Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was admitted into a Tokyo
hospital on Thursday noon for functional gastrointestinal
disorder.
Doctors said Abe was "extremely weak" and needs to be
hospitalized for three to four days, a hospital official told
reporters at a press conference.
The prime minister went to see doctors at Keio University
Hospital for feeling sick and received physical checkup in the
morning, one day after expressing his intention to resign.
Abe went to hospital on advice of his private doctors, who
concluded in recent days that the prime minister's fatigue has
reached a peak and should undergo a thorough examination, Kyodo
News reported, quoting Chief Cabinet Secretary Kaoru Yosano.
Shortly after Abe's announcement of resignation, Yosano said the
prime minister made the decision out of health reason. However, Abe
himself did not mention any physical problems at Wednesday's press
conference.
Japanese media quoted sources as saying that the premier felt
unwell with his stomach recently and has even received intravenous
fluids in the past week.
(Xinhua News Agency September 13, 2007)
