On the 16th, three months after the establishment of the new cabinet, Prime Minister Yoshii Suga reached a milestone against. He attends late-night food and drink dinners every day, but criticism of the “steak dinner” he attended in the immediate aftermath of the announcement of the national suspension of “Go To Travel” on the 14th has expanded. On the 16th, the prime minister spoke to the press out of remorse, but after a question, he returned to dinner. While I recognize the risk of infection from eating and drinking, I do not stop eating. The ruling party is also criticizing, saying: “What you are saying is the opposite of what you are doing.”

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Prime Minister Kan always attaches great importance to dinner. In particular, while we use two luxury hotels, “The Capitol Hotel Tokyu” in Nagata-cho and “The Okura Tokyo” in Toranomon, depending on the day, we talk and exchange information with secretaries and civilians over breakfast almost every day. The “morning dinner” is a custom.

On the other hand, looking at the Prime Minister’s movements, the number of “late night dinners” has increased dramatically since December. Not only the 14, which was criticized, but also the 15, steak followed. This month’s dinner menu is diverse, including grilled chicken, grilled meat, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian. The “Hashigo Dinner”, which visits two stores a day, will be held five times this month, including on the 16th, when the 14th steak dinner was discussed.

By the way, the butcher shop the prime minister visited on the 14th is known as a luxury shop, and former prime minister Shinzo Abe used it often during his tenure.