General view of the House of Representatives during the 72 special session of the Japanese diet in Tokyo is shown here. Chief business was to vote...
Upper house members vote during the full assembly where the House of Representatives pass the Anti Terrorism Special Measure bill at the Parliament...
Makiko Fujino, a newly elected House of Representatives member, arrives at Parliament for her first session September 21, 2005 in Tokyo, Japan. A...
Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda addresses the House of Representatives here today. He was warmly applauded by the Congressmen. Ikeda's wife and...
Undated photo of military guards holding bayonets at the entrance of the House of Representatives, a reminder that Tokyo is still under martial law.
Photograph showing inside of the Imperial Diet with Shigeru Yoshida on the speakers platform with Kijuro Shidehara, president of the House of...
Japanese parliamentarians in the House of Representatives in Japan with their names inscribed on blocks of wood which remain on the desks in front of...
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, House of Representatives speaker Tadamori Oshima, House of Councillors speaker Chuichi Date, House of...
This file photo taken on April 8, 2008 shows the government-named candidate for the governor of the Bank of Japan , and current BOJ deputy governor,...
General view of the plenary session at the House of Representatives on November 13, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan. The bill on the New Anti Terrorism Special...
The Imperial Diet building in Tokyo the seat of both the government bodies of Japan, the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, circa...
Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his cabinet members attends a plenary session of the House of Representatives at the Diet in Tokyo, 28...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi waves to supporters to start his first stumping tour since he dissolved the House of Representatives, in...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi answers a question during a budget committee session of the House of Representatives at Diet in Tokyo, 27...
Chairman of the US House of Representatives International Relations Committee Henry Hyde is welcomed by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at...
Ruling Liberal Democratic Party president Fumio Kishida is applauded by lawmakers as he is elected as Japan's new prime minister at the House of...
Japanese politician Toshio Shimada , Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan, is interviewed in Tokyo on 14th September 1945. Shimada was...
Japanese Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka smiles as he attends a budget committee session of the House of Representatives at Diet in Tokyo,...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi listens to a question while his cabinet member Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa looks on during a budget...
Kazuo Ueda, a candidate for the new governor of the Bank of Japan, attends a Q&A session at the House of Representatives of the parliament in Tokyo...
Members of Japan's lower house of parliament applaud as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears on screen via video link at the House of...
Members of Japan's lower house of parliament applaud as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears on a screen via video link at the House of...
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters after a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Dec. 4 amid allegations...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi answers a question during a House of Representatives committee session at the Diet in Tokyo, 14 May 2003....
Naoto Kan , leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, responds to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's policy speech delivered 27 November,...
Opposition parties leader Yukio Edano explains the aim of a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in House of Representatives...
General view shows a plenary session of the House of Representatives at the Diet in Tokyo on January 22, 2016 after opposition lawmakers left the...
Reading Clerk Irving W. Swanson reads the Resolution for War against Germany here on December 11th, to an attentive House of Representatives. The...
Tokyo, Japan: How's The Heir Up There? The son of heaven who still retains his title of Emperor, for a while longer at least, is shown high on the...
Reading Clerk Irving W. Swanson reads the Resolution for War against Germany here on December 11th, to an attentive House of Representatives. The...
Tokyo: Japanese Legislators "Play Ball." The baseball team of Japan's house of Representatives completely outclassed an older, slower House of...
Japanese Emperor Opens Diet. Tokyo, Japan: Emperor Hirohito as he opened the 90th Session of the Japanese Diet in Tokyo, June 20. He read an Imperial...
This is a general view of the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., as President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a joint session of Congress...
Reading Clerk Irving W. Swanson reads the Resolution for War against Germany here on December 11th, to an attentive House of Representatives. The...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet members bow after a motion of no-confidence against the Cabinet was voted down during a plenary...
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida delivers his policy speech during a plenary session of the House of Representatives at the Diet in Tokyo on...
Tadamori Oshima, président de la Chambre des représentants, au centre, déclare l'ouverture de la 190ème session ordinaire de la Diète le 6 janvier...
Former Prime Ministers Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda and other members of the House of Representatives attend the plenary session at the lower house on...
Several lawmakers throw their arms in the air in a customary "banzai" when the House of Representatives was dissolved on Sept. 28 for a general...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stands unmoved as other lawmakers throw their arms in the air in a customary "banzai" when the House of Representatives was...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi bows as other House of Representative members shouts "Banzai" during the plenary session on August 8, 2005...
Japan - Photo shows a House of Representatives plenary session in the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 28, 2014. The lower house approved a 95.88...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends the House of Representatives' budget committee on Oct. 4 in Tokyo. ==Kyodo
Aug29,2011/Noboru Hashimoto/Tokyo/Japan/ Finance minister Yoshihiko Noda was elected a new representative in both assembllly member of the Japan...
Junichiro Koizumi is formally appointed as Prime Minister of Japan by the House of Representatives members at the lower house plenary session on...
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and other House of Representatives members stand up to vote for the bill to eliminate five single-seat...
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida makes a palicy speech during the 210th extraordinary session of diet at House of Representatives on October 3, 2022 in...
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his cabinet members Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada, Finance...
Kazuo Ueda , a candidate for the new governor of the Bank of Japan , attends a Q&A session at the House of Representatives of the parliament in Tokyo...
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida makes a statement after the House of Representatives plenary session adopted a resolution protesting North...
Edano Yukio of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan waves at the crowd during an election rally for the Japanese General Elections scheduled...
Speaker of the House of Representatives Tadamori Oshima delivers a speech during a session at the lower house to dissolve parliament in Tokyo on...
Photo taken in Tokyo on Oct. 13 shows Japanese parliament's House of Representatives chamber earmarked for a plenary session.
Fumio Kishida , the new leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, stands up after being elected prime minister during a House of...
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga returns to his seat in parliament in Tokyo on Jan. 26 after the House of Representatives approved a third...
Name plates for members of the House of Representatives, including one for Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, center, in front of their seats in the...
Badges worn by the lawmakers of the House of Representatives and House of Councillors are seen at the diet building on July 28, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan.
Photo taken March 2 shows Mikio Shimoji, a House of Representatives member who has been promoting the acceptance of fourth-generation Japanese...
Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe gazes at the chairman just before the voting of a special committee of security treaty bill in the House of...
Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe answers to question during a special committee of security treaty bill in the House of Representatives, July 15,...