Gov't says audience mobilized in 40% of 'town meetings'

Gov't says audience mobilized in 40% of 'town meetings'

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshimasa Hayashi, senior vice minister for regulatory reform and chairman of an ad hoc Cabinet Office commission, speaks at a press conference on Dec. 13 on a report complied by his panel. The report said that participants were mobilized in large numbers in 40 percent of ''town meetings'' organized by the government since June 2001 and questions were planted in 8 percent of the sessions.

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