This outlet, like others, will follow their own official style guide until that style guide is updated. And, it appears Japan Times' style guide uses the orderi

This outlet, like others, will follow their own official style guide until that style guide is updated. And, it appears Japan Times' style guide uses the ordering Kono would like them, and others, to change. I doubt this individual example frustrates Kono any more than the general rule. He'll understand outlets don't vary such things case-by-case, according to individual news-subjects' preference, which is why he's making a formal request that norms change. The headline would be clearer, both here and where it originally appeared, if it specified "international media", and used "respect order" rather than "switch order" – to avoid the interpretation that he was asking domestic media to switch to the English-speaking-world's more typical ordering.