The new State Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (文部科学副大臣; appointed on September 15), Soichiro Imaeda, a member of the House of Representatives and a doctor who graduated from Nagoya University School of Medicine.
Despite this, he was promoting the removal of masks at schools (screenshot is his tweet posted on March this year).
https://twitter.com/imaeda_soichiro/status/1635458751074557952

The Kishida administration wants to make COVID-19 a thing of the past. :mastozany:

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