July 9, 2020 

09:40 

Left his private residence in Tokyo’s Tomigaya district. 

09:55 

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

10:03 – 10:13 

Met with National Security Secretariat Secretary-General Shigeru Kitamura, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister Takaya Imai and Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Kenji Kanasugi. 

10:15 – 10:42 

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

11:00 – 11:15 

Met with Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Koichi Hagiuda and Research and Development Bureau Director-General Hiroshi Ikukawa. 

11:24 – 11:39 

Met with LDP Policy Research Council Chairperson Fumio Kishida. 

12:45 – 12:55 

Met with Yamaguchi Prefecture Governor Tsugumasa Muraoka, Yamaguchi Prefectural Assembly Chairperson Shungaku Yanai and others. House of Representatives member Nobuo Kishi of the LDP was present. 

13:55 – 14:17 

Met with Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Katsunobu Kato and MHLW Global Health Officer Yasuhiro Suzuki. 

14:20 – 14:44 

Met with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga; Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries Akihiro Nishimura, Naoki Okada and Kazuhiro Sugita; Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Crisis Management Yoshiki Okita; Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeshi Fujii; Special Advisors to the Prime Minister Hiroto Izumi, Eiichi Hasegawa and Imai; Cabinet Office Director-General Ichiro Aoyagi; MIC Telecommunications Bureau Director-General Yasuhiko Taniwaki; METI Director-General for Evidence-based Policymaking Masayoshi Arai; MLIT Water and Disaster Management Bureau Director-General Hitomi Godo; Japan Meteorological Agency Director-General Yasuo Sekita; and MOD Administrative Vice Chief of Staff Takahiro Sugawara. 

15:03 – 15:23 

Attended the torrential rain emergency disaster headquarters meeting. 

16:01 – 17:41 

Had a teleconference with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Australian Ambassador to Japan Richard Court was present.  

17:44 – 18:02 

Met with Kato; Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization Yasutoshi Nishimura; Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Nishimura; Kitamura; Special Advisors Izumi, Hasegawa and Imai; head of novel coronavirus response office Hideki Tarumi; Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Takeo Akiba; and Suzuki. 

18:03 – 18:56 

Met with Yasutoshi Nishimura, Imai and METI Director-General of Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau Hiroaki Niihara. 

19:10 – 19:11 

Gave an interview to media outlets. 

19:12 

Left the Kantei. 

19:14 

Arrived at his official residence.