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Even though Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Yasuhisa Shiozaki allowed his opposition counterpart on the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee to add his own clauses to the controversial immigration bills making their way through the Diet, he feels their principle remains intact — tightening control of foreigners in Japan illegally.
The legislative package, now in the Upper House, is the fruit of time-consuming negotiations between Shiozaki and Ritsuo Hosokawa of the Democratic Party of Japan, the two key members of the judicial committee.