File photo of Makiko Yamada with Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's predecessor, Shinzo Abe, smile as Abe appoints her as secretary to the prime minister in Tokyo in November, 2013.- Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters): Makiko Yamada, a key spokeswoman for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, will resign after she and other senior bureaucrats were reprimanded for attending expensive dinners hosted by Suga's son, the government said.
Yamada will tender her resignation on Monday (March 1), the Japanese government's spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato told reporters.
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