Photo/Illutration The Prime Minister’s Official Residence in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward (Asahi Shimbun file photo)

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi moved from the Lower House members’ lodgings to the Prime Minister’s Official Residence in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward on Dec. 29, a relocation intended to improve coordination in crisis management.

Her new home is on the same grounds as the Prime Minister’s Office. The Lower House lawmakers’ accommodations are in the Akasaka district of the capital.

Following her inauguration in October, Takaichi’s schedule was filled with diplomatic duties and Diet affairs. She put off the move until after the final government workday of the year.

“I will move in as soon as possible,” she said during a Lower House Budget Committee meeting in November.

On the day of the move, trucks entered and left the Prime Minister’s Official Residence.

Renovations, including accessibility modifications, had been underway inside the residence for Takaichi and her husband, Taku Yamamoto, a former Lower House member who suffered a stroke in February and is currently undergoing rehabilitation.

On Dec. 21, Takaichi posted on X: “Crisis management is the cornerstone of national governance. I intend to leave my familiar lodgings and move my residence to the official residence in the near future.”

(This article was written by Hayato Jinno and Yuta Ogi.)

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