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2024-03-19 16:31:00
Ishii, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's House of Councilors Diet Affairs Committee, said of Seko Seko, former secretary-general of the House of Councilors, who attended the Political Ethics Review Committee last week, ``It is extremely important that he did not provide an explanation or answer questions that reflected the feelings of the group. It was disappointing," he said.
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2024-03-19 16:12:00
Executives from the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito held a meeting to discuss the revision of the Political Funds Regulation Act in response to issues surrounding factional political funding parties, and after coordinating between the two parties, they will hold discussions with the opposition parties and aim to pass the bill in the current Diet session. I have confirmed.
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2024-03-19 16:00:00
Regarding the issue surrounding the political funding party of a faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, four opposition parties, including the Constitutional Democratic Party, said that the House of Representatives Political Ethics Review Committee meeting held until the 18th did not lead to clarifying the actual situation, and six people, including senior members of the Abe faction, were removed from the budget committee. They agreed to request that witnesses be subpoenaed at the meeting.
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2024-03-19 15:07:00
At a press conference, Komeito representative Yamaguchi expressed the idea that the government should consider ways to sanction the relevant members of the Diet in response to the issue surrounding the political funding party of a faction of the Liberal Democratic Party that would be acceptable to the public.
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2024-03-19 14:12:00
Regarding the issue surrounding the political funding party of a faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, four opposition parties, including the Constitutional Democratic Party, said that the House of Representatives Political Ethics Review Committee meeting held until the 18th did not lead to clarifying the actual situation, and six people, including senior members of the Abe faction, were removed from the budget committee. They agreed to request that witnesses be subpoenaed at the meeting.
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2024-03-19 13:33:00
Regarding the government's goal of raising the minimum wage to 1,500 yen by the mid-2030s, Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Takemi said that the trend of wage increases should spread, taking into account the trend of the spring labor unions, which resulted in the highest wage increase rate for the first time in 33 years. He expressed his intention to work hard to achieve this goal as quickly as possible.
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2024-03-19 12:35:00
Regarding the issue surrounding the political funding party of a faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, four opposition parties, including the Constitutional Democratic Party, said that the House of Representatives Political Ethics Review Committee meeting held until the 18th did not lead to clarifying the actual situation, and six people, including senior members of the Abe faction, were removed from the budget committee. They agreed to request that witnesses be subpoenaed at the meeting.
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2024-03-19 11:48:00
Foreign Minister Kamikawa, who is visiting New York in the United States, met with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and stated that the United Nations plays an important role in the field of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, and expressed his desire to cooperate toward the realization of a "world free of nuclear weapons." We agreed to work on this.
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2024-03-19 11:41:00
Foreign Minister Kamikawa, who is visiting New York in the United States, announced that he and the United States will submit a resolution to the United Nations Security Council calling for the prohibition of deploying nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in outer space regarding nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. I made it.
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2024-03-19 11:31:00
The government approved a bill at a cabinet meeting on the 19th to introduce a system called ``Japanese DBS'' to check whether people who work with children have a history of sexual crimes. The mainstay of this service is the ability to inquire about criminal records for up to 20 years.
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2024-03-19 10:40:00
The government approved a bill at a cabinet meeting on the 19th to introduce a system called ``Japanese DBS'' to check whether people who work with children have a history of sexual crimes. The mainstay of this service is the ability to inquire about criminal records for up to 20 years.
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2024-03-19 09:50:00
The government approved a bill at a cabinet meeting on the 19th to introduce a system called ``Japanese DBS'' to check whether people who work with children have a history of sexual crimes. The mainstay of this service is the ability to inquire about criminal records for up to 20 years.
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