Mr. Taro Kono (57), who was appointed as Minister of Defense of the Abe Cabinet to the Minister of Administrative Reform and Regulatory Reform of the Kan Cabinet, showed his presence immediately after taking office. At a new ministerial meeting before dawn on the 17th, he said: “It is a precedent principle. You should stop doing this quickly.” A key man designated as a symbol of Prime Minister Yoshii Suga’s “breaking the preceding principle.” The same directive from the prime minister, “Vertical 110”, was immediately opened on his own SNS. Mr. Kono, the leader of the leader of the next generation. The words and deeds that attract attention are likely to affect the ups and downs of the Kan administration.

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Mr. Kono was angry before dawn on the 17th when many people fell asleep. Meeting of new ministers that began at the official residence from midnight on the 16th. It is an annual event at the time of the cabinet formation, but it began before 11:00 pm and the 20 ministers finished speaking around 1:45 on the 17th. Mr. Kono’s turn 15 was at 1 o’clock.

Prime Minister Kan, who has a close relationship with the “Kanagawa Network”, entrusted Mr. Kono with administrative reform and regulatory reform. A “forward power” (government official) was expected, but when asked “How quickly will the existing system be destroyed in the limited time?” I bite. “Speaking of speed, if the minister holds this meeting in each ministry, it will be over by now and everyone will be sleeping. Best of precedent, vested rights and authority. They should quickly stop doing this.”

At first, Mr. Kono was seen as the most promising minister of general affairs. Mr. Suga is in charge of lowering mobile phone rates, which he emphasizes, but in the end he is in charge of administrative reform. The proposal from Mr. Kono’s minister of general affairs is said to have been “lateral” within the PLD. For the Minister of General Affairs, the order of the interviews is third. The start time was almost two hours earlier than Mr. Kono’s.

However, Prime Minister Kan is said to be “directly connected” in charge of administrative reform, and Mr. Kono is one of three ministers who also received direct instructions from the Prime Minister that day. He was directly ordered to install “Vertical 110”, but on that day, he immediately announced the installation of “Administrative Reform Guide Box” on SNS. “Please send us information about regulations, such as useless regulations, regulations that hinder your work and problems with the vertical division of government offices,” he said. Mr. Kono himself said he should read them all, and 700 posts were received as early as the afternoon of the 17th. Mr. Kono said, “The guide box is about to explode, but I want to start with the concrete ones.”

Mr. Kono was a person who was feared as a “cost cutter” when he led the “Waste Eradication Project Team (commonly known as Mudabo)” during the LDP era. The incision shown at the ministerial meeting also became a place to show the presence of the Kan Cabinet as a point man. The government office is terrifying too.