Staff writer
A Lower House special committee will start intensive deliberations today on bills covering the revised Japan-U.S. defense cooperation guidelines, nearly a year after the bills were submitted to the Diet.
The nub of the Diet parley will be how the original bills are going to be amended through the deliberations and whether the amended bills will manage to clear the Lower House before Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi calls on U.S. President Bill Clinton in May.
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