Prime Minister of Japan's Schedule Jan 21-27

January 21, 2012 (MON)

AM
09:07 Imperial palace, report of return
10:02 Office
10:30 Mr. Iijima, Cabinet Office Special Advisor
10:46 Mr. Kishida, Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Mr. Hiramatsu Foreign Policy Bureau Director General
11:07 National Council on Social Security System Reform
11:50 Issue an appointment letter for Mr. Hiroto Izumi as Special Adviser for PM

PM
01:05 Mr. Amari, Minister for Economic Revitalization; Mr. Matsumoto, Administrative Vice Minister of Cabinet Office; and Mr. Matsuyama, Cabinet Secretariat Councillor
01:58 Mr. Sekou, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
02:09 Mr. Suga, Chief Cabinet Secretary; Mr. Kato, Mr. Sekou, and Mr. Sugita, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries
04:00 Mr. Kitamura, Director of Cabinet Intelligence
04:37 Mr. Ogasawara, Administrative Vice Minister of Internal Affairs and Communication; Mr. Junichi Tanaka and MR. Ryo Ooishi, Councillors, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication; and Mr. Sakurai, Director General, Global ICT Strategy Bureau
04:56 All leave
07:18 Video message shoot for the Davos World Economic Forum annual meeting [very funny]
07:51 Shooting ends
09:43 Mr. Sugita, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
10:13 Mr. Sugita leaves
10:49 Meeting of the Response Headquarters for the Japanese Nationals Abducted in Algeria
11:12 Home in Tomigaya

January 22, 2013 (TUE)

AM
09:16 LDP Headquarters
09:32 LDP Executive meeting
10:01 Office
10:03 Ministerial meeting
10:29 Mr. Nishikawa, Administrative Vice Minister of Justice
11:05 Mr. Adachi, Administrative Vice Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry; and Mr. Takahara, Director-General, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy
11:41 Mr. Sato, Administrative Vice Minister of Land, Infrastructure, and Transportation

PM
12:12 Mr. Sato leaves
02:08 Mr. Shimomura, Minister of Education; and Mr. Yamanaka, Ministry of Education Councillor
02:34 Mr. Yamaguchi, Director of LDP Accounting Office
02:41 Receives a Report from Mr. Taro Aso, Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Akira Amari, Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy, and Mr. Masaaki Shirakawa, Governor of the Bank of Japan; Mr. Suga attends
02:50 Make comments for the press
02:57 LDP Headquarters
03:00 LDP Local Secretaries meeting
03:41 Office
03:43 Mr. Kaneko, Administrative Vice Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare; Mr. Okazaki, Director, Employment Security Bureau, Ministry of Health; and Mr. Muraki, Social Welfare and War Victims' Relief Bureau Director General
04:25 Mr. Amari, Minister for Economic Revitalization
04:47 Mr. Suzuki, Senior Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Mr. Hiramatsu, MoFA Foreign Policy Bureau Director General
05:10 Mr. Suzuki and Mr. Hiramatsu leave
06:13 Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy
06:53 Meeting neds
09:29 TV Asahi, Roppongi, Tokyo
09:54 Appear on a news program
11:03 Home in Tomigaya

January 23, 2013 (WED)

AM
08:24 Office
08:31 Industrial Competitiveness Council
09:40 Meeting ends
09:42 Professor Heizo Takenaka of Keio University
09:53 Mr. Katsuyuki Kawai, Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair
10:06 Mr. Kitamura, Director of Cabinet Intelligence; and Mr. Nishi, Director General, Defense Policy Bureau, MoD; and Mr. Kinomura, Director of Defense Intelligence Headquarters
10:20 Mr. Nishi and Mr. Kinomura leave
10:40 Mr. Kitamura leaves
10:50 Mr. Taniuchi, Cabinet Office Advisor
11:08 Mr. Matsumoto, Administrative Vice Minister of Cabinet Office; Mr. Shimizu and Mr. Matsuyama, Councillor of Cabinet Office

PM
12:01 Mr. Lee Sung-yoon and Hideo Watanabe, Vice Chairs, Japan-Korea Cooperation Committee
12:17 All leave
01:01 Mr. Aso, Minsiter of Finance
01:32 Ministerial Council on Monthly Economic Report and Other Relative Issues
02:03 Mr. Minagawa, Administrative Vice Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishery
02:43 Mr. Moriguchi, Administrative Vice Minister of Education
03:19 Presentation Ceremony of the Prime Minister's Award to the Winner of the Japan Professional Sports Grand Prize
03:56 Mr. Nemoto, Minister of Reconstruction
04:18 Mr. Yamamoto, Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs
04:39 Mr. Ishihara, Minister of Environment; Mr. Saito, Parliamentary Secretary of Environment; and Mr. Ikeda, Director, Nuclear Power Regulatory Agency
05:24 Mr. Kawai, Administrative Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Mr. Saiki, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
06:11 Mr. Kawamura, LDP Election Affairs Council Chief
06:25 Mr. Kawamura leaves
07:49 Mr. Yonemura, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Crisis Management
08:45 Mr. Yonemura leaves
09:02 Home in Tomigaya

January 24, 2013 (THU)　

AM
08:31 Office
08:33 Mr. Inada, Minister in charge of Administrative Reform
09:15 Regulatory Reform Council
09:47 Mr. Ryuhei Maeda, new Ambassador for Switzerland and Lichtenstein; and other new Ambassadors
10:02 Education Rebuilding Implementation Council
11:08 Meeting ends
11:35 Interview with Kyodo News

PM
12:06 Mr. Yamamoto, Minister of State for Space Policy
01:00 Mr. Aso, Minister of Finance; Mr. Manago, Administrative Vice Minister of Finance; and Mr. Tanaka,Director General, Tax Bureau, MoF
01:09 Mr. Furusawa, Director General, Financial Bureau, MoF, joins
01:37 All leave
01:38 Mr. Amari, Minister for Economic Revitalization; Mr. Matsumoto, Administrative Vice Minister of Cabinet Office; and Mr. Matsuyama, Cabinet Office Councillor
01:59 Reiyukai, Azabudai, Tokyo,”Inner Trip” meeting
02:19 LDP Headquarters: Photo shoot with the candidates for Tokyo Assembly election: Mr. Ishiba attends
03:08 Office
03:10 Mr. Kitamura, Director of Cabinet Intelligence
03:16 Mr. Hiroshi Inouye, Chair of the private broadcasting company federation
03:47 Ms. Junko Kawaguchi, LDP Okinawa development research board chair; and Mr. Fukushiro Nukaga, former Minister of Defense
03:57 Mr. Aso, Minister of Finance; Mr. Manago, Administrative Vice Minister of Finance; and Mr. Kinoshita,
0431 Courtesy Call from Representatives of the Ship for World Youth (SWY) Program
05:03 Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy
05:54 Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting
06:17 Mr. Amari, Minister of Economic Revitalization
06:42 Mr. Motegi, Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry
07:44 Residence: Dinner with Mr. Kimura, Isozaki, and Eto, Special Advisors of PM
09:34 Home in Tomigaya

January 25, 2013 (FRI)

AM08:20 Office
08:21 Mr. Nemoto, Minister of Reconstruction
08:46 Mr. Kishida, Minister of Foreign Afairs; Mr. Suzuki, Senior Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Mr. Kawai, Administrative Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
08:58 The Seventh Meeting of the Response Headquarters for the Japanese Nationals Abducted in Algeria
09:16 National Security Council
09:37 Strategic Headquarters for Space Development
10:02 Ministerial Meeting
10:27 Headquarters on the Abduction Issue
10:44 Headquarters for Japan's Economic Revitalization
11:08 Mr. Shunichi Tanaka, Chair of Nuclear Regulatory Committee; and Mr. Ikeda, Director, Nuclear Regulatory Agency

PM
12:00 Mr. Yuuji Yamamoto, the Lower House Budget Committee Chair
12:16 Lunch with Mr. Suga, Chief Cabinet Secretary
01:31 Mr. Sugita, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
01:41 Mr. Shindo, Minster of Internal Affairs and Communications
02:02 Meeting with newspaper and broadcasting editors
02:29 Meeting with private broadcasting analysts
02:55 Cabinet Press Club members
04:10 Interview with Mainichi Shimbun
04:53 Mr. Yneda and Mr. Katagiri, Old and New National Police Agency Director
05:00 Mr. Nishimura and Mr. Higuchi, New and Old Superintendent General
05:15 Mr. Kitamura, Director of Cabinet Intelligence
05:25 Mr. Onodera, Minister of Defense; Mr. Nishi, Defense Policy Bureau Director General; and Mr. Kimizuka, GSDF Chief of Staff
05:50 Mr. Fujii, Cabinet Office Secretariat Councillor; and Mr. Izumi, Special Advisor for PM
06:30 Teleconference with Prime Minister Merkel of Germany
07:16 Residence: Dinner with Mr. Hamada and Mr. Honda Cabinet Office Secretariat Councillors
08:51 Mr. Ihara, North American Affairs Bureau Director General, MoFA; and Mr. Sakurai, Assistant Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
09:57 Home in Tomigaya

January 26, 2013 (SAT)

AM
08:50 Keio University Hospital; medical checkup

PM
02:29 Home in Tomigaya
03:12 NHK International’s Studio in the Japan Amway Headquarters Building; Attend the World Economic Forum (Davos Meeting) TV meeting
03:56 Residence
03:57 Mr. Yamaguchi, President of New Komei Party; Mr. Ishii, Komei’s Policy Research Chief; and Mr. Nishida, Komei’s Parliamentary Affairs Chief
04:21 Mr. Kinouchi, Parliamentary Secretary of Foreign Affairs; Mr. Suga; Mr. Sugita, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; Mr. Yonemura, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Crisis Management; and Mr. Kitamura, Director of Cabinet Intelligence
04:54 Give comments to the press
05:14 Home

January 27, 2013 (SUN)

AM
Home in Tomigaya

PM
04:39 Ryougoku Sumo Wrestling Arena
04:41 Kitanoumi, Chair of Japan Sumo Wrestling Association
04:53 Watch the sumo matches
05:44 Presentation ceremony for the champion
06:32 Home
08:33 Office
08:35 Mr. Aso, Minister of Finance; and Mr. Manago, Administrative Vice Minister of Finance
09:02 Ruling party meeting for the FY2013 budget
09:18 Mr. Suga
09:21 Mr. Amari, Minister for Economic Revitalization
09:57 Home