Japan PM aide told off by his ‘ashamed’ mother for putting hands in pockets on Biden trip

Seiji Kihara, a senior aide to Japan’s prime minister, said his mother told him off after being caught on camera with his hands shoved in his pockets. Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images

A senior aide to Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has apologised for putting his hands in his pockets during an official trip to the US, admitting that his mother had scolded him and told him she was “ashamed” of him.

Seiji Kihara, the deputy chief cabinet secretary, revealed on YouTube that his mother had read comments that he was “disgracing his parents” after he was caught with his hands in his trouser pockets as Kishida spoke to reporters outside Blair House in Washington.