(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) February 2, 2012, Tokyo, Japan – Japans Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka, right, receives a piece of advice from his aid during a Diet lower house Budget Committee meeting in Tokyo. Tanaka, who was appointed in January, was caught in a cross fire as a senior [...]

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) Japanese Ruling Party DPJ Diet Member Kumiko Hayakawa appeared as ring girl at Korakuen Hall for a Championship Boxing Match on Thursday 26th, January, 2012. The 41 year old member of parliament appeared 3 times as a round girl wearing sexy hot pants and a [...]

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) Tokyo, Japan – With a white patch over his right eye, Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda addresses members of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, calling on them to unite behind controversial tax and social security reforms during a DPJ convention at a Tokyo hotel [...]

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) December 19, 2011, Tokyo, Japan – Evening newspaper extras reporting on the headline of the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il are distributed to pedestrians in Tokyo. On Monday, North Korea announced that the country’s top leader died of “great mental and physical [...]

Japan’s new Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda (C) poses with his Cabinet ministers during a formal photo session following a swearing-in ceremony before Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Friday, September 2, 2011. Noda, 54, formed his Cabinet with relatively unknown lawmakers to tackle a tall task to reconstruct the quake-hit area and [...]

Japan’s Prime Minister-nominee, Yoshihiko Noda, appoints Azuma Koshiishi, a veteran lawmaker with close ties with ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa, as secretary-general on Tuesday, August 30,2011. Noda also names former Foreign Min Seiji Maehara as policy chief and former Chief Cabinet Sec Hirofumi Hirano as Diet affairs chief. Hirano is a Sept. 2009 file photo, [...]

August 26, 2011, Tokyo, Japan – Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan bows before announcing his resignation in a meeting of Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers in Tokyo on Friday, August 26, 2011. Since taking office in June 2010, Kan has been under fire over campaign financing and his poor handling of the crisis at the [...]

August 23, 2011, Tokyo, Japan – Former Thai Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, speaks to foreign and domestic journalist during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) on Tuesday, August 23, 2011. Thaksin arrived in Japan on Monday on a high-profile visit at the invitation of the FCCJ. The fugitive former prime [...]

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, standing at right, answers to Sadakazu Tanigaki, leader of Japans main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, during a Diet showdown in Tokyo on Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Tanigaki urged Kan to step down but the prime minister refused to relinquish his post during the rowdy debate repeatedly marred with heckles. It [...]

United States Senator for Hawaii, Daniel Inouye, gives a speech at Tokyo’s Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. The 86-year-old World War II Veteran discussed U.S. response to the March 11 disaster and the prospects for Japan’s recovery, as well as its implications for relations between the two countries. (Photo by [...]

PM Fillon meets Japan’s PM Kan and business community members.

Upper House election candidate Sano rides his election campaign trike and delivers a speech for Japanese voters.