Prime Minister of Japan's Schedule February 27-March 4

February 27, 2012 (MON)

AM

08:38 Leave Okinawa Harbor View Hotel Crown Plaza. Mr. Saito, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; Mr. Taketoshi, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; Mr. Nagashima, Special Advisor to PM; and Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
08:41 Okinawa Prefectural Government Office
08:44 Meeting with Mr. Nakaima, Governor of Okinawa
09:06 Meeting with Mr. Zenshin Takamine, Chair of Okinawa Prefectural Assembly
09:28 Press interviews
09:44 ASDF Naha Base
09:50 Gave instructions to ASDF members
10:16 Leave the base on ASDF CH47 Helicopter. Fly over Henoko and surrounding area
11:14 Return to the base
11:53 Lunch with Mr. Koichi Kokuba, chairperson of Okinawa economic organizations

PM
01:11 Futenma Air Station. Meeting with Lieutenant General Kenneth Glueck, Okinawa Area Coordinator and commanding general of III Marine Expeditionary Force
02:35 Okinawa IT Shinryo Park, Uruma City
03:45 Camp Kinser, Urasoe City
04:22 Observe the status of the use of vacant land returned by U.S. Forces
05:01 Press conference
05:20 ASDF Naha Base, meeting with Mr. Zukeran, DPJ Lower House member; and Mr. Aragaki, DPJ Okinawa representative
05:47 Naha Airport
06:13 Leave the airport on ASDF U4 Multi-Purpose support plane
08:06 Arrive at Haneda Airport
08:42 Residence of PM
08:56 Mr. Okada, Deputy Prime Minister; Mr. Fujimura, Chief Cabinet Secretary; and Mr. Azumi, Minister of Finance
10:00 Everyone leaves

February 28, 2012 (TUE)

AM
08:42 Parliament
08:50 Ministerial Meeting
09:10 Office of PM

PM
01:57 Mr. Katagiri, Director-General of the National Police Agency
02:33 Mr. Kano, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
03:00 Mr. Sasae, Administrative Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs
03:34 Mr. Tsuji, Senior Vice Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
04:00 Mr. Tsuji leaves
05:00 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
05:30 Receive report from Mr. Koichi Kitazawa, Chairman of Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident; and Mr. Yoichi Funabashi, President of Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation
06:01 Mr. Uichiro Niwa, Ambassador to China; Mr. Ichiro Fujisaki, Ambassador to the United States; and other Asia-Pacific countries’ ambassadors.
07:00 Residence of PM

February 29, 2012 (WED)

AM
09:34 Office of PM

PM
02:53 Parliament
03:00 Party leaders debate
03:51 Office of PM
04:30 Three DPJ/Government Executive Meeting
05:36 Meeting adjourned
05:37 Mr. Matsumoto, Administrative Vice Minister of the Cabinet Office; and Mr. Takekawa, Director-General of Decoration Bureau
05:50 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
06:11 Mr. Ichiro Fujisaki, Ambassador to the United States
06:46 Mr. Okada, Deputy Prime Minister
07:15 Mr. Saito, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; and Mr. Nagashima, Special Advisor to PM
07:44 Residence of PM

March 1, 2012 (THU)

AM
07:01 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
08:32 Mr. Tezuka leaves
08:51 Parliament
08:56 Mr. Kozo Watanabe, DPJ Lower House member
08:59 The Lower House Budget Committee

PM
12:02 Mr. Fujimura, Chief Cabinet Secretary
12:12 The Lower House Plenary Session
12:59 The Lower House Budget Committee
05:10 Office of PM
06:00 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
06:38 Residence of PM

March 2, 2012 (FRI)

AM
07:53 Parliament
07:55 A Joint Meeting of the Council on Measures for Society with Decreasing Birthrate and the Council on the New System for Children and Child-rearing
08:17 Ministerial Meeting
08:39 Office of PM
09:58 Mr. Teruhiko Masuko, DPJ Upper House member; Mr. Kenya Akiba, LDB Lower House member; and Mr. Shigeyuki Tomita, New Koemei Lower House member
09:20 Mr. Akiba and Mr. Tomita leave
09:33 Mr. Masuko leaves
09:34 Mr. Edano, Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry; Mr. Adachi, Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry; Mr. Takahara, Director-General, Agency for Natural resources and Energy
09:51 Mr. Makoto Iokibe, Chair of the Reconstruction Design Council in Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake; Mr. Takashi Mikuriya, Vice Chair; Mr. Minehisa, Secretary General of the Secretariat of the Reconstruction Headquarters
11:13 Mr. Maehara, chairperson of DPJ Policy Research Council

PM
12:01 The APCAC 2012 U.S.-Asia Business Summit at hotel “The Prince Park Tower Tokyo”, Shibakoen, Tokyo
12:26 Office of PM
12:32 Mr. Hosono, Minister of State for the Nuclear Power Policy and Administration
01:10 Mr. Hosono leaves
02:47 Mr. Yoshiki Yamaura and Mr. Hitsuharu Miyagawa, new and old Supreme Court judges
03:21 Mr. Kitamura, Head of Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office
03:59 Mr. Saito, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; and Mr. Nagashima, Special Advisor to PM
04:33 Mr. Tarutoko, DPJ Acting Secretary General
05:09 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
05:17 The Council on National Strategy and Policy
06:46 The council adjourned
07:08 Dinner with Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM; and Ms. Renho, DPJ Upper House member, at a Japanese restaurant “Matsuyama”, Ginza, Tokyo
10:05 Everyone leaves
10:16 Residence of PM

March 3, 2012 (SAT)

AM
11:57 Luch with Mr. Nobuaki Koga, President of Japanese Trade Union Confederation, at a Japanese restaurant “Suiren”, The Capitol Hotel Tokyu

PM
12:46 Office of PM
02:01 Interview from CNN
02:40 Joint interview with 18 foreign press including Xinhua News Agency of China
03:26 Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, the Meeting of the Council to Cheer the Future of Japan – Power of Small Enterprises to Change Japan
03:45 Residence of PM
03:54 Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor to PM
04:39 Mr. Tezuka leaves

March 4, 2012 (SUN)

AM
Residence of PM

PM
05:30 NTV (Nippon TV), Higashi Shinbashi, Tokyo
06:00 Appear on a news program
07:10 Residence of PM