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Japan lower house speaker in India

Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga (L) meets the press in New Delhi on May 5, 2025, following talks with Indian officials.

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New PM Dissolves Lower House Of Parliament - Tokyo

Fukushiro Nukaga (1st R, rear row), speaker of the lower house of Japan's parliament, speaks during a plenary session at the lower house, in Tokyo, Japan, October 9, 2024. The lower house of Japan's parliament was officially dissolved on Wednesday, setting the stage for the general election as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba seeks to secure his party's lower house majority. The general election is slated to be held on October 27, with campaigning set to begin on October 15. Photo by Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan's lower house dissolved for snap election

Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga reads out a rescript signed by the emperor to dissolve the lower house during its plenary session in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2024. With the dissolution, a general election will be held on Oct. 27.

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79th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) and House of Representatives Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga observe a moment of silence at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2024, the exact time of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city 78 years ago.

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No-confidence motion against Kishida's Cabinet

Diet affairs chief Jun Azumi (C, R) of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan submits a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet to House of Representatives Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga (C, L) at the parliament building in Tokyo on June 20, 2024.

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No-confidence motion against Kishida's Cabinet

Diet affairs chief Jun Azumi (C, R) of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan submits a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet to House of Representatives Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga (C, L) at the parliament building in Tokyo on June 20, 2024.

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Nukaga, Fukui at G-7 meeting in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (R) and Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui attend a Group of Seven meeting held at the Foreign Ministry's Mita Kaigisho conference hall in Tokyo on Feb. 9. (Pool photo)

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G-7 finance chiefs meet in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (4th from L, front row), his counterparts from the Group of Seven countries, the heads of G-7 central banks and the president of the European Central Bank pose for a photo during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry's Mita Kaigisho conference hall in Tokyo on Feb. 9.

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G-7 finance chiefs meet in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (4th from L) and his counterparts from the Group of Seven countries as well as the president of the European Central Bank pose for a photo during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry's Mita Kaigisho conference hall in Tokyo on Feb. 9.

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Nukaga, Paulson agree to cooperate closely on economy

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (R) meets with U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in Tokyo on Feb. 9 ahead of a meeting of Group of Seven financial chiefs. Nukaga and Paulson ''agreed to continue to cooperate closely and to maintain a good working relationship,'' the Japanese Finance Ministry said in a statement released after the bilateral talks. (Pool photo)

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New Finance Minister Nukaga versed in economic policy

TOKYO, Japan - New Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga speaks at a press conference on Aug. 27. Nukaga is a practiced hand at economic policy having served as economic and fiscal policy minister and head of the now-defunct Economic Planning Agency.

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Japan-S. Korea lawmaker group head addresses congress

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga, head of a South Korea-Japan parliamentarian group, addresses the group's joint congress in Seoul on Oct. 25, 2014.

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Japan's ex-finance chief to meet with S. Korean Pres. Park

SEOUL, South Koare - Former Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga arrives at Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 24, 2014. During a meeting with President Park Geun Hye, Nukaga, head of a South Korea-Japan parliamentarian group, is expected to convey Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's message that he wants to improve ties with Seoul.

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Japan lawmakers in China

BEIJING, China - Takeshi Noda (L), a senior politician who heads a delegation of lawmakers belonging to Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and former Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (R) head for talks with former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan (C) in Beijing on May 7, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Secrecy law

TOKYO, Japan - Opposition lawmakers approach Fukushiro Nukaga, chairman of a special committee in the lower house, in Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2013, after the committee approved controversial legislation to toughen penalties for leakers of state secrets.

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New S. Korea leader Park

SEOUL, South Korea - New South Korean President Park Geun Hye (C) holds talks with former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (L) and former Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (R) at the Blue House in Seoul on Feb. 26, 2013, a day after she assumed office.

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Abe's envoy Nukaga

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (L) and South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Kim Sung Hwan shake hands prior to holding talks in Seoul on Jan. 4, 2013. Nukaga is visiting South Korea as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's special envoy.

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Abe's envoy Nukaga

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (L) presents a letter from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to South Korea's President-elect Park Geun Hye in Seoul on Jan. 4, 2013. Nukaga is in the South Korean capital as Abe's special envoy. (Pool photo)

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Abe's envoy Nukaga

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (L), Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's special envoy, and South Korea's President-elect Park Geun Hye hold talks in Seoul on Jan. 4, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Abe's envoy Nukaga

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (L), a special envoy of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and South Korea's President-elect Park Geun Hye shake hands prior to their talks in Seoul on Jan. 4, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Abe's envoy Nukaga

SEOUL, South Korea - Protesters at Gimpo airport in Seoul demonstrate against a visit to South Korea by former Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga on Jan. 4, 2013. Nukaga was scheduled to hold talks with South Korean President-elect Park Geun Hye later that day as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's special envoy.

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Abe's envoy Nukaga

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga arrives at Gimpo airport in Seoul on Jan. 4, 2013. Nukaga was scheduled to hold talks with South Korean President-elect Park Geun Hye later that day as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's special envoy.

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Abe's envoy Nukaga

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga meets the press at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Jan. 4, 2013, before departing for South Korea. Nukaga was scheduled to hold talks with South Korean President-elect Park Geun Hye later that day as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's special envoy.

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Abe meets envoy on S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Former Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (L) leaves after a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) at Abe's home in Tokyo on Jan. 1, 2013. Abe instructed Nukaga, his special envoy, to tell South Korean President-elect Park Geun Hye that Japan sees its relations with South Korea as extremely vital. (Pool photo)

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Nukaga eyes double-digit sales tax in mid-2010s

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 11. He said he believes Japan's consumption tax rate should be raised in two or three stages from the current 5 percent to reach a double-digit level in the mid-2010s to finance ballooning social security costs to support aging baby boomers.

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G-8 vows vigilance against price hikes to secure stable growth

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese Finance minister Fukushiro Nukaga speaks at a news conference in Osaka June 14 after a two-day meeting of Group of Eight finance ministers.

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Nukaga meets with IMF chief ahead of G-8 gathering

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (R) meets with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Osaka on June 13 prior to the opening of the Group of Eight finance ministers' meeting. (Pool photo)

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G-8 finance ministers meet press prior to 2-day gathering

OSAKA, Japan - World Bank President Robert Zoellick (L), U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (2nd from L), Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (3rd from L) and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling hold a joint press conference in Osaka on June 13 prior to the opening of the Group of Eight finance ministers' meeting.

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Nukaga, Paulson meet before G-8 finance ministers' gathering

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (R) holds talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in Osaka on June 13 prior to the start of a two-day gathering of Group of Eight finance ministers. (Pool photo)

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Japan, N.Z. sign customs arrangement for safe, smooth trade

TOKYO, Japan - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark (L) and Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (R) observe the signing of an arrangement between the two countries' customs authorities to ensure safe, smooth trade, at the Japanese Finance Ministry in Tokyo on May 14.

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Japan, China agree to cooperate over dumpling food poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren (R) and his Japanese counterpart Fukushiro Nukaga (L) are in talks at the Ministry of Finance on Feb. 10. The two ministers agreed to cooperate on clarifying the cause and preventing a recurrence of the recent food-poisoning incidents in Japan involving Chinese-made frozen dumplings.

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Russia shows interest in investing in Japanese markets

TOKYO, Japan - Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin (L) and his Japanese counterpart Fukushiro Nukaga pose for a photo at the start of their talks at the Ministry of Finance on Feb. 10. Nukaga told reporters later, ''The Russian minister said the country wants to expand the scope of investment and that Japanese markets will be included.''

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Finance Minister Nukaga meets with Indonesian counterpart

TOKYO, Japan - Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani (L) and his Japanese counterpart Fukushiro Nukaga pose for a photo prior to their talks at the Ministry of Finance on Feb. 10.

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Japan, China agree to cooperate over dumpling food poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren (L) and his Japanese counterpart Fukushiro Nukaga pose for a photo prior to their talks at the Ministry of Finance on Feb. 10. The two ministers agreed to cooperate on clarifying the cause and preventing a recurrence of the recent food-poisoning incidents in Japan involving Chinese-made frozen dumplings.

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Nukaga vows continued fiscal reconstruction efforts

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga delivers the government's financial policy speech at the opening session of the regular Diet session on Jan. 18. He vowed that the government will continue its efforts to restore fiscal health by implementing tax reforms at an early date, including a hike in the consumption tax rate from the current 5 percent.

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MOF proposes 83 tril. yen budget

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga smiles during a press conference after proposing an 83,061.3 billion yen state budget for fiscal 2008 focusing on measures to revitalize regional economies and improve medical and education services.

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MOF proposes 83 tril. yen budget

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga arrives at the Diet building to attend an extra Cabinet session convened on Dec. 20 to approve an 895.4 billion yen supplementary budget for fiscal 2007. Earlier in the day, the Finance Ministry proposed a state budget for fiscal 2008 totaling 83,061.3 billion yen centering on measures to revitalize regional economies and improve medical and education services.

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FY 2008 budget to total 83.06 tril. yen, up for 2nd year

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga speaks during a news conference at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 19 about the ministry's draft budget for fiscal 2008.

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Plan to summon Nukaga nixed

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga answers questions from reporters at the ministry on Nov. 30 after the ruling and opposition camps agreed that a House of Councillors committee will hold off on an already endorsed plan to summon him on Dec. 3 over a collusion scandal.

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Ex-Pentagon official denies having dined with Nukaga in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Former U.S. Defense Department official James Auer speaks during a press conference Nov. 29 at the headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo. Auer again denied having dined in Tokyo last Dec. 4 with Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga who has been hit by allegations of having had cozy ties with an indicted defense equipment trader.

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Upper house panel to summon Moriya, Nukaga under oath

TOKYO, Japan - Opposition lawmakers of the House of Councillors Committee on Financial Affairs raise their hands on Nov. 27 to show their approval for summoning Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga and former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya next Monday as sworn witnesses over allegations of collusion on defense contracts while ruling coalition lawmakers are absent from the session.

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Nukaga asked thru Moriya to include Yamagata firm as bidders

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga speaks at a news conference at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 20. Nukaga denied an allegation that he asked the now-defunct Defense Facilities Administration Agency in 2000 to include a construction company based in Yamagata Prefecture as part of a group of invited bidders for a project to be put to tender by its regional bureau.

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Nukaga says he returned 2.2 mil. yen to defense supplier Yamada

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga is in a pensive mood at the House of Councillors Audit Committee on Nov. 19 during questioning about his relationships with scandal-hit defense equipment trader Yamada Corp. Nukaga said Yamada paid 2.2 million yen for his fundraising parties between 2002 and March this year but he has since returned all the money to the firm. Nukaga was defense chief from 1996 to 1998 and from September 2006 to July this year.

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Panel calls for maximum spending cuts in FY 2008 budget

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro (R), chairman of the Fiscal System Council, submits a recommendation to Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 19. The recommendation calls for ''maximum spending cuts'' in compiling the fiscal 2008 state budget in areas such as social security as part of efforts to put its debt-ridden finances in order.

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Ex-defense chiefs Kyuma, Nukaga dined by ex-defense firm exec: Moriya

TOKYO, Japan - Former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya asks for permission to answer a question as a sworn witness during a House of Councillors panel session on Nov. 15. Moriya said that former Defense Agency directors general Fumio Kyuma and Fukushiro Nukaga were dined by a former executive of a scandal-hit defense equipment trading firm.

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Ex-defense chiefs Kyuma, Nukaga dined by ex-defense firm exec: Moriya

TOKYO, Japan - Former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya looks through papers while being questioned at a House of Councillors panel as a sworn witness on Nov. 15. Moriya said that former Defense Agency directors general Fumio Kyuma and Fukushiro Nukaga were dined by a former executive of a scandal-hit defense equipment trading firm.

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Nukaga renamed finance minister

TOKYO, Japan - Fukushiro Nukaga, who was renamed as finance minister in the Cabinet of new Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 25.

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Nukaga, Inamine agree to launch forum on Futemma base relocation

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga (L) talks with Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine at the Okinawa prefectural government office in Naha on Aug. 18.

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Nukaga not to run in LDP presidential race

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga is surrounded by reporters in Tokyo on Aug. 11 after talking with senior lawmakers of a Liberal Democratic Party faction he belongs to. Nukaga decided not to run in the LDP presidential election in September.

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Nukaga discuses N. Korea issue with Yudhoyono

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Japanese Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga (L) and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pose for a photo prior to their talks in Jakarta on Aug. 9. They discussed bilateral and regional issues, including North Korea's recent missile tests, Japanese officials said.