MD: Camp David Trilateral Summit

MD: Camp David Trilateral Summit

President of the Republic of Korea Yoon Suk Yeol, Cho Taeyong, South Korean Director of National Security, Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, President Joe Biden, Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiji Kihara, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida participate in the Trilateral Summit at Camp David in Frederick County, Maryland on August 18, 2023. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

MD: Camp David Trilateral Summit

MD: Camp David Trilateral Summit

President of the Republic of Korea Yoon Suk Yeol, Cho Taeyong, South Korean Director of National Security, Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, President Joe Biden, Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiji Kihara, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida participate in the Trilateral Summit at Camp David in Frederick County, Maryland on August 18, 2023. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

MD: Camp David Trilateral Summit

MD: Camp David Trilateral Summit

President of the Republic of Korea Yoon Suk Yeol, Cho Taeyong, South Korean Director of National Security, Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, President Joe Biden, Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiji Kihara, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida participate in the Trilateral Summit at Camp David in Frederick County, Maryland on August 18, 2023. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

MD: Camp David Trilateral Summit

MD: Camp David Trilateral Summit

President Joe Biden, Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiji Kihara, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida participate in the Trilateral Summit at Camp David in Frederick County, Maryland on August 18, 2023. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

Foreign cosplayers visit Japan ministry before int'l event

Foreign cosplayers visit Japan ministry before int'l event

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Seiji Kihara (3rd from L) poses with six young people from China, Finland and Mexico dressed as characters from Japanese animation, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 30, 2014. They are in Japan to attend the 12th World Cosplay Summit, which runs from July 26 to Aug. 3 in Nagoya, western Japan.

Japanese gov't spokesman Kihara

Japanese gov't spokesman Kihara

Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiji Kihara attends a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2022.

Japanese gov't spokesman Kihara

Japanese gov't spokesman Kihara

Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiji Kihara attends a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2022.

Trouble-hit Mizuho Financial names senior exec Kihara as new president

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. said Monday it has appointed Senior Executive Officer Masahiro Kihara as president, with the beleaguered financial institution looking to restore public trust under new leadership after repeated system failures severely impacted operations at its key banking unit. The 56-year-old will replace Tatsufumi Sakai, 62, effective on Feb. 1. Kihara is the older brother of Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiji Kihara.

Bodies of Dhaka terrorist attack victims arrive in Japan

Bodies of Dhaka terrorist attack victims arrive in Japan

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (R), alongside senior vice foreign minister Seiji Kihara, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on July 5, 2016, about the terrorist attack in Bangladesh that killed seven Japanese. Kishida said terror attacks on innocent people are unforgivable. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Families of Japanese terror attack victims arrive in Bangladesh

Families of Japanese terror attack victims arrive in Bangladesh

Japan's senior vice foreign minister Seiji Kihara (L) speaks to reporters in Dhaka on July 4, 2016. Relatives of the seven Japanese killed and one injured in the terrorist attack have arrived in the Bangladeshi capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Families of Japanese victims of Dhaka attack to fly to site: gov't

Families of Japanese victims of Dhaka attack to fly to site: gov't

Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiji Kihara (L) and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina shake hands ahead of their talks in Dhaka on July 3, 2016. Kihara arrived in the Bangladesh capital earlier in the day in the wake of the terrorist attack at an upscale restaurant in Dhaka, in which seven Japanese nationals -- two women and five men -- were killed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Families of Japanese victims of Dhaka attack to fly to site: gov't

Families of Japanese victims of Dhaka attack to fly to site: gov't

Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiji Kihara speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Dhaka on July 3, 2016. Kihara arrived in the Bangladesh capital earlier in the day in the wake of the terrorist attack at an upscale restaurant in Dhaka, in which seven Japanese nationals -- two women and five men -- were killed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Families of Japanese victims of Dhaka attack to fly to site: gov't

Families of Japanese victims of Dhaka attack to fly to site: gov't

Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiji Kihara (L) meets with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on July 3, 2016. Kihara arrived in the Bangladesh capital earlier in the day in the wake of the terrorist attack at an upscale restaurant in Dhaka, in which seven Japanese nationals -- two women and five men -- were killed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Families of Japanese victims of Dhaka attack to fly to site: gov't

Families of Japanese victims of Dhaka attack to fly to site: gov't

Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiji Kihara arrives at the Japanese Embassy in Dhaka on July 3, 2016, in the wake of the terrorist attack at an upscale restaurant in the Bangladesh capital, in which seven Japanese nationals -- two women and five men -- were killed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan vows to help put nuke test ban treaty into force early

Japan vows to help put nuke test ban treaty into force early

Lassina Zerbo (L), executive secretary of the preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and Japanese senior vice foreign minister Seiji Kihara shake hands in Vienna on June 13, 2016. Japan is ready to lead the way in putting the CTBT into force at an early date, Kihara said in a speech at a one-day ministerial-level meeting there to commemorate 20 years since nations began signing the treaty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan, nonpermanent UNSC members to urge N. Korea to drop launch plan

Japan, nonpermanent UNSC members to urge N. Korea to drop launch plan

Seiji Kihara (L), Japan's senior vice foreign minister, agrees in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2016, with representatives of the nine other nonpermanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- Angola, Egypt, Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal, Spain, Ukraine, Uruguay and Venezuela -- to urge North Korea to exercise restraint over its planned rocket launch. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Foreign cosplayers visit Japan ministry before int'l event

Foreign cosplayers visit Japan ministry before int'l event

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Seiji Kihara (3rd from L) poses with six young people from China, Finland and Mexico dressed as characters from Japanese animation, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 30, 2014. They are in Japan to attend the 12th World Cosplay Summit, which runs from July 26 to Aug. 3 in Nagoya, western Japan. (Kyodo)