Prime Minister of Japan's Schedule March 23-31

March 23, 2013 (Sat)

AM
08:36 Three Hundred Club, a golf course in Chigasaki City, Kawanagawa; Golf with relatives and secretaries

PM
04:56 Home in Tomigaya
06:36 Dinner with Mr. Tatsunori Hara, Manager of Tokyo Yomiuri Giants (baseball team); Mr. Amari, Minister of Economic Revitalization; and Mr. Matsushita, Parliamentary Secretary of Land, Infrastructure, and Transportation
09:14 Home

March 24, 2013 (Sun)

Visit Fukushima Prefecture

PM
06:11 French Restaurant Hotel du Mikuni; dinner with the family of Ms. Kin Birei, an analyst
08:19 Home in Tomigaya

March 25, 2013 (Mon)

AM
09:02 Office
09:11 Mr. Sekou, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
09:52 Parliament
10:01 Upper House Plenary Session
11:21 Office
11:37 Mr. Hiromitsu Takezaki, Supreme Court Chief Justice

PM
12:02 Mr. Takezaki leaves
02:01 Deputy Foreign Minister Saiki; and Mr. Kouzuki, MoFA European Affairs Bureau Director General
02:37 Mr. Amari, Minister for Economic Revitalization; Mr. Matsumoto, Administrative Vice Minister of Cabinet Office; and Mr. Matsuyama, Deputy Minister of Cabinet Office
03:01 Mr. Furuya, Minister of Disaster Prevention
03:21 Mr. Dick Costolo, President and CEO of Twitter
03:51 Administrative Vice Defense Minister Kanazawa
04:25 Mr. Yamamoto, Minister of Okinawa and Northern Territory Affairs
04:59 LDP Headquarters
05:02 LDP Executives meeting
05:35 Mr. Kouichi Sugiyama, Music Composer
05:50 Office
05:55 Mr. Suga, Chief Cabinet Secretary; Mr. Katou, Mr. Sekou, and Mr. Sugita, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries
06:25 Conference call with President Van Rompuy and President Barroso of European Commission
07:17 Conversation with Mr. Shigeo Kitamura, Mr. Tadayoshi Nagashima, and other LDP members who were elected for the Lower House for the first time in 2005 election; LDP Secretary General Ishiba attends
07:43 Conversation with PM’s beat reporters
09:39 Home in Tomigaya

March 26, 2013 (Tue)

AM
07:39 Office
07:47 The Central Disaster Prevention Council
08:09 Ministerial Meeting
08:32 Ministerial Council on the Promotion of Japan as a Tourism-Oriented Country
09:39 Mr. Ihara, MoFA North American Affairs Bureau Director General; and Mr. Nishi, MoD Policy Bureau Director General
10:39 Both leave
10:55 Ambassador Roos of the US; and Senator Bob Corker of the US
11:30 Administrative Vice Foreign Minister Kawai; Deputy Foreign Minister Saiki; and Mr. Sugiyama, MoFA Asia and Oceania Affairs Bureau Director General
11:58 Reconstruction Promotion Committee

PM
01:11 Attend “Joint Memorial Ceremony for Those Who Died in Algerian Plant Terrorist Attack” hosted by Nikki
02:41 LDP headquarters
02:50 Ms. Takaichi, LDP Policy Research Council Director; Mr. Miyazawa, her deputy; and Mr. Mitsuya, Vice Chair
03:25 Office
04:07 Courtesy Call from the President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, Mr. Guillaume Soro
04:32 Mayor Tomoaki Nakao of Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture
04:44 Mr. Kitamura, Director, Cabinet Intelligence
05:09 Administrative Vice Defense Minister Kanazawa
05:30 Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy
06:40 Meeting ends
07:02 Dinner with Mr. Suga, Mr. Kunio Hatoyama, LDP Lower House member, and others at Restaurant Sagagyu Ginza Kiraku
09:14 Home in Tomigaya

March 27, 2013 (Wed)
PM
08:24 Office
08:31 Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting
08:49 Mr. Sekou, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
09:29 Mr. Sekou leaves
08:54 Parliament
10:00 Meeting of the House of Councillors Committee on Financial Affairs

PM
12:00 Leave the meeting
12:04 Office
12:05 Mr. Yasuo Kawakami, Board Chair of Chofu Seisakujo
12:17 President Kousuke Obata of Japan Youth Committee
12:26 Mr. Shigetada Inouye, Chief Editor of Mainichi Shimbun
01:20 Mr. Suga, Mr. Katou, Mr. Sekou, and Mr. Sugita, Chief and Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries
01:44 Courtesy Call from the External Affairs Minister of India, Mr. Salman Khurshid
02:09 Courtesy Call from the Representatives of the Boy Scouts who Received the Fuji Award
02:25 Courtesy Call from the Head of the Linear Collider Collaboration, Lyn Evans, an International Organization for Linear Colliders
02:40 Mr. Ootani, Deputy Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare
03:20 Observe the Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science
03:55 Tokyo Women University; exchange opinion with patients
04:22 Press interview
04:40 Office
05:22 Mr. Yamamoto, Minister of Science and Technology
05:40 Foreign Minister Kishida; Administrative Vice Foreign Minister Kawai; Deputy Foreign Minister Saiki; and Mr. Sugiyama, MoFA Asia Oceania Affairs Bureau Director General
06:14 Courtesy Call from His Royal Highness Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
06:37 Mr. Shoutarou Yachi, Cabinet Office Councilor
06:54 Mr. Wataru Wataru, Justice of the International Court of Justice
07:08 Residence; Dinner with Mr. Masayoshi Shintani, LDP Lower House member and others
08:56 Home in Tomigaya

March 28, 2013 (Thu)

AM
07:43 Office
08:17 Mr. Katou, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
08:55 Parliament
08:59 Lower House Budget Committee

PM
12:11 Office
12:12 Courtesy Call from Yokozuna Sumo Wrestler Hakuho
12:56 Parliament
12:59 Lower House Budget Committee
03:01 Lower House Plenary Session
03:11 Leave the session in the middle
03:14 Office
03:39 Defense Minister Onodera
03:55 Courtesy Call of Mr. Bregier, President and CEO of Airbus
04:23 Mr. Amari, Minister of Economic Revitalization
04:37 Mr. Katou, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; Deputy Foreign Minister Saiki; Mr. Sugiyama, MoFA; Mr. Yamazaki, Ministry of Finance International Bureau Director General; and Mr. Ueda, METI Trade Policy Director General
05:24 Mr. Katou, Mr. Sugiyama, Mr. Yamazaki, and Mr. Ueda leave
05:27 Mr. Saiki leaves
05:37 Mr. Sugita
05:56 Strategic Headquarters for the Promotion of an Advanced Information and Telecommunications Network Society
06:17 Deputy Prime Minister Aso; and Mr. Furuya, National Public Safety Commission Chief
06:24 Council for Science and Technology Policy
06:32 Receive Recommendations on a Draft Proposal to Revise the Electoral Districts for House of Representatives Members Elected from Single-Seat Constituencies
07:30 Dinner with Mr. Yutaka Asahina, President of Mainichi Shimbun at Japanese Restaurant Kinsui
10:21 Home in Tomigaya

March 29, 2013 (Fri)

AM
07:14 Office
07:15 Mr. Sekou, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
07:48 Parliament
07:57 Ministerial meeting
08:16 Mr. Sekou
09:00 Upper House Budget Committee

PM
12:36 Office
01:24 Parliament
01:31 Upper House Plenary Session
01:45 Office
02:31 LDP Headquarters
02:31 Photo taking with Upper House election candidates and Saitama Mayoral Election; Mr. Ishiba and Mr. Kawamura election affairs committee chair
03:08 Mr. Kawamura, LDP Election Affairs Committee Chair
03:19 Mr. Ishiba, LDP Secretary General
03:28 Office
04:00 Administrative Vice Foreign Minister Kawai; Deputy Foreign Minister Saiki; and Mr. Miyakawa, MoFA Middle East and African Affairs Bureau Director General
04:30 Mr. Miyakawa leaves
04:31 Mr. Sugiyama, MoFA Asia and Oceania Affairs Bureau Director General, joins
04:40 All leaves
04:45 Mr. Kitamura, Cabinet Intelligence Director
05:11 Mr. Rupert Murdoch, President and CEO of News Corporation
05:47 All leave
06:23 Advisory Council on the Establishment of a National Security Council
07:25 Leave the meeting
07:26 Industrial Competitiveness Council
08:25 Dinner with his secretaries at Restaurant Origami, The Capitol Hotel Tokyu
10:03 Home in Tomigaya

March 30, 2013 (Sat)

First Day of the Prime Minister's Visit to Mongolia

March 31, 2013 (Sun)

Second Day of the Prime Minister's Visit to Mongolia

PM
04:46 Arrive at Haneda Airport
05:20 Home in Tomigaya