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U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin diagnosed with prostate cancer

STORY: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin diagnosed with prostate cancer SHOOTING TIME: Earlier footage DATELINE: Jan. 10, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:47 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin 2. various of aerial view of the Pentagon STORYLINE: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was diagnosed with prostate cancer in December and underwent a minimally invasive procedure, Walter Reed National Military Center officials said in a statement on Tuesday. The latest announcement came one day after the White House and the Pentagon both said that they would investigate why President Joe Biden and other high-ranking officials were not informed immediately about the defense secretary's hospitalization and left in the dark for several days. The cancer was discovered after a routine prostate screening, Walter Reed officials said. On Dec. 22, Austin underwent a minimally invasive surgical procedure called prostatectomy to treat and cure prostate cancer. He was

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Support group for farm minister registers aide's home as office

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Seiichi Ota speaks at a news conference in Tokyo Aug. 26 about reports his political group registered his secretary's home as its office.

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Support group for farm minister registers aide's home as office

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Seiichi Ota speaks at a news conference in Tokyo Aug. 26 about reports his political group registered his secretary's home as its office.

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DPJ's Sato quits Diet over money scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Leading opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) member Kanju Sato is surrounded by reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on March 4 after submitting his resignation from the House of Representatives over allegations that he misappropriated a secretary's state-paid salary.

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SDP leader Doi's aide introduced policy secretary to Tsujimoto

TOKYO, Japan - Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader Takako Doi walks into the Diet building to attend a meeting of her party Diet members April 3. An SDP panel investigating allegations that former SDP House of Representatives lawmaker Kiyomi Tsujimoto misused her former secretary's state salary said Doi's aide introduced the former secretary to Tsujimoto.

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SDP's Tsujimoto tenders resignation at lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyomi Tsujimoto (L), an opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) lawmaker, tenders her resignation from parliament to Fukumaru Tani, secretary general of the House of Representatives on March 26. Tsujimoto resigned in a scandal over use of her secretary's state-paid salary.

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SDP confirms Tsujimoto received secretary's salary

TOKYO, Japan - Sekisuke Nakanishi (front), chairman of an opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) fact-finding team, confirms at the Diet on March 25 that Kiyomi Tsujimoto, SDP policy board chairwoman, received most of her former secretary's state-funded salary and failed to report this as legally required.

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Doi comments on allegations against Tsujimoto

TOKYO, Japan -Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader Takako Doi is surrounded by journalists in the Diet on March 20 after her party's top policy-maker Kiyomi Tsujimoto denied a vernacular weekly report claiming she may have embezzled most of her secretary's salary paid by the government.

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SDP's Tsujimoto denies embezzling secretary's salary

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyomi Tsujimoto, chairwoman of the opposition Social Democratic Party's (SDP) Policy-Making Board and a House of Representatives member, speaks to reporters at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on March 20 about a weekly report which claimed she may have embezzled most of her policy secretary's salary paid by the government. Tsujimoto denied the report, saying her secretary's salary was paid based on proper procedures.

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DPJ's Kano denies link to scam despite ex-secretary's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Michihiko Kano, a vice president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), speaks to reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on Jan. 15 about the arrest of his former secretary in relation to a scandal over a public works project in Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Kato apologizes to supporters for secretary's tax scandal

YAMAGATA, Japan - Former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Koichi Kato on Jan. 12 apologized to local supporters in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, over a tax evasion scandal involving his senior secretary Saburo Sato.

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Lawmaker Yamamoto detained

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a vehicle House of Representatives member Joji Yamamoto is believed to be in entering a detention house in Tokyo's Kosuge on the evening of Sept. 4. Yamamoto, 37, of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan, was arrested earlier in the day on suspicion of fraud in connection with his alleged misuse of a total of 20 million yen of his former secretary's state-paid salary.

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DPJ's Hata meets the press after Yamamoto's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Tsutomu Hata, secretary general of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), meets the press at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 4 after DPJ lawmaker Joji Yamamoto was arrested earlier in the day on suspicion of fraud in connection with his alleged misuse of his former secretary's state-paid salary.

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Lawmaker Yamamoto arrested for alleged fraud

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Joji Yamamoto, a House of Representatives member of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan, who was arrested on Sept. 4 by prosecutors on suspicion of fraud in connection with his alleged misuse of a total of 20 million yen of his former secretary's state-paid salary. Yamamoto, 37, who represents Tokyo's No. 21 electoral district, has denied the allegation, investigative sources said. He left the DPJ shortly before his arrest.

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Lawmaker Morita faces questions over secretary's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - House of Representatives member Kensaku Morita fields questions from reporters in Tokyo on Aug. 31 about the arrest of his private secretary the previous day on suspicion of buying votes in the June 25 general election. If found guilty, Morita could lose his Diet seat under the election law.

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Kenya's president names new cabinet

STORY: Kenya's president names new cabinet DATELINE: Sept. 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:44 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of cabinet meeting 2. various of press conference 3. SOUNDBITE (English): WILLIAM RUTO, Kenyan President 4. various of press conference STORYLINE: Kenyan President William Ruto on Tuesday named his nominees to the Cabinet to help steer the country after the Aug. 9 general elections. Ruto, who retained one serving cabinet secretary, appointed former deputy prime minister Musalia Mudavadi as the prime cabinet secretary, a newly created position. He also appointed the former Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Governor Njuguna Ndung'u to be the cabinet secretary for the National Treasury. Ruto, who nominated current and former lawmakers to the Cabinet, said the prime cabinet secretary's office is the most senior after that of the President and deputy president's office. SOUNDBITE (English): WILLIAM RUTO, Kenyan President "We have again the other very important position and

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GLOBALink | China rebuts U.S. defense secretary's remarks on South China Sea, Taiwan

STORY: China rebuts U.S. defense secretary's remarks on South China Sea, Taiwan DATELINE: June 12, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:46 LOCATION: Singapore CATEGORY: POLITICS/MILITARY SHOTLIST: SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHANG ZHENZHONG, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff Department of China's Central Military CommissionSOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHANG ZHENZHONG, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff Department of China's Central Military CommissionSOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): ZHANG ZHENZHONG, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff Department of China's Central Military CommissionSOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): ZHANG ZHENZHONG, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff Department of China's Central Military CommissionSOUNDBITE 5 (Chinese): ZHANG ZHENZHONG, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff Department of China's Central Military Commission STORYLINE: China strongly objected to remarks made by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Saturday at the ongoing 19th Shangri-La Dialogue regarding the South China Sea and Taiwan, calling them unfounded declarations an

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Announcement of the new era by the Chief Cabinet Secretary

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announces the new era name. The new era name is "Reiwa." (April 1, 2019, Press Conference Room, Prime Minister's Office; credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun/Communications Image)

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Announcement of the new era by the Chief Cabinet Secretary

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announces the new era name. The new era name is "Reiwa." (April 1, 2019, Press Conference Room, Prime Minister's Office; credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun/Communications Image)

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Announcement of the new era by the Chief Cabinet Secretary

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announces the new era name. The new era name is "Reiwa." (April 1, 2019, Press Conference Room, Prime Minister's Office; credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun/Communications Image)

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Announcement of the new era by the Chief Cabinet Secretary

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announces the new era name. The new era name is "Reiwa." (April 1, 2019, Press Conference Room, Prime Minister's Office; credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun/Communications Image)

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Kato apologizes to supporters for secretary's tax scandal

YAMAGATA, Japan - Former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Koichi Kato on Jan. 12 apologized to local supporters in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, over a tax evasion scandal involving his senior secretary Saburo Sato.

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DPJ's Kano denies link to scam despite ex-secretary's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Michihiko Kano, a vice president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), speaks to reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on Jan. 15 about the arrest of his former secretary in relation to a scandal over a public works project in Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Doi comments on allegations against Tsujimoto

TOKYO, Japan -Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader Takako Doi is surrounded by journalists in the Diet on March 20 after her party's top policy-maker Kiyomi Tsujimoto denied a vernacular weekly report claiming she may have embezzled most of her secretary's salary paid by the government.

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Tsujimoto says secretary's salary used for office cost

TOKYO, Japan - Opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) lawmaker Kiyomi Tsujimoto (in file photo) admitted March 24 to receiving her former policy secretary's state-paid salary as donations and using them to cover the costs of managing her office, in possible violation of the political fund control law. But Tsujimoto, a House of Representatives member and SDP policy board chairwoman, said she put none of the money to personal use.

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SDP confirms Tsujimoto received secretary's salary

TOKYO, Japan - Sekisuke Nakanishi (front), chairman of an opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) fact-finding team, confirms at the Diet on March 25 that Kiyomi Tsujimoto, SDP policy board chairwoman, received most of her former secretary's state-funded salary and failed to report this as legally required.

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SDP's Tsujimoto tenders resignation at lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyomi Tsujimoto (L), an opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) lawmaker, tenders her resignation from parliament to Fukumaru Tani, secretary general of the House of Representatives on March 26. Tsujimoto resigned in a scandal over use of her secretary's state-paid salary.

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SDP leader Doi's aide introduced policy secretary to Tsujimoto

TOKYO, Japan - Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader Takako Doi walks into the Diet building to attend a meeting of her party Diet members April 3. An SDP panel investigating allegations that former SDP House of Representatives lawmaker Kiyomi Tsujimoto misused her former secretary's state salary said Doi's aide introduced the former secretary to Tsujimoto.

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Support group for farm minister registers aide's home as office

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Seiichi Ota speaks at a news conference in Tokyo Aug. 26 about reports his political group registered his secretary's home as its office. (Kyodo)

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Support group for farm minister registers aide's home as office

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Seiichi Ota speaks at a news conference in Tokyo Aug. 26 about reports his political group registered his secretary's home as its office. (Kyodo)

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Tsujimoto speaks in TV show

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyomi Tsujimoto, policy board chairwoman of the opposition Social Democratic Party, speaks in a telephone interview during a television program March 24. She admitted to receiving her former policy secretary's state-paid salary as donations and using them to cover the costs of managing her office.

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SDP's Tsujimoto denies embezzling secretary's salary

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyomi Tsujimoto, chairwoman of the opposition Social Democratic Party's (SDP) Policy-Making Board and a House of Representatives member, speaks to reporters at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on March 20 about a weekly report which claimed she may have embezzled most of her policy secretary's salary paid by the government. Tsujimoto denied the report, saying her secretary's salary was paid based on proper procedures.

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Japan closely watching U.S. Treasury secretary's remarks at G-20: Aso

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C), Finance Minister Taro Aso (R) and Nobuteru Ishihara, minister in charge of revitalizing the economy, attend a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on March 10, 2017. Aso said after the meeting that Japan will pay close attention to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's statements at a gathering of financial chiefs and central bankers from the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies the following week. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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DPJ's Sato quits Diet over money scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Leading opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) member Kanju Sato is surrounded by reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on March 4 after submitting his resignation from the House of Representatives over allegations that he misappropriated a secretary's state-paid salary. (Kyodo)

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Lawmaker Yamamoto detained

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a vehicle House of Representatives member Joji Yamamoto is believed to be in entering a detention house in Tokyo's Kosuge on the evening of Sept. 4. Yamamoto, 37, of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan, was arrested earlier in the day on suspicion of fraud in connection with his alleged misuse of a total of 20 million yen of his former secretary's state-paid salary.

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DPJ's Hata meets the press after Yamamoto's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Tsutomu Hata, secretary general of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), meets the press at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 4 after DPJ lawmaker Joji Yamamoto was arrested earlier in the day on suspicion of fraud in connection with his alleged misuse of his former secretary's state-paid salary.

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Lawmaker Morita faces questions over secretary's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - House of Representatives member Kensaku Morita fields questions from reporters in Tokyo on Aug. 31 about the arrest of his private secretary the previous day on suspicion of buying votes in the June 25 general election. If found guilty, Morita could lose his Diet seat under the election law.