Opponents of the bill to revise the immigration control law gather in front of the Diet on May 18. (Yosuke Fukudome) The ruling coalition decided on May 18 to abandon a bill to revise the immigration control law over fears that pursuing it would worsen the Suga Cabinet's plunging approval ratings and concerns about delays in Diet deliberations. The opposition on two occasions rejected proposals from the ruling coalition to vote on the legislation in the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee, mainly due to questions about why a 33-year-old Sri Lankan woman died while in detention at an immigration facility. Considering the need for deliberation time in the Upper House, with the current Diet session scheduled to end on June 16, the ruling coalition’s only option was to force a vote on the proposal to revise the law in the Lower House committee.