The Cabinet approved a set of bills Tuesday that would allow Japan to ratify the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, government officials said.
Japan signed the convention in 1998 after the U.N. General Assembly adopted it in 1997.
A House of Representatives panel on antiterrorism measures decided to begin deliberations on the bills today.
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