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Bird flu virus detected in Yamaguchi, 3rd case of winter

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Koya Nishikawa (C) speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 30, 2014, after a meeting of ministers related to a bird flu outbreak in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi. The prefectural government began culling about 37,000 chickens in the early morning of the same day at a poultry farm in the city of Nagato after bird flu was confirmed.

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Abe reshuffles Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Koya Nishikawa, newly appointed as minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2014.

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Mexican economy chief, LDP's TPP head meet on EPA

MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Mexican Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo (R) and Koya Nishikawa (L), head of the Trans-Pacific Partnership committee of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, hold talks in Mexico City on July 10, 2014.

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TPP talks in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Australian Trade and Investment Minister Andrew Robb (L) and Koya Nishikawa, a key Japanese ruling party lawmaker on the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, shake hands in Singapore on May 20, 2014.

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TPP talks in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Australian Trade and Investment Minister Andrew Robb (R) and Koya Nishikawa (L), a key Japanese ruling party lawmaker on the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, hold talks in Singapore on May 20, 2014.

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TPP talks in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser (L) and Koya Nishikawa, a key Japanese ruling party lawmaker on the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, greet each other before their talks in Singapore on May 20, 2014.

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LDP's TPP committee head Nishikawa in Hanoi

HANOI, Vietnam - Koya Nishikawa (R), a House of Representatives member of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and chairman of the LDP's Trans-Pacific Partnership committee, shakes hands with Vietnamese Industry and Trade Minister Vu Huy Hoang in Hanoi on April 29, 2014. Nishikawa told reporters after the meeting that the TPP negotiations are expected to near a conclusion at planned ministerial talks on May 19 and 20 in Singapore.

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Japan, Malaysia TPP talks

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia - Malaysian Trade Minister Mustapa Mohamad (L) and Koya Nishikawa, a House of Representatives member of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, shake hands before their talks in Putrajaya on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur on March 31, 2014. They agreed on the importance of the countries involved in stalled negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact, including the United States, exhibiting "flexibility" toward each others' positions in order to advance the talks.

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Japan, Australia free trade talks

CANBERRA, Australia - Koya Nishikawa (L), a lawmaker of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, shakes hands with Andrew Robb, Australia's trade and investment minister, in Canberra on March 17, 2014, ahead of their talks on bilateral free trade negotiations. Nishikawa heads the LDP committee on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations.

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Australian trade minister meets Japanese lawmaker on TPP

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Australian Trade and Investment Minister Andrew Robb (L) shakes hands with Koya Nishikawa, a Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker who heads the Japanese ruling party's committee on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade talks, in Singapore on Feb. 24, 2014.

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Farm minister Nishikawa resigns over funds scandals

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks with reporters at his office in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2015, after accepting the resignation of agriculture minister Koya Nishikawa. Nishikawa resigned to take the blame for several political funds scandals in which he has been embroiled, becoming the third Cabinet minister to step down since Abe returned to power in 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New agriculture minister Hayashi arrives at prime minister's office

New agriculture minister Yoshimasa Hayashi arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo for a Cabinet meeting on Feb. 24, 2015. He returned to the post after Koya Nishikawa resigned on Feb. 23 to take the blame for two political funds scandals in which he has been embroiled. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farm minister Nishikawa resigns over funds scandals

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks with reporters at his office in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2015, after accepting the resignation of agriculture minister Koya Nishikawa. Nishikawa resigned to take the blame for several political funds scandals in which he has been embroiled, becoming the third Cabinet minister to step down since Abe returned to power in 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farm minister Nishikawa resigns over funds scandals

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks with reporters at his office in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2015, after accepting the resignation of agriculture minister Koya Nishikawa. Nishikawa resigned to take the blame for several political funds scandals in which he has been embroiled, becoming the third Cabinet minister to step down since Abe returned to power in 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farm minister Nishikawa resigns over funds scandals

Agriculture minister Koya Nishikawa meets the press after submitting his letter of resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2015. Nishikawa resigned to take the blame for several political funds scandals in which he has been embroiled, becoming the third Cabinet minister to step down since Abe returned to power in 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farm minister Nishikawa resigns over funds scandals

Photo shows Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Yoshimasa Hayashi, who became farm minister on Feb. 23, 2015. Hayashi, who was farm minister between 2012 and 2014, returned to the post to succeed Koya Nishikawa, who resigned to take the blame for several political funds scandals in which he has been embroiled. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farm minister Nishikawa resigns over funds scandals

Agriculture minister Koya Nishikawa meets the press after submitting his letter of resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2015. Nishikawa resigned to take the blame for several political funds scandals in which he has been embroiled, becoming the third Cabinet minister to step down since Abe returned to power in 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farm minister Nishikawa resigns over funds scandals

Agriculture minister Koya Nishikawa meets the press after submitting his letter of resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2015. Nishikawa resigned to take the blame for several political funds scandals in which he has been embroiled, becoming the third Cabinet minister to step down since Abe returned to power in 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farm minister Nishikawa resigns over funds scandals

Agriculture minister Koya Nishikawa meets the press after submitting his letter of resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2015. Nishikawa resigned to take the blame for several political funds scandals in which he has been embroiled, becoming the third Cabinet minister to step down since Abe returned to power in 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farm minister Nishikawa resigns over funds scandals

Agriculture minister Koya Nishikawa meets the press after submitting his letter of resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2015. Nishikawa resigned to take the blame for several political funds scandals in which he has been embroiled, becoming the third Cabinet minister to step down since Abe returned to power in 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farm minister Nishikawa resigns over funds scandals

Agriculture minister Koya Nishikawa meets the press after submitting his letter of resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2015. Nishikawa resigned to take the blame for several political funds scandals in which he has been embroiled, becoming the third Cabinet minister to step down since Abe returned to power in 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sugar industry group donated 1 mil. yen to farm minister

Farm minister Koya Nishikawa attends a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Feb. 17, 2015. Nishikawa admitted the same day to receiving a 1 million yen donation from a company run by a sugar manufacturers' industry body but said the money has been returned. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sugar industry group donated 1 mil. yen to farm minister

Farm minister Koya Nishikawa answers reporters' questions at the parliament house in Tokyo on Feb. 17, 2015. Nishikawa admitted he received a 1 million yen donation from a company run by a sugar manufacturers' industry body, but said he has now returned the sum. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farm ministry denies returned donation was illegal

Farm minister Koya Nishikawa attends a press conference on Feb. 13, 2015, in Tokyo. Concerning a newspaper's report that a donation to the Liberal Democratic Party's Tochigi No. 2 constituency branch headed by him in September 2012 is highly likely to have been illegal, Nishikawa said he does not regard the donation, which he has already returned to a wood-processing company, as illegal. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Foreign envoys help promote Fukushima produce

Japanese farm minister Koya Nishikawa (3rd from R) and reconstruction minister Wataru Takeshita (C) are joined by the ambassadors to Japan of Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand as they sample agricultural products from Fukushima Prefecture at the northeastern Japan prefecture's specialty shop in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district on Jan. 27, 2015. The envoys visited the store to show their support for Fukushima, whose economy still suffers immensely as many consumers remain reluctant to buy its agricultural products out of concern over radioactive contamination from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese farm minister meets Vietnamese leader

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Koya Nishikawa (L) and President Truong Tan Sang of Vietnam meet in Hanoi on Jan. 21, 2015. Nishikawa asked for a resumption of imports of apples from Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bird flu virus detected in Yamaguchi, 3rd case of winter

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Koya Nishikawa (C) speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 30, 2014, after a meeting of ministers related to a bird flu outbreak in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi. The prefectural government began culling about 37,000 chickens in the early morning of the same day at a poultry farm in the city of Nagato after bird flu was confirmed. (Kyodo)

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Abe reshuffles Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Koya Nishikawa, newly appointed as minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Mexican economy chief, LDP's TPP head meet on EPA

MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Mexican Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo (R) and Koya Nishikawa (L), head of the Trans-Pacific Partnership committee of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, hold talks in Mexico City on July 10, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Cabinet adviser Nishikawa resigns following shady boating trip

Koya Nishikawa, special adviser to Japan's Cabinet, seen in this file photo, resigned on Dec. 8, 2020, following revelations that he went on a boating trip hosted by the former head of a major egg farm, who was involved in a separate bribery scandal.