Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama attended the second meeting for consultations between the national and regional governments at the Prime Minister's Office. Those attending the meeting on the national government's side were: Mr. Hirofumi Hirano, Chief Cabinet Secretary; Mr. Kazuhiro Haraguchi, Minister of State for Promotion of Local Sovereignty; Mr. Yoshito Sengoku, Minister of State for National Policy; and Mr. Yukio Edano, Minister of State for Government Revitalization. On the regional government's side were representatives of six regional organizations.

At the start of the meeting, Prime Minister Hatoyama delivered an address, saying, "I have always been saying that in a certain sense local sovereignty reforms represent the most fundamental reform of the new administration. It is absurd to say that the national government takes precedence over the regional governments. I think we should fundamentally change the way the nation and regions should be, so that the regional governments are treated on par with the national government or rather take precedence over the national government."