Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda on Monday hinted the government will give up a controversial proposal to remove a 12-year-old ban on Cabinet ministers engaging in stock transactions.
“There are no good reasons (for authorizing stock trading by Cabinet ministers), and there is no need for us to devise such measures,” the government’s top spokesman said.
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