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Decision on Senior Vice-Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries
Monday, September 30, 2013
Photograph of the Prime Minister attending a commemorative photograph session with the senior vice-ministers
Photograph of the Prime Minister delivering an address at the meeting of the senior vice-ministers (1)
Photograph of the Prime Minister delivering an address at the meeting of the senior vice-ministers (2)
Photograph of the Prime Minister attending a commemorative photograph session with the parliamentary secretaries
Photograph of the Prime Minister delivering an address at the meeting of the parliamentary secretaries (1)
Photograph of the Prime Minister delivering an address at the meeting of the parliamentary secretaries (2)
The senior vice-ministers and the parliamentary secretaries were decided at the Cabinet meeting on September 30.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended the attestation ceremony of the senior vice-ministers at the Imperial Palace. Prime Minister Abe and the senior vice-ministers thereafter returned to the Prime Minister's Office and attended a commemorative photograph session. Prime Minister Abe then attended the meeting of the senior vice-ministers.
In addition, Prime Minister Abe delivered letters of appointment to the parliamentary secretaries at the Prime Minister's Office. The Prime Minister then attended a commemorative photograph session and the meeting of the parliamentary secretaries.
In his addresses at each meeting, Prime Minister Abe said,
"Since its inauguration in December of last year, the Abe Cabinet has worked with a high sense of urgency and made every effort for the revitalization of the economy, acceleration of reconstruction, reshaping of diplomacy and security, revitalization of education, and other matters.
Although these issues Japan faces are all difficult, having been entrusted with responsibility from the public through the elections of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, the Government and ruling parties must further advance policies and further accelerate their implementation.
This is truly a critical moment."
The Prime Minister made the following additional comments at the meeting of the senior vice-ministers.
"I want to ask that each senior vice-minister fulfill an even more important role than ever before, building on the discussion now occurring regarding Diet reform and other matters.
As you collaborate with the parliamentary secretaries, I ask that you construct appropriate relationships of trust with your subordinates in the bureaucracy, create an environment in which each ministry can exercise the power it holds as much as it needs to, support the ministers, and manage national politics."
The Prime Minister made the following additional comments at the meeting of the parliamentary secretaries.
"I want to ask that each parliamentary secretary construct appropriate relationships of trust with your subordinates in the bureaucracy, create an environment in which each ministry can exercise the power it holds as much as it needs to, support the ministers and senior vice-ministers, and manage national politics."
