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Icefall festival in Hokkaido

KAMIKAWA, Japan, Jan. 26 Kyodo - An icefall festival begins in Kamikawa in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Jan. 25, 2025. The annual event, featuring about 30 ice sculptures lit up in various colors, will run through March 9. (Kyodo)

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Icefall festival in Hokkaido

An icefall festival begins in Kamikawa in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Jan. 25, 2025. The annual event, featuring about 30 ice sculptures lit up in various colors, will run through March 9.

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Japan: Record Snowfall Batters Hokkaido 4

Heavy snowfall has been battering Hokkaido. In Iwamizawa City, snow that began falling on December 11 had reached a record high of 176 centimeters as of December 18. This video shows a blizzard hitting Kamikawa, the middle of the island of Hokkaido, on Friday, December 20.

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Japan: Winter Storm Brings Blizzard Conditions And Heavy Snow To Hokkaido 4

A winter storm moved through Hokkaido, the northernmost region of Japan, on Wednesday, December 11, causing blizzard conditions and bringing several inches of snow. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a Gale and Snow Advisory for a widespread area.

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Japan LDP leadership election

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, a candidate in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election, casts her 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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Trilateral meeting in N.Y.

(from L) Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae Yul pose for a photo during a meeting in New York on Sept. 23, 2024.

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Japanese boy stabbed in China dies

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa meets the press in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2024, after the death in the morning of a 10-year-old Japanese boy who was stabbed by a man the previous day while on his way to school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

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Japanese boy stabbed in China dies

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (C) meets the press in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2024, after the death in the morning of a 10-year-old Japanese boy who was stabbed by a man the previous day while on his way to school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

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Japanese boy stabbed in China dies

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa meets the press in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2024, after the death in the morning of a 10-year-old Japanese boy who was stabbed by a man the previous day while on his way to school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

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Japanese boy stabbed in China dies

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa meets the press in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2024, after the death in the morning of a 10-year-old Japanese boy who was stabbed by a man the previous day while on his way to school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

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Japan LDP leadership election

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, 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

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, 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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Debate for LDP presidential race

Candidates contesting the leadership race of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party -- (from L) economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, former Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, Digital Minister Taro Kono, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba and LDP Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi -- pose for a photo as they hold debate at Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Sept. 14, 2024, ahead of the Sept. 27 election.

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Debate for LDP presidential race

Candidates contesting the leadership race of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party -- (from L) economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, former Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, Digital Minister Taro Kono, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba and LDP Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi -- pose for a photo as they hold debate at Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Sept. 14, 2024, ahead of the Sept. 27 election.

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Japan LDP leadership election

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa 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

The nine candidates running in the upcoming leadership election of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party -- (from L) economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, former Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, Digital Minister Taro Kono, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba and the party's secretary general Toshimitsu Motegi -- pose for a photo ahead of a joint press conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 13.

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Japan LDP leadership election

The nine candidates running in the leadership election of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, to be held on Sept. 27, 2024 -- (front row, from L) economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, former Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, Digital Minister Taro Kono, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba and the party's secretary general Toshimitsu Motegi -- attend an event to deliver their policy speeches at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 12. Official campaigning for the election to choose the successor to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began the same day.

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Japan LDP leadership election

Combined photo shows the nine candidates running in the leadership election of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, (from top L) Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi and economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, (from middle L) former Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, (from bottom L) the party's secretary general Toshimitsu Motegi, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Digital Minister Taro Kono. Official campaigning for the Sept. 27, 2024, election to choose the successor to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began on Sept. 12.

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Japan LDP leadership election

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, 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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LDP leadership election

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa holds a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2024, announcing her candidacy in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election on Sept. 27.

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Japan-Australia foreign and defense ministers' meeting

(From L) Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong hold a joint press conference following their meeting in Queenscliff, in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, on Sept. 5, 2024.

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Japan-Australia foreign and defense ministers' meeting

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (L) and Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles hold a joint press conference following a meeting of their countries' foreign and defense ministers in Queenscliff, in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, on Sept. 5, 2024.

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Japan-Australia foreign and defense ministers' meeting

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (R) and Defense Minister Minoru Kihara holds a joint press conference with their Australian counterparts following their meeting in Queenscliff, in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, on Sept. 5, 2024.

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Japan-Australia foreign and defense ministers' meeting

(From L) Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, her Japanese counterpart Yoko Kamikawa, and Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles chat during a photo session for a meeting of their countries' foreign and defense ministers in Queenscliff, in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, on Sept. 5, 2024.

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Japan-Australia foreign and defense ministers' meeting

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (L) and Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles head to a photo session for a meeting of their countries' foreign and defense ministers in Queenscliff, in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, on Sept. 5, 2024.

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Japan-Australia foreign and defense ministers' meeting

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (far L) speaks during a meeting of foreign and defense ministers of Japan and Australia alongside Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara (2nd from L) in Queenscliff, in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, on Sept. 5, 2024.

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Japan-Australia foreign and defense ministers' meeting

Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara (2nd from L) speaks during a meeting of foreign and defense ministers of Japan and Australia alongside Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (far L) in Queenscliff, in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, on Sept. 5, 2024.

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TICAD meeting in Tokyo

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (R) attends the closing ceremony of the two-day minister-level Tokyo International Conference on African Development, known as TICAD, in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2024.

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TICAD meeting in Tokyo

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (C) meets the press following the closing of the two-day minister-level Tokyo International Conference on African Development, known as TICAD, in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2024.

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TICAD meeting in Tokyo

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa meets the press following the closing of the two-day minister-level Tokyo International Conference on African Development, known as TICAD, in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2024.

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TICAD meeting in Tokyo

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa declares the closing of the two-day minister-level Tokyo International Conference on African Development, known as TICAD, in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2024.

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TICAD meeting in Tokyo

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (front C) and other attendees for the two-day Tokyo International Conference on African Development, known as TICAD, pose for a photo during its opening ceremony in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2024.

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TICAD meeting in Tokyo

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (C) speaks during the opening ceremony of the two-day Tokyo International Conference on African Development, known as TICAD, in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2024.

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Japan Foreign Minister Kamikawa

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa speaks to reporters at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 23, 2024.

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Japan Foreign Minister Kamikawa

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa meets the press in New Delhi on Aug. 20, 2024.

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Japan-Vietnam talks

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (far R) attends a Japan-Vietnam Cooperation Committee meeting with her Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son (far L) in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2024.

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Japan-Vietnam talks

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (R) shakes hands with her Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son ahead of a Japan-Vietnam Cooperation Committee meeting in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2024.

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79th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima

(From L, back) Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa attend a meeting with atomic bomb survivor groups in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2024, the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city.

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Japan-India talks

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (R) shakes hands with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Tokyo on July 29, 2024.

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Japan And US Upgrade Military Ties - Tokyo

Handout photo shows Secretary Antony J. Blinken participates in the U.S.-Japan Foreign and Defense Ministerial (2+2) meeting with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko, and Japanese Defense Minister Kihara Minoru in Tokyo, Japan, July 28, 2024. US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, joined their Japanese counterparts, Yoko Kamikawa and Minoru Kihara, at the Japan-US Security Consultative Committee in Tokyo, known as “2+2” security talks, where they reaffirmed their bilateral alliance in the wake of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the November presidential race. Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan And US Upgrade Military Ties - Tokyo

Handout photo shows Secretary Antony J. Blinken participates in the U.S.-Japan Foreign and Defense Ministerial (2+2) meeting with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko, and Japanese Defense Minister Kihara Minoru in Tokyo, Japan, July 28, 2024. US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, joined their Japanese counterparts, Yoko Kamikawa and Minoru Kihara, at the Japan-US Security Consultative Committee in Tokyo, known as “2+2” security talks, where they reaffirmed their bilateral alliance in the wake of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the November presidential race. Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan And US Upgrade Military Ties - Tokyo

Handout photo shows Secretary Antony J. Blinken participates in the U.S.-Japan Extended Deterrence Ministerial meeting with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko, and Japanese Defense Minister Kihara Minoru in Tokyo, Japan, July 28, 2024. US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, joined their Japanese counterparts, Yoko Kamikawa and Minoru Kihara, at the Japan-US Security Consultative Committee in Tokyo, known as “2+2” security talks, where they reaffirmed their bilateral alliance in the wake of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the November presidential race. Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan And US Upgrade Military Ties - Tokyo

Handout photo shows Secretary Antony J. Blinken holds a joint press availability with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko, and Japanese Defense Minister Kihara Minoru in Tokyo, Japan, July 28, 2024. US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, joined their Japanese counterparts, Yoko Kamikawa and Minoru Kihara, at the Japan-US Security Consultative Committee in Tokyo, known as “2+2” security talks, where they reaffirmed their bilateral alliance in the wake of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the November presidential race. Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan And US Upgrade Military Ties - Tokyo

Handout photo shows Secretary Antony J. Blinken holds a joint press availability with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko, and Japanese Defense Minister Kihara Minoru in Tokyo, Japan, July 28, 2024. US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, joined their Japanese counterparts, Yoko Kamikawa and Minoru Kihara, at the Japan-US Security Consultative Committee in Tokyo, known as “2+2” security talks, where they reaffirmed their bilateral alliance in the wake of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the November presidential race. Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan And US Upgrade Military Ties - Tokyo

Handout photo shows Secretary Antony J. Blinken holds a joint press availability with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko, and Japanese Defense Minister Kihara Minoru in Tokyo, Japan, July 28, 2024. US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, joined their Japanese counterparts, Yoko Kamikawa and Minoru Kihara, at the Japan-US Security Consultative Committee in Tokyo, known as “2+2” security talks, where they reaffirmed their bilateral alliance in the wake of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the November presidential race. Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan And US Upgrade Military Ties - Tokyo

Handout photo shows Secretary Antony J. Blinken holds a joint press availability with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko, and Japanese Defense Minister Kihara Minoru in Tokyo, Japan, July 28, 2024. US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, joined their Japanese counterparts, Yoko Kamikawa and Minoru Kihara, at the Japan-US Security Consultative Committee in Tokyo, known as “2+2” security talks, where they reaffirmed their bilateral alliance in the wake of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the November presidential race. Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan And US Upgrade Military Ties - Tokyo

Handout photo shows Secretary Antony J. Blinken meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko in Tokyo, Japan, July 28, 2024. US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, joined their Japanese counterparts, Yoko Kamikawa and Minoru Kihara, at the Japan-US Security Consultative Committee in Tokyo, known as “2+2” security talks, where they reaffirmed their bilateral alliance in the wake of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the November presidential race. Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan And US Upgrade Military Ties - Tokyo

Handout photo shows Secretary Antony J. Blinken participates in the U.S.-Japan Foreign and Defense Ministerial (2+2) meeting with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko, and Japanese Defense Minister Kihara Minoru in Tokyo, Japan, July 28, 2024. US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, joined their Japanese counterparts, Yoko Kamikawa and Minoru Kihara, at the Japan-US Security Consultative Committee in Tokyo, known as “2+2” security talks, where they reaffirmed their bilateral alliance in the wake of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the November presidential race. Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Quad foreign ministers meeting

(From L) Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hold a joint press conference following a meeting of the four-way grouping known as the Quad in Tokyo on July 29, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Quad foreign ministers meeting

(From L) Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hold a joint press conference following a meeting of the four-way grouping known as the Quad in Tokyo on July 29, 2024. (Pool photo)