TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is likely to call a snap election after the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, a media report said, showing his resolve to push ahead with the Games despite the country’s struggle to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. The government is considering crafting a new economic stimulus package before the expected snap election, the Asahi.
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Kazuo Yana campaigns during the 2014 Lower House election. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Conservative members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party raised all sorts of objections to wording in legislation designed to protect sexual minorities against discrimination, leaving the issue unresolved for now.
A key sticking point at the May 20 meeting of the LDP was the inclusion of wording that “discrimination will not be tolerated.”
Kazuo Yana, a Lower House member representing a district in Tochigi Prefecture, went as far to state that sexual minorities were “resisting the preservation of the species that occurs naturally in biological terms.”
He suggested that the proposed wording in the legislation would ensure that such a comment would not be allowed in the future.