Sept. 16, 2020 |
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06:44 |
Left the House of Representatives members’ dormitory in Tokyo’s Akasaka district. |
06:46 |
Arrived at a street in the district. Went for a walk. |
07:22 |
Arrived at a street in the Toranomon district. Departed from there. |
07:27 |
Arrived at the Capitol Hotel Tokyu in the Nagatacho district. Had a meeting with his secretary at the “Origami” restaurant in the hotel. |
08:23 |
Left the hotel. |
08:24 |
Arrived at the House of Representatives Second Members’ Office Building. |
08:41 |
Left the office building |
08:44 |
Arrived at the Prime Minister’s Office [Kantei]. |
09:03 – 09:19 |
Attended an extraordinary Cabinet meeting. |
09:58 |
Left the Kantei. |
10:02 |
Arrived at the LDP headquarters. |
10:04 – 10:18 |
Posed for photographs for the party’s public relations. |
10:19 |
Left the headquarters. |
10:21 |
Arrived at the Kantei. |
12:41 |
Saw off Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Kantei’s entrance hall. |
12:44 |
Left the Kantei. |
12:46 |
Arrived at the National Diet Building. |
12:54 |
Entered the Lower House chamber. |
12:56 – 12:57 |
Met with Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshi Kajiyama. |
12:59 – 13:00 |
Met with Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso, Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi and LDP General Council Chairperson Tsutomu Sato. |
13:02 |
The Lower House plenary session commenced. |
13:45 |
Elected the 99th prime minister at the Lower House plenary session at the plenary session. |
13:46 |
The plenary session adjourned. Left the Lower House chamber. |
13:48 |
Entered the Ministers’ Room in the chamber. |
13:50 – 14:12 |
Met with Abe. |
14:13 |
Left the room. |
14:15 – 14:32 |
Visited to announce his taking office the Lower House speaker, vice-speaker, the House Steering Committee chairman, and each parliamentary group of both ruling and opposition parties in the Lower House. LDP Diet Affairs Committee Chairperson Hiroshi Moriyama accompanied him. |
14:34 – 14:54 |
Visited to announce his taking office the Upper House president, vice-president, the House Rules and Administration Committee chairman, and each parliamentary group of both ruling and opposition parties in the Upper House. Secretary-General for the LDP in the House of Councillors Hiroshige Seko accompanied him. |
14:56 |
Left the National Diet Building. |
14:58 |
Arrived at the Kantei. |
15:01 – 15:28 |
Met with Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, new Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Manabu Sakai and Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Naoki Okada. |
15:29 – 15:36 |
Met with Komeito Chief Representative Natsuo Yamaguchi for the ruling parties’ leaders meeting. Kato, LDP Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai and Komeito Secretary General Tetsuo Saito were present. |
15:37 |
Set up a Cabinet formation headquarters. |
15:50 – 16:17 |
Summoned new Cabinet ministers to the Kantei. |
17:32 |
Left the Kantei. |
17:42 |
Arrived at the Imperial Palace. Reported privately to the Emperor. Attended a ceremony of Imperial investiture of prime minister and an Imperial attestation ceremony of new Cabinet ministers. |
20:17 |
Left the Imperial Palace. |
20:25 |
Arrived at the Kantei. |
21:00 – 21:30 |
Gave an interview to media outlets. |
21:32 – 21:39 |
Handed over an official appointment to each Cabinet minister. |
21:46 |
Held the first Cabinet meeting. |
22:07 |
The first meeting ended. |
22:18 – 22:21 |
Posed for photographs with the Cabinet ministers. |
22:24 – 22:28 |
Handed over an official appointment to special advisors to the prime minister and others. |
22:29 – 22:32 |
Posed for photographs with special advisors to the prime minister and others. |
23:13 |
Left the Kantei. |
23:19 |
Arrived at the House of Representatives members’ dormitory in Akasaka. |