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Ex-Komeito party head in Beijing

Natsuo Yamaguchi (C), former leader of Japan's junior ruling coalition partner, the Komeito party, poses for a photo with Liu Jianchao (4th from R), head of the Chinese Communist Party's International Department, and another former Komeito head, Keiichi Ishii, (4th from L) in Beijing on April 30, 2025.

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Ex-Komeito party head in Beijing

Natsuo Yamaguchi (R), former leader of Japan's junior ruling coalition partner, the Komeito party, meets the press following his meeting with Liu Jianchao, head of the Chinese ruling Communist Party's International Department, in Beijing on April 30, 2025. Seen on the left is another former Komeito head Keiichi Ishii.

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Head of Japan's junior ruling coalition partner to resign

Keiichi Ishii (far R), chief of Japan's junior ruling coalition partner the Komeito party, speaks during a board meeting of the party in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2024. Ishii, who only assumed the post a month earlier, expressed his intention to resign after losing his seat in the Oct. 27 House of Representatives election.

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Head of Japan's junior ruling coalition partner to resign

Keiichi Ishii, chief of Japan's junior ruling coalition partner the Komeito party, speaks during a board meeting of the party in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2024. Ishii, who only assumed the post a month earlier, expressed his intention to resign after losing his seat in the Oct. 27 House of Representatives election.

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Ruling coalition partner Komeito's leader Ishii

Keiichi Ishii, leader of the Komeito party, the junior partner in Japan's Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling coalition, attends a press conference at his party's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2024, a day after the ruling bloc lost its lower house majority and Ishii himself lost his seat in a general election.

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Ruling coalition partner Komeito's leader Ishii

Keiichi Ishii, leader of the Komeito party, the junior partner in Japan's Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling coalition, attends a press conference at his party's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2024, a day after the ruling bloc lost its lower house majority and Ishii himself lost his seat in a general election.

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Ruling coalition partner Komeito's leader Ishii

Keiichi Ishii, leader of the Komeito party, the junior partner in Japan's Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling coalition, attends a press conference at his party's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2024, a day after the ruling bloc lost its lower house majority and Ishii himself lost his seat in a general election.

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Ruling coalition partner Komeito's leader Ishii

Keiichi Ishii, leader of the Komeito party, the junior partner in Japan's Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling coalition, attends a press conference at his party's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2024, a day after the ruling bloc lost its lower house majority in a general election.

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Ruling coalition partner Komeito's leader Ishii

Keiichi Ishii, leader of the Komeito party, the junior partner in Japan's Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling coalition, attends a press conference at his party's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2024, a day after the ruling bloc lost its lower house majority in a general election.

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Ruling coalition partner Komeito's leader Ishii

Keiichi Ishii, leader of the Komeito party, the junior partner in Japan's Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling coalition, attends a press conference at his party's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2024, a day after the ruling bloc lost its lower house majority in a general election.

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General election in Japan

Keiichi Ishii, leader of the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a media interview at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2024, following a general election.

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General election in Japan

Keiichi Ishii, leader of the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a media interview at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2024, following a general election.

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General election in Japan

Keiichi Ishii, leader of the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is pictured before a media interview at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2024, following a general election.

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General election in Japan

Keiichi Ishii, leader of the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is pictured before a media interview at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2024, following a general election.

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Campaigning for Japan general election

Keiichi Ishii, leader of the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, makes a stump speech in Kashiwa in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Oct. 27 general election.

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Komeito party leader Ishii

Keiichi Ishii, leader of the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives an interview at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2024.

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Komeito party leader Ishii

Keiichi Ishii, leader of the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives an interview at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2024.

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Campaigning begins for Japan general election

Keiichi Ishii, secretary of Japan's junior ruling coalition partner Komeito, makes a stump speech in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2024, as campaigning for the Oct. 27 general election began the same day.

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Japan lower house election

Keiichi Ishii, secretary general of Japan's junior ruling coalition partner Komeito, makes a stump speech in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2024, a day after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba dissolved the lower house for a general election.

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Japan ruling LDP, coalition partner chiefs

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 28 Kyodo - Shigeru Ishiba, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party head, and Keiichi Ishii, secretary of Japan's junior ruling coalition partner Komeito, shake hands at the Komeito party's convention in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Komeito chief Ishii

Keiichi Ishii, secretary of Japan's junior ruling coalition partner Komeito, speaks during a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2024.

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Japan ruling LDP, coalition partner chiefs

Shigeru Ishiba (L), Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party head, and Keiichi Ishii, secretary of Japan's junior ruling coalition partner Komeito, shake hands at the Komeito party's convention in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2024.

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Komeito's new chief Ishii

Keiichi Ishii gives a speech after being formally endorsed as the new secretary of Japan's junior ruling coalition partner Komeito at the party's convention in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2024.

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Komeito's new chief Ishii

Keiichi Ishii gives a speech after being formally endorsed as the new secretary of Japan's junior ruling coalition partner Komeito at the party's convention in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2024.

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Ishii to be new leader of Komeito party

Keiichi Ishii, secretary general of the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2024. He will be elevated unopposed to the presidency of Komeito later in the month after no other candidate entered the race to replace incumbent Natsuo Yamaguchi.

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Ishii to be new leader of Komeito party

Keiichi Ishii, secretary general of the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2024. He will be elevated unopposed to the presidency of Komeito later in the month after no other candidate entered the race to replace incumbent Natsuo Yamaguchi.

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Ishii to be new leader of Komeito party

Keiichi Ishii, secretary general of the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2024. He will be elevated unopposed to the presidency of Komeito later in the month after no other candidate entered the race to replace incumbent Natsuo Yamaguchi.

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Ishii to be new leader of Komeito party

Undated file photo shows Keiichi Ishii, secretary general of the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party. He will be elevated unopposed to the presidency of Komeito in late September 2024 after no other candidate entered the race to replace incumbent Natsuo Yamaguchi.

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Land minister invalidates Okinawa decision

TOKYO, Oct. 27 Kyodo - Defense Minister Gen Nakatani attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2015, after Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii invalidated Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga's revocation of his predecessor's approval of landfill work for the relocation of a key U.S. military base within the prefecture. Nakatani said he will soon prepare for the resumption of the work.

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Gov't finds fuel economy of M'bishi cars worse than advertised

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Tetsuro Aikawa (L) and Chairman Osamu Masuko (2nd from L) bow in apology as they speaks to reporters at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in Tokyo on June 21, 2016, after meeting with transport minister Keiichi Ishii. The transport ministry said it has found that the fuel economy of four minicar models produced by the automaker was up to 16 percent worse than their catalog figures. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't finds fuel economy of M'bishi cars worse than advertised

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Chairman Osamu Masuko (C) receives instructions from transport minister Keiichi Ishii (L) at the ministry in Tokyo on June 21, 2016, with MMC President Tetsuro Aikawa bowing by his side. The transport ministry said it has found that the fuel economy of four minicar models produced by the automaker was up to 16 percent worse than their catalog figures. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan working on tourism-boosting measures

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, alongside tourism minister Keiichi Ishii, speaks in a meeting with tourism officials in Tokyo on June 16, 2016. Suga asked relevant ministries to include tourism-related spending in their budget requests as the country aims to have 40 million foreign visitors by the time it hosts the Olympics in 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, U.S. agree to launch 10 daytime flights at Haneda airport

Japan's Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii speaks to reporters about an aviation agreement between Japan and the United States at the ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2016. The two countries agreed to allocate 10 slots for daytime flights linking Tokyo's Haneda airport and the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan had record 19 million foreign tourists in 2015

Keiichi Ishii, Japan's minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism, briefs reporters on a rise in spending by foreign tourists at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2016. The number of foreign tourists reached a record 19.73 million and their spending totaled 3.47 trillion yen, eclipsing the previous highs of 13.41 million and 2.02 trillion yen in 2014, respectively, Ishii said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Transport minister inspects tour bus involved in deadly accident

Transport minister Keiichi Ishii (L on front) inspects on Jan. 16, 2016, at Karuizawa Police Station in the central Japan town of Karuizawa the mangled bus, which crashed the previous day, killing 14 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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14 people dead, 27 injured in ski tour bus accident

Japanese transport minister Keiichi Ishii stands to speak in a meeting in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2016, after 14 people died and 27 were injured in a tour bus crash in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan gov't files suit over Okinawa landfill approval revocation

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks at a news conference at the prefectural government building in Naha, the capital of Japan's southernmost island prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2015, after land minister Keiichi Ishii filed a lawsuit demanding Onaga retract his decision to block landfill work for the relocation of a key U.S. military air base within Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan gov't files suit over Okinawa landfill approval revocation

Local people rally in protest in front of a gate to Camp Schwab, a U.S. Marine Corps camp in the city of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2015 after land minister Keiichi Ishii filed a lawsuit demanding Onaga retract his decision to block landfill work for the relocation of a key U.S. military air base within Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protesters oppose government move for base relocation

Protesters stage a sit-in in front of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Schwab in Nago in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa on Nov. 17, 2015, when land minister Keiichi Ishii filed a lawsuit demanding Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga to retract his decision to block landfill work for the relocation of a key U.S. military air base. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan gov't files suit over Okinawa landfill approval revocation

Land minister Keiichi Ishii attends a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 17, 2015, after filing a lawsuit demanding the Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga to retract his decision to block landfill work for a relocation of a U.S. military base within Japan's southernmost island prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan gov't files suit over Okinawa landfill approval revocation

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga meets with reporters in Naha, the capital of Japan's southernmost prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2015, after land minister Keiichi Ishii filed a lawsuit demanding Onaga retract his decision to block landfill work for the relocation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan gov't files suit over Okinawa landfill approval revocation

File photo taken in August 2015 shows the Henoko coastal area of Nago in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, the planned site for the relocation of a U.S. airbase from another city of Okinawa. Tensions over the base relocation issue have intensified, as land minister Keiichi Ishii filed a lawsuit on Nov. 17 demanding Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga retract his decision to block landfill work for the relocation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protesters oppose government move for base relocation

Protesters stage a sit-in in front of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Schwab in Nago in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa on Nov. 17, 2015, when land minister Keiichi Ishii filed a lawsuit demanding Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga to retract his decision to block landfill work for the relocation of a key U.S. military air base. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, U.S. to set up conference to exchange train technology info

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx (L) and his Japanese counterpart Keiichi Ishii shake hands in Tokyo on Nov. 9, 2015, after signing a joint statement to promote cooperation in the broader transport sector. The two countries agreed to set up a bilateral conference to exchange information about advanced train technology. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa Gov. sends letter to land minister

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga attends a press conference at the prefectural office in Naha, the capital of Japan's southernmost prefecture, on Nov. 6, 2015. Onaga said he has sent a letter to land minister Keiichi Ishii to assert that his decision to revoke approval for landfill work to relocate a U.S. military facility within the prefecture is legitimate. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan transport minister promotes shinkansen system in Malaysia

Japan's Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii (R) and Syed Hamid Albar, chairman of Malaysia's Land Public Transport Commission, shake hands before their talks in Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 5, 2015. In the meeting, Ishii pitched Japan's shinkansen bullet train system to Malaysia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panel on piling work data falsification holds 1st meeting

Land minister Keiichi Ishii addresses on Nov. 4, 2015, in Tokyo the first meeting of an expert panel tasked with deliberating measures to prevent falsification of piling work data, which has occurred with several buildings across Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Land minister invalidates Okinawa decision

Defense Minister Gen Nakatani attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2015, after Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii invalidated Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga's revocation of his predecessor's approval of landfill work for the relocation of a key U.S. military base within the prefecture. Nakatani said he will soon prepare for the resumption of the work. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Land minister invalidates Okinawa decision

Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii announces at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2015, that he has invalidated Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga's revocation of his predecessor's approval of landfill work for the relocation of a key U.S. military base within the prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Land minister invalidates Okinawa decision

Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii announces at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2015, that he has invalidated Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga's revocation of his predecessor's approval of landfill work for the relocation of a key U.S. military base within the prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo