"Ghosts Appear" Japanese Prime Minister Moved to Badly Rumoured Diplomatic Mission [Now News]

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has moved from his residence in the House of Representatives in Akasaka, Tokyo, to the prime minister's official residence in Nagata-cho.

Prime Minister Ishiba moved in on the 12th, about three months after taking office in October last year after inspecting and repairing missions.

In Japan, the government-provided accommodation for high-ranking government officials is called a "public 邸" (public 邸) and the office space is called a "public residence."

The official residence is within the same site as the prime minister's residence and can be moved in about a minute on foot, which has led to the prime minister's quick response in emergencies such as disasters.

Prime Minister Ishiba reportedly told people about the diplomatic mission, "It couldn't be better, but it's too wide to use."

However, Prime Minister Ishiba plans to continue to use the lawmaker's quarters in the future.

Cabinet ministers and party officials, including Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, and Secretary-General Hiroshi Moriyama of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, are living in the lawmaker's residence.

The current prime ministerial mission renovated the old one, which was built in 1929, and began to be used again in April 2005.

However, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who came back to power in December 2012, commuted from his home in Tokyo's Shibuya Baseball, and his successor Yoshihide Suga stayed at the House of Representatives' quarters to commute to his official residence.

Then former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who began his term in office in October 2021, began using the official residence again.

It is not clear why former Prime Minister Abe and Suga vacated the prime minister's mission, but there has also been speculation that it is related to the assassination of the then prime minister in a 1932 coup by naval officers.

In particular, there were rumors that the Japanese prime minister's official residence was "not good" or "ghosts" as there were cases of short-lived or unfortunate endings among the prime ministers who moved in.


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