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The problem that an executive of the Ministry of the Interior and Communications was invited by the eldest son of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who works for a company related to satellite broadcasting, to entertain in restaurants is the degree of bureaucratic sontaku for the administration that it has been problem after problem since Abe’s second administration. Opinion is getting stronger. The prime minister tries to keep his distance, saying he has a different personality than his eldest son, “he shouldn’t go in”, but the opposition party is the prime minister’s son on the 5th, so there is a problem that Executive of the Ministry of the Interior and Communications may have accepted the dinner. Criticism is increasing because it has the same composition as the Moritomo-Kake Gakuen problem, where the sontaku of bureaucrats whose personal rights were held in the official residence became a problem. (Tetsuto Yamaguchi)
◆ Entertainment, souvenirs, taxi tickets from satellite transmission companies
The weekly Bunharu, to be published on the 4th, will feature four executives, including Yasuhiko Taniwaki, the post of the Ministry of the Interior and Communications, which ranks second after the Deputy Minister, from October to December last year. It was reported that he received entertainment in Tokyo from the prime minister’s eldest son, who is an employee, and received taxi tickets and souvenirs when he returned home.
There is a risk of violating the Code of Ethics of the National Civil Service, which prohibits the receipt of entertainment, money and goods from “interested parties” who are engaged in licensing. At the House Budget Committee on the 5th, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, Ryota Takeda, stated that he would “take appropriate action” based on an investigation by the Ethics Review Board of the National Personnel Authority. .
Hiroyuki Moriyama of the Constitutional Democratic Party said that December last year was the time to renew the certification of satellite broadcasts. I wondered if the topic came up at dinner.
◆ “I don’t remember if the story of the satellite broadcast came to light.”
Yoshinori Akimoto, director of the Information Management and Distribution Bureau, who accepted the participation, said that he was “invited” to the dinner and explained that he “recognized that he was not a stakeholder” at that time. “I don’t remember,” he said, as to whether there was an issue on satellite transmission.
Mr. Moriyama said: “I don’t know if a member of the Diet will come even if I call him. The reason why the Ministry of the Interior and Communications No. 2 is 2 hours and 40 minutes (having dinner) is probably because the other party He’s the prime minister’s eldest son. You shouldn’t be authoritarian or sontaku like that. ” Similarly, Mr. Seiji Osaka, a constitutional democrat, said: “I feel sorry for everyone at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.”
◆ Prime Minister Suga, who was Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications during the first Abe administration.
The prime minister argued: “I made him secretary more than 10 years ago. I haven’t seen him recently.” “It is natural that the administration is not distorted by dinner,” he said.
He also denied the view that the current prime minister’s career as general affairs minister during Abe’s first administration caused inappropriate problems. However, in the budget committee on the 4th, he replied about Tohokushinsha that “the president (of the founder) is from Akita himself and received various endorsements”, and this time too, he cannot erase the opinion that he is “sentaku”. ..
Professor Hajime Ota (organization theory) of Doshisha University said: “The composition is similar to ‘Morikake’ in that the bureaucrats are close to the area around the prime minister. You need to put a scalpel in the bureaucracy.”
