May 25, 2021 

07:32 

Left the House of Representatives members’ dormitory in Tokyo’s Akasaka district. 

07:36 

Arrived at the Prime Minister’s Office [Kantei]. Went for a walk on the grounds of the Kantei. 

08:23 

Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Tamura Norihisa; Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato Katsunobu; Minister in charge of Regulatory Reform Kono Taro; and Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization Nishimura Yasutoshi entered the room.  

08:53 

Tamura; Kato; and Nishimura left the room.  

08:55 

Kono left the room.  

08:58 – 09:08 

Attended a Cabinet meeting.  

09:15 – 09:30 

Attended a meeting of the Central Disaster Management Council.  

09:33 – 09:53 

Met with Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Takeda Ryota and MIC Vice Minister Kuroda Buichiro. 

09:54 – 10:10 

Received a written proposal from Seishiro Eto, chairperson of LDP parliamentarians’ league on the unification of minimum wage, and other members.  

10:16 – 10:34 

Met with Takeda; pecial Advisor to the Prime Minister Izumi Hiroto; MIC Director-General for Regional Vitalization Omura Shin-ichi; Director-General of Local Public Finance Bureau Naito Hisashi; and MHLW Director-General of Minister’s Secretariat Oshima Kazuhiro.   

10:40 – 10:56 

Met with MOF Deputy Director-General of the Budget Bureau Unami Hirotaka; MHLW Administrative Vice-Minister Tarumi Hideki; and MHLW Employment Security Bureau Director-General Tanaka Seiji. 

11:05 – 11:24 

Received a written resolution from Ryu Shionoya, chairperson of LDP Economic Strategy Headquarters for Building the Future Society based on AI and other members.  

11:30 – 11:41 

Met with National Security Secretariat Secretary-General Kitamura Shigeru and MOFA Foreign Policy Bureau Director-General Yamada Shigeo.  

11:57 

Had lunch with Minister of Justice Kamikawa Yoko.  

12:32 

Kamikawa left the room.  

14:00 – 14:34 

Met with Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Akiba Takeo; Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Mori Takeo; and Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Suzuki Hiroshi.  

14:50 – 15:00 

Met with Special Advisor to the Prime Minister Kihara Minoru.  

15:01 – 15:15 

Met with Kumamoto Gov. Kabashima Ikuo; Maekawa Osamu, chairperson of federation of Kumamoto Prefecture LDP branches; and several others. Kihara was present.  

15:16 – 15:29 

Met with Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujii Takeshi; Cabinet Office Director-Generals for Economic and Fiscal Management Hayashi Sachihiro; Tarumi; and METI Assistant Vice-Minister Masayoshi Arai. 

15:30 – 15:42 

Received a written proposal from Shimomura Hakubun, director of LDP headquarters of the promotion of social digitization, and Amari Akira, head of the headquarters.  

16:05 – 16:11 

Met with Kitamura; Director of Cabinet Intelligence Takizawa Hiroaki; and Public Security Intelligence Agency Deputy Director-General Yokoo Yoichi.  

16:24 – 16:43 

Had a teleconference with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.  

17:17 – 18:01 

Attended a meeting of the Council on Economy and Fiscal Policy.  

18:15 – 18:36 

Met with Fujii; Izumi; head of the novel coronavirus response office Yoshida Manabu; Tarumi; and Chief Medical and Global Health Officer Fukushima Yasumasa. 

18:48 

Left the Kantei.  

18:49 

Arrived at the House of Representatives Second Members’ Office Building. 

19:07 

Left the place.  

19:15 

Arrived at the House of Representatives members’ dormitory in Tokyo’s Akasaka district.