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SUBJECT: JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/06/07
Index:
1) Top headlines
2) Editorials
3) Prime Minister's daily schedule
4) Prime Minister Abe will use every diplomatic moment at G8 summit
to seek breakthrough on North Korea problem
5) Japan, EU at the G8 summit to focus on issue of reduction of
greenhouse gases
6) Abe meets Germany's prime minister in Berlin
7) Australia thinking of joining Japan, US in missile-defense
program says defense minister
8) Defense Minister Kyuma, Australian counterpart agree in meeting
to strengthen exchanges
9) SDF personnel to participate as observers at US-Australian joint
exercise
10) LDP, Komeito to present bill to Diet allowing military use of
outer space
11) Upper House election campaign turning into all out fight between
LDP, Democratic Party of Japan (Minshuto) on pension issue
12) LDP, alarmed by Abe's plunging support rates, suddenly changes
election tactics
13) Opposition camp criticizes Nakayama candidacy as LDP using
abduction issue for political gain
14) Foreign Minister Aso launches strategy to succeed Abe as prime
minister
15) Ruling camp in proposed bill to allow tax exemptions to those
whose pension-payment records were lost
16) Three bills, including one creating an NSC and another unifying
pension systems will be carried over to the next Diet session
17) With Diet extension, ruling camp plan to pass civil-service
reform bill this session
Articles:
1) TOP HEADLINES
Asahi:
Science ministry to install 500 quake observation devices off
Japan's Pacific coast for research
Mainichi:
LDP, Minshuto face off over pensions in platforms for Upper House
election
Yomiuri:
Gangsters arrested for smuggling forged taxi charge coupons from
TOKYO 00002517 002 OF 011
China
Nihon Keizai:
Marubeni to launch power generation and desalination projects in
United Arab Emirates by investing 360 billion yen
Sankei:
Japanese companies expect to gain greenhouse gas emissions quotas as
first case for ODA project
Tokyo Shimbun:
Social Insurance Agencies made 930,000 pension record-keeping errors
in 1964
Akahata:
Missing pension payments cause 20 trillion yen worth of losses to
the people
2) EDITORIALS
Asahi:
(1)Environment G-8: Widen framework of Kyoto Protocol
(2)Cut off cozy relations between accountants and companies
Mainichi:
(1)Measures for missing pension payments will not serve to dissolve
public distrust, concern
(2)Deployment of MD system in East Europe: Efforts needed not to
cause a new cold war
Yomiuri:
(1)Environment white paper: Devise system to create energy-saving
society
(2)Stricter punishments to be applied to driving accidents
Nihon Keizai:
(1)Japan first should promote gas emission cuts to combat global
warming
(2)LDP, Minshuto focus on pensions in election platforms
Sankei:
(1)G-8 Summit: Pave way to an agreement on global environment
(2)North Korean defectors and stimulants: Japan should show proper
stance as nation under rule of law
Tokyo Shimbun:
(1)Government's pension plan far from contributing to dissolving
public concerns
(2)Guidelines on economic and fiscal policy less substantive
Akahata:
(1)Fully examine and resolve pension problem on government's
responsibility
3) Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei)
Prime Minister's schedule, June 5
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
June 6, 2007
08:33:
TOKYO 00002517 003 OF 011
Attended a cabinet meeting in Diet.
08:57:
Met with Chief Cabinet Secretary Shiozaki and Deputy Chief Cabinet
Secretary Suzuki at Kantei.
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09:53:
Left Haneda Airport on a government plane to attend the G-8 summit
in Heiligendamm, Germany.
Local time
Afternoon:
Arrived at Tegel Airport in Berlin, Germany. Arrived at
Intercontinental Hotel. Met with German Chancellor Merkel at her
office.
Evening:
Received a set of proposals from the Japan-Europe Business Dialogue
Roundtable composed of corporate managers from Japan, the EU.
Attended summit between Japan and the EU.
4) Prime Minister to search for clues for breakthrough in North
Korean issues
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Excerpts)
June 6, 2007
Berlin, Hiroshi Minegishi
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will seek ways to break the impasse on the
abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korea and the North's
nuclear ambitions through bilateral talks at the Group of Eight
summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. He also wants to display his
political presence on the environment issue.
Abe said; "I have already met with the leaders of the G-8. I want to
frankly exchange views with them," Abe told reporters prior to his
departure at the Prime Minister's Official Residence.
Abe and German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly confirmed close
bilateral cooperation on the issue of reducing greenhouse gas
emissions, as well as on reform of the United Nations Security
Council.
At last year's G-8 summit, Japan demanded the inclusion of the
wording "an early resolution" of the abduction summit in the
chairman's statement. It is certain that Abe also will bring up the
abduction issue, but whether how far he can step into the issue is
uncertain. The Japanese government aims to involve the United
States, China and European countries, which have diplomatic ties
with Pyongyang, in applying greater pressure on the North.
5) G-8 summit begins: Japan-EU summit will likely call for all major
industrialized countries to join the drive to cut greenhouse gas
emissions
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 1) (Full)
June 6, 2007
Berlin, Hiroshi Minegishi
The three-day G-8 summit will open in Heiligendamm on June 6 in
northeastern Germany. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the afternoon of
the 5th arrived in Berlin and met with German Chancellor Merkel and
other EU leaders. Concerning greenhouse-gas emissions cuts, the top
TOKYO 00002517 004 OF 011
agenda item at the summit, participating countries are expected to
reach an agreement on the need to create a framework joined by all
major industrial powers, including the US, China, and India.
This will be the first summit for Abe since his inauguration as
prime minister. The Japan-EU summit will bring together Chancellor
Merkel, EU Chairman Barroso, and others. Regarding a new framework
replacing the Kyoto Protocol, which demands emissions cuts, Abe will
call for a flexible and diverse system that gives consideration to
signatory countries' respective situations. Participants are also
expected to reach a consensus on the sharing of information leading
to the protection of intellectual property rights.
Abe is expected to call on the international community to come
together to strengthen pressure on North Korea regarding its nuclear
program so that the communist nation will take concrete action for
denuclearization. The EU will likely support Japan's effort from the
perspective that the abductions are a serious human rights issue.
Abe will convey to German Chancellor Merkel during a bilateral
summit Japan's stance of aiming for a permanent seat on the United
Nations Security Council (UNSC). He will ask that Germany work
together with Japan.
The environment, nuclear development by Iran and North Korea,
Africa, and the liberalization of trade and investment will top the
agenda of the summit starting on the 6th.
6) Abe-Merkel meeting held
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full)
June 6, 2007
Toshiyuki Ito, Berlin
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a meeting with Chancellor Angela
Merkel of Germany, the chair of the European Union, in Berlin on the
evening of June 5 (late hours of June 5, Japan time). Abe is
believed to have expressed his determination to play an active role
in bridging the gap between the United States and the EU on global
warming in the G-8 Summit in Heiligendamm that will start on June
¶6.
Abe later attended a Japan-EU summit, which will be followed by a
joint statement. The joint statement is expected to call for an
economic partnership agreement featuring a free trade agreement on
mutually scrapping tariffs by Japan and the EU.
7) Australia considering joining Japan-US MD system
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full)
June 6, 2007
Visiting Australian Defense Minister Brendan Nelson held a press
conference yesterday at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo's
Uchisaiwaicho. He indicated that Australia is studying joining the
Japan-US missile defense (MD) system, saying: "Australia supports
it. We are studying the extent to which Australia might be able to
cooperate in a responsible way in the defense area." Japan, the
United States, and Australia have been stepping up defense
cooperation in recent years. Nelson's statement is drawing attention
as expressing the country's willingness for trilateral cooperation
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on the MD as well.
Nelson said: "We are considering the option of equipping the three
destroyers to be constructed shortly with a mobile antiballistic
missile defense system. A specific response is an item for
discussion."
He also indicated that North Korea's missile development would
become a direct threat to Australia, saying: "Theoretically, (North
Korean missiles) are capable of reaching mainland Australia."
A new Taepodong missile now being developed by North Korea is
believed to have a range of over 10,000 km. Nelson added: "Japan is
our close ally. Japan, China, and South Korea are our major trade
partners. The North Korean threat can affect Australia's economic
interests."
Tokyo and Canberra signed this March the Japan-Australia Joint
Declaration on Security Cooperation. Reaching an agreement to draw
up an action plan on promoting security cooperation, the declaration
also stipulates greater cooperation for resolving North Korea's
nuclear and ballistic missile issues. The two countries are also
scheduled to hold their first foreign and defense ministers' meeting
(2+2) today.
The United States and Australia signed in July 2004 a memorandum of
understanding on MD cooperation.
8) Kyuma, Nelson agree to strengthen defense cooperation
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full)
June 6, 2007
Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma held a meeting with visiting Australian
Defense Minister Brendan Nelson at the Foreign Ministry yesterday.
The two leaders reached an agreement to enhance defense exchanges,
such as the Self-Defense Forces' participation as an observer in the
US-Australia joint military exercise to be held in Australia later
this month. They also agreed to increase exchanges in disaster
relief and technology development.
Touching on reconstruction assistance in Afghanistan, Nelson
expressed hopes for SDF deployment, saying: "If Japan assists that
country in a way (other than funds), we will cooperate." Kyuma
replied: "Although Japanese troops are not in Afghanistan because of
constitutional restrictions, (Maritime Self-Defense Force) troops
have been engaged in refueling activities on the Indian Ocean."
Ahead of his meeting with Kyuma, Nelson took a firsthand look at the
PAC-3 ground-to-air guided missiles at the Air Self-Defense Force's
Iruma Base (Sayama City, Saitama Prefecture).
The two countries will hold their first foreign and defense
ministers' meeting (2+2) today in Tokyo.
9) SDF to join US-Australia military exercise as observer
SANKEI (Page 5) (Full)
June 6, 2007
Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma held a meeting with visiting Australian
Defense Minister Brendan Nelson yesterday in which Kyuma told his
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Australian counterpart that the Self-Defense Forces will participate
as an observer in the US-Australia joint military exercise to be
held in Australia later this month.
The two leaders also confirmed a line of increasing defense
cooperation in international disaster relief in Southeast Asia.
10) LDP, New Komeito to submit space bill to current Diet session,
opening the way for Japan to use space for defense purposes
ASAHI (Page 1) (Excerpts)
June 6, 2007
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner New
Komeito yesterday decided to draft, in the hands of lawmakers, a
basic bill on space (tentative name), which enables Japan to use
information obtained from high-performance spy satellites for
defense purposes. This decision came because the New Komeito, which
until then had been cautious about such a bill in the fear that it
could open the way for Japan to use the space for military purposes,
turned around at a Policy Research Council meeting yesterday to
allow such a bill but with some conditions attached, such as the
inclusion of language restricting the use of the space purely for
defense purposes. However, the current Diet session is to close on
June 23, so the bill is expected to be carried over to the next
session of the Diet for deliberations. The bill is likely to be
adopted in an extraordinary Diet session expected to take place this
fall or after.
The Diet adopted a resolution allowing the use of the space for
peaceful purposes in 1969. This resolution is interpreted as
allowing the use of the space for nonmilitary purposes. Because of
this resolution, the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) cannot use more
high-performance satellites than commercial ones. So LDP lawmakers
affiliated with the defense industry have aimed for legislation that
will change the interpretation of the resolution from the current
"nonmilitary" to "nonaggression." The LDP's manifesto for the Upper
House election released yesterday also includes establishing a basic
law on space and nurturing the space industry.
11) LDP, Minshuto at odds over pensions in platforms for Upper House
election
MAINICHI (Top Play) (Full)
June 6, 2007
The Liberal Democratic Party yesterday released its party platform
for the House of Councillors election this summer. The Democratic
Party of Japan (Minshuto) has already announced its draft manifesto.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had stressed that the party would make
constitutional revision a major campaign issue, but the ruling party
uses a good part of the platform to deal with pocketbook issues,
though it refers to "making a proposal on constitutional revision in
2010." The LDP initially aimed to secure a majority while dodging
such themes being pursued by Minshuto as pensions and social
disparities, but it has now been driven into the heart of the enemy
camp by severe circumstances, changing its policy course.
Politics and money
On the controversial record-keeping blunder, the LDP pledges to
"finish a thorough computer-aided name-identification check of 50
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million cases of unpaid benefits within a year" and scrap a
five-year statute of limitations on retroactive pension payments. It
also proposes swiftly unifying the mutual pension and public pension
systems as part of systemic reform, but it stopped short of
referring to the national pension plan, into which many people have
skipped payments, developing into a serious social problem.
Minshuto also stressed its determination to "thoroughly examine the
problem of massive amounts of unpaid pension and take measures to
rescue victims." As a different point from the LDP, Minshuto called
for unifying all the pension programs, including the national
pension program, into one system. It underscored a policy difference
from the LDP, noting: "We will carry out a drastic reform to rebuild
a pension system for all the people."
The politics-and-money problem is now taken more seriously than
before in the wake of former Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka's suicide. The two parties emphasize
the need for reform. The LDP proposes placing restrictions on real
estate holdings by politicians' fund management organizations, while
Minshuto calls for requiring politicians to attach receipts for
office and other expenditures of more than 10,000 yen.
Social disparities
The main ruling and opposition parties also clash head-on over
social disparities. Minshuto includes measures giving consideration
to local areas in the industrial sector, calling for a compensation
system for each farmer who produces for the market and for
legislation to restrict improper discounts by large companies as
measures to protect small businesses.
The LDP sets forth measures to cope with the shortage of doctors in
rural areas, such as establishing an emergency doctor-dispatch
system. It also proposes adjusting the existing differentials in
local governments' financial strength. On "hometown taxation," the
ruling party just says: "We will look into how the taxation scheme
and contributions should be."
Constitutional revision
Although the LDP has shifted the focus of its strategy to
"livelihood," it cites the Constitution at the beginning in the
platform, noting: "We will aim to make a proposal in the Diet in
2010." Keeping in mind the fact that a Diet proposal on
constitutional revision will be frozen for the three years up until
a national referendum is carried out, the LDP underlines its
eagerness to launch the constitutional-revision process, but it
sidestepped specific amendments, supposedly in hopes of avoiding
antagonizing New Komeito.
Minshuto shied away from this issue, given that some of its members
are in favor of revising the Constitution and also reflecting its
consideration to election campaign cooperation with the Social
Democratic Party.
12) 2007 Upper House election: Alarmed by plunging cabinet approval
ratings, LDP makes drastic changes to its political campaign
promises
MAINICHI (Page 2) (Excerpts)
June 6, 2007
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The ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) set of campaign
promises, adopted yesterday for the upcoming Upper House election,
is noticeably heavy on items related to the livelihood issue, such
as the pension problem and measures to deal with a lack of
physicians. The switch reflects alarm at the recent rapid plunge in
public approval ratings for the Abe cabinet. The items were added as
"urgent issues," LDP Policy Research Council Chairman Shoichi
Nakagawa explained. The party's sudden shift from an ideological
line, such as the inclusion of constitutional reform, which Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe had insisted o, to an emphasis on livelihood
issues reflects the LDP's sense of crisis.
On June 4, when Nakagawa and LDP Policy Board Chairman Yoichi
Masuzoe in the Upper House presented a draft campaign platform to
Abe at the Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei) before Abe
departed to attend the Group of Eight (G-8) summit conference, Abe
told them: "I want you to work hard on the pension issue."
On that occasion, constitutional revision was supposed to be at the
top of the 155-item set of campaign promises, but it was decided to
have the pension issue be the leading in the pamphlet that will be
available to voters. Looking back on recent developments, a senior
Policy Research Council member said: "The contents have changed
drastically in only 10 days."
Adde to the campaign promises was a commitment to crosscheck the 50
million records of unidentified premium payments within a year and
to repeal the five-year statute of limitations on pension claims.
These items were not in the original draft manifesto of late May,
when the LDP was rocked by opinion polls showing plunging cabinet
approval ratings.
On the other hand, controversial items, such as allowing the
exercise of the right to collective self-defense, an issue opposed
by the coalition partner New Komeito, were dropped, even though
constitutional revision will still be priority for the Abe-led LDP.
At a press conference yesterday, Nakagawa emphasized: "The basic
policy (of the Abe administration) is to rebuild Japan into a
'beautiful country.' The challenge is how to realize it."
The buzzword in the draft set of campaign promises is "beautiful."
For instance, there is a passage, "rebuild a beautiful country."
Included also are educational reform, which Abe is trying to
implement, and a commitment to finding a resolution of the abduction
issue. A senior Upper House lawmaker of the LDP ridiculed it
yesterday: "What color does 'beautiful' connote?"
13) Special Advisor Nakayama to run in Upper House election
ASAHI (Page 4) (Full)
June 6, 2007
Kentaro Kawaguchi
Kyoko Nakayama, special advisor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the
abduction issue, has decided to run in the House of Councillors
election on the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ticket as a
candidate for the proportional representation segment. Her decision
is now creating a stir in political circles. Minshuto (Democratic
Party of Japan), the largest opposition party, is strongly reacting
against her candidacy, saying, "The LDP is tying to use the
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abduction issue for the election."
Nakayama met yesterday with some members of the group of the
families of victims of kidnapped by North Korea. After the meeting
she told reporters: "I would like to announce my decision early next
week." Shigeru Yokota, leader of the group, indicated that he would
basically respect her decision, saying, "We will not endorse her.
But I want her to run in the race and win a seat."
Prime Minister Abe asked her to run, telling her, "I think a person
like you who can get support from voters will be very effective." A
government official, however, stated:
"To this point, the LDP and Minshuto have worked together on this
issue and refrained from politicizing it. If Nakayama is elected,
superpartisan cooperation on the issue will become impossible. This
spells trouble for the abductees' families."
Lower House member Shu Watanabe, chief of secretariat for Minshuto's
abduction issue task force, said yesterday: "Special Advisor
Nakayama will run. The Abe government is suddenly focusing on the
abduction issue." He then called for modifying a bill to deal with
North Korea's violations of human rights.
The LDP bill calls on the government to provide "thorough
consideration" not to provide aid to North Korea unless there is
progress on the abduction issue. Minshuto, however, wants the
government to be stricter about not extending aid to the North.
The abductee support groups have taken a stance of not supporting
specific political party or candidates. Therefore, the two groups do
not intend to provide Nakayama organizational support, allowing only
personal support.
14) LDP's Aso faction holds fund-raising party; Aso trying to
increase media exposure as candidate to succeed Prime Minister Abe
YOMIURI (Page 4) (Slightly abridged)
June 6, 2007
Foreign Minister Taro Aso, who chairs a faction in the ruling
Liberal Democratic Party, held a fund-raising party for the first
time as faction head. Aso also had two books he wrote published in
June. He is trying to get a lot of media exposure by responding to
interviews by magazines in a positive manner. With an eye on the
political situation after the House of Councillors election and the
next presidential election of the LDP, he is trying to demonstrate
his qualifications to succeed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
About 2,200 persons -- twice the number of those who participated in
a party held last year by the Kono faction, the predecessor of the
Aso faction -- took part in yesterday's party in a Tokyo hotel. Aso
said in his speech:
"With the Upper House election in mind, we will make concerted and
united efforts to maintain the political power under the command of
Shinzo Abe. We will make politics better."
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki, a member of the Niwa-Koga
faction, who was invited to the party as a guest, called for
solidarity, saying to Aso, "I would like to join hands together in
the not-so-distant future."
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Aso's strategy of assuming the political reins is to become the most
likely candidate to succeed Abe, while serving in a key post in the
Abe cabinet. He appears to be steadily carrying out this strategy.
In fact members of other LDP factions, including the Tsushima
faction, have asked Aso to give campaign speeches for them. Aso
intends to positively respond to their requests. Many in the Aso
faction expect that if Aso comes across as a man of strong character
in the election, he will be able to get the secretary general's
post, and then, the 15-member-faction, the smallest in the LDP,
could increase its members.
However, some in the LDP are reacting coolly. One member said: "He
has nestled up too much to Prime Minister Abe."
15) Tax break on pension benefits paid as compensation for
record-keeping errors, government, ruling parties decide
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 1) (Excerpts)
June 6, 2007
The government and the ruling parties yesterday decided to exempt
from taxation pension benefits to be paid retroactively to cover a
period before the five-year statute of limitations on pension claims
as compensation for record-keeping errors. Even when benefits are
paid as a lump sum payment, a burden reduction measure to prevent
the income tax of recipients from increasing will be taken. Judging
that it is heavily responsible for the missed pension benefit
payments this time, the government will give consideration to
pensioners in tax terms.
Public pension benefits subject to taxation are over 1.08 million
yen a year for those under 65 and over 1.58 million yen for those
over 65.
The ruling camp has introduced to the current Diet session a special
exemption bill to compensate the full amount of pension benefits
going back to a period before the five-year statute of limitations.
If this bill is enacted, claimants, if identified, will be entitled
to receive benefits going back to more than six years.
16) Ruling camp to carry over three bills -- broadcasting, NSC,
pension unification -- to next Diet session
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 2) (Full)
June 6, 2007
With the current Diet session due to close on May 23, the ruling
parties yesterday decided to carry over to the next session of the
Lower House deliberations on a bill amending to the Broadcast Law, a
bill amending the Security Council Establishment Law (to create a
National Security Council) and a bill unifying employees' pensions.
Deliberations on the bill amending the Broadcast Law, which
incorporates a system under which the internal affairs and
communications minister seeks broadcasters that put out fabricated
programs to submit a plan to prevent a recurrence, started on May
¶22. However, the broadcasting industry is opposing the bill as
restricting freedom of expression. Fearing a possible impact of the
bill on the July Upper House election, the ruling parties have
decided to carry over the bill to the next Diet session.
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The government on April 6 introduced a bill amending the Security
Council Establishment Law designed to set up a Japanese equivalent
of the US National Security Council. However, since the ruling camp
gave priority to deliberations on a bill abolishing the Defense
Facility Administration Agency and the Iraq Reconstruction
Assistance Special Measures Law, deliberations on the NSC bill have
not yet taken place.
The ruling bloc will hold an explanation and question-and-answer
sessions for the bill at a Lower House plenary meeting before the
end of the Diet session on June 23. However, full-fledged
deliberations at the Security Committee will be postponed until the
Extraordinary Diet session in the fall.
The Lower House Health, Labor and Welfare Committee was unable to
enter deliberations on the bill unifying employee pensions - welfare
annuity and national pension, because it already had a bill
reforming the Social Insurance Agency being deliberated.
17) LDP aims to enact civil-service reform bills at the prime
minister's order
ASAHI (Page 1) (Excerpts)
June 5, 2007
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in an executive meeting
yesterday confirmed the policy of getting civil service
reform-related bills, including a ban on amakudari (practice of
retiring bureaucrats getting jobs in the private sector), through
the Lower House tomorrow in order to enact them into law during the
current Diet session. At one point the LDP gave up on the plan to
enact them during the current Diet session, but by Prime Minister
Abe's strong order, the party turned around.
After the executive meeting, LDP Secretary General Hidenao Nakagawa,
asked by reporters about the bills, stressed: "We'll take every
possible measure to enact them."
Following this move, the LDP and its coalition partner New Komeito
confirmed that the bills would be put to the vote at the Lower House
Committee on Cabinet today and at a Lower House plenary session
tomorrow. They also decided to hold an explanatory session and a
question-and-answer session regarding the bills at an Upper House
plenary session on June 11, when Abe returns home from the Group of
Eight (G-8) summit, and to start the discussion of the bills at the
Upper House Committee on the Cabinet from June 12.
SCHIEFFER