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Top uniformed officers of S. Korea, U.S., Japan meet in Seoul

Adm. Kim Myung Soo (C), chief of South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, shakes hands with his U.S. and Japanese counterparts, Gen. Dan Caine (L) and Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, during a meeting in Seoul on July 11, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Press conference on the commencement of TOB by Nidec

Press conference on the commencement of TOB by Nidec. Photo shows, from right, Yoshihide Morimoto, Chairman of Nidec OKK㊨ and Kazuhiro Harada, President of TAKISAWA.=April 4,2025,Tokyo

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Press conference on the commencement of TOB by Nidec

Press conference on the launch of TOB by Nidec. Photo shows Yoshihide Morimoto, Chairman of Nidec OKK (second from front) and others.=April 4,2025,Tokyo

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, hold a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, hold a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, hold a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, shake hands after a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, shake hands after a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Parliamentary election to choose Japan's next PM

Former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga casts a vote in an election to choose Japan's next prime minister during a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2024, after the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida resigned en masse earlier in the day.

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Japan's ruling LDP's new vice president Suga

Yoshihide Suga, new vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a press conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2024.

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MSDF ship sails through Taiwan Strait for 1st time

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2024, a day after a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's direction.

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MSDF ship sails through Taiwan Strait for 1st time

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2024, a day after a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's direction.

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MSDF ship sails through Taiwan Strait for 1st time

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2024, a day after a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's direction.

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MSDF ship sails through Taiwan Strait for 1st time

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2024, a day after a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's direction.

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Paris Olympics: Athletics

Japan sprinters -- (from L) Yoshihide Kiryu, Koki Ueyama, Ryuichiro Sakai and Abdul Hakim Sani Brown -- are pictured after finishing fifth in the men's 4x100-meter relay final at the Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis near Paris on Aug. 9, 2024.

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Paris Olympics: Athletics

Japan's Yoshihide Kiryu competes in the men's 4x100-meter relay final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 9, 2024, at Stade de France in Saint-Denis near Paris.

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Ex-Japan PM Suga in Hanoi

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (L) holds talks with Vietnamese President To Lam in Hanoi on July 25, 2024.

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Ex-Japan PM Suga in Hanoi

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (L) shakes hands with Vietnamese President To Lam in Hanoi on July 25, 2024.

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Former Japan PM at Vietnam Communist Party chief's funeral

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (front, L) attends the state funeral of Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam's Communist Party, in Hanoi on July 25, 2024. Trong, who had served in the country's highest position since 2011, died on July 19 aged 80.

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Former Japan PM Suga

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (C) arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 23, 2024.

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Former Japan PM Suga

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (C) arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 23, 2024.

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Ruling party slush fund scandal

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) attends the first meeting of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's "political reform" panel in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2024, with former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. The panel will discuss reviewing rules for making the handling of political funds by its factions more transparent amid a secret slush money scandal shaking the LDP.

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Japan-U.S. defense talks

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, shakes hands with Gen. Charles Brown, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a meeting at the Japanese Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2023.

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-ATHLETICS(CN)

(231002) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Koike Yuki (L)/Kiryu Yoshihide of Japan compete during the Men's 4 x 100m Relay Heat of Athletics at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)

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Ex-Japan PM Suga

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks to reporters in the central Japan city of Fukui on Sept. 19, 2023.

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GLOBALink | Japanese sewing machine giant sees great potential in Chinese market

STORY: Japanese sewing machine giant sees great potential in Chinese market DATELINE: June 28, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:38 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Japanese sewing machine giant Pegasus's China branch in Tianjin 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): OKADA YOSHIHIDE, General manager of Pegasus (Tianjin) Sewing Machine Co., Ltd. 3. various of Pegasus (Tianjin) Sewing Machine Co., Ltd. 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): OKADA YOSHIHIDE, General manager of Pegasus (Tianjin) Sewing Machine Co., Ltd. 5. various of Pegasus (Tianjin) Sewing Machine Co., Ltd. STORYLINE: 　　 Established in 1994 in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Pegasus (Tianjin) Sewing Machine Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Pegasus Sewing Machine Mfg Co., Ltd., a century-old brand of industrial sewing machines from Japan. 　　 Through nearly 30 years of development, the subsidiary has evolved into Pegasus's most important production base and sales market on a global scale, with an annual output of over 100,000 sewing

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Japan to send SDF planes to evacuate nationals from Sudan

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on April 20, 2023, after the government ordered the Air Self-Defense Force to dispatch aircraft to Djibouti in preparation for the evacuation of Japanese nationals from Sudan, where military clashes are intensifying.

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Ex-Japan PM Suga in Vietnam

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga holds talks with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Hanoi on Jan. 9, 2023.

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Sumo legend Taiho to receive national award

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the former yokozuna Taiho, who died of heart disease in January 2013 at the age of 72. The government will award a posthumous national honor to the late yokozuna in recognition of his historic sumo victory record, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Feb. 15, 2013.

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Actor Sugi

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows actor Ryotaro Sugi. The Japanese government has praised Sugi, also a singer, for his efforts to establish friendship between Japan and Vietnam, as well as with other Southeast Asian countries, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Feb. 4, 2014.

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Japan PM Suga at parliament

TOKYO, Japan, March 4 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks at a House of Councillors Budget Committee session in Tokyo on March 4, 2021, wearing a mask amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan PM Suga at parliament

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 25 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2020.

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Japan's Cabinet meeting

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - (From L) Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Finance Minister Taro Aso attend a Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2020, wearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan PM Suga at parliament

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 25 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2020.

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Japan PM Suga in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam, Oct. 19 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (L) shakes hands with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi on Oct. 19, 2020, during a four-day trip to Vietnam and Indonesia on his first foreign trip since taking office. (Pool photo)

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LDP leadership race

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 12 Kyodo - Liberal Democratic Party presidential candidates (from L) Shigeru Ishiba, Yoshihide Suga and Fumio Kishida pose before a debate hosted by the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Sept. 12, 2020, two days before the LDP leadership election to choose Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's successor.

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Japan's top government spokesman

TOKYO, Japan, April 27 Kyodo - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on April 27, 2020, wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan's top government spokesman

TOKYO, Japan, April 27 Kyodo - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on April 27, 2020, wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan's top gov't spokesman Suga

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga holds an urgent press conference late on Oct. 23, 2018, to announce that Jumpei Yasuda, a 44-year-old Japanese freelance journalist who went missing in Syria in 2015 and was feared held captive by a militant group, has most likely been released.

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Wife of journalist Jumpei Yasuda

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Japanese singer Myu attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2018, calling for the release of her husband Jumpei Yasuda, a freelance journalist who went missing in Syria in 2015 and was feared held captive by a militant group. Japan's top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Oct. 23, 2018 that Yasuda has most likely been released.

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N. Korea fires 3 short-range ballistic missiles

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 26 Kyodo - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (C) arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2017, after North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles. Suga said the missiles did not fall within Japan's territory or exclusive economic zone and would not have a direct impact on Japan's security.

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No immediate impact on Japan security from N. Korea missiles: gov't

TOKYO, Japan, June 8 Kyodo - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (C) arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 8, 2017, after North Korea test-fired what appeared to be surface-to-ship cruise missiles into the Sea of Japan. Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters there is nothing to suggest that the missiles reached Japan's exclusive economic zone.

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Olympics: Japan relay quartet gets silver medals

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug. 21 Kyodo - (From L) Ryota Yamagata, Shota Iizuka, Yoshihide Kiryu and Asuka Cambridge of Japan pose with their silver medals during the award ceremony for the men's 4x100-meter relay at the athletics competitions of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Aug. 20, 2016.

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Top government spokesman announces Japan's new Cabinet lineup

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 3 Kyodo - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announces Japan's new Cabinet lineup in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2016. In his third reshuffle since returning as prime minister in December 2012, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appointed a new defense minister with a history of hawkish views, while retaining eight of the previous Cabinet's 19 members in their posts.

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Top government spokesman announces Japan's new Cabinet lineup

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 3 Kyodo - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announces Japan's new Cabinet lineup in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2016. In his third reshuffle since returning as prime minister in December 2012, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appointed a new defense minister with a history of hawkish views, while retaining eight of the previous Cabinet's 19 members in their posts.

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Abe asks Obama to investigate alleged U.S. spying

TOKYO, Aug. 26 Kyodo - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a daily press briefing in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2015. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked U.S. President Barack Obama in their phone talks to investigate alleged spying on high-level Japanese government and corporate officials, after anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks released a list of spying targets in July, Suga said.

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Japan demands U.S. explanation over alleged spying

TOKYO, Aug. 3 Kyodo - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks during a daily press briefing in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2015. Suga said Tokyo is seeking an explanation from Washington over alleged U.S. spying on the Japanese government and Japanese companies.

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Funassyi receives award from Chiba police

CHIBA, April 14 Kyodo - Japan's favorite "pear fairy" mascot, Funassyi (R), receives a certificate of appreciation from Chiba prefectural police chief, Yoshihide Kuroki, for its efforts as a special recruiter of police officers in Chiba, a job he assumed in April 2014, at the prefectural police headquarters on April 14, 2015. According to the police, the pass rate for the prefectural police employment test for fiscal 2014 came to 5.6, 0.3 points higher than the previous year, putting a brake on the declining trend in recent years.

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Japan's Kiryu clocks wind-assisted 9.87 in men's 100 meters

AUSTIN, United States, March 29 Kyodo - Yoshihide Kiryu of Japan speaks to reporters after clocking 9.87 seconds in the men's 100 meter dash invitational at the Texas Relays in Austin, Texas, on March 28, 2015. His time was deemed invalid for official purposes as the wind at his back (3.3 meters per second) exceeded the allowable limit of 2.0 m/s.

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Japanese astronaut Yui meets top gov't spokesman

TOKYO, Japan - Astronaut Kimiya Yui holds a model of the Japanese experiment module Kibo in the International Space Station with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 13, 2015. Yui is scheduled to stay there for half a year from May.