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LDP to expel ex-minister Norota, recommends 26 to leave party

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Liberal Democratic Party member Mayumi Moriyama (R) presides over the party's discipline committee to discuss how to cope with party members who voted against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization bills in Diet in August.

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LDP expels 9 as punishment for voting against postal bills

TOKYO, Japan - Mayumi Moriyama, who chairs the Liberal Democratic Party's Party Ethics Committee, speaks at a press conference at the LDP Headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 21 on her panel's decision to expel nine current and former LDP lawmakers for voting against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization bills during the previous Diet session ended Aug. 13.

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(3)Tokyo meeting on human trafficking opens

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker (L) talks with Japanese Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary Shotaro Yati (C) as former Japanese Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama looks on at the beginning of a two-day international meeting on human trafficking in Asia at the United Nations University in Tokyo on June 23. (Pool photo)

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Nozawa appointed justice minister to replace Moriyama

TOKYO, Japan - Daizo Nozawa, a technocrat-turned-politician who was named as justice minister, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 22. Nozawa replaced Mayumi Moriyama in the reshuffled cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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Moriyama inspects Tokyo's Kabukicho

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (C), accompanied by her aides and plainclothesmen, inspects Kabukicho in Shinjuku, Tokyo's biggest entertainment quarters, on July 29.

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(1)Justice minister says watch on Pana Wave group to continue

VILLAGE OF IZUMI, Japan - Members of the white-robed doomsday group Pana Wave Laboratory take rest in the village of Izumi in Fukui Prefecture during their move from adjoining Gifu Prerecture on May 9. In Tokyo, Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama said that a watch will continue on the group, which has been moving around central Japan in a caravan of white motor vehicles.

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Opposition parties urge Moriyama to resign over prison case

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama listens to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda durikng a session of the House of Representatives Budget Committee on Feb. 19. Four opposition parties agreed earlier in the day to urge Moriyama to resign over what they allege as the ministry's cover-up of the death of a male inmate in December 2001 at Nagoya Prison.

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Diet debate on Koizumi policy speech begins

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama (front), president of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan, questions Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (back, R) on his policy speech in a plenary session of the House of Representatives on Oct. 21 with Koizumi, Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa (back, C) and Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama listening.

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Justice minister proposes introducing conspiracy charge

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama addresses a meeting of the Legislative Council, her advisory panel, on Sept. 3. She proposed revising the law on organized crime to enable investigative authorities to file charges against people who conspire to commit such crimes. The proposal is in line with the Japanese government's intention to ratify a treaty on international organized crimes, which obliges signatory nations to punish conspirators even if they do not commit actual crimes.

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(2)Diet OKs request to arrest Suzuki on bribery charge

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama bows in appreciation June 19 after the House of Representatives authorized public prosecutors to arrest lawmaker Muneo Suzuki on suspicion of bribery.

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Moriyama meets press after Osaka high prosecutor's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama holds a news conference at her ministry in Tokyo on April 22 after Tamaki Mitsui, head of the Osaka High Prosecutors Office's public security department, was arrested earlier in the day on suspicion of fraud and abuse of power concerning the sale of a condominium by auction.

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Japan, S. Korea sign extradition pact ahead of World Cup

SEOUL, South Korea - Visiting Japanese Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (L) and South Korean Justice Minister Song Jeong Ho shake hands at the South Korea's Justice Ministry in Seoul on April 8 after signing the bilateral criminal extradition treaty. The two countries plan to enforce the treaty ahead of the World Cup soccer finals, which they will co-host from late May to late June.

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Kamei calls on justice minister to suspend executions

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei (3rd from R), a former policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and seven other lawmakers belonging to a group opposing capital punishment urge Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (3rd from L) not to carry out any further death sentences.

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Koizumi smiles at opposition question in Diet session

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa and Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (from R to L) react with smiles to questions on government policies from an opposition lawmaker during a House of Councillors plenary session on Oct. 2.

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Justice minister visits Osaka elementary school

OSAKA, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (L) on July 18 visits Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, the site of the June 8 massacre where eight children were stabbed to death and 15 others injured. Moriyama made the visit to talk to the victims' parents amid growing calls for revisions to a law exempting mentally ill criminal suspects from criminal liability for their actions.

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Panel recommends judicial reform to Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - Koji Sato (R), chairman of the Judicial Reform Council, hands a report on his panel's recommendations to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on June 12. Seated at left is Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama.

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Korean A-bomb survivor asks gov't not to appeal ruling

TOKYO, Japan - Kwak Kwi Hun (2nd from R), 76, a Korean survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima who won what could be a landmark suit for overseas survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in 1945, asks Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (L) not to appeal the ruling. The Osaka District Court on June 1 ordered the Osaka prefectural government to pay compensation to Kwak for cutting off his medical allowance after he left Japan for home.

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Leprosy patients urge gov't not to appeal ruling

TOKYO, Japan - A representative (R) of leprosy patients suing the state for forcing them into isolation during treatment delivers a note to Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama on May 17, asking the Justice Ministry not to appeal a district court ruling May 11 that ordered the state to pay compensation.

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Ex-education minister Moriyama named justice minister

TOKYO, Japan - Former Education Minister Mayumi Moriyama arrives at the prime minister's official residence April 26 after being appointed new justice minister.

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Japan's 1st female Chief Cabinet Secretary Moriyama dies

Photo taken in January 2011 shows Mayumi Moriyama, Japan's first female chief Cabinet secretary. She died on Oct. 14, 2021, at the age of 93, the House of Representatives said.

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Kamei calls on justice minister to suspend executions

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei (3rd from R), a former policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and seven other lawmakers belonging to a group opposing capital punishment urge Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (3rd from L) not to carry out any further death sentences.

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LDP expels 9 as punishment for voting against postal bills

TOKYO, Japan - Mayumi Moriyama, who chairs the Liberal Democratic Party's Party Ethics Committee, speaks at a press conference at the LDP Headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 21 on her panel's decision to expel nine current and former LDP lawmakers for voting against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization bills during the previous Diet session ended Aug. 13. (Kyodo)

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LDP to expel ex-minister Norota, recommends 26 to leave party

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Liberal Democratic Party member Mayumi Moriyama (R) presides over the party's discipline committee to discuss how to cope with party members who voted against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization bills in Diet in August. (Kyodo)

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Diet debate on Koizumi policy speech begins

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama (front), president of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan, questions Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (back, R) on his policy speech in a plenary session of the House of Representatives on Oct. 21 with Koizumi, Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa (back, C) and Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama listening. (Kyodo)

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Nozawa appointed justice minister to replace Moriyama

TOKYO, Japan - Daizo Nozawa, a technocrat-turned-politician who was named as justice minister, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 22. Nozawa replaced Mayumi Moriyama in the reshuffled cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. (Kyodo)

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Japan, S. Korea sign extradition pact ahead of World Cup

SEOUL, South Korea - Visiting Japanese Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (L) and South Korean Justice Minister Song Jeong Ho shake hands at the South Korea's Justice Ministry in Seoul on April 8 after signing the bilateral criminal extradition treaty. The two countries plan to enforce the treaty ahead of the World Cup soccer finals, which they will co-host from late May to late June.

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(2)Diet OKs request to arrest Suzuki on bribery charge

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama bows in appreciation June 19 after the House of Representatives authorized public prosecutors to arrest lawmaker Muneo Suzuki on suspicion of bribery.

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(3)Tokyo meeting on human trafficking opens

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker (L) talks with Japanese Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary Shotaro Yati (C) as former Japanese Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama looks on at the beginning of a two-day international meeting on human trafficking in Asia at the United Nations University in Tokyo on June 23. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Moriyama inspects Tokyo's Kabukicho

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (C), accompanied by her aides and plainclothesmen, inspects Kabukicho in Shinjuku, Tokyo's biggest entertainment quarters, on July 29. (Kyodo)

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(1)Justice minister says watch on Pana Wave group to continue

VILLAGE OF IZUMI, Japan - Members of the white-robed doomsday group Pana Wave Laboratory take rest in the village of Izumi in Fukui Prefecture during their move from adjoining Gifu Prerecture on May 9. In Tokyo, Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama said that a watch will continue on the group, which has been moving around central Japan in a caravan of white motor vehicles. (Kyodo)

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Opposition parties urge Moriyama to resign over prison case

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama listens to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda durikng a session of the House of Representatives Budget Committee on Feb. 19. Four opposition parties agreed earlier in the day to urge Moriyama to resign over what they allege as the ministry's cover-up of the death of a male inmate in December 2001 at Nagoya Prison. (Kyodo)

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Justice minister proposes introducing conspiracy charge

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama addresses a meeting of the Legislative Council, her advisory panel, on Sept. 3. She proposed revising the law on organized crime to enable investigative authorities to file charges against people who conspire to commit such crimes. The proposal is in line with the Japanese government's intention to ratify a treaty on international organized crimes, which obliges signatory nations to punish conspirators even if they do not commit actual crimes. (Kyodo)

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Moriyama meets press after Osaka high prosecutor's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama holds a news conference at her ministry in Tokyo on April 22 after Tamaki Mitsui, head of the Osaka High Prosecutors Office's public security department, was arrested earlier in the day on suspicion of fraud and abuse of power concerning the sale of a condominium by auction.

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Koizumi smiles at opposition question in Diet session

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa and Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (from R to L) react with smiles to questions on government policies from an opposition lawmaker during a House of Councillors plenary session on Oct. 2.

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Justice minister visits Osaka elementary school

OSAKA, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (L) on July 18 visits Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, the site of the June 8 massacre where eight children were stabbed to death and 15 others injured. Moriyama made the visit to talk to the victims' parents amid growing calls for revisions to a law exempting mentally ill criminal suspects from criminal liability for their actions.

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Panel recommends judicial reform to Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - Koji Sato (R), chairman of the Judicial Reform Council, hands a report on his panel's recommendations to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on June 12. Seated at left is Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama.

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Leprosy patients urge gov't not to appeal ruling

TOKYO, Japan - A representative (R) of leprosy patients suing the state for forcing them into isolation during treatment delivers a note to Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama on May 17, asking the Justice Ministry not to appeal a district court ruling May 11 that ordered the state to pay compensation.

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Ex-education minister Moriyama named justice minister

TOKYO, Japan - Former Education Minister Mayumi Moriyama arrives at the prime minister's official residence April 26 after being appointed new justice minister.