Prime Minister Kishida Fumio picked Hayashi as his foreign minister last November. Hayashi was first elected to the Upper House in 1995. He has won five elections and served as both defense and ...

On Thursday, Hayashi repeated calls for the Chinese government ... living in China and prompted then Japanese Prime Minster Fumio Kishida to demand “such an incident must never be repeated.” ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is to meet with US President Joseph Biden on Jan. 13 at the White House, while Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi has left on a South American tour seeking to ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who will not run in the LDP election on Sept. 27, came under fire for his response to it. Hayashi belonged to an intraparty faction led by Kishida that was dissolved ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to appoint Yoshimasa Hayashi, a political veteran with broad experience as a Cabinet member, as his new foreign minister. The appointment comes after Toshimitsu ...