The ruling coalition agreed Thursday that it will move quickly to adopt a Diet resolution to help former Hansen's disease patients.
This follows Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's decision Wednesday that the government will not file an appeal against a landmark court ruling ordering the state to compensate the patients for forcing them into isolation.
The secretaries general and policy chiefs of the Liberal Democratic Party, New Komeito and New Conservative Party agreed that the parties' officials in charge of Diet affairs will draft the resolution as soon as possible and seek the opposition's cooperation in adopting it in the Diet, party members said.
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