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At the evening conference on September 2, 2020, when Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshii Suga officially announced that he would run for the Liberal Democratic Party elections, there was a scene after a long time in which reporter Iko Mochizuki from Tokyo Shimbun asked questions. Mr. Suga and Mr. Mochizuki are known to have had intensive exchanges on the Mori-tomo-Kato issue, but since the emergency declaration was issued in April, the press conference at the prime minister’s residence was limited to ` “ one journalist per company ”. As a result, Mr. Mochizuki was unable to attend the press conference at the official residence.
Mr. Mochizuki is concerned that there was “question interference” in the official residency interview. In the interview that day, there was a scene where the moderator said, “Please explain briefly” during Mr. Mochizuki’s question, which lasted about 1 minute, but I belonged to a journalist who was not the journalist and the cabinet press conference. Mr. Mochizuki gave some assessment to Mr. Suga’s response, saying: “I am speaking relatively in my own words,” in part because journalists have been appointed who have not.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announcing his candidacy for the LDP presidential elections at a press conference
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Tokyo Shimbun reporter Iko Mochizuki asks Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihiro Suga after a long absence.
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There was also a scene where the moderator (on the right of the photo) yelled, “Sorry, please make a short statement because of the weather.”
“Several reporters are pointed out, which is quite different from before.”
Mr. Suga’s press conference was announced 30 minutes in advance, but it lasted about 45 minutes. The room is larger than the conference room of the Prime Minister’s residence and is a multipurpose room in the Second House of Representatives. Many reporters who normally could not attend press conferences at the official residence also participated, and reporters from Internet media such as IWJ and Nico Nico Douga were also nominated, but no freelance reporters were nominated and protests were raised in the end.
It was after Mochizuki was named. It’s a question about how the press conference should be.
“Today I saw the situation of the secretary’s interview and felt that various reporters were singled out quite differently than before.”
Later, he explained how the “question got in the way” in the official residence interview and asked if he would respond to the persecution of the journalist when he was elected president. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s meeting continued
“There was a lot of criticism that it was a play, like a theater company, it was the script.”
Almost a minute passed when I pointed that out, etc.
“Excuse me, please be brief due to time.”
Voiced. So Mochizuki ended the question with the following:
“In addition to reading the document (created by the secretary when Mr. Suga was elected president), he also carefully read the Secretary’s own words, including his own words, without asking questions in advance. Will you take the time to meet and respond? “
Mr. Kan’s response is: “We have a rules-based press conference within a limited time. The sooner you ask the conclusion, the more time you have.” Mr. Mochizuki does not answer the questions directly, but it is ironic to take questions that take time to understand what he wants to do. Mochizuki also told J-CAST News: “I think I wanted to say a word ironically,” he said.
Mr. Mochizuki said, “I don’t know what will happen to the future conference,” but on the one hand,
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