主な出来事　　12月14日-12月19日

Politics

Expert committee to consider the House of Representatives electoral system reform, decided to make the report to reduce 10 seats of the lawmakers constants.

For the expense of US forces stationed in Japan from the 2016 fiscal year for five years, The government has announced that they agreed with the US government to increase 13.3 billion yen and the total amount would be 946.5 billion yen.

The Cabinet Office has published the estimated swing width range at the top floor of the skyscraper would be 2-3m in the case of the largest earthquake expected in the Nankai Trough.

Business

Diffusion index of large manufacturers in December of corporate short-term Economic Survey by the Bank of Japan were flat, the same plus 12 level as the previous survey.

Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito determined the fiscal 2016 tax reform outline. It is clearly mentioned that when the consumption tax rate is raised to 10 percent, the food and beverage except for alcoholic beverages and dining out, is applied the reduced tax rate of 8%.

The government experts meeting to discuss the fee reduction of smart phones summarized their report that they should consider a rate plan that would be below 5,000 yen per month as a guideline.

FRB determined the interest rate hike by 0.25% a year. Rate hike is the first time in nine and a half years.

Bank of Japan decided a large-scale monetary easing strengthen measures.

World

International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously adopted a resolution to terminate the investigation against the suspicion elucidation of nuclear weapons development by Iran.

President Obama notified to the Congress that he sells weapons to Taiwan equivalent to the total 223 billion yen. Chinese Foreign Ministry protested to this .

United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on financial assets freeze against the members of Islamic countries.

The Seoul Central District Court didn’t certified slander purpose and handed down “not guilty” to former Seoul bureau chief of Sankei Shimbun who had been accused of libel to Korean President Park.

Japan

There found at lease 26 cased in the past two years that court determined the provisional disposition of the post delete to  management companies in response to allegations by people who were written slander on Twitter.

The Supreme Court judged that the provisions of the Civil Code was constitutionality, which does not recognize the couple’s usage of separate surnames. Provision that defines the remarriage prohibition period by six month only for women was unconstitutional for the part over 100 days.

The death penalty was executed against the death prisoner who had received definite death sentence in the jury trial for the first time.

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