In prioritizing their legislative goals, the secretaries general of the three ruling parties agreed Wednesday to push a controversial set of personal-data protection bills through the House of Representatives by the end of the month.
They also agreed to extend by two weeks their March 31 deadline for the Democratic Party of Japan to submit a counterproposal to a package of bills that would establish the guidelines for Japan's response to a military attack.
Taku Yamasaki, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, had previously said the ruling camp would ram the contingency bills through the Lower House, even if DPJ lawmakers boycott Diet sessions.