Prime Minister of Japan's Schedule March 12-18

March 12, 2012 (MON)

AM
07:01 Mr. Nagahama, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
08:23 Both leave
08:43 Parliament
08:55 The Upper House Budget Committee

PM
12:00 Office of PM
12:48 Parliament
01:00 The Upper House Budget Committee
05:07 Office of PM
05:12 Three DPJ/Government Executive Meeting
05:51 The meeting adjourned
06:32 Meeting with Prime Minister of Mongolia Sukhbaatar Batbold and Signing Ceremony
07:01 A signing ceremony of yen loan for Mongolia
07:09 Dinner party hosted by Prime Minister Noda
08:11 Introduce the panel photos of the Great East Japan Earthquake to Prime Minister Batbold, and see him off
08:20 Residence of PM

March 13, 2012 (TUE)

AM
06:34 Mr. Nagahama, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
07:33 Mr. Nagahama leaves
07:54 Mr. Tezuka leaves
07:57 Parliament
08:06 Ministerial Meeting on the Advancement of Disaster Waste Management
08:28 Ministerial meeting
09:00 The Upper House Budget Committee
11:59 Office of PM

PM
12:49 Parliament
01:00 The Upper House Budget Committee
04:28 Office of PM
05:00 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
05:45 Courtesy Call from Winners of the High School Speech Contest on the Northern Territories
05:57 Yuzaburo Mogi, Chairperson Emeritus of Kikkoman and Co-Chair of Japanese-German Forum
06:15 Issue an appointment order to Ms. Mariko Hasegawa, National Public Safety Commission member; Mr. Matsubara, Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission
06:50 Mr. Sugiyama, Director-General of Asia and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
07:26 Residence of PM
07:32 Mr. Kamei, Leader of the People’s New Party (Kokumin Shinto)
09:17 Mr. Kamei leaves

March 14, 2012 (WED)

AM
08:03 Office of PM
08:05 Mr. Nagahama, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
09:35 Both leave
09:47 Parliament
09:55 The Upper House Budget Committee

PM
12:00 Office of PM
12:49 Parliament
01:00 The Upper House Budget Committee
05:12 Office of PM
05:14 Mr. Kazuhiro Haraguchi, DPJ Lower House member
06:02 Council for Gender Equality
06:07 Mr. Gemba, Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Mr. Tanaka, Minister of Defense
06:18 Mr. Gemba leaves
06:21 Mr. Tanaka leaves
06:22 Mr. Kitamura, Head of Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office; and Mr. Mukuki, Director of the Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center
06:26 Mr. Mukuki leaves
06:43 Mr. Kitamura leaves
06:50 Mr. Katsuya Endo, Mayor of Tamioka Machi, Fukushima Prefecture
07:02 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
07:08 Mr. Tezuka leaves
09:02 Dinner with Mr. Tezuka, and Mr. Hiroaki Hashimoto, DPJ Lower House member at a Japanese restaurant “Arisugawa Shokudo”, Azabu-Juban, Tokyo
10:31 Residence of PM

March 15, 2012 (THU)

AM
09:34 Office of PM
10:00 Mr. Jojima, DPJ Diet Affairs Chief
10:25 Mr. Okumura, Senior Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; and Mr. Todani, Director-General of Research and Development Bureau
11:23 Mr. Eiji Nagai, Mr. Masuo Matsuoka, and Mr. Kotaro Yamazaki, former Japan New Party (Nihon Shinto) members; Mr. Nagahama, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary;
Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
11:45 Everyone leaves

PM
02:16 Mr. Genshitsu Sen, Goodwill Ambassador for UNESCO; and Mr. Tetsuro Fukuyama, DPJ Upper House member also attends
02:46 The Imperial Hotel
02:48 Attend the General Assembly of the Regular Members of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI)
03:07 Office of PM
03:09 Mr. Tarutoko, DPJ Acting Secretary General
03:35 Mr. Nishimura, Director General of Security Bureau, National Police Agency
03:59 Mr. Sasae, Administrative Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs
04:52 Courtesy call from Mr. Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization
05:17 The Prime Minister Receives a Request Concerning an International Solidarity Levy
05:28 Mr. Fumikazu Yoshida, Chief Editor of Kyodo News
05:36 Mr. Kawabata, Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications; Mr. Fukuda, Parliamentary Secretary of Internal Affairs and Communications; Mr. Goto, Senior Vice Minister of Cabinet Office
06:00 Mr. Hironobu Takesaki, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Japan
06:13 Ambassadors of Latin American countries who attended their meeting
06:31 Graduate Student from the Harvard Kennedy School; Mr. Nagashima, Special Advisor to PM also attends
07:05 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
07:39 Residence of PM

March 16, 2012 (FRI)

AM
06:16 Mr. Nagahama, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
07:30 Parliament
07:35 Ministerial meeting
07:52 Office of PM
08:10 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
08:49 Parliament
09:00 The Upper House Budget Committee

PM
12:12 The Lower House Plenary Session
01:00 The Upper House Budget Committee
05:10 Office of PM
05:35 Summit meeting with Prime Minister Tonshin of Laos; Mr. Fujimura, Chief Cabinet Secretary attends
06:11 Signing ceremony
06:20See of Prime Minister Tonshin
06:24 Mr. Akito Arima, Chancellor of the Tokyo University; Mr. Takashi Iama, former Chairman of Keidanren
06:45 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
07:29 Residence of PM

March 17, 2012 (SAT)
Whole day at the residence of PM

March 18, 2012 (SUN)

AM
09:12 Office of PM
09:16 Leave the office on a GSDF helicopter
09:39 Japanese National Defense University
09:44 Mr. Tanaka, Minister of Defense; and Mr. Makoto Iokibe, President of National Defense University
10:05 Gave a speech at the university’s commencement ceremony

PM
12:13 Lunch with Mr. Tanaka and Mr. Iokibe
10:43 Leave the university on the GSDF helicopter
01:16 Heliport of the PM office
01:21 Residence of PM
01:48 Mr. Sengoku, Deputy Chief of DPJ Policy Research Council
02:24 Mr. Sengoku leaves