Salary cut for lawmakers

Salary cut for lawmakers

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 28, 2011, shows Yoshihisa Inoue (L, facing), secretary general of the New Komeito party, Nobuteru Ishihara (C), secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Katsuya Okada (2nd from R) secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, ahead of their discussions in the Diet in Tokyo. Prime Minister Naoto Kan's DPJ and the two opposition parties agreed the same day to cut 3 million yen from each parliamentarian's salary to help generate funds for reconstruction work following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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