主な出来事　　6月15日-20日

Politics

House of Representatives Constitution Review Board opened a local public hearing in Kochi. Five constitutional scholars out of six who were chosen at the public election showed the unconstitutional perspective for the security related bills.

The revised Public Offices Election Law to lower the voting age to 18-year-old was approved and established in the Upper House plenary session. It will certainly applied from the next summer House of Councilors election.

Worker Dispatch Law amendment to eliminate the limit of temporary workers acceptance period of the company has been passed in the House of Representatives plenary session.

Business

Regulatory reform meeting of government decided to take policy of deregulation measures, and submitted it to Prime Minister Abe.

Revised Electricity Business Act to implement the separation of dispatch power in April 2020 that detaches  the power transmission and distribution sector from the power sector in the major power companies has been approved.

US House of Representatives Congress re-vote the trade promotion authority bill and approved by majority vote.

Bank of Japan announced that it reduces the monetary policy decision meeting that is open 14 times a year to 8 times a year.

World

Jeff Bush former Florida governor of the US Republican Party has expressed its candidacy to the presidential election in 2016.

Egypt Court handed down a death sentence to former president Morushi who was asked such a crime that he helped jailbreak for the Islamists.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a policy of additional deploy of 40 Inter-continental  ballistic missiles.

A Caucasian man did random shooting at Black people church in Charleston, South Carolina, and 9 people were killed.

Regarding Hong Kong chief executive election, reform proposals by the Chinese government that led to virtually impossible candidacy of the Democratic faction was rejected by the opposition of democratic lawmakers.

Japan

Fukushima Prefecture determined to terminate providing houses by free of charge for voluntary evacuees of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in March 2017.

Shimomura Hirofumi , the minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science requested to the secretaries of  the National Universities to hoist the national flag and to sing the national anthem at the entrance and the graduation ceremony.

Small-scale eruption has occurred in Mt.Asama.

Metropolitan Police Department arrested the suspect of Managing Officer of Toyota Motor Corporation, Julie hump  who smuggles the tablets containing the drug component from the United States.