Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda in a financial policy speech Tuesday called for the opposition camp to cooperate and help swiftly pass the supplementary budget for fiscal 2010.
Noda's speech, initially scheduled for Monday, was delayed after opposition parties threatened to boycott a Diet plenary session in objection to the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's failure to summon party bigwig Ichiro Ozawa to testify before the Diet over his political money scandal.
But deliberations on the extra budget are now expected to proceed after a compromise was reached between the ruling and opposition camps, with the DPJ promising it will make further efforts to bring Ozawa before the Diet.