3 ministers have not paid mandatory pension premiums

TOKYO, Japan - Welfare minister Chikara Sakaguchi (C) awaits the resumption of a House of Representatives panel discussing a new pension system which was suspended after three cabinet ministers admitted the same day that they have not made mandatory payments into the national pension system despite repeated government calls on the public to pay premiums.

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