Staff writer
The 75-day extraordinary Diet session ended Friday after having enacted, among other important bills, a fiscal restraint law and a law to create a mandatory insurance system to provide nursing care for ailing elderly people.
Turmoil lingered until the final day when a bill to revise the Deposit Insurance Law, supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its two smaller allies, passed the Upper House. The non-Communist opposition camp -- Shinshinto, the Democratic Party of Japan and the Taiyo Party -- boycotted Upper House sessions in protest.