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Minister apologizes for remark on Fukushima nuclear soil storage

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L bowing) apologizes on June 23, 2014, to Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (R front) as reporters look on at the Fukushima prefectural offices for a recent remark suggesting the issue of where to store contaminated soil from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is a matter of money.

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Minister apologizes for remark on Fukushima nuclear soil storage

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (bowing) apologizes on June 23, 2014, to Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato as reporters look on at the Fukushima prefectural offices for a recent remark suggesting the issue of where to store contaminated soil from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is a matter of money.

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Minister apologizes for remark on Fukushima nuclear soil storage

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato receives an apology from Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara at the Fukushima prefectural offices on June 23, 2014, for a recent remark suggesting the issue of where to store contaminated soil from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is a matter of money.

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Minister apologizes for remark on Fukushima nuclear soil storage

AIZUWAKAMATSU, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara apologizes on June 23, 2014, in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, for a remark suggesting the issue of where to store contaminated soil from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is a matter of money. He bowed to Okuma Mayor Toshitsuna Watanabe, whose town is one of the candidate sites for the construction of temporary storage facilities for the waste.

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Gov't to buy land around damaged Fukushima plant for waste storage

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L, standing) speaks at a meeting with Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (3rd from R) and four other local town mayors in Fukushima on Dec. 14, 2013. Ishihara asked the local leaders to accept a government plan to acquire about 19 square kilometers of land around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant and to build facilities for the long-term storage of radioactive and other waste there.

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Nobuteru Ishihara, newly appointed LDP policy chief

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuteru Ishihara speaks to the press at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo after he was appointed chairman of LDP Policy Research Council.

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Abe appoints 3 top LDP executives

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd L) poses with three newly appointed top Liberal Democratic Party executives at the party headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 27. From left to right: Taro Aso, LDP secretary general; Abe; Toshihiro Nikai, chairman of the LDP General Council; and Nobuteru Ishihara, chairman of the LDP Policy Research Council.

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Abe appoints top LDP executives

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) poses with five newly appointed senior Liberal Democratic Party executives at the party headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 27. From left to right: Hidehisa Otsuji, head of the LDP House of Councillors caucus; Taro Aso, LDP secretary general; Abe; Toshihiro Nikai, chairman of the LDP General Council; Nobuteru Ishihara, chairman of the LDP Policy Research Council; and Asaaki Yamazaki, secretary general of the LDP House of Councillors caucus.

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Abe names 3 top LDP executive posts

TOKYO, Japan - Lineup of three top Liberal Democratic Party executives named by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Aug. 27. From left to right: Outgoing Foreign Minister Taro Aso as LDP secretary general; Toshihiro Nikai as chairman of the LDP General Council; and Nobuteru Ishihara as chairman of the LDP Policy Research Council

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FSA to monitor effects of negative interest rate on banks: Aso

TOKYO, Feb. 2 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C), Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) and Finance Minister Taro Aso attend a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2016. Aso later told a press conference that the government will monitor the effects of the Bank of Japan's negative interest policy on financial institutions.

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Fukushima gov. tells ministers of acceptance of radioactive waste

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (C) along with Reconstruction Minister Takumi Nemoto (L) meets with reporters in the northeastern Japanese city of Fukushima on Sept. 1, 2014, after meeting with Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato on a plan to store radioactive waste from decontamination following the March 2011 nuclear disaster for up to 30 years in the prefecture.

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Ishihara visits candidate town for radioactive waste storage

IWAKI, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) greets attendees at a town meeting of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 26, 2014. Futaba is one of two candidate towns for the temporary storage of contaminated soil accumulated in cleanup work for the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Gov't offers 301 bil. yen for 30-yr nuclear soil storage

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato meets the press in Koriyama in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima on Aug. 8, 2014, after meeting with Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara. The government offered 301 billion yen in subsidies to the prefecture in exchange for storage of contaminated soil amassing from radiation cleanup work following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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Gov't offers 301 bil. yen for 30-yr nuclear soil storage

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (R) and Reconstruction Minister Takumi Nemoto meet the press in Koriyama in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima on Aug. 8, 2014. The government offered 301 billion yen in subsidies to the prefecture in exchange for storage of contaminated soil amassing from radiation cleanup work following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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Gov't offers 301 bil. yen for 30-yr nuclear soil storage

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (3rd from L) meets with Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (3rd from R) on Aug. 8, 2014, in Koriyama in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima. The government offered 301 billion yen in subsidies to the prefecture in exchange for storage of contaminated soil amassing from radiation cleanup work following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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Miyagi accepts probe to find site for nuke waste disposal

TOKYO, Japan - Miyagi Governor Yoshihiro Murai (L) hands over a document to Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2014, to accept government-funded research in the prefecture to find a candidate site for the final disposal of some of the radiation-tainted waste from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Ishihara seeks cooperation for nuke waste disposal site

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (standing) urges the mayors of municipalities in Tochigi Prefecture to cooperate for a government plan to set up a final disposal site in Shioya town in the prefecture for radioactive waste generated in the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster at a meeting in the prefectural capital of Utsunomiya, north of Tokyo, on July 31, 2014.

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Environment minister splashes water in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (3rd from R) takes part in an event to splash water in front of JR Tokyo Station to ease the summer heat on July 25, 2014.

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Okuma mayor wants contaminated waste stored outside pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsuna Watanabe (2nd from R), mayor of Okuma Town and head of the Futaba area's town and village coalition in Fukushima Prefecture, asks Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) to build outside the prefecture final disposal facilities for waste generated from decontamination work following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant at the Environment Ministry in Tokyo on June 26, 2014.

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Ishihara retracts controversial comments

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara answers a question at an upper house environment committee meeting in Tokyo on June 19, 2014. Ishihara retracted his controversial remarks suggesting payments to local authorities would ultimately settle the issue of where to store nuclear-contaminated soil from crisis-hit Fukushima Prefecture, after opposition parties demanded his resignation.

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Ishihara on comments on contaminated soil storage

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara apologizes at a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on June 17, 2014, for his comments suggesting that money would ultimately decide whether local authorities accept the central government's proposal for building facilities to store radioactive contaminated soil accumulated after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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Ishihara on comments on contaminated soil storage

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara holds a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on June 17, 2014. At the press conference, Ishihara apologized for his comments suggesting that money would ultimately decide whether local authorities accept the central government's proposal for building facilities to store radioactive contaminated soil accumulated after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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Environment Minister Ishihara

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) speaks to reporters at the ministry in Tokyo on June 16, 2014. Ishihara suggested earlier in the day that money would ultimately decide whether local authorities accept the state's proposal for building facilities in Fukushima Prefecture to store contaminated soil after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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Trilateral environment meeting

DAEGU, South Korea - (From L) Chinese Vice Environmental Protection Minister Li Ganjie, South Korean Environment Minister Yoon Seong Kyu and Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara hold a joint press conference after a two-day tripartite environment ministers' meeting in Daegu, South Korea, on April 29, 2014. They issued a joint statement at the end of the meeting with a pledge to jointly combat air pollutants, including fine particulate matter known as PM2.5.

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Trilateral environment meeting

DAEGU, South Korea - (From front) Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara, South Korean Environment Minister Yoon Seong Kyu and Chinese Vice Environmental Protection Minister Li Ganjie hold a joint press conference after a two-day tripartite environment ministers' meeting in Daegu, South Korea, on April 29, 2014. They issued a joint statement at the end of the meeting with a pledge to jointly combat air pollutants, including fine particulate matter known as PM2.5.

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Trilateral environment meeting

DAEGU, South Korea - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara offers silent prayers for the victims of South Korea's sunken ferry Sewol at the start of a tripartite environment ministers' meeting also involving China and South Korea in Daegu, South Korea, on April 29, 2014, the second day of the two-day meeting.

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Trilateral environment meeting

DAEGU, South Korea - (From L) South Korean Environment Minister Yoon Seong Kyu, Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara and Chinese Vice Environmental Protection Minister Li Ganjie join hands at a tripartite environment ministers' meeting in Daegu, South Korea, on April 29, 2014. They issued a joint statement the same day at the end of the two-day meeting with a pledge to jointly combat air pollutants, including fine particulate matter known as PM2.5.

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Trilateral environment meeting

DAEGU, South Korea - Combination photo shows (from L) Chinese Vice Environmental Protection Minister Li Ganjie, Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara and South Korean Environment Minister Yoon Seong Kyu at a tripartite environment ministers' meeting in Daegu, South Korea, on April 29, 2014. They issued a joint statement the same day at the end of the two-day meeting with a pledge to jointly combat air pollutants, including fine particulate matter known as PM2.5.

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Trilateral environment meeting

DAEGU, South Korea - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara speaks at a tripartite environment ministers' meeting also involving China and South Korea in Daegu, South Korea, on April 29, 2014. They issued a joint statement the same day at the end of the two-day meeting with a pledge to jointly combat air pollutants, including fine particulate matter known as PM2.5.

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Trilateral environment meeting

DAEGU, South Korea - (From L) Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara, Chinese Vice Environmental Protection Minister Li Ganjie and South Korean Environment Minister Yoon Seong Kyu join hands after a banquet for a trilateral environment ministers' meeting in Daegu, South Korea, on April 28, 2014.

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Japan environment minister in S. Korea

DAEGU, South Korea - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) and South Korean Environment Minister Yoon Seong Kyu leave after meeting in Daegu, South Korea, on April 28, 2014. They were in Daegu for a tripartite environment ministers' meeting also involving China.

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Japan environment minister in S. Korea

DAEGU, South Korea - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) and South Korean Environment Minister Yoon Seong Kyu (R) meet in Daegu, South Korea, on April 28, 2014. They were in Daegu for a tripartite environment ministers' meeting also involving China.

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Japan environment minister in S. Korea

DAEGU, South Korea - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) and South Korean Environment Minister Yoon Seong Kyu shake hands in Daegu, South Korea, on April 28, 2014. They were in Daegu for a tripartite environment ministers' meeting also involving China.

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Iran's Vice President Ebtekar speaks in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Massoumeh Ebtekar, Iran's vice president and head of the Department of Environment, holds a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on April 2, 2014. Earlier in the day, she met with Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara.

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Japan gov't briefs plan for radioactive waste storage

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (standing), accompanied by Reconstruction Minister Takumi Nemoto (fore L), explains a new plan for the interim storage of radioactive waste from crippled nuclear reactors in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, to Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (2nd from R) and others at the Fukushima prefectural government office on March 27, 2014.

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Int'l climate change meeting

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara speaks during a general meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N.-sponsored scientific body, in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on March 25, 2014, the opening day of the five-day session.

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Okinawa's Kerama Islands

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in August 2013 shows the Kerama Islands in Okinawa Prefecture. Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara said on Dec. 24, 2013, that the Kerama Islands will be designated as a national park in March 2014.

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Okinawa's Kerama Islands

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in August 2013 shows the Kerama Islands in Okinawa Prefecture. Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara said on Dec. 24, 2013, that the Kerama Islands will be designated as a national park in March 2014.

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Okinawa's Kerama Islands

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in August 2013 shows the Kerama Islands in Okinawa Prefecture. Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara said on Dec. 24, 2013, that the Kerama Islands will be designated as a national park in March 2014.

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Okinawa's Kerama Islands

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in August 2013 shows the Kerama Islands in Okinawa Prefecture. Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara said on Dec. 24, 2013, that the Kerama Islands will be designated as a national park in March 2014.

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COP19 in Warsaw

WARSAW, Poland - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara speaks at a ministerial meeting of the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP19) to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Warsaw, Poland, on Nov. 19, 2013.

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Japan sets new greenhouse gas emissions reduction target

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 2013, on a new greenhouse gas emission reduction target. The Japanese government decided the same day to aim at a 3.8 percent reduction from fiscal 2005 in its greenhouse gas emissions target for fiscal 2020, assuming the country's nuclear power plants remain offline. The new target represents an increase of about 3 percent from the Kyoto Protocol base year of fiscal 1990.

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IAEA report

TOKYO, Japan - Juan Carlos Lentijo (R), director of the International Atomic Energy Agency Division of Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology, hands a report to Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2013. The report said the Japanese government should communicate well with the public that reducing annual individual radiation exposure to 1 millisievert in areas contaminated by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis is a "long-term goal."

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Minamata Convention

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara signs the landmark "Minamata Convention on Mercury" after chairing an international conference to adopt the treaty in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 10, 2013. Delegates from across the world adopted the pact to regulate the use and trade of mercury, named after a Japanese city where industrial emissions of the toxic substance caused a poisoning disease affecting thousands of people.

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Minamata Convention

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) signs the landmark "Minamata Convention on Mercury" after chairing an international conference to adopt the treaty in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 10, 2013. Delegates from across the world adopted the pact to regulate the use and trade of mercury, named after a Japanese city where industrial emissions of the toxic substance caused a poisoning disease affecting thousands of people.

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Minamata Convention

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (C) serves as president of an international conference organized by the U.N. Environment Program in Kumamoto City on Oct. 10, 2013. Delegates from across the world adopted "the Minamata Convention on Mercury," an international treaty to regulate the use and trade of mercury, at the conference later in the day.

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Minamata Convention

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara speaks at an international conference organized by the U.N. Environment Program in Kumamoto City on Oct. 10, 2013. Delegates from across the world adopted "the Minamata Convention on Mercury," an international treaty to regulate the use and trade of mercury, at the conference later in the day.

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Ministers in casual wear

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L back), Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (R) and other ministers attend a Cabinet meeting wearing "kariyushi" -- an aloha shirt-like clothing item for summertime in Okinawa -- at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 4, 2013, in a bid to give a push to the government's "Super Cool Biz" campaign. The campaign, launched the previous day for this year, is intended to promote energy conservation in the workplace by having air conditioners set at 28 C and encouraging employees to dress more casually.

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Japan, China, S. Korea environment meeting

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - (From L) South Korean Environment Minister Yoon Seong Kyu, Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara and China's vice minister for environmental protection Li Ganjie join hands after signing a joint statement in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on May 6, 2013.

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Japan, China, S. Korea environment meeting

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - (From L) South Korean Environment Minister Yoon Seong Kyu, Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara and China's vice minister for environmental protection Li Ganjie hold a joint press conference on May 6, 2013, after a two-day meeting in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.