A measure to reduce expected higher electricity bills in the coming months will be a main pillar of a comprehensive economic package to be compiled next month.
The recent plunge in the value of the yen against the U.S. dollar led market insiders to focus on a meeting Sept. 9 between Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Haruhiko Kuroda, the governor of the Bank of Japan.
The Justice Ministry, out of consideration for conservative politicians, forced what critics say was a misleading public opinion survey on the issue of allowing married couples to have separate surnames, The Asahi Shimbun learned.
Seiko Noda, the state minister in charge of gender equality, criticized as misleading a government survey that showed record low public support for allowing married couples to have separate surnames.