka (standing) speaks during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Feb. 14, 2025.

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Emperor meets with disabled at Imperial Palace

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako talk to disabled people at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 12, 2024, after they had received an award from the health minister for playing a noted role in society by overcoming their disability. (Pool photo)

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Japanese health minister Fukuoka

Japanese health minister Takamaro Fukuoka speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2024.

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Japanese health minister Fukuoka

Japanese health minister Takamaro Fukuoka speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2024.

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Japan LDP leadership election

Former Japanese health minister Katsunobu Kato, a candidate in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election, casts his vote in the first round of voting at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 27, 2024, during the election to choose the successor to outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

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Japan provides medical equipment to Ukraine

Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine Kuninori Matsuda (L) and Ukrainian Health Minister Viktor Liashko attend a ceremony in Kyiv on Sept. 23, 2024, following Japan's decision to provide MRI and other medical equipment to 30 facilities across Ukraine through a 4.4 billion yen (about $31 million) grant-in-aid program.

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Japan provides medical equipment to Ukraine

Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine Kuninori Matsuda (L) and Ukrainian Health Minister Viktor Liashko (C) attend a ceremony in Kyiv on Sept. 23, 2024, following Japan's decision to provide MRI and other medical equipment to 30 facilities across Ukraine through a 4.4 billion yen (about $31 million) grant-in-aid program.

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Crown Princess Kiko visits quake-hit city in central Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (far R) visits on Sept. 15, 2024, a medical checkup room at a health promotion center in Suzu, an Ishikawa Prefecture city devastated by a strong earthquake that hit central Japan's Noto Peninsula area on Jan. 1.

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Crown Princess Kiko visits quake-hit city in central Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (2nd from R) visits a health promotion center in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2024. She was briefed about meal-cooking activity undertaken at the center until August for local people affected by a strong earthquake that hit the central Japan city on Jan. 1.

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Yasukuni shrine

Former Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato (R) and former Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Norihisa Tamura visit Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, viewed by Japan's Asian neighbors as a symbol of its past militarism due to the enshrinement of wartime leaders convicted as war criminals alongside the some 2.4 million Japanese war dead honored at the shrine, on Aug. 15, 2024, the 79th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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Japan health minister speaks over supplements scandal

Japanese health minister Keizo Takemi speaks to reporters at the ministry in Tokyo on July 23, 2024, over a health hazard scandal linked to Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co.'s red yeast rice dietary supplements.

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Japan health minister speaks over supplements scandal

Japanese health minister Keizo Takemi speaks to reporters at the ministry in Tokyo on July 23, 2024, over a health hazard scandal linked to Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co.'s red yeast rice dietary supplements.

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Japan health minister speaks over supplements scandal

Japanese health minister Keizo Takemi speaks to reporters at the ministry in Tokyo on July 23, 2024, over a health hazard scandal linked to Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co.'s red yeast rice dietary supplements.

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China-Japan-ROK business summit eyes enhanced cooperation

STORY: China-Japan-ROK business summit eyes enhanced cooperation SHOOTING TIME: May 27, 2024 DATELINE: May 27, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:01 LOCATION: Seoul CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): SUN LEI, Xinhua correspondent 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): REN HONGBIN, Chairman of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): MASAKAZU TOKURA, Chairman of the Japan Business Federation 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Korean): CHEY TAE-WON, Chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): SUN LEI, Xinhua correspondent "The China-Japan-South Korea business summit was held here in Seoul on Monday. It's been more than four years since the summit was last held in 2019." SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): REN HONGBIN, Chairman of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade "Industrial cooperation should be deepened to achieve mutually beneficial results. In the fields of digital economy, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, green energy, health an

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Japanese health minister Takemi

Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Keizo Takemi speaks to reporters at the parliament building in Tokyo on May 14, 2024.

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Authorities search Kobayashi Pharmaceutical's Osaka factory

Japanese health ministry officials search a Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. factory in Osaka, western Japan, on March 30, 2024, following reports of deaths and hospitalizations possibly linked to its red yeast rice dietary supplements.

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Authorities search Kobayashi Pharmaceutical's Osaka factory

Japanese health ministry officials search a Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. factory in Osaka, western Japan, on March 30, 2024, following reports of deaths and hospitalizations possibly linked to its red yeast rice dietary supplements.

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Authorities search Kobayashi Pharmaceutical's Osaka factory

Japanese health ministry officials search a Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. factory in Osaka, western Japan, on March 30, 2024, following reports of deaths and hospitalizations possibly linked to its red yeast rice dietary supplements.

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2 die, 100 hospitalized after consuming Japan drugmaker's supplements

OSAKA,Japan, March 27 Kyodo - Two people are believed to have died and over 100 hospitalized after consuming red yeast rice dietary supplements from Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., the Japanese drugmaker and the health ministry said Tuesday, amid swelling safety concerns over the products.(Kyodo)

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Japanese emperor, empress visit quake-hit Ishikawa Pref.

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako meet on March 22, 2024, with a man affected by the strong earthquake that hit central Japan's Noto Peninsula area on Jan. 1 at a health center now used as an evacuation facility in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture. (Pool photo)

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Japanese health minister Takemi

Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Keizo Takemi holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on March 8, 2024.

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Japan's COVID-19 treatment subsidies to end on March 31

Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Keizo Takemi speaks to reporters at the parliament building in Tokyo on March 5, 2024, as he unveils a plan to terminate government subsidies for COVID-19 treatment at the end of the current fiscal year through March 31 due to a fall in the number of cases.

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Japan's COVID-19 treatment subsidies to end on March 31

Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Keizo Takemi (C) speaks to reporters at the parliament building in Tokyo on March 5, 2024, as he unveils a plan to terminate government subsidies for COVID-19 treatment at the end of the current fiscal year through March 31 due to a fall in the number of cases.

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Japan formally decides to downgrade COVID-19 to flu level on May 8

A Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry panel convenes a meeting in Tokyo on April 27, 2023, where it found no issues with the government's plan to downgrade the legal status of the novel coronavirus to a level on par with seasonal influenza on May 8.

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CDC sets up office in Tokyo

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Mandy Cohen (C) attends a ceremony marking the opening of the CDC's East Asia and Pacific regional office in Tokyo with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (L) and Japanese Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Keizo Takemi on Feb. 5, 2024, at the ambassador's official residence in the Japanese capital.

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Xinhua Headlines: Xinhua's top 10 world news events in 2023

(231230) -- BEIJING, Dec. 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People attend a rally against Japan's planned ocean discharge of nuke wastewater in front of the Japanese prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 18, 2023. Top 10 world news events in 2023 6. Japan discharges nuclear-contaminated water amid opposition On Aug. 24, Japan started discharging contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear incident, despite widespread international questioning and strong objections from concerned nations. Japan released more than 23,000 tons of nuclear-contaminated water in three rounds of discharge in the year. The entire discharge will take at least 30 years to finish. This unprecedented release of nuclear-contaminated water into the ocean and the potential cumulative marine effects have triggered widespread concern worldwide. The discharge, which is by no means a private matter for Japan, involves the health of all humanity, the global marine environment and global public interests. Japan should seriously

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Japan OKs FY 2024 budget, defense spending reaches new high

STORY: Japan OKs FY 2024 budget, defense spending reaches new high SHOOTING TIME: Earlier footage DATELINE: Dec. 24, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:48 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of cities in Japan 2. various of Japanese military exercises 3. various of Okinawa Self-Defense Force Military Base (taken on November 27 and 28, 2023) STORYLINE: The Japanese government on Friday adopted a draft budget of 112.07 trillion yen (about 787 billion U.S. dollars) for fiscal year 2024, with defense spending hitting an all-time high for the 10th straight year. The figure approved by the cabinet for the fiscal period from April 2024 to March 2025 marked the first drop in 12 years amid shrinking emergency funding related to COVID-19. The budget, although smaller than the record 114.38 trillion yen allocated for the current business year to March, is still the second-largest, underscoring the urgency for debt-ridden Japan to rein in spending and restore its fiscal health, national news agency Kyodo reported

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Anti-Alzheimer's drug lecanemab

Haruo Naito, CEO of Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2023, as the company's anti-Alzheimer's drug lecanemab is set to be launched on Dec. 20, following a health ministry advisory body's approval of its coverage by the Japanese public insurance scheme.

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Anti-Alzheimer's drug lecanemab

Haruo Naito, CEO of Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2023, as the company's anti-Alzheimer's drug lecanemab is set to be launched on Dec. 20, following a health ministry advisory body's approval of its coverage by the Japanese public insurance scheme.

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Japanese health minister at parliament

Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Keizo Takemi speaks at a House of Representatives budget committee session in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2023.