Prime Minister's Official Residence (Japan)

The Kantei (Japanese官邸; short for総 理 大臣 官邸, Sori daijin Kantei, also首相 官邸shusho, Kantei; . Engl Prime Minister 's Official Residence ) is the official residence of the Prime Minister of Japan. It lies opposite the Parliament building in the district of the district Nagatacho Chiyoda capital Tokyo.

In the next Kantei Cabinet and informal meetings and receptions for foreign guests take place. The present building was completed in 2002. It has six floors, including five partially above ground; because of the slope leads to the east entrance to the third floor, access to the southern garden is located in the second. The total cost of construction amounted to 64.7 billion yen. In the basement is a crisis center that is staffed around the clock and provides the Prime Minister and his cabinet for disaster information. The building itself should be able to withstand even the strongest earthquakes, its glass front is to protect against terrorist attacks from bulletproof glass. On the roof is a helipad.

For the protection of Kantei a special unit of Keishi -chō, the Tokyo Prefectural Police was created in 2002, set up, consisting of about a hundred policemen.

Kotei

The previous Kantei was built in 1929 by Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi on the same site. It is used after the completion of the new building and completed in 2005 remodeling, in which she was moved by 50 meters to the south, as the residence of the Prime Minister (総 理 大臣 公 邸, Sori - daijin Kotei, Eng. Prime Minister's Residential Area, 35 ° 40 ' 21 "N, 139 ° 44 ' 38 " O35.672586111111139.74384166667 ).

A first Kotei was built in 1929 simultaneously with the Kantei, but was only used until 1936, when it was destroyed on 26 February at the coup attempt. In 1937, as a replacement Nihon -ya, the " Japan House ", built but never used as a residence. The rooms of the old Kotei were redesigned with a renovation to offices. Starting in 1936, lived until the 1980 's, most prime minister in their private apartment. During the occupation, only drew Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in personal union, in a State Residence: He lived until 1950, the former residence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, today's Tōkyō-to Teien Bijutsukan (English Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum ). One of the most famous Prime Minister apartments was the private home of Yoshida's successor Hatoyama Ichirō in Otowa district in Bunkyō that (音 羽 御 殿, Otowa - goten ) was nicknamed " Otowa Palace ". In 1963, the original Kotei has been renovated and made ​​usable again as a residence, Satō Eisaku moved in 1968; but successor Tanaka Kakuei did not live there, but in his private house in the district in the district Mejirodai Bunkyō - also called " Meijiro Palace ". Since Nakasone Yasuhiro all Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita lived with the exception of Miyazawa Kiichi and the Kotei.

In his second term as Prime Minister, the Cabinet of Abe Shinzō, who had (as of May 2013) is not drawn into the residence, explain to a written request from the Parliament that there are no ghosts to the knowledge of the government in the residence.