It’s not often you see a politician giving up the security of his or her current seat to stand in a by-election. And it’s especially rare when the person risking potential political suicide is a ...

Former Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura on Saturday signaled his intention to challenge Sadakazu Tanigaki in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership election on Sept 26. Machimura told a ...

India’s Worrying Plans for Dams on Transboundary Rivers Shared with Bangladesh If you believe the headlines, the noose around the neck of the Democratic Party of Japan-led government will be ...

The key to getting bills and personnel appointments through the divided Diet is "patience," says Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura. Since the inauguration of Yasuo Fukuda's first Cabinet last ...

China on Sunday rebuffed Japanese demands to apologize for protests that damaged the Japanese Embassy and a consulate, while authorities allowed new demonstrations over Tokyo's wartime history and ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Nobutaka Machimura is a Minister for Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan with five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1990 Interview as a Member, ...

Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell agreed Sunday to hold strategic talks at the ministerial level to discuss the security situation in the Asia-Pacific region ...

Former speaker of Japanese House of Representatives Nobutaka Machimura died Monday in Tokyo of a stroke at the age of 70, local media reported. The bureaucrat-turned-lawmaker stepped down as lower ...

China rebuffed demands for an apology on Sunday after rioters damaged Japanese diplomatic missions in protests over Japan’s wartime aggression and its bid for a U.N. Security Council seat, instead ...