Leaders of Japan’s five major business organizations called for greater government efforts March 16 to seek Diet approval of planned legislation for administrative reform.
Due to the delay in deliberations over the fiscal 1998 state budget and other pending bills, there now seems to be a slim chance that the bill designed to create the basic framework for reorganizing the nation’s bureaucracy will be enacted by the end of the current Diet session.
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