The other49 people seatednearby on the same plane have been isolated for a 10-day doctor observation period, saidYoichiMasuzoe, Japan's health minister.
Even one of Mr Abe's fiercest critics, YoichiMasuzoe, who called for his resignation after the upper-house defeat, has been made minister of health and welfare admittedly an unenviable job, since he must clean up the mess of the missing pensions records.