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Lawmakers called for debates to be held on amending the top law to include such a clause, at the first meeting of the Lower House Commission on the Constitution in this Diet session.
The February edition of the monthly magazine Bungei Shunju carries a roundtable discussion among opinion leaders entitled, “The Coldest Winter in Japan-South Korea Relations.” One of the participants is Liberal Democratic Party Diet member Minoru Kiuchi, who formerly was a diplomat responsible for South Korea within the Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau. Kiuchi likens the current state of bilateral relations to a soccer match in which the administration of South Korean President Moon Jae In “has bought off the referees and repeatedly fouls.” On January 8, the...
December 21, 2020 Masako Mori, chairperson of the LDP’s Special Committee for Promoting Women’s Active Participation, speaks at a joint meeting with the party’s First Cabinet Division on policy, chaired by Tsutomu Tomioka, right, in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday. The Yomiuri Shimbun/Asia News Network The Liberal Democratic Party scaled back wording on allowing each person in a married couple to keep his or her surname in a draft of governmental policies over gender equality on Tuesday. The ruling party held a joint meeting of its First Cabinet Division on policy and Special Committee...