Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso violated the ministers' guidelines recommending against the purchase or sale of golf club memberships while in office, a parliamentary report showed Monday. An official at Aso's office said the deputy prime minister "should have refrained from" buying ...
Assets held by the 121 Upper House members who won seats in the Diet's upper chamber in July averaged ¥29.9 million, data disclosed Wednesday has shown. The figure is 20.7 percent less compared with the average for Upper House members who won seats in the ...
A group of around 80 Diet members from various parties visited Yasukuni Shrine on Tuesday during its autumn festival. The visit came a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a ritual offering to the war-linked shrine in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, as he has done ...
The average income of national lawmakers fell 6.5 percent in 2015 from a year earlier to ¥22.69 million for the first decline in four years, the Diet reported Monday. The top earner was Miki Watanabe, an Upper House member and founder of Watami Co., which ...
Danish lawmakers voted Tuesday to let police seize valuables worth more than $1,500 from asylum-seekers to help cover their housing and food costs while their cases were being processed. After more than three hours of debate, the minority Liberal Party government's bill was adopted in ...
Liberal Democratic Party Lower House lawmaker Kensuke Miyazaki wanted to do something to change the nation's declining birthrate, so he announced last month he planned to take child care leave after his wife gives birth. The representative from Kyoto's No. 3 district now has another ...
French lawmakers are debating the decision to join a military air campaign over Syria, raising new questions about what a year of U.S.-led bombing of the Islamic State group has accomplished. British, Australian and Belgian leaders are also considering expanding ongoing airstrikes in Iraq to ...
A total of 53 lawmakers set up a nonpartisan animal protection group Thursday, with the aim of abolishing the killing of stray cats and dogs by local governments. Mizuho Fukushima of the Social Democratic Party, who was named secretary general of the parliamentarians' group, told ...
A nationwide survey of assemblywomen said Friday that just over 54 percent of female lawmakers feel uncomfortable when exposed to sexist acts, remarks or verbal abuse from assemblymen. "Such sex discrimination has been a major obstacle for women seeking assembly membership as well as for ...
Recent instances of strange or illegal behavior on the part of municipal and prefectural assembly members, including a bawling jag by a Hyogo assemblymen whose hand was caught in the cookie jar, have given many citizens cause to suspect that the overall quality of ...
Younger lawmakers are increasingly turning to crowdfunding as a way of raising money to finance their political activities. Ryota Kimura, a 30-year-old member of the Hirakata Municipal Assembly in Osaka Prefecture, recently asked for ¥100,000 on an online crowdfunding site to cover some of the ...
Diet and South Korean lawmakers working to promote bilateral exchanges urge their governments and China to produce joint history textbooks.
