Ruling parties ram 2nd extra budget through Diet panel

Ruling parties ram 2nd extra budget through Diet panel

TOKYO, Japan - Ruling coalition lawmakers stand to indicate their approval of a 2.5 trillion yen extra budget on the night of Jan. 28 in the House of Representatives Budget Committee. They ignored a boycott of the session by opposition legislators over inconsistencies in testimonies by Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka and top Foreign Ministry bureaucrats regarding whether political pressure led to the exclusion of two Japanese nongovernmental organizations from last week's Afghan donor conference in Tokyo.

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