Foreign Minister Hayashi will visit Okayama Prefecture, where ministerial meetings related to the G7 Hiroshima Summit will be held together with ambassadors stationed in Japan. showed the idea.
On the 5th, Minister for Foreign Affairs Hayashi visited Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, where the Labor and Employment Ministers' Meeting will be held in April along with the G7 Hiroshima Summit, together with ambassadors from nine countries, including the United Kingdom and Germany, who are stationed in Japan.
Among them, the group visited the Bikan Historical Quarter, a tourist attraction where the venue is located, and saw the historical townscape such as Kurashikikan, which was built as a town hall in the Taisho period.
Afterwards, Minister Hayashi exchanged opinions in a circle with people involved in the local tourism industry in Okayama City.
After finishing the series of events, Minister Hayashi told reporters, "We were able to have meaningful discussions on expanding inbound demand, including by taking advantage of the G7 ministerial meeting. I would like to evoke it, ”he said, expressing his desire to connect the holding of the G7 meeting to the recovery of the number of foreign tourists who have decreased due to the new corona.