LDP lawmaker's hostile question to Finance Ministry official to be stricken from record
(Mainichi Japan)
A hostile question aimed at Financial Bureau chief Mitsuru Ota by ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker Masamune Wada in a March 19 House of Councillors Budget Committee meeting will be stricken from the record, the body's board decided March 20.
The committee board is made up of both ruling and opposition party members, and the decision was unanimous.
At the March 19 budget committee meeting, Wada asked Ota if he wasn't "deliberately trying to discredit the (Prime Minister Shinzo) Abe government" with his "strange" testimony regarding the Moritomo Gakuen land sale document doctoring scandal.
The upper house budget committee board also resolved to delete statements made on March 13 by LDP lawmaker Miki Watanabe at a public hearing. In front of bereaved family members of overwork death victims, Watanabe said, "Would people be happy with seven days off a week?" among other comments.