The 202nd extraordinary Diet session will be convened on the 16th, and the Liberal Democratic Party's governor, Yoshihide Suga (71), will be elected as the 99th prime minister in the afternoon plenary session of both houses of the Diet.
On the 15th, the new president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Yoshihide Suga, decided to appoint the new Chief Cabinet Secretary, Katsunobu Kato, Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Regarding the local votes of the LDP presidential election to decide the successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, it has been revealed that the LDP Hiroshima Prefectural Federation will cast all three votes to Fumio Kishida.
The LDP presidential election following the announcement of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation will be voted on the same day at a general meeting of both Houses of Representatives held at a hotel in Tokyo on the afternoon of the 14th.
Damage continues with electronic payment services. In addition to the outflow of bank deposits through NTT DoCoMo 's "DoCoMo account," security concerns have surfaced with "Bank Pay," in which financial institutions participate.