Unilateral Procedure of the Diet
The Diet is now run only by the leading parties. The opposition parties do not participate in the voting on highly controversial bills. The bill of National Flag Vandalism Punishing Act passed the Lower House with majority votes of the Liberal Democratic Party and Japan Innovation Party, while the opposition parties abstained the plenary sittings. The leading parties also unilaterally began discussion of reducing the seats of Lower House and the bill for Backup Capital without consensus with the oppositions. This is not something called a democracy. Discussion over the bill for punishing damaging the national flag started in Committee on Cabinet of the Lower House on June 24 th . The bill was also sponsored by Democratic Party for the People (DPP) and Sanseito. The Sponsors answered questions of the opposition parties in the meeting on June 25 th and the committee had a hearing from experts on June 26 th . Discussion on the bill was finished then. The bil...