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Friendship house on Russian-held island converted into lodging facility

Photo taken on July 24, 2023, shows a sports bar in a Japan-donated friendship facility on Russian-held Kunashiri Island off Hokkaido, northern Japan. The so-called Muneo House, named after Japanese lawmaker Muneo Suzuki due to his involvement in the construction project, was converted into a commercial facility after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and is currently being used as a lodging facility rather than a center for mutual exchanges as initially agreed by Japan and Russia.

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Rebirth of Iitate discussed in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Muneo Kanno (2nd from L) of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, exchanges opinions with participants at a meeting held at the University of Tokyo's campus in Bunkyo Ward on May 25, 2014, to discuss the current situation and the future of the village. Iitate is a village affected by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant disaster.

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Japan general election

SAPPORO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, head of the New Party Daichi, answers reporters' questions in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Dec. 4, 2012, after official campaigning began for the Dec. 16, 2012, general election. Suzuki cannot engage in election campaigns because his civil rights have been suspended following his conviction for bribery.

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Japan general election

KITAMI, Japan - Kenko Matsuki, acting leader of the New Party Daichi, makes a stump speech in Kitami, Hokkaido, on Dec. 4, 2012, after official campaigning began for the Dec. 16, 2012, general election. Party leader Muneo Suzuki cannot engage in election campaigns because his civil rights have been suspended following his conviction for bribery.

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Japan general election

KITAMI, Japan - Kenko Matsuki, acting leader of the New Party Daichi, makes a stump speech in Kitami, Hokkaido, on Dec. 4, 2012, after official campaigning began for the Dec. 16, 2012, general election. Party leader Muneo Suzuki cannot engage in election campaigns because his civil rights have been suspended following his conviction for bribery.

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Japan general election

TOKYO, Japan - Leaders of Japan's major political parties join hands before a debate at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 2012, ahead of the Dec. 16, 2012, general election. From L are Shozaburo Jimi of the People's New Party, Mizuho Fukushima of the Social Democratic Party, Kazuo Shii of the Japanese Communist Party, Natsuo Yamaguchi of the New Komeito party, Shinzo Abe of the Liberal Democratic Party, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of the Democratic Party of Japan, Yukiko Kada of Nippon Mirai no To (Japan Future Party), Shintaro Ishihara of the Japan Restoration Party, Yoshimi Watanabe of Your Party, Muneo Suzuki of the New Party Daichi and Yoichi Masuzoe of the New Renaissance Party.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki released on parole

TOKYO, Japan - Former House of Representatives member Muneo Suzuki (L) shakes hands with Ichiro Ozawa, former leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, during a party in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2011, held to celebrate his release earlier in the day on parole from a prison in Tochigi Prefecture. Suzuki was imprisoned in December 2010 for bribery and other offenses.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki released on parole

TOKYO, Japan - Former House of Representatives member Muneo Suzuki holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2011, following his release earlier in the day on parole from a prison in Tochigi Prefecture. He was imprisoned in December 2010 for bribery and other offenses.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki released on parole

TOKYO, Japan - Former House of Representatives member Muneo Suzuki (R) is released on parole from a prison in Tochigi Prefecture on Dec. 6, 2011, after being imprisoned in December 2010 for bribery and other offenses.

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Fallen lawmaker Suzuki enters jail

TOKYO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, an outspoken politician convicted of crimes including bribery, waves to supporters as he arrives at the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office on Dec. 6, 2010. The former House of Representatives member, who has protested his innocence since being charged in 2002, was incarcerated in the Tokyo Detention House the same day.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki before jailing

TOKYO, Japan - Former House of Representatives lawmaker Muneo Suzuki (L), leader of the New Party Daichi, pays homage at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2010, before his expected incarceration for bribery and other crimes.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki prior to imprisonment

KUSHIRO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, a former Japanese House of Representatives lawmaker, cries during a gathering in his constituency Kushiro, Hokkaido, on Dec. 4, 2010, after talking about his upcoming imprisonment. Suzuki was convicted of four charges including bribery.

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Lawmaker Suzuki loses seat in parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, a seasoned House of Representatives lawmaker, speaks to reporters in Obihiro, Hokkaido on Sept. 16, 2010, after the Supreme Court turned down his complaint over its recent decision to reject his appeal against his conviction on four counts including bribery. Suzuki has lost his seat in parliament following the court decision.

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DPJ's partners lodge opposition to Futemma reclamation option

URUMA, Japan - Muneo Suzuki (2nd form L), chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, takes a look at waters off the Katsuren Peninsula in the city of Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, the prospective candidate site for a planned relocation of the U.S. Marines' Futemma Air Station, with other members of the committee on March 31, 2010.

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Prime Minister Hatoyama talks with ex-Soviet President Gorbachev

TOKYO, Japan - Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (L), accompanied by House of Representatives member Muneo Suzuki, speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 7, 2009, after talks with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.

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Ainu candidate Tahara set to lose in election

SAPPORO, Japan - Kaori Tahara (L), an indigenous Ainu woman candidate backed by the local opposition New Party Daichi, speaks to reporters in Sapporo on July 29 after her defeat in the day's House of Councillors election appears certain. To her right is Muneo Suzuki, a member of the House of Representatives who heads the party.

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Japan lawmaker raps gov't over Russia's shooting of Japan boat

TOKYO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, an outspoken lawmaker from Hokkaido, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Aug. 24. He criticized the Japanese government for what he sees as its inappropriate handling of an incident last week in which Russian authorities shot at and seized a Japanese fishing boat leaving one of the crew members dead in waters off Hokkaido.

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New parliamentarians step into lower house after election

TOKYO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, a former Liberal Democratic Party member, returns to the House of Representatives on Sept. 21, despite facing a bribery trial, as a member of the New Party Daichi to attend a special Diet session after the Sept. 11 general election.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki to make comeback to lower house

SAPPORO, Japan - Scandal-tainted former lawmaker Muneo Suzuki celebrates Sept. 11 in Sapporo as he is certain to regain his parliamentary seat in the day's House of Representatives election. Suzuki ran in the election in the proportional representation block in Hokkaido from his newly launched New Party Daichi, based in Sapporo.

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Party leaders make campaign speech

NAMBORO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, leader of New Party Daichi, addresses voters in the Hokkaido town of Namboro on Sept. 4.

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Party leaders on the stumping

OBIRA, Japan - New Party Daichi leader Muneo Suzuki waves at voters during his stumping tour in the Hokkaido town of Obira on Sept. 3.

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Suzuki begins election campaigning

SAPPORO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, a former Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker convicted of bribery who now heads Shinto Daichi (new party good earth), stumps in Sapporo, Hokkaido on Aug. 30, the first day of official campaigning for the Sept. 11 general election.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki launches new party in Hokkaido

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Muneo Suzuki (C), a former Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker, smiles during a ceremony launching a new political party, Shinto Daichi (new party big earth), Aug. 18 in an effort to take a House of Representatives seat in the Sept. 11 general election.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki launches new party in Hokkaido

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, a former lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a ceremony to launch a new political party, Shinto Daichi (new party big earth), Aug. 18 in an effort to take a House of Representatives seat in the Sept. 11 general election.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki launches new party in Hokkaido

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Muneo Suzuki (R), a former lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party, greets supporters during a ceremony to launch a new political party, Shinto Daichi (new party big earth), Aug. 18 in an effort to take a House of Representatives seat in the Sept. 11 general election.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki loses in upper house election

SAPPORO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, a former House of Representatives member on trial on bribery and other charges, meets reporters in Sapporo on July 11 after he failed to win in the House of Councillors election.

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(10)Campaigning for upper house election starts

TOKYO, Japan - Former lawmaker Muneo Suzuki, on trial for bribery and other charges, waves as he leaves his election office to campaign for the July 11 House of Councillors election.

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Suzuki's Congolese aide sues gov't over passport claim

TOKYO, Japan - John Muwete Muluaka, a Congolese man who was a secretary to former lawmaker Muneo Suzuki, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 19 after filing a lawsuit demanding the Japanese government pay him 10 million yen in compensation for defaming him by saying he was the holder of a forged passport.

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Suzuki to run in upper house election despite bribery trial

TOKYO, Japan - Former lawmaker Muneo Suzuki (file photo), on trial for bribery and other charges, has decided to run in the House of Councillors election this summer, sources close to him said April 19.

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Japan resumes aid to Russian-held islands

NEMURO, Japan - Japan resumed providing humanitarian aid to the residents of Russian-held islands off Hokkaido it claims on Jan. 20. A ship carrying 9.4 million yen worth of supplies prepared by a Japanese group departed from Nemuro, Hokkaido, for the islands the same day. The assistance was halted in January 2001 due to its link to a scandal involving Japanese lawmaker Muneo Suzuki.

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Suzuki not to run in election

KUSHIRO, Japan - Lawmaker Muneo Suzuki (L), on trial for bribery and other charges, speaks to reporters in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Oct. 18 with folk singer Chiharu Matsuyama at his side. He said he will not run in the Nov. 9 general election.

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Bullet sent to ex-lawmaker Suzuki's Tokyo office

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a building housing the office of former lawmaker Muneo Suzuki in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Police said Oct. 20 that a letter containing a rifle bullet was sent Oct. 19 to the office, together with a message calling him a ''traitor.'' The message was signed from ''Kenkoku Giyugun Kokuzoku Seibatsutai'' which roughly means ''nation-building volunteers corps to conquer traitors.''

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Suzuki pleads not guilty to bribery, perjury

TOKYO, Japan - People line up in front of the Tokyo District Court on Nov. 11 to obtain admission tickets to attend the trial of House of Representatives member Muneo Suzuki, who is charged with bribery, perjury and falsification of political funds reports. Suzuki pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.

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Diet panel approves perjury complaint against lawmaker Suzuki

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the House of Representatives Budget Committee stand up Sept. 5 to show their approval of a measure to file a perjury complaint with prosecutors against scandal-tainted lawmaker Muneo Suzuki over testimony he made to the committee in March.

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House passes motion calling for Suzuki resignation

TOKYO, Japan - The House of Representatives in a plenary session June 21 passes a resolution urging disgraced lawmaker Muneo Suzuki to resign. It is unclear whether the nonbinding resolution will push Suzuki, who was arrested June 19 on suspicion of bribery, to quit as lawmaker.

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Lower house passes motion calling for Suzuki's resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the House of Representatives stand up at a plenary session in the Diet building in Tokyo on June 21 to vote for a resolution urging lawmaker Muneo Suzuki give up his seat in the lower chamber. All parties in the ruling and opposition camps voted for the resolution.

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Prosecutors arrest Suzuki on bribery charge

TOKYO, Japan - A car believed to be carrying House of Representative member Muneo Suzuki, arrested on suspicion of accepting 5 million yen in bribes from Yamarin, a timber company in Hokkaido, enters the Tokyo Detention House on June 19.

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

TOKYO, Japan - The House of Representatives meeting in a plenary session June 19 authorizes public prosecutors to arrest lawmaker Muneo Suzuki on suspicion of bribery. Seated second from right is Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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

TOKYO, Japan - Lawmaker Muneo Suzuki walks to a car outside his residence in Tokyo on June 19 en route to the Diet, which later approved a request by public prosecutors to arrest him on suspicion of accepting bribes.

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Diet panel backs Suzuki arrest

TOKYO, Japan - The House of Representatives Steering Committee is in session on June 19. The committee later agreed to allow public prosecutors to arrest lawmaker Muneo Suzuki on suspicion of bribery.

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Suzuki denies bribery allegations in Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, a member of the House of Representatives, leaves the Diet building in Tokyo on June 18 after denying bribery allegations at the lower house steering committee. Prosecutors allege Suzuki accepted 5 million yen in bribes from Yamarin, a Hokkaido lumber firm.

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Lower house panel hears bribe-taking allegations facing Suzuki

TOKYO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki (C), a member of the House of Representatives, heads for the lower house steering committee in the Diet in Tokyo on June 18 to respond to prosecutors' allegations that he accepted 5 million yen in bribes from Yamarin, a lumber firm in Hokkaido.

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Lower house steering committee discusses Suzuki issue

TOKYO, Japan - Kunio Hatoyama (C), chairman of the House of Representatives steering committee, heads to the committee's board meeting to hold discussions over a request for an arrest warrant for lawmaker Muneo Suzuki. Suzuki is suspected of having accepted a 5 million yen bribe from Hokkaido lumber firm Yamarin in August 1998 in exchange for trying to secure favorable Forestry Agency treatment.

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Prosecutors raid lawmaker Suzuki's office, residence

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters surround the home of House of Representatives member Muneo Suzuki in Tokyo's Minato Ward on May 23 following a news that prosecutors raided his Diet office and private residence in connection with a scandal involving his official secretary, who has been indicted on charges of violating the Political Funds Control Law.

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U.S. concerned over info leak to Russia through Japan diplomat

TOKYO, Japan - Masaru Sato (L), a Russian affairs expert at the Foreign Ministry, and lawmaker Muneo Suzuki (R) are seen together with Russian officials in a photo taken on Oct. 29, 2000 on the Russian-held Kunashiri Island, east of Hokkaido. The United States is concerned about possible leaks of U.S. information to Russia through Sato, who was arrested for alleged fund fraud on May 14.

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(2)Lower house panel rejects motion on Suzuki

TOKYO, Japan - Kunio Hatoyama, chairman of the House of Representatives Steering Committee, speaks to the media May 14 after voting to reject an opposition motion calling for a vote to be taken in the full lower house to have lawmaker Muneo Suzuki quit the Diet. The vote in the 25-member committee was evenly divided and committee chairman Kunio Hatoyama (seated at far end of the table) voted to reject the motion.

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(1)Lower house panel rejects motion on Suzuki

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the House of Representatives Steering Committee vote May 14 on an opposition motion calling for a vote to be taken in the full lower house to have lawmaker Muneo Suzuki quit the Diet. The vote in the 25-member committee was evenly divided and committee chairman Kunio Hatoyama (seated at far end of the table) voted to reject the motion.

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Diet panel votes down Suzuki perjury complaint motion

TOKYO, Japan - Opposition members of the House of Representatives Budget Committee stand up in the Diet on May 10 to vote for a motion to file a criminal complaint of perjury against lower house member Muneo Suzuki. The motion was defeated by the three ruling coalition parties.

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Pressure increases on scandal-tainted Suzuki to quit Diet

TOKYO, Japan - The secretaries general of the three coalition parties -- the Liberal Democratic Party's Taku Yamasaki (L), the New Komeito Party's Tetsuzo Fuyushia (C), and the New Conservative Party's Toshihiro Nikai -- discuss an opposition demand May 7 in the Diet that House of Representative member Muneo Suzuki again be summoned to the Diet as a sworn witness in connection with a scandal involving his former aide.