January 13, 2016

07:35

Met with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Hagiuda at the Prime Minister’s Office [Kantei].

08:54

Met with Minister of Finance Taro Aso at the National Diet Building.

09:00

Met with the House of Representatives Budget Committee.

12:11

Arrived at the Kantei.

13:00

Met with the House of Representatives Budget Committee.

15:50

Met with Suh Chung-won, head of the supra-partisan South Korea-Japan parliamentarians’ league, et al. at the Kantei. Fukushiro Nukaga, the leader of its counterpart organization in Japan, was present.

17:25

Met with Director of Cabinet Intelligence Shigeru Kitamura and MOFA Foreign Policy Bureau Director-General Takeo Akiba.

18:22

Met with former Mali President Alpha Oumar Konaré.

18:49

Met with Special Advisors to the Prime Minister Katsuyuki Kawai, Masahiko Shibayama, and Seiichi Eto at his official residence.