Chronologies
US - Japan
Chronology from Jan 2022 to May 2022
: LDP releases a report following its strategic review.
: North Korea test-fires two short-range missiles.
: Vice FM Mori and Deputy Secretary of State Sherman speak by telephone.
: Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Rena Bitter travels to Tokyo.
: G7 Foreign Ministers release a joint statement on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
: FM Hayashi attends the NATO Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.
: FM Hayashi and Secretary Blinken meet on the sidelines of the NATO Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Belgium.
: State Department Counselor Derek Chollet meets Senior Deputy Foreign Minister Yamada Shigeo during his visit to Tokyo.
: New Special Measures Agreement enters into force.
: FM Hayashi visits Poland to discuss resettling Ukrainian refugees.
: PM Kishida and US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel meet in Hiroshima.
: Japan’s Parliament approves a new host nation support budget of ¥1.05 trillion ($8.6 billion) over five years.
: G7 Foreign Ministers release a joint statement on North Korea’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
: President Biden and PM Kishida meet on sidelines of the G7 Summit in Belgium.
: Secretary Blinken and FM Hayashi speak by telephone.
: North Korea test-fires its first intercontinental ballistic missile since 2017.
: Special Representative for North Korea Policy Kim holds separate calls with Director General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Funakoshi and Korean Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Noh.
: Deputy Secretary of State Sherman, Vice FM Mori, and Korean First Vice FM Choi speak by telephone.
: Foreign ministers of the US, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, the UK, and the High Representative of the European Union release a joint statement on the Taliban’s decision to deny Afghan girls the right to an education.
: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the Japanese Diet.
: US, Japan, and Australia participate in third OECD-hosted Blue Dot Network Executive Consultation Group meeting.
: Special Representative for North Korea Policy Kim, Director General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Funakoshi, and Korean Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Noh speak by telephone.
: Director-General of the North American Affairs Bureau Ichikawa Keiichi, Director-General of the Defense Policy Bureau Masuda Kazuo, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink, and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Ely Ratner hold the Japan-US Security Subcommittee (SSC) in Tokyo.
: Japan’s SDF delivers nonlethal military supplies to Ukraine.
: North Korea test-fires a ballistic missile.
: Special Representative for North Korea Policy Kim holds separate calls with Director General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Funakoshi and Korean Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Noh.
: G7 Foreign Ministers release a joint statement on Russia and Ukraine.
: Director General of the Economic Affairs Bureau Ono Keiichi, Director General of the Trade Policy Bureau Matsuo Takehiko, and Assistant US Trade Representative Michael Beeman hold the first meeting of the Japan-US Partnership on Trade.
: Shell pulls out of international consortia at Sahkhalin-2, which extracts LNG.
: Japan announces financial sanctions against Russia.
: Foreign Minister Hayashi and Secretary of State Blinken speak by telephone.
: North Korea test-fires a ballistic missile.
: Special Representative for North Korea Policy Kim holds separate calls with Director General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Funakoshi and Korean Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Noh.
: Russia launches an invasion of Ukraine.
: G7 Foreign Ministers release a joint statement on Russia and Ukraine.
: Deputy Secretary of State Sherman and Vice FM Mori speak by telephone.
: Secretary of State Blinken, FM Hayashi, and Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong hold a trilateral meeting in Honolulu.
: Secretary of State Blinken, FM Hayashi, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne, and Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar hold Fourth US-Japan-Australia-India (Quad) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Melbourne. Joint Statement.
: Secretary of State Blinken and FM Hayashi hold bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Melbourne.
: Foreign Minister Hayashi and Secretary of State Blinken speak by telephone.
: Secretary Blinken and FM Hayashi speak by telephone.
: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, Vice Foreign Minister Mori Takeo, and Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-kun speak by telephone.
: Movement restrictions on US Forces Japan expire.
: North Korea test-fires an intermediate range ballistic missile.
: Special Representative for the DPRK Kim holds separate calls with Director General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Funakoshi and Korean Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Noh.
: North Korea test-fires two long-range cruise missiles.
: US Forces Japan announces that they will extend movement restrictions for an additional week.
: Governments of the US and Japan release a joint statement on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
: US Special Representative for North Korea Policy Sung Kim, Director General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Funakoshi, and Korean Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Noh speak by telephone.
: North Korea tests railway-borne missiles.
: North Korea claims to have tested a missile that is more advanced than the hypersonic test a week earlier.
: US Special Representative for North Korea Policy Sung Kim holds separate calls with Director General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Funakoshi Takehiro and Korean Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Noh Kyu-duk.
: Kishida places Okinawa and parts of Yamaguchi and Hiroshima prefectures under a quasi-state of emergency in response to the surging number of COVID-19 cases.
: US and Japan release a joint statement limiting the off-base movements of US Forces Japan personnel to essential activities only for two weeks.
: Kishida places Okinawa and parts of Yamaguchi and Hiroshima under a quasi-state of emergency in response to the surging number of COVID-19 cases.
: US and Japan release a joint statement limiting the off-base movements of US Forces Japan personnel to essential activities only for two weeks.
: FM Hayashi and Raymond Greene, chargé d’affaires ad interim at the US embassy, sign the new Special Measures Agreement.
: Secretary of State Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Foreign Minister Hayashi, and Minister of Defense Kishi Nobuo hold US-Japan Security Consultative Committee (“2+2”) virtual meeting. Joint Statement. Special Measures Agreement.
: US and Japan hold a virtual 2+2 meeting.
: North Korea claims second successful test of a hypersonic missile.
: Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and Secretary of State Antony Blinken speak by telephone.