Tokyo, June 11 (IANS) Japan’s House of Councillors has passed legislation facilitating the concurrent service of national and local public employees as reserve personnel of the Self-Defence Forces (SDF), lowering barriers to their mobilisation in emergency situations, local media reported.The legislation was passed on Wednesday, reports Xinhua news agency, quoting Kyodo News.According to the Act on Special Provisions for Concurrent Employment of National and Local Public Employees to Ensure the …
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Tokyo, Feb 10 (IANS) Japan will convene a special parliamentary session on February 18 to choose the prime minister following Sunday’s House of Representatives election, local media reported on Tuesday.According to Jiji Press, the Japanese Constitution stipulates that an extraordinary Diet session must be convened within 30 days after a House of Representatives election to designate a prime minister. On the opening day of the session, the incumbent cabinet will collectively resign. The newly-ele…
Tokyo, Jan 23 (IANS) Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Friday dissolved House of Representatives for a snap election set to be held on February 8, local media reported. The lower house dissolution at the outset of the ordinary parliamentary session effectively began a short campaign time for political parties ahead of the polls, with the ruling and opposition parties proposing lifting the consumption tax on food to ease the burden on households facing inflation, Japan’s Kyodo News report…
Tokyo, Jan 19 (IANS) Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Monday announced that she will dissolve the House of Representatives on Friday and hold a snap general election on February 8, local media reported. While addressing a press conference on Monday, Takaichi said official campaigning will begin on January 27 after she dissolves the Lower House on the opening day of ordinary parliamentary session, Japan’s news agency Kyodo News reported. It will be Japan’s first national election since T…