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Opposition parties agree to join efforts to get adverse bills scrapped Secretaries general of the four opposition parties, including the Japanese Communist, Democratic, and Social Democratic parties, met on June 8 in the Diet and agreed to join forces to get the adverse bills scrapped in the current session of the Diet. They include bills for adverse revision of the medical insurance law, the Fundamental Law of Education, and a conspiracy bill. JCP Secretariat Head Ichida Tadayoshi attended the meeting. The opposition parties also agreed to make a thorough investigation into the following issues: the Social Insurance Agency's illegal exemption of pension insurance premiums, the Murakami fund case whose chief was arrested on suspicion of violating the Securities and Exchange Law; lifting the ban on U.S. beef imports; and the plan to realign U.S. forces in Japan. - Akahata, June 9, 2006 |
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