FILE PHOTO: Makiko Yamada and Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's predecesstor, Shinzo Abe, smile as Abe appoints her as secretary to the prime minister in Tokyo November 29, 2013. REUTERS/Yoshikazu Tsuno/Pool/File Photo
TOKYO (Reuters) - Makiko Yamada, a key spokeswoman for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, has resigned after she and other senior bureaucrats were reprimanded for attending expensive dinners hosted by Suga's son, the government said.
Yamada tendered her resignation from hospital after being admitted for ill health, the Japanese government's spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said during a regular press briefing.
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