Following the resignation of Makiko Yamada, who had been entertained by the eldest son of Prime Minister Suga, who works for a satellite broadcasting-related company, the government decided to replace him as a Cabinet Public Relations Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We have decided to assign Mr. Hiko Ono, who is the Deputy Foreign Affairs spokesman.
Makiko Yamada, who was the eldest son of Prime Minister Suga, who works for the satellite broadcasting related company "Tohokushinsha", received entertainment of over 70,000 yen per person at one time as a general affairs deputy, due to poor physical condition. I resigned from the Cabinet Public Relations Secretary on the 1st because it was difficult to carry out.
In response to this, the government decided to assign Mr. Hiko Ono, who is the Deputy Foreign Affairs Press Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the succeeding Cabinet Public Relations Secretary in a rotating cabinet meeting.
Mr. Ono is 55 years old.
After joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1988 and working as a Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Cabinet and the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, he was assigned to Jakarta, Indonesia in 2017 as a minister of the Japanese government representative of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Did.
Prime Minister Suga has shown his stance of promoting the active participation of women by appointing women as Cabinet Public Relations Secretary, and under the guidance of Mr. Ono, who has a wealth of public relations work and international experience, the public relations system of the Prime Minister's Office. It seems that there is also the aim of trying to rebuild the.