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G7 financial meeting in Banff

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato holds a press conference, following a three-day meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven countries in the Canadian mountain resort town of Banff on May 22, 2025.

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G7 financial meeting in Banff

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato (L) and Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda hold a press conference, following a three-day meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven countries in the Canadian mountain resort town of Banff on May 22, 2025.

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G7 finance meeting in Banff

(from L, front row) Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda, Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pose for a photo at the outset of the second day of a three-day meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven countries in the Canadian mountain resort town of Banff on May 21, 2025.

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G-7 financial meeting

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato holds a press conference in Banff, Canada, on May 21, 2025, after bilateral talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the sideline of a meeting of Group of Seven member states' finance ministers and central bank governors.

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CORRECTED: G7 financial meeting

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato (C, L) and Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda (C, R) attend the second day of three-day meeting of the Group of Seven member states' finance ministers and central bank governors in Banff, Canada, on May 21, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan-Pacific islands finance meeting

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato (C) attends a meeting with finance ministers of Pacific island countries in Milan, Italy, on May 5, 2025.

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ASEAN-plus-3 finance meeting in Milan

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato holds a press conference following a meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus China, Japan, and South Korea in Milan, Italy, on May 4, 2025.

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ASEAN-plus-3 finance meeting in Milan

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato (C) attends a meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus China, Japan, and South Korea in Milan, Italy, on May 4, 2025.

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Japan finance minister, BOJ governor in Washington

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato (R) and Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attend a press conference in Washington on April 24, 2025.

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G20 finance meeting in Washington

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato meets the press in Washington on April 23, 2025, after the first day of a two-day meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors.

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Japan Finance Minister Kato in parliament

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato speaks during a House of Councillors plenary session in Tokyo on March 12, 2025.

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Japan Finance Minister Kato in parliament

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato speaks during a House of Councillors plenary session in Tokyo on March 12, 2025.

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Japan Finance Minister Kato in parliament

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato speaks during a House of Councillors plenary session in Tokyo on March 12, 2025.

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Japanese Finance Minister Kato at parliament

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato speaks at a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on March 4, 2025.

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Japanese Finance Minister Kato

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato speaks at a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2025.

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Japanese finance minister in parliament

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato speaks during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Feb. 14, 2025.

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Japanese Finance Minister Kato

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 14, 2025.

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Japan financial minister and Vietnam PM

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato (L) shakes hands with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh as they hold talks in Hanoi on Jan. 8, 2025.

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Year's first trading day at Tokyo Stock Exchange

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 6 Kyodo - A ceremony to mark the first trading day of the year is held at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 6, 2025. (Kyodo)

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2025 Tokyo Stock Exchange Grand Opening

Tokyo Stock Exchange Grand Opening Ceremony for the year 2025. Photo shows (front right) Katsunobu Kato, Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Financial Services, addressing the crowd.=January 6,2025,Chuo-ku, Tokyo

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2025 Tokyo Stock Exchange Grand Opening

Tokyo Stock Exchange Grand Opening Ceremony for the year 2025. Photo shows Katsunobu Kato, Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Financial Services, striking the bell.=January 6,2025,Chuo-ku, Tokyo

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Year's first trading day at Tokyo Stock Exchange

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato rings the bell during a ceremony to mark the first trading day of the year at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 6, 2025.

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Parliamentary session in Japan

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato speaks during a House of Councillors plenary session in Tokyo on Dec. 20, 2024.

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Japan gov't OKs 13.9 tril. yen extra budget

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2024, after the government approved a 13.9 trillion yen ($92.6 billion) supplementary budget for the fiscal year through March.

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Japan gov't OKs 13.9 tril. yen extra budget

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato holds a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2024, after the government approved a 13.9 trillion yen ($92.6 billion) supplementary budget for the fiscal year through March.

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G20 finance meeting

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato (C) and Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda (L) attend a press conference in Washington on Oct. 24, 2024, following a Group of 20 finance meeting.

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Japan finance chiefs after G20 meeting

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda (L) and Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato attend a press conference in Washington on Oct. 24, 2024, after a two-day meeting of finance chiefs from the Group of 20 economies.

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Japan's new finance minister Kato

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato gives an interview at the ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2024.

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Finance minister holds talks with BOJ head

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato meets the press in Tokyo on Oct. 3, 2024, after holding talks with Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda and Ryosei Akazawa, minister in charge of economic revitalization.

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Japan's new finance minister Kato

Katsunobu Kato, Japan's new finance minister, speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2024.

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Lineup of Japan PM Ishiba's Cabinet

Katsunobu Kato, who is set to become finance minister in the Cabinet of new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, arrives at the premier's office in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2024, before his attestation in a ceremony at the Imperial Palace.

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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 LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, 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 Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, 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

Former Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato 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

Former Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, 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

Former Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato attends a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2024, announcing his candidacy in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election on Sept. 27.

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LDP leadership election

Former Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato attends a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2024, announcing his candidacy in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election on Sept. 27.

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

Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Katsunobu Kato speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 27, 2023, after the government formally decided to downgrade the legal status of the novel coronavirus to a level on par with seasonal influenza on May 8.

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

Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Katsunobu Kato speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 27, 2023, after the government formally decided to downgrade the legal status of the novel coronavirus to a level on par with seasonal influenza on May 8.

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

Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Katsunobu Kato speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 27, 2023, after the government formally decided to downgrade the legal status of the novel coronavirus to a level on par with seasonal influenza on May 8.

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Japan health minister tries robot designed for patients

Japanese health minister Katsunobu Kato sits in a robot developed to help patients move as he visits Keio University Hospital in Tokyo on July 24, 2023.

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Japan health minister tries robot designed for patients

Japanese health minister Katsunobu Kato sits in a robot developed to help patients move as he visits Keio University Hospital in Tokyo on July 24, 2023.

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Memorial service for Japan's war dead

Japanese Princess Kako attends a memorial service at the Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo on May 29, 2023, to commemorate unidentified Japanese who died overseas during World War II. Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Katsunobu Kato is pictured on the left.