Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe’s dining & wining with journalists, TV commentators and
media executives since he took office on December 26, 2012
Dining & Wining from January 2013 to December 2014
(sources: newspapers, agencies in Japan.)
Dining & Wining from January 2013 to December 2014
(sources: newspapers, agencies in Japan.)
January
7
With
Yomiuri Newspaper chair Tsuneo Watanabe
January
8
With
Sankei Newspaper chair Takehiko Kiyohara, Sankei president Takamitsu KumasakaJanuary 10
With
Jiji Press commentator Shiro Tazaki and other journalists
At
Japanese restaurant Hiranoya in Akasaka
With
Asahi Newspaper president Tadakazu Kimura
With Kyodo News agency president Satoshi Ishikawa
At Japanese restaurant Kochuan
With Nikkei business daily president Tsuneo Kita
At Imperial Hotel French restaurant Les Saisons
March
13
With journalists (from the mainstream media)
At Ark Hills Club
March
15
With Fuji TV chair Hisashi Hieda
At French restaurant The Crescent
March
22
March 24
With Birei Kin, author and commentator
At Hotel De Mikuni
August 16
With journalists (from the mainstream media)
At Ark Hills Club
With Fuji TV chair Hisashi Hieda
At French restaurant The Crescent
With
publishing comapny Gentosha president Toru Kenjo and TV Asahi president Hiroshi
Hayakawa
At
Prime Minister’s Official Residence
March 24
With Birei Kin, author and commentator
March
25
With journalists (from the mainstream media) who cover Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
At
Chinese restaurant Akasaka HantenWith journalists (from the mainstream media) who cover Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
March
28
With
Mainichi Newspaper president Yutaka Asahina
April
4
With
Jiji Press commentator Shiro Tazaki and Asahi Newspaper commentator Takeshi
Soga
When
reporters asked Abe if he liked Chinese food, Abe said, “I like it. It’s
Japan-China friendship,” according to Jiji Press.
April
5
With
NTV president Yoshio Okubo
May
7
With
Jiji Press president Yutaka Nishizawa and Jiji Press commentator Shiro Tazaki
May
8
With
Yomiuri Newspaper chair Tsuneo Watanabe and NTV president Yoshio Okubo
At
Prime Minister’s Official Residence
May
10
With
Monta Mino (Noriko Minorikawa), TBS talk show host
At
Prime Minister’s Official Residence
May
14
With
Chunichi Newspaper president Nobuaki Koide
May
15
With
Yomiuri Newspaper chair Tsuneo Watanabe
June
12
With
newspapers’ and agencies’ commentators
June
20
With
Kahoku Shimpo president Masahiko Ichiriki
Fukui Newspaper president Masahito Yoshida
Shinano Mainichi Newspaper president Sotaro Kosaka
Shizuoka Newspaper
president Go Oishi
Kyoto Newspaper chair and president Michikazu Shiraishi
June
25
At
Prime Minister’s Official Residence
July 1
With
Yomiuri Newspaper commentator Keiko Iizuka
July
22
With
Jiji Press commentator Kiyotaka Kato and journalist Kenji Goto, former Kyodo
News agency editor and former anchorman at Tokyo Broadcasting System Television
July
24
With
journalists from Japan’s major media
August
2
With
Will magazine editor Kazuyoshi Hanada
At
Prime Minister’s Official Residence
August
6
“meeting”
at Hotel New Otani Garden Tower
With
writer Naoki Hyakuta, Will magazine editor Kazuyoshi Hanada
August 16
Played
golf with Fuji TV chair Hisashi Hieda
At
Abe’s vacation home
Barbecue
with Fuji TV chair Hisashi Hieda
August
18
Played
golf with former Nikkei newspaper chair Ryoki Sugita
With
Fuji TV chair Hisashi Hieda
August
22
With
Kyodo News agency president Masaki Fukuyama and other journalists
September
10
With
Yomiuri Newspaper chair Tsuneo Watanabe
September
12
With
reporters who cover the Cabinet Office
At
Akasaka Hanten
October
17
With
journalists from Japan's major media who once covered Abe
November
13
With
journalist Yoshimasa Suenobu, former TV Asahi political editor who is now professor
at economic department at Chuo University
Toru Kenjo, president of publishing
company Gentosha Inc
Dentsu president Tadashi Ishii
At
Prime Minister’s Official Residence
December
2
With
Yomiuri Newspaper chair Tsuneo Watanabe
December
16
With
Jiji Press commentator Shiro Tazaki, public broadcaster NHK commentator &
talk show host Toshio Shimada
December
19
With
Yomiuri daily chair Tsuneo Watanabe
December
20
With
Sankei Newspaper chair Takehiko Kiyohara, Sankei president Takamitsu Kumasaka
December
26 (the day Abe visited the Yasukuni Shrine)
With
news organizations’ political editors
2014
January
17
With
Yomiuri chair Tsuneo Watanabe, Yomiuri president Kojiro Shiraishi
At
Yomiuri headquarters View Lounge
January
29
With
Fuji TV chair Hisashi Hieda
At
Takajo Kotobuki in Asakusa
February 3
With Mainichi daily president Yutaka Asahina
February 3
With Mainichi daily president Yutaka Asahina
February
18
With
Former NHK chair Katsuji Ebisawa
Sankei daily chair Takehiko Kiyohara
Nikkei
business daily chief editorial writer Yoichi Serikawa
Mainichi daily honorary
advisor Masato Kitamura
June 13
August 19
December 16
With Shiro Tazaki, Jiji Press commentator
Toshio Shimada, NHK commentator & talk show host
and other commentators and editors from Asahi, Nihon Keizai, Yomiuri, Mainichi newspapers and NTV
at Shimada sushi restaurant
February
21
With
journalists from Japan's major media who have covered Abe before
March
27
With
Kyodo News agency president Masaki Fukuyama
April
1
With
journalists who cover premier Abe
April
2
With
journalists who served as political editors
April
17
Takamasa
Koshimune, Sanyo Shimbun president
Jiro
Yamamoto, Chugoku Shimbun chairman
Tsunemasa
Yamane, San-in Chuo Shimpo chairman
Takao
Kawasaki, Nishinippon Shimbun president
Takeshi
Nagano, Oita Godo Shimbun president
Eiichi
Izu, Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun president
May
13
Yoshio Okubo, NTV president
At NTV guest house
Yoshio Okubo, NTV president
At NTV guest house
May
15
Shiro Tazaki, Jiji Press commentator
Shiro Tazaki, Jiji Press commentator
Toshio
Shimada, NHK commentator & talk show host
and other
journalists
June 13
With
Yomiuri Newspaper chair Tsuneo Watanabe
At
Prime Minister’s Office
June
18
With
Jiji Press president Yutaka Nishizawa, Jiji Press commentator Shiro Tazaki, executive
secretary Yuji Watanabe
June
20
With Kyodo News agency president Masaki Fukuyama and other journalists
With Kyodo News agency president Masaki Fukuyama and other journalists
July
4
With
publishing comapny Gentosha president Toru Kenjo and TV Asahi chair and chief
executive Hiroshi Hayakawa, TV Asahi president Shinichi Yoshida
At
Prime Minister’s Official Residence
August
11
With
Jiji Press commentator Kiyotaka Kato and political journalist Yoshimasa Suenobu
(former political editor at TV Asahi)
August
17
With
Fuji TV chair Hisashi Hieda
August 19
Played
golf with Fuji TV chair Hisashi Hieda
Dinner with
Fuji TV chair Hisashi Hieda, some government officials at
Nippon Foundation chair Yohei Sasakawa’s vacation home
August
20
Started to play golf with Fuji TV chair Hisashi Hieda, some government officials at Fujisakura Country Club.
but a natural disaster forced Prime Minister Abe to interrupt a game and return to Tokyo
October 10
With journalists who cover the Abe Cabinet
At Chinese restaurant Akasaka Hanten
October 27
with female journalists
at Chinese restaurant Fureika
October 31
but a natural disaster forced Prime Minister Abe to interrupt a game and return to Tokyo
October 10
With journalists who cover the Abe Cabinet
At Chinese restaurant Akasaka Hanten
October 27
with female journalists
at Chinese restaurant Fureika
October 31
December 16
With Shiro Tazaki, Jiji Press commentator
Toshio Shimada, NHK commentator & talk show host
and other commentators and editors from Asahi, Nihon Keizai, Yomiuri, Mainichi newspapers and NTV
at Shimada sushi restaurant