Toranosuke Katayama, the minister of telecommunications, said Friday his ministry may submit a bill to the Diet in the fall to put an end to the phone scam known as “wangiri.”
“I have instructed the head of the bureau (in charge of such matters) to consider legal measures in view of the next Diet session,” Katayama told reporters after a Cabinet meeting.
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