Son Shotaro Kishida, 32, will step down as executive political secretary to his father, the prime minister, after public criticism that he used a public residence to hold a private party, the newspaper said.
Pictures published in the weekly magazine Shukan Bunshum show Shotaro Kishida with other people posing as if they were a newly added closet, or reclining on the symbolically significant red carpet.
In other photos from the Year to Forget concert on December 30, people are standing on a stage, as if giving a press conference.
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“As a political secretary, a public office, his actions were inappropriate and I decided to replace him to make him take responsibility,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday night, according to the Guardian.
“It is clear that the responsibility for the appointment rests with me,” he said, adding that his son would be replaced on Thursday.
The son himself says he was only there to greet the guests, but did not stay at the party, according to the newspaper.
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This isn’t the first time that Shotaro Kishida has been in bad weather. In January, he was criticized for using embassy cars on private sightseeing trips in Britain and Paris – and for buying souvenirs for cabinet members at a luxury boutique in London.
The prime minister says he severely rebuked his son over the party’s photos, but failed to quell criticism from the public and the opposition, who accuse him of nepotism, according to The Guardian.
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