Another week is finished for Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide. This week includes new chart showing the week-over-week change in the number of minutes the prime minister devotes to different activities and advisers. Perhaps not surprisingly given that one of the major stories this week was what appeared to be a clear decision by Suga to …
Category: The Prime Minister’s Time
The Week of 20 September 2020
Suga Yoshihide has completed his first full week as Japan's prime minister. His schedule this week included both his first calls with foreign leaders and his first domestic trip at prime minister (to Fukushima prefecture). It is also possible to begin identifying certain patterns to his days, perhaps even certain officials or groups of officials …
The Week of 13 September 2020
Suga Yoshihide was elected as leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in an overwhelming victory on 14 September. Two days later, he was selected by the Diet as Japan's ninety-ninth prime minister, at which point a new cabinet of twenty - two larger than the cabinet it replaced - was officially sworn into office.Not …
Tobias S. Harris 