May 25, 2020

09:41

Left his private residence in Tomigaya, Tokyo.

09:54

Arrived at the Prime Minister’s Office [Kantei].

10:17-10:47

Met with Secretary-General of the Headquarters for the Abduction Issue Shoichiro Ishikawa.

14:00-14:12

Met with Minister of State for the Intellectual Property Strategy Naokazu Takemoto and Cabinet Office Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters Secretary-General Hiroki Mitsumata.

14:30-15:00

Met with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Naoki Okada; Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary Hajime Hayashi; Special Advisors to the Prime Minister Eiichi Hasegawa and Takaya Imai; Senior Deputy Ministers for Foreign Affairs Takeo Mori and Kenji Kanasugi, and Director-General for European Affairs Yasushi Masaki; Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs Yoshiki Takeuchi; MHLW Global Health Officer Yasuhiro Suzuki; and Vice Minister for International Affairs Shigehiro Tanaka.

15:27-15:32

Met with National Security Secretariat Secretary General Shigeru Kitamura.

15:57

Left the Kantei.

15:58

Arrived at the Diet building.

16:00

Entered the LDP President’s room.

16:01

Meeting of LDP executives started.

16:33

The meeting of LDP executives ended. Left the room.

16:34

Left the Diet building.

16:36

Arrived at the Kantei.

16:39

Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Katsunobu Kato; Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga; Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries Akihiro Nishimura and Kazuhiro Sugita; National Security Secretariat Secretary General Shigeru Kitamura; Special Advisor to the Prime Minister Hiroto Izumi, Eiichi Hasegawa and Takaya Imai; head of novel coronavirus response office Hideki Tarumi; Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Takeo Akiba; MHLW Global Health Officer Yasuhiro Suzuki; and METI Director-General for Evidence-based Policymaking Masayoshi Arai entered the room.

16:41

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Naoki Okada joined the meeting.

16:52

All the meeting participants left the room.

18:01-19:10

Held a press conference.

19:15-19:33

Attended a meeting of the Novel Coronavirus Response Headquarters.

20:17

Left the Kantei.

20:32

Arrived at his private residence.