岸本和歌山知事が病院搬送　公舎で倒れ意識不明の重体

　和歌山県の岸本周平知事（６８）が和歌山市内の知事公舎で倒れ、病院に搬送されたことが１４日分かった。意識不明の重体で、現在集中治療室で治療を受けているという。
　県によると、１４日午前１０時１５分ごろ、連絡が取れなかったため公舎に向かった秘書らが倒れている知事を発見した。
　岸本氏は、１３日に大阪・関西万博を訪れていた。１４日午後から予定されていた公務は全てキャンセルされた。
　岸本氏は和歌山市出身。東大を卒業後、財務省課長などを経て、２００９年に衆院議員に初当選。５期１３年務め、経済産業政務官などを歴任した。２２年の知事選に立候補し、自民、立憲民主、国民民主各党の推薦を受けて初当選した。（2025/04/14-15:51）

Wakayama Governor Shuhei Kishimoto, 68, has been taken to hospital after collapsing at his official residence, sources familiar with the matter said Monday.
   He is unconscious and in critical condition, and is being treated in an intensive care unit, the sources said.
   According to the prefectural government, the governor was found collapsed at around 10:15 a.m. on Monday by officials who went to his residence because they could not reach him.
   Kishimoto visited the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city of Osaka on Sunday. His official duties scheduled for Monday afternoon have been canceled.
   Kishimoto, a native of the city of Wakayama, the capital of the namesake western Japan prefecture, previously served as head of a Finance Ministry division. He was elected to the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, in 2009, serving five terms in 13 years and taking such key posts as parliamentary vice minister of economy, trade and industry.