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Minamata marks 70th anniv. of mercury-poisoning disease

Japanese Environment Minister Hirotaka Ishihara delivers a speech at a memorial service for the victims of Minamata disease in Minamata, Kumamoto prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 1, 2026, the 70th anniversary of Japan's official recognition of the mercury-poisoning disease caused by industrial pollution.

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Minamata marks 70th anniv. of mercury-poisoning disease

Japanese Environment Minister Hirotaka Ishihara (2nd from R) meets with members of a Minamata disease suffers group in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan, on May 1, 2026, the 70th anniversary of Japan's official recognition of the mercury-poisoning disease caused by industrial pollution. (Pool photo)

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Japanese environment minister at COP30

Japanese Environment Minister Hirotaka Ishihara delivers a speech at a ministerial-level meeting of the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, known as COP30, in Belem, Brazil, on Nov. 18, 2025.

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Japanese environment minister at COP30

Japanese Environment Minister Hirotaka Ishihara delivers a speech at a ministerial-level meeting of the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, known as COP30, in Belem, Brazil, on Nov. 18, 2025.

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Japanese environment minister at COP30

Japanese Environment Minister Hirotaka Ishihara delivers a speech at a ministerial-level meeting of the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, known as COP30, in Belem, Brazil, on Nov. 18, 2025.

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Koizumi picked as Japan's new farm minister

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 21, 2025. Koizumi was appointed as the country's new farm minister, after Taku Eto stepped down over his controversial remarks about rice earlier in the day.

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Koizumi picked as Japan's new farm minister

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 21, 2025. Koizumi was appointed as the country's new farm minister, after Taku Eto stepped down over his controversial remarks about rice earlier in the day.

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Koizumi picked as Japan's new farm minister

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 21, 2025. Koizumi was appointed as the country's new farm minister, after Taku Eto stepped down over his controversial remarks about rice earlier in the day.

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Ex-environment chief Koizumi picked as new farm minister

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi gets out of a car as he arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 21, 2025. Koizumi was appointed as the country's new farm minister, after Taku Eto stepped down over his controversial remarks about rice earlier in the day.

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Japanese environment minister at COP29

Japanese Environment Minister Keiichiro Asao speaks to reporters in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 18, 2024, as a ministerial-level meeting opens the same day at the 29th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, dubbed COP29.

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Recipients of Japanese decorations

Recipients of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, (from L) former Japanese Environment Minister Sakihito Ozawa, former Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Nobuaki Koga, former United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Rashed Abdullah Alnuaimi and retired U.S. Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, who served concurrently as head of the U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, attend a photo session after a ceremony of conferment at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2024.

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Imperial conferment of decorations

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) confers the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun to former Japanese Environment Minister Sakihito Ozawa at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2024 (Pool photo)

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House Of Representatives Election - Japan

Japan's Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Shigeru Ishiba (R) and former environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi place a pin on a board showing candidates' names at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 27, 2024. Voting for Japan's lower house election began on Sunday morning amid public discontent over the ruling LDP's slush funds scandal and a rising cost of living that squeezes Japanese households. Photo by Takashi Aoyama/Pool via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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[Breaking News]Trilateral environment meeting on Jeju Island

SEOGWIPO, South Korea, Sept. 30 Kyodo - Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito meets the press following a two-day ministerial environmental meeting with China and South Korea in Seogwipo on Jeju Island, South Korea, on Sept. 29, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Trilateral environment meeting on Jeju Island

Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito meets the press following a two-day ministerial environmental meeting with China and South Korea in Seogwipo on Jeju Island, South Korea, on Sept. 29, 2024.

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Trilateral environment meeting on Jeju Island

Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito speaks on the second day of a two-day ministerial environmental meeting with China and South Korea in Seogwipo on Jeju Island, South Korea, on Sept. 29, 2024.

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Japan LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, 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 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

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Japan LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, a candidate in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election, is pictured during the first round of voting in the election to choose the successor to outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 27, 2024.

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Japan LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, a candidate in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election, makes a speech in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 18, 2024, ahead of the Sept. 27 election.

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Japan LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, a candidate contesting the upcoming leadership race of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a debate at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Sept. 14, 2024.

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Japan LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks at a joint press conference at the Liberal Democratic Party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 13, 2024, with the other eight candidates contesting the ruling party's Sept. 27 leadership election to choose the successor to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

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Japan LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi waves to supporters at a ceremony to kick off his campaign in Tokyo on Sept. 12, 2024, after filing his candidacy in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Sept. 27 leadership election to choose the successor to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. (Pool photo)

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Japan LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi makes a policy speech at the Liberal Democratic Party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 12, 2024, after filing his candidacy in the ruling party's Sept. 27 leadership election to choose the successor to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

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Japan LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, a candidate in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election, speaks to the press in Tokyo on Sept. 12, 2024. Campaigning for the Sept. 27 election to choose the successor to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida officially began the same day.

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Japan receives IAEA's final report on Fukushima soil reuse

Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito (R) receives the International Atomic Energy Agency's final expert report on Japan's plan to reuse decontaminated soil following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident from an IAEA official on Sept. 10, 2024.

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LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi makes a stump speech in Yokohama near Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2024, ahead of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election on Sept. 27.

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Ex-Environment Minister Koizumi seeks LDP presidency

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 6, 2024, announcing his candidacy in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election later in the month.

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LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi makes a stump speech in Yokohama near Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2024, ahead of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election on Sept. 27.

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Ex-Environment Minister Koizumi seeks LDP presidency

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 6, 2024, announcing his candidacy for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election later in the month.

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LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi (2nd from L) raises his fist during a stump speech in Yokohama near Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2024, ahead of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election on Sept. 27.

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LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi waves to the crowd in Yokohama near Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2024, ahead of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election on Sept. 27.

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LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi waves to the crowd in Yokohama near Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2024, ahead of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election on Sept. 27.

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Ex-Environment Minister Koizumi seeks LDP presidency

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 6, 2024, announcing his candidacy for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election later in the month.

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Ex-Japan Environment Minister Koizumi seeks LDP presidency

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 6, 2024, announcing his candidacy for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election later in the month.

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Ex-Japan Environment Minister Koizumi seeks LDP presidency

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 6, 2024, announcing his candidacy for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election later in the month.

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Ex-Japan Environment Minister Koizumi seeks LDP presidency

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 6, 2024, announcing his candidacy for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election later in the month.

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Ex-Japan Environment Minister Koizumi seeks LDP presidency

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 6, 2024, announcing his candidacy for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election later in the month.

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Former Japanese Environment Minister Koizumi

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 19, 2024.

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Former Japanese Environment Minister Koizumi

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visits the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 19, 2024.

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Yasukuni shrine

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visits Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, seen by Japan's Asian neighbors as a symbol of its past militarism as it honors the souls of Japan's more than 2.4 million war dead as well as the country's wartime leaders convicted as war criminals, on Aug. 15, 2024, the 79th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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U.S. ambassador to Japan Emanuel in Fukushima

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (R) and former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi interact with children during a surfing competition in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 6, 2024.

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U.S. ambassador to Japan Emanuel in Fukushima

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (R) and former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi smile while holding dishes made from local produce during their visit to a surfing competition in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 6, 2024.

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U.S. ambassador to Japan Emanuel in Fukushima

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (R) and former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi meet the press during their visit to a surfing competition in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 6, 2024.

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Japanese environment minister Ito

Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on May 24, 2024.

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Japanese environment minister Ito

Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo after a Cabinet meeting on May 17, 2024.

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Meeting of Japan, S. Korea environment ministers

Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito (L) and his South Korean counterpart Han Wha Jin pose for a photo during a meeting on Nov. 4, 2023, in Nagoya, central Japan.

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Meeting of Japan, China environment ministers

Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito (R) and his Chinese counterpart Huang Runqiu shake hands during a meeting on Nov. 3, 2023, in Nagoya, central Japan.

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Japan-China-S. Korea environment ministerial meeting

Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito (front) speaks at a meeting with his counterparts from China and South Korea on Nov. 4, 2023, in Nagoya, central Japan.

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Japanese Environment Minister Ito

Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 22, 2023.

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New Japanese Environment Minister Ito

New Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito gives an interview at the ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 20, 2023.