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KOICHI HAGIUDA

JAPAN / Politics
Feb 8, 2019
LDP to propose allowing lawmakers to vote online during maternity-related absences
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to propose allowing House of Representatives members to vote online if they are absent due to pregnancy or childbirth, LDP officials said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 1, 2018
Breaking down the Kake Gakuen scandal: Who's lying, Abe or his political opponents?
Opposition camp lawmakers roared in anger. Stenographers were ordered to stop transcribing. The prime minister accused an opposition leader of lying.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 16, 2017
Officials deny remarks attributed to them in Kake papers
Two senior government officials deny making the smoking-gun remarks linked to them in the Kake Gakuen document leak, pitting the education ministry against Prime Minister Abe's Cabinet.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 24, 2014
Suga again denies revisionism
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga denies speculation that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering a key aide's proposal to issue a new government statement on the 'comfort women' issue.

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