秋葉次官退任へ、後任に森氏　安保局長起用を検討―政府

　政府は、外務省の秋葉剛男事務次官（６２）を退任させ、政務担当の森健良外務審議官（６０）を昇格させる方針を固めた。複数の政府関係者が１９日、明らかにした。森氏の後任の外務審議官には山田重夫総合外交政策局長（５６）を充てる。一連の人事は、近く閣議決定される見通し。秋葉氏については、国家安全保障局長への起用を検討している。（2021/06/19-11:00）

The government plans to promote Senior Deputy Foreign Minister Takeo Mori, 60, to replace Takeo Akiba, Japan's longest-serving vice foreign minister in the postwar period, government officials said Saturday.
   Shigeo Yamada, 56, director-general of the Foreign Ministry's Foreign Policy Bureau, will assume Mori's current post.
   The appointments will be decided at a cabinet meeting in the near future.
   Akiba, 62, who has full trust from Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, became vice minister in January 2018 after serving as director-general at the International Legal Affairs Bureau and the Foreign Policy Bureau.
   He was involved in drawing up major diplomatic strategies including the concept of a mutually beneficial strategic partnership between Japan and China and the "free and open Indo-Pacific" initiative.