Diet extended as Abe aims to pass casino, other contentious bills

What's wrong? All the brown envelops ain't in yet?

Rules were unfair so they changed the rules again. Yeesh

 Freakin unbelievable 

is right! The population is dropping. The tax base is shrinking. The Diet needs a diet, not expansion!

The lying scum-bags!

LDP of only gains but no pains at this moment by lawmakers majority, the reason they can extend, soon they will know what's "no pain, no gain".

""The government and the ruling bloc have to make utmost efforts to pass the important bills within the session through July 22,"

Important to whom? Sorry, but casinos are important ONLY to lawmakers with vested interests, and the construction companies that they have vested interests in. It does NOT help society one bit. The "overwork" bills? Sorry, but with a "cap" at only 16 hours per day, 7 days a week, That's not a limit on anything but life. Japan is well-known as a nation that works people to death, including through labor-trafficking that is government approved.

Time for the opposition to grow a pair and start doing something. In the land of "shouganai", though, methinks the LDP will succeed in ramming these through with ease.

Adding another six seats? Would have thought cutting sixty would actually be of some benefit? It's urgent to legally extend the number of hours a worker can legally die within. What a bizarre joke politics is in this backwater Island archipelago.

Regarding casinos. Be careful what you wish for...

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/the-next-macau-china-s-big-gamble-in-cambodia-20180615-p4zlqg.html

I would love to know how anti-casino zealots (including Edano-san) propose to create the thousands of jobs and revenue Casinos will be generating? They are just being negative.

Even if we need 1 more month, PM Abe and the Cabinet will enact Casinos into law,and the economic benefits will be a huge jobs and growth boost to the three Casino areas.

thousands of jobs

We already have hotels that can't hire enough staff. We don't need a thousand more hospitality jobs. We definitely don't need to increase the strains on families of gambling addiction, in order to bring in more tourists. There coming by the hordes already.

There is NO reason to push for casinos - unless you are getting a bribe from the operators.

Hey, where’s the amakudari money going to come from? There’s no need to build an industry where addiction is the name of the game. Just last week we got word that video games are a new sickness. How far are casinos from that? If ANY of Abe’s three arrows proven successful I’d be open to casinos opening. As is nothing has really worked.