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Politics › Diet to return to normal Wed;, session may be extended to early Dec.
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 12 hours ago
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Diet proceedings, which have largely been stalemated following the ruling bloc’s forced passage last Friday of a debt repayment bill in the House of Representatives, are expected to return to normal on Wednesday, lawmakers said. The prospect emerged...
Tags: democratic parties, Democratic Party of Japan, diet session, ruling bloc, Japan, Tōkyō, Yamaoka, Politics, Diet of Japan, Kyodo News, Japanese media, Business Finance, News agencies, Elections in Japan, House of Representatives of Japan, Soka Gakkai, New Komeito Party, Government of Japan
Politics › LDP leader criticizes gov't for pursuit of 'socialist' policies
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Liberal Democratic Party President Sadakazu Tanigaki on Wednesday criticized Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s government for appearing to pursue socialist policies, pledging to confront it in the upcoming Diet session if that is indeed the case. The main...
Tags: democratic parties, Yukio Hatoyama, diet session, DPJ, Democratic Party of Japan, LDP, prime minister
Common Asian currency pushed
Tōkyō :: Japan | 5 months ago
Credibility The man who hopes to be Japan’s next finance minister envisions an Asia united by a single currency, saying the dollar may no longer reign supreme in the future. The opposition’s ’shadow finance minister’ Masaharu Nakagawa also says he hopes to reshape...
Tags: prime minister, diet session, Democratic Party of Japan, minister taro, Taro Aso, Yukio Hatoyama, censure motion
Ruling coalition rams through record ¥14 trillion extra budget
Tōkyō :: Japan | 5 months ago
Credibility A record ¥14 trillion extra budget for fiscal 2009 was enacted by the Diet on Friday as the Liberal Democratic Party-New Komeito ruling bloc used its right to override the opposition again and force the legislation through. The opposition-controlled Upper...
Tags: Liberal Democratic Party-New Komeito, extra budget, democratic parties, diet session, ruling coalition, Japan, prime minister
Japan faces deflation, report says
Tōkyō :: Japan | 12 months ago
Credibility Japan is facing the biggest threat of deflation among industrialized nations next year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicted Tuesday, warning that the global financial crisis could further damage an economy already in recession.
Tags: diet session, supplementary budget, Democratic Party of Japan, Taro Aso, prime minister, Bank of Japan, Japan Nikkei, minister taro, Takeshi Koizumi, current extraordinary
Aso hints at possibility of sizable extension of Diet session
Lima :: Peru | about 1 year ago
Credibility Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso hinted Friday at the possibility of a sizeable extension of the current extraordinary Diet session beyond its scheduled end Nov. 30. Aso said in Lima the session may be ''extended further'' if there is resistance...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, Taro Aso, minister taro, prime minister, diet session
Asahi Shimbun, Japan: Opposition to put key vote on hold
Hatoyama :: Japan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Three opposition parties will refuse to vote on an anti-terror refueling bill until the government submits a second supplementary budget during the current Diet session. Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan), the Social Democratic Party and Kokumin Shinto...
Tags: democrat, vote, diet session, extra budget, democratic parties
Extra Diet session to be held for 70 days from Sept. 12: LDP's Aso
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 year ago
Credibility The upcoming extraordinary Diet session will be held for 70 days from Sept. 12, Taro Aso, secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said Monday. Aso disclosed the starting date and duration of the extraordinary session after meeting...
Tags: diet session
Extra Diet session to be convened in mid-Sept., Fukuda says
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Tuesday he will convene the next Diet session in mid-September, hoping to work on such issues as extending Japan's antiterrorism refueling mission in the Indian Ocean. Fukuda will decide the exact opening date for...
80% of Diet members oppose easing sanctions on N. Korea: survey
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Nearly 80 percent of Diet members have so far expressed opposition to Japan's plan to ease its sanctions on North Korea as long as Pyongyang fails to return more Japanese abduction victims, families of Japanese abductees and their supporters said Monday....
Tags: Japan, North Korea, Thomas Schieffer, extraordinary diet, diet session, Afghanistan
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