President Biden after dinner with PM Kishida at Happoen on May 23On May 24, I rang Secretary H’s cell phone and asked him about such concerns and the string of infected people in his local office. –In mid-May, I heard that Mr. H had contracted corona.  H: “Yes. Um, it is true that he was infected. –How is he feeling now?  ‘He was almost asymptomatic (and has now recovered).’ –Did Mr. H’s infection lead to the spread of infection to his colleagues in the local office?  Mr. H.: “That is not for us to determine, but for the public health center. We have not heard anything from the public health center (about the possibility of Mr. H being the source of the infection).   –Did Mrs. Yuko and Mr. Shotaro become infected when they visited the local office and did they bring the virus back to Prime Minister Kishida?  Whether or not (Mrs. Yuko and Mr. Shoutarou and others) were close contacts is a matter for the public health center to decide. –Are they not considered close contacts?  No, they are not. In a written interview, Kishida’s office said that he refrains from responding to matters concerning individual privacy regarding the four people, including his secretary, who was infected. Speaking of Kishida and corona, he had a bitter experience last July, when five secretaries who attended a political fundraiser for his faction were infected after the party. One wonders what lesson will be written in Kishida’s notebook about the second cluster fiasco in two consecutive years.