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Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Saturday said he is willing to put his career and his life on the line to get the bill on raising the consumption tax submitted to the Diet by the end of the month, despite opposition from within and outside his ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).
Noda said he would not back down on this issue, explaining that there is no reason for the Noda administration to exist if it cannot submit bills to the Diet, NHK reported.
Referring to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade talks, Noda said the framework was like the Beatles. He said the U.S. was John Lennon and Japan was Paul McCartney.
© Japan Today
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some14some
Overstatement. Career? will he be leaving politics forever? Life in God's hand, wishing him long life and may God bless consumers and enable them to carry more and more tax burden all their life !
Scrote
It should be easy enough to submit a bill, even if some in the DPJ are opposed to it. Whether it can get enough votes to pass is another matter.
How about submitting a bill to cut Diet members' salaries? That idea seems to have vanished without trace.
just-a-bigguy
May God help him!
almostshat
ie bickering, envy, mistrust, tantrums, hatred... separation
nisegaijin
What a moron! can somebody just take his word for it and kick him out.
nath
He lied to become PM and now still wants to tax food. Loser is all I can say.
nath
He's putting his life on the line?
How so?
plasticmonkey
He will be hung, drawn, and quartered if this bill doesn't pass. It's in the constitution.
That means South Korea is George Harrison and Canada is Ringo Starr.