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The Tokyo Olympic organising committee is expected to announce a replacement for outgoing Olympicâs boss Yoshiro Mori within days as the field of candidates narrows and Japanâs treatment of women faces a reckoning.
There are now six candidates to replace Mori, who resigned on Friday after protesting calls for more women to be included on the Olympics board, arguing they talk too much and âhave a strong sense of rivalryâ.
Former Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee president Yoshiro Mori
Diet makes itself safer from novel coronavirus infections
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Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks behind an acrylic panel during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in the Diet building on Jan. 25.Japan News-Yomiuri photo.
TOKYO - A year into the pandemic, the Diet has taken serious action to make Japan s seat of power a safer workplace. Acrylic panels have been set up in the committee rooms of the House of Representatives as one measure taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The House of Councillors no longer has water pitchers to provide refreshment for lawmakers during deliberations.
By WANG XU in Tokyo | China Daily | Updated: 2021-01-28 07:33 Share CLOSE A man walks on the Odaiba waterfront in Tokyo on Tuesday as Olympic rings are seen in the background. KOJI SASAHARA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Japanese lawmakers and the public grilled the government over plans to recruit 10,000 medical personnel for the Summer Olympics as hospitals in Japan come under mounting pressure from a rising number of COVID-19 patients.
Japan s Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto said in a parliamentary session on Tuesday the government is committed to a plan to secure thousands of medical staff for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. We are trying to secure necessary medical staff of around 10,000, on the premise of asking doctors and nurses that each of them work about five days during the Games period, she said.
Jan 28, 2021
The nation s ¥19.1 trillion third supplementary budget is expected to clear the Upper House on Thursday evening amid relentless criticism of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga over his administration’s novel coronavirus response.
During four days of budget committee debates inside both chambers of the Diet, Suga came under heavy fire from opposition lawmakers for not acting fast enough to curb the spread of the virus, and for the administration s plans to enact amendments to disease control legislation that would have laid criminal punishments on people and businesses who flout COVID-19 guidelines. Ultimately, the opposition s arguments found more support, and the ruling coalition eventually agreed Thursday to drop the provisions on criminal punishment, while keeping in place stipulations for fines.