Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Kyodo = Yonhap News
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) on the 16th, Kyodo News reported on the 15th.
According to reports, Prime Minister Suga announced on the 16th that he will be vaccinated with Pfizer’s Corona 19 vaccine as part of his first visit to the United States for a meeting with US President Joe Biden earlier next month. Prime Minister Suga plans to complete the second vaccination every three weeks. The vaccination scene on this day is expected to be released to the media.
Prime Minister Suga is expected to hold a face-to-face summit with President Biden for the first time as a foreign leader during his visit to the United States next month. According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, Prime Minister Suga will depart from Japan on April 8th and return to Korea the next day after meeting the US-Japan summit at the White House on the 9th.
The Japanese government plans to reduce the size of the delegation to accompany Prime Minister Suga’s visit to the United States to a minimum. In addition, it is a policy that all visiting groups will be vaccinated twice with the Pfizer vaccine.
US State Department and Defense, Arriving in Japan “I’m glad to come to Japan”
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin arrived in Japan on the 15th. Minister Blincoln posted a photo of arriving at the USFK base in Yokota, Japan, and wrote, “I am happy to meet Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and come to Japan to discuss US-Japan cooperation with Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi.” “The US-Japan alliance is still the cornerstone of peace, security, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific.”
Ministers Blincoln and Austin are scheduled to attend the ‘2+2 Conference’, which is the diplomatic and defense ministers’ meeting on the 16th to 17th, and hold the meetings of foreign ministers and defense ministers respectively. Prime Minister Suga also plans to prevent it.
Afterwards, Ministers Blincoln and Austin visited Korea on the 17th to 18th to prevent President Moon Jae-in, and continue to hold ‘2+2 meetings’ and ministerial meetings.
In this visit, discussions for the establishment of US policy toward North Korea, discussions for cooperation between the United States and Japan, and coordination of access by strengthening US public checks will be discussed.
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