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Event marking 50th anniv. of 1964 Tokyo Olympics starts

TOKYO, Japan - Current and retired athletes pose on the opening day of a weeklong event in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2014, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Japanese capital. From L: 2010 London Olympics middleweight boxing gold medalist Ryota Murata, Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda, artistic gymnastics legend Takashi Ono and 1992 Barcelona Paralympics swimming silver medalist Junichi Kawai.

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U.S. deputy defense chief Work

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work (far L) holds talks with Japanese Senior Vice Defense Minister Ryota Takeda (far R) at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2014.

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U.S. deputy defense chief Work

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work (L) shakes hands with Japanese Senior Vice Defense Minister Ryota Takeda ahead of their talks at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2014.

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Setouchi Town on Amami to accept GSDF unit

AMAMI, Japan - Katsuomi Fusa (2nd from R), mayor of Setouchi Town on Amami-Oshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, tells Parliamentary Senior Vice Minister of Defense Ryota Takeda (R in near row) of his decision to accept the deployment of a Japanese Ground Self-Defense unit to the area during a meeting at the town office on Aug. 12, 2014.

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Japan vice defense minister visits Eurosatory

PARIS, France - Japan's Parliamentary Senior Vice Minister of Defense Ryota Takeda (R) holds a rubber gun at the Japanese pavilion at the Eurosatory defense and security exhibition in the suburbs of Paris on June 16, 2014.

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International defense fair

PARIS, France - Japanese Parliamentary Senior Vice Minister of Defense Ryota Takeda is pictured at the Japanese pavilion during his visit to the Eurosatory defense fair in Paris on June 16, 2014. Twelve Japanese companies are exhibiting mainly civilian products at the four-day fair that started the same day, the first time Japanese companies are participating in an international defense exhibition.

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Miyako island candidate site for JGSDF troop deployment

NAHA, Japan - Senior Defense Vice Minister Ryota Takeda (R) shakes hands with Mayor Toshihiko Shimoji of Miyako, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, at the latter's office on June 12, 2014, after talks on the possible deployment of Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force troops in the Okinawa archipelago to strengthen regional security. Takeda cited Miyako island as one of the candidate sites to host JGSDF troops.

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Kennedy visits Yokota base

TOKYO, Japan - New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (C) is greeted as she visits the headquarters of Japan's Air Defense Command at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2013. Japanese Senior Vice Defense Minister Ryota Takeda can be seen to the left.

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Japanese communications minister Takeda

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda speaks at a House of Councillors Budget Committee session in Tokyo on March 19, 2021, wearing a mask amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan PM Suga

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (R) and Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda attend a House of Councillors Budget Committee session in Tokyo on March 19, 2021, wearing masks amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Panel to look into hospitality scandal in Japan

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda (back) speaks on March 17, 2021, at the first meeting in Tokyo of a third-party panel set up to look into a wining and dining scandal that involved senior bureaucrats of the ministry and companies that they supervise.

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Panel to look into hospitality scandal in Japan

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda speaks on March 17, 2021, at the first meeting in Tokyo of a third-party panel set up to look into a wining and dining scandal that involved senior bureaucrats of the ministry and companies that they supervise.

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Hospitality scandal drags on in Japan

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda meets the press in Tokyo on March 16, 2021, following the resignation of a former vice minister for policy coordination at the ministry over a wining-and-dining scandal involving Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.

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Hospitality scandal drags on in Japan

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda (R) meets the press in Tokyo on March 16, 2021, following the resignation of a former vice minister for policy coordination at the ministry over a wining-and-dining scandal involving Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.

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Hospitality scandal drags on in Japan

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda meets the press in Tokyo on March 16, 2021, following the resignation of a former vice minister for policy coordination at the ministry over a wining-and-dining scandal involving Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.

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Hospitality scandal drags on in Japan

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda (R) meets the press in Tokyo on March 16, 2021, following the resignation of a former vice minister for policy coordination at the ministry over a wining-and-dining scandal involving Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.

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Japanese communications minister Takeda

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda speaks at a House of Councillors Budget Committee session in Tokyo on March 12, 2021, wearing a mask amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan elite bureaucrats punished over scandal involving Suga's son

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda bows in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2021. He reprimanded 11 officials for ethics code violations after they were treated to expensive meals by officials of a broadcasting company, including the eldest son of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Japan elite bureaucrats punished over scandal involving Suga's son

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda meets the press in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2021. He reprimanded 11 officials for ethics code violations after they were treated to expensive meals by officials of a broadcasting company, including the eldest son of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Japan elite bureaucrats punished over scandal involving Suga's son

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda meets the press in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2021. He reprimanded 11 officials for ethics code violations after they were treated to expensive meals by officials of a broadcasting company, including the eldest son of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Japan elite bureaucrats punished over scandal involving Suga's son

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda meets the press in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2021. He reprimanded 11 officials for ethics code violations after they were treated to expensive meals by officials of a broadcasting company, including the eldest son of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Japanese communications minster Takeda

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2021, over a scandal in which senior communications ministry officials were treated to expensive meals by officials of a broadcasting company, including the eldest son of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Japanese communications minster Takeda

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2021, over a scandal in which senior communications ministry officials were treated to expensive meals by officials of a broadcasting company, including the eldest son of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Japanese communications minster Takeda

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2021, over a scandal in which senior communications ministry officials were treated to expensive meals by officials of a broadcasting company, including the eldest son of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Japan elite bureaucrats punished over scandal involving Suga's son

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda meets the press in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2021. He reprimanded 11 officials for ethics code violations after they were treated to expensive meals by officials of a broadcasting company, including the eldest son of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Japanese communications minister Takeda

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda speaks to reporters after a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on April 9, 2021.

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Japanese communications minister Takeda

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda speaks to reporters after a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on April 9, 2021.

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Japanese communications minister Takeda

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda speaks to reporters after a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on April 9, 2021.

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Event marking 50th anniv. of 1964 Tokyo Olympics starts

TOKYO, Japan - Current and retired athletes pose on the opening day of a weeklong event in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2014, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Japanese capital. From L: 2010 London Olympics middleweight boxing gold medalist Ryota Murata, Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda, artistic gymnastics legend Takashi Ono and 1992 Barcelona Paralympics swimming silver medalist Junichi Kawai. (Kyodo)

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U.S. deputy defense chief Work

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work (far L) holds talks with Japanese Senior Vice Defense Minister Ryota Takeda (far R) at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2014. (Kyodo)

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International defense fair

PARIS, France - Japanese Parliamentary Senior Vice Minister of Defense Ryota Takeda is pictured at the Japanese pavilion during his visit to the Eurosatory defense fair in Paris on June 16, 2014. Twelve Japanese companies are exhibiting mainly civilian products at the four-day fair that started the same day, the first time Japanese companies are participating in an international defense exhibition. (Kyodo)

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Revision bill over retirement age

National Public Safety Commission Chairman Ryota Takeda attends a Cabinet committee meeting of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on May 13, 2020, about a revision bill that would extend the retirement age for prosecutors. He said the bill has no connection with an extension to the retirement of Hiromu Kurokawa, chief of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, who is widely believed to be favored by the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-India 5G cooperation

Ryota Takeda, Japan's minister of internal affairs and communications, shows a memorandum he signed in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2021, to strengthen cooperation with India on information and communications technologies, including the development of 5G wireless networks.

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Year-end Jumbo lottery draw in Tokyo

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda attends the year-end Jumbo lottery draw in Tokyo on Dec. 31, 2020, with up to 1 billion yen ($9.7 million) in prize money for winners.

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Japan communications minister Takeda

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2020.

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Japan communications minister, digital reform minister

Ryota Takeda (L), Japan's internal affairs and communications minister, and Takuya Hirai, minister in charge of digital reform, attend a Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2020, wearing face masks amid continued worries over the novel coronavirus.

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Japanese internal affairs minister Takeda

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda gives an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 23, 2020, wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Japanese internal affairs minister Takeda

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda gives an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 23, 2020, wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Japanese internal affairs minister Takeda

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda gives an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 23, 2020, wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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New Japan PM Suga's Cabinet

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020, after the launch of new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's Cabinet.

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Members of Japan PM Suga's Cabinet

Combined file photo shows (from L) Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso, and Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda. Suga formed his Cabinet in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020.

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Japan's new Cabinet under PM Suga

Ryota Takeda enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020, after being named internal affairs and communications minister in the Cabinet of Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Japan's new Cabinet under PM Suga

Ryota Takeda enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020, after being named internal affairs and communications minister in the Cabinet of Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Japan's disaster management minister

Ryota Takeda (front), Japan's minister in charge of disaster management, arrives at the prime minister's office for a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on July 7, 2020. The death toll from torrential rain in the Kyushu southwestern Japan region has risen to at least 50.

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Aftermath of torrential rain in southwestern Japan

Ryota Takeda (C facing camera), Japan's minister in charge of disaster management, and Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima (top L) visit the Kuma River in the flood-ravaged city of Hitoyoshi in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 5, 2020. The river overflowed and caused extensive flooding the previous day.

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Japan enacts law with tougher penalties for road rage incidents

Japanese National Public Safety Commission chairman Ryota Takeda bows after a law to impose harsher penalties for road rage incidents was enacted at a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on June 2, 2020. The revised road traffic law will also oblige elderly drivers aged 75 or older with records of traffic offenses to pass a driving test when renewing their license. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Revision bill over retirement age

A Cabinet committee meeting of the House of Representatives is held in Tokyo on May 13, 2020, to discuss a revision bill that would extend the retirement age for prosecutors. National Public Safety Commission Chairman Ryota Takeda said the bill has no connection with an extension to the retirement of Hiromu Kurokawa, chief of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, who is widely believed to be favored by the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Revision bill over retirement age

National Public Safety Commission Chairman Ryota Takeda raises his hand to speak during a Cabinet committee meeting of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on May 13, 2020, about a revision bill that would extend the retirement age for prosecutors. He said the bill has no connection with an extension to the retirement of Hiromu Kurokawa, chief of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, who is widely believed to be favored by the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe's Cabinet reshuffle

Newly appointed Japanese Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission Ryota Takeda attends a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo after a Cabinet reshuffle on Sept. 11, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe's Cabinet reshuffle

Ryota Takeda, newly appointed chairman of Japan's National Public Safety Commission, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2019. Takeda was also appointed as minister for disaster management in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's major Cabinet reshuffle the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo