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Extraordinary Diet session opens in Japan

An extraordinary parliamentary session opens in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2025, with new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi giving her first policy speech since taking office.

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Extraordinary Diet session opens in Japan

An extraordinary parliamentary session opens in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2025, with new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi giving her first policy speech since taking office.

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Extraordinary Diet session opens in Japan

An extraordinary parliamentary session opens in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2025, with new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi giving her first policy speech since taking office.

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Japan Diet begins debate on dual surname bill for 1st time in 28 yrs

Japan's House of Representatives' judicial affairs committee begins its first deliberations in 28 years on legislation that would give married couples the option of using separate surnames in Tokyo on May 30, 2025.

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Japan Diet begins debate on dual surname bill for 1st time in 28 yrs

Japan's House of Representatives' judicial affairs committee begins its first deliberations in 28 years on legislation that would give married couples the option of using separate surnames in Tokyo on May 30, 2025.

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Efforts To Free Orphaned Orca - Canada

A Ehattesaht First Nations team certified to work with the Marine Mammal Rescue team throws harbour seal meat behind his zodiak to tow behind in an effort to supplement it's diet in a lagoon where the orphaned orca has been spending most of it's time near Zeballos, B.C., on April 4, 2024. Photo by Chad Hipolito/Canadian Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Efforts To Free Orphaned Orca - Canada

A Ehattesaht First Nations team certified to work with the Marine Mammal Rescue team throws harbour seal meat behind his zodiak to tow behind in an effort to supplement it's diet in a lagoon where the orphaned orca has been spending most of it's time near Zeballos, B.C., on April 4, 2024. Photo by Chad Hipolito/Canadian Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese public gathers to oppose contaminated wastewater discharge plan

STORY: Japanese public gathers to oppose contaminated wastewater discharge plan DATELINE: April 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:12 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of Japanese against nuclear-contaminated wastewater discharge plan 2. various of the protest STORYLINE: Japanese residents on Thursday held a rally in Tokyo to protest against the Japanese government's plan to discharge nuclear-contaminated water into the sea. Carrying signs such as "Do not let nuclear-tainted water pollute the sea" and "Do not spill poison into the sea," about 120 protestors of all ages rallied in front of the House of Representatives, or the lower house of the Diet. The contaminated water must first be stored to minimize radioactivity before the world works out how to deal with it, said Toshihiro Inoue, the organizer of the rally. If the nuclear-contaminated water is allowed to be discharged into the sea, arbitrary discharges would take place whenever nuclear contamination occurs in the future, he said. Ig

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YouTuber GaaSyy loses seat for missing Diet sessions

Hidehisa Otsuji, president of Japan's House of Councillors, announces the expulsion of Yoshikazu Higashitani, who goes by the name GaaSyy, from the upper house, in Tokyo on March 15, 2023, after it voted to remove the YouTuber for not attending any parliamentary sessions since being elected in 2022. He is the first member of the Diet to be removed since 1951 and the first to be reprimanded for being absent.

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YouTuber GaaSyy loses seat for missing Diet sessions

Japan's House of Councillors in Tokyo on March 15, 2023, vote to expel Yoshikazu Higashitani, who goes by the name GaaSyy, from the upper house for not attending any parliamentary sessions since being elected in 2022. He was the first member of the Diet to be removed since 1951 and the first to be reprimanded for being absent.

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YouTuber GaaSyy loses seat for missing Diet sessions

A staff member removes the name plaque of Yoshikazu Higashitani, who goes by GaaSyy, from his desk in Japan's House of Councillors in Tokyo on March 15, 2023, after the upper house voted to expel the YouTuber from the Diet for not attending any parliamentary sessions since being elected in 2022, making him the first member of the Diet to be removed since 1951.

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YouTuber GaaSyy loses seat for missing Diet sessions

Japan's House of Councillors in Tokyo on March 15, 2023, vote to expel Yoshikazu Higashitani, who goes by the name GaaSyy, from the upper house for not attending any parliamentary sessions since being elected in 2022. He was the first member of the Diet to be removed since 1951 and the first to be reprimanded for being absent.

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YouTuber GaaSyy loses seat for missing Diet sessions

A staff member removes the name plaque of Yoshikazu Higashitani, who goes by GaaSyy, from his desk in Japan's House of Councillors in Tokyo on March 15, 2023, after the upper house voted to expel the YouTuber from the Diet for not attending any parliamentary sessions since being elected in 2022, making him the first member of the Diet to be removed since 1951.

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DPJ takes control of upper house

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito addresses the opening of an extraordinary session of the Diet in the House of Councillors chamber on Aug. 7. The main opposition Democratic Party of Japan took control of the upper house for the first time, with senior DPJ lawmaker Satsuki Eda elected president of the chamber, marking the start of political gridlock between the ruling and opposition camps.

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Japan Diet panel resumes debate on amending Constitution

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 6 Kyodo - Japanese political parties discuss revising the Constitution at an upper house panel in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2017 for the first time since November 2016.

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Japanese lawmaker to quit party over alleged abuse against staffer

TOKYO, Japan, June 23 Kyodo - Mayuko Toyota points at her name listed at the Diet building in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2012, on her first trip to parliament after being elected to the House of Representatives. Toyota submitted an application to leave the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on June 22, 2017, after a weekly magazine released an audio file seeming to back up allegations that she physically and verbally abused a secretary.

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Abe re-elected as Japan PM at post-election Diet session

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C back) stands up after being re-elected as Japan's prime minister during a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2014, the first day of a special three-day Diet session convened after his Liberal Democratic Party won a landslide victory in the Dec. 14 lower house general election.

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Abe re-elected as Japan PM at post-election Diet session

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) stands up after being re-elected as Japan's prime minister during a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2014, the first day of a special three-day Diet session convened after his Liberal Democratic Party won a landslide victory in the Dec. 14 lower house general election.

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Abe re-elected as Japan PM at post-election Diet session

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) stands up after being re-elected as Japan's prime minister during a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2014, the first day of a special three-day Diet session convened after his Liberal Democratic Party won a landslide victory in the Dec. 14 lower house general election.

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Industry minister Obuchi offers resignation

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 2000 shows Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yuko Obuchi (C) expressing joy after winning her Diet seat for the first time. She submitted her resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Oct. 20, 2014, over a political funds scandal.

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Armed guards allowed on vessels to combat piracy

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese Diet enacts a bill on Nov. 13, 2013, to allow security guards to carry rifles aboard Japanese-registered vessels to counter piracy in waters off Somalia and elsewhere, when it cleared the House of Councillors at the Diet building in Tokyo. The legislation is the first Japanese law to authorize private citizens to carry and use firearms.

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PM Abe

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on June 26, 2013, the final day of his first Diet session since taking office in late December.

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PM Abe

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on June 26, 2013, the final day of his first Diet session since taking office in late December.

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PM Abe

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on June 26, 2013, the final day of his first Diet session since taking office in late December.

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PM Abe

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on June 26, 2013, the final day of his first Diet session since taking office in late December.

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PM Abe

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is about to hold a press conference at his office in Tokyo on June 26, 2013, the final day of his first Diet session since taking office in late December.

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Regular Diet session begins

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a policy speech during a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2013, which was his first policy speech to parliament since becoming Japan's leader for the second time in the previous month. A 150-day regular Diet session began the same day.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A large antinuclear rally is held in the Nagatacho district of Tokyo, where the prime minister's office and the Diet building are located, on Dec. 21, 2012, the first since the Dec. 16 general election in which the Democratic Party of Japan suffered a crushing defeat, allowing the Liberal Democratic Party to regain power. The LDP has said it plans to make a comprehensive decision on restarts for all nuclear reactors in the country within three years, in sharp contrast to the DPJ, which pledged to phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A large antinuclear rally is held in the Nagatacho district of Tokyo, where the prime minister's office and the Diet building are located, on Dec. 21, 2012, the first since the Dec. 16 general election in which the Democratic Party of Japan suffered a crushing defeat, allowing the Liberal Democratic Party to regain power. The LDP has said it plans to make a comprehensive decision on restarts for all nuclear reactors in the country within three years, in sharp contrast to the DPJ, which pledged to phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A large antinuclear rally is held in the Nagatacho district of Tokyo, where the prime minister's office and the Diet building are located, on Dec. 21, 2012, the first since the Dec. 16 general election in which the Democratic Party of Japan suffered a crushing defeat, allowing the Liberal Democratic Party to regain power. The LDP has said it plans to make a comprehensive decision on restarts for all nuclear reactors in the country within three years, in sharp contrast to the DPJ, which pledged to phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers and antinuclear protesters jostle in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on July 29, 2012. People lit candles to surround the Diet building in Tokyo, protesting against the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Oi power plant on the Sea of Japan coast, the first reactivations since all of the nation's reactors were shut down following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Antinuclear protesters gather holding candles in front of the Diet building (C back) in Tokyo on July 29, 2012. People lit candles to surround the Diet building in Tokyo, protesting against the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Oi power plant on the Sea of Japan coast, the first reactivations since all of the nation's reactors were shut down following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 29, 2012, shows antinuclear protesters in front of the Diet building in Tokyo. People lit candles to surround the Diet building in Tokyo, protesting against the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Oi power plant on the Sea of Japan coast, the first reactivations since all of the nation's reactors were shut down following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 29, 2012, shows antinuclear protesters in front of the Diet building in Tokyo. People lit candles to surround the Diet building in Tokyo, protesting against the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Oi power plant on the Sea of Japan coast, the first reactivations since all of the nation's reactors were shut down following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 29, 2012, shows antinuclear protesters in front of the Diet building in Tokyo. People lit candles to surround the Diet building in Tokyo, protesting against the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Oi power plant on the Sea of Japan coast, the first reactivations since all of the nation's reactors were shut down following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 29, 2012, shows antinuclear protesters in front of the Diet building in Tokyo. People lit candles to surround the Diet building in Tokyo, protesting against the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Oi power plant on the Sea of Japan coast, the first reactivations since all of the nation's reactors were shut down following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Antinuclear protesters rally near PM's office

TOKYO, Japan - Thousands of people mount an antinuclear rally on a street near the prime minister's office and the Diet building (in background) in Tokyo on June 29, 2012, protesting against the upcoming restart of a reactor at the Oi nuclear plant in western Japan, the first such reactivation since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Antinuclear protesters rally near PM's office

TOKYO, Japan - A woman protests in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 29, 2012, against the upcoming reactivation of a nuclear reactor in western Japan. Thousands of people held an antinuclear rally on a street near the prime minister's office and the Diet building in Tokyo the same day, protesting against the restart of the reactor at the Oi nuclear plant, the first such reactivation since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Antinuclear protesters rally near PM's office

TOKYO, Japan - A woman cries as she protests in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 29, 2012, against the upcoming reactivation of a nuclear reactor in western Japan. Thousands of people held an antinuclear rally on a street near the prime minister's office and the Diet building in Tokyo the same day, protesting against the restart of the reactor at the Oi nuclear plant, the first such reactivation since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Antinuclear protesters rally near PM's office

TOKYO, Japan - Thousands of people mount an antinuclear rally on a street near the prime minister's office (R back) and the Diet building in Tokyo on June 29, 2012, protesting against the upcoming restart of a reactor at the Oi nuclear plant in western Japan, the first such reactivation since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Antinuclear protesters rally near PM's office

TOKYO, Japan - Thousands of people mount an antinuclear rally on a street near the prime minister's office (R back) and the Diet building in Tokyo on June 29, 2012, protesting against the upcoming restart of a reactor at the Oi nuclear plant in western Japan, the first such reactivation since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Antinuclear protesters rally near PM's office

TOKYO, Japan - Thousands of people mount an antinuclear rally on a street near the prime minister's office and the Diet building in Tokyo on June 29, 2012, protesting against the upcoming restart of a reactor at the Oi nuclear plant in western Japan, the first such reactivation since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Antinuclear protesters rally near PM's office

TOKYO, Japan - Thousands of people mount an antinuclear rally on a street near the prime minister's office and the Diet building in Tokyo on June 29, 2012, protesting against the upcoming restart of a reactor at the Oi nuclear plant in western Japan, the first such reactivation since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Antinuclear protesters rally near PM's office

TOKYO, Japan - Thousands of people mount an antinuclear rally on a street near the prime minister's office and the Diet building in Tokyo on June 29, 2012, protesting against the upcoming restart of a reactor at the Oi nuclear plant in western Japan, the first such reactivation since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Antinuclear protesters rally near PM's office

TOKYO, Japan - A woman protests in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 29, 2012, against the upcoming reactivation of a nuclear reactor in western Japan. Thousands of people held an antinuclear rally on a street near the prime minister's office and the Diet building in Tokyo the same day, protesting against the restart of the reactor at the Oi nuclear plant, the first such reactivation since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Antinuclear protesters rally near PM's office

TOKYO, Japan - Thousands of people mount an antinuclear rally on a street near the prime minister's office and the Diet building in Tokyo on June 29, 2012, protesting against the upcoming restart of a reactor at the Oi nuclear plant in western Japan, the first such reactivation since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Moment of silence at parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L front) and members of his Cabinet observe a moment of silence at the start of a parliamentary session in the Diet in Tokyo on March 9, 2012, ahead of the first anniversary two days later of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Foreign Minister Gemba at Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba delivers his first foreign policy address to parliament at a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Jan. 24, 2012.

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Extra Diet session ends

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (2nd from R) and other lawmakers applaud in the Diet in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2011, as an extraordinary Diet session, the first parliamentary session since the launch of the government under Noda on Sept. 2, ended the same day. A third extra budget for fiscal 2011 to finance postdisaster reconstruction efforts will be deliberated at the next session which is expected to be convened as early as mid-October.

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Extraordinary Diet session convened

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (C) attends the opening ceremony of an extraordinary Diet session at the main hall of the House Councillors in Tokyo on Sept. 13, 2011. The first parliamentary session under Noda will last for four days.