Hiroto Izumi

National Nov 21, 2019

Japan offers Indonesia help with building its new forest capital

by Christine T. Tjandraningsih

Japan has offered to assist Indonesia in accomplishing its ambitious plan of relocating the national capital to the forests of Borneo. The offer was made during a closed-door meeting between Hiroto Izumi, special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime ...

National / Politics May 30, 2017

Abe aide pushed for Kake approval in meetings, ex-bureaucrat says

A close aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last year urged the then-top education ministry bureaucrat to push forward the procedure for the opening of a veterinary medicine school, the bureaucrat said Tuesday. The approval of the school, operated by a close friend of Abe, ...