TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has been brought down to earth just a week after hailing the Group of Seven (G-7) Hiroshima summit as a resounding success, with the event pageantry failing to translate into an expected boost in opinion poll ratings.
The result: Mr Kishida's eldest son Shotaro, 32, was on Monday unceremoniously given the sack as the Prime Minister's executive secretary in charge of political affairs. He lasted just seven months in the job.
The transgression that led to Mr Shotaro Kishida's sacking was the manner in which he and at least 10 extended family members were goofing it up at the Prime Minister's Residence during a year-end party on Dec 30, 2022.
This came to light on May 24, when the weekly Shukan Bunshun tabloid published leaked photographs of their merrymaking.
In one photograph, the younger Mr Kishida and his guests were posing on a stairwell in imitation of the pictures taken of newly appointed Cabinet ministers.
He was standing in the centre of the front row, a spot reserved for the prime minister.
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