Kantei
The Kantei ( Japanese 官邸 ; short for 総 理 大臣 官邸 , sōri daijin kantei ; also 首相 官邸 , shushō kantei ; English Prime Minister's Official Residence ) is the official seat of the Prime Minister of Japan . It is located opposite the parliament building in the Nagatachō district of the Chiyoda district of the capital Tokyo .
In addition to cabinet meetings and informal meetings, receptions for foreign guests also take place in the Kantei. The current building was completed in 2002. It has six floors, five of which are partly above ground; Because of the hillside location, the east entrance leads to the third floor, the access to the southern garden is on the second. The total cost of construction was 64.7 billion yen . In the basement there is a crisis center that is manned around the clock and provides the Prime Minister and his cabinet with information in the event of a disaster. The building should also be able to withstand the strongest earthquakes; its glass front is made of bulletproof glass to protect against terrorist attacks. There is a helipad on the roof .
To protect the Kantei, a special unit of the Tokyo Prefectural Police Keishi-chō was set up from around a hundred police officers.
Kōtei
The previous Kantei was built in 1929 under Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi on the same site. After the completion of the new building and a renovation completed in 2005, during which it was relocated 50 meters to the south, it serves as the prime minister's residence ( 総 理 大臣 公 邸 , sōri-daijin kōtei , English Prime Minister's Residential Area , 35 ° 40 ′ 21 , 3 " N , 139 ° 44 '37.8" E ).
A first Kōtei had been established at the same time as the Kantei in 1929, but was only used until 1936 when it was devastated in the attempted coup on February 26th . In 1937 the Nihon-ya , the "Japan House", was built as a replacement , but was never used as a residence. The rooms of the old Kōtei were converted into offices during a renovation. From 1936 until the 1980s, most prime ministers lived in their private homes. During the occupation , only Yoshida Shigeru , Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in personal union, moved into a state residence: until 1950 he lived in the then residence of the Foreign Minister, today's Tōkyō-to Teien Bijutsukan ( Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum ). One of the most famous prime ministerial apartments was the private house of Yoshida's successor Hatoyama Ichirō in the Otowa district in Bunkyō , which was nicknamed "Otowa Palace" ( 音 羽 御 殿 , Otowa-goten ). In 1963 the original Kōtei was renovated and made usable again as a residence, Satō Eisaku moved in in 1968; but successor Tanaka Kakuei did not live there, but in his private house in the district of Mejirodai in the district of Bunkyō - also called "Meijiro Palace". Since Nakasone Yasuhiro , all prime ministers, with the exception of Takeshita Noboru and Miyazawa Kiichi, lived in the Kōtei.
In his second term as Prime Minister, the cabinet of Abe Shinzō , who (as of May 2013) has not moved into the residence, declared in response to a written request from parliament that, to the knowledge of the government, there are no ghosts in the residence.
Web links
- Official website of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet (Japanese, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Japan Times, March 6, 2007: The prime minister's official hub
- ↑ Kantei, April 1, 2002: Prime Minister Koizumi on the establishment of the Kantei protection force ( memento of the original from March 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 総 理 大臣 公 邸 建設 工事 に お け る 曳 家 工事 の 概要 . In: MLIT . November 10, 2003, archived from the original on June 13, 2013 ; Retrieved July 27, 2016 (Japanese).
- ^ Kantei: History of the Kōtei
- ↑ Reiji Yoshida: Are ghosts keeping Abe from moving to official residence? In: The Japan Times . May 25, 2013, accessed June 4, 2013 .
Coordinates: 35 ° 40 ′ 23 " N , 139 ° 44 ′ 33.4" E