A House of Representatives committee approved a bill Wednesday intended to tighten control on "amakudari," the postretirement hiring of government employees into industrial sectors they once oversaw.
The bill was proposed by the government following endless scandals involving involving former bureaucrats who landed jobs in the private sector and other entities linked to rigged bids for public works contracts.
The bill to revise the National Public Service Law, endorsed by the ruling coalition — the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito — was set to be passed at a Thursday plenary session of the Lower Louse and then to be sent for further deliberations in the House of Councilors next Monday.