Mainichi :: Thursday, June 25, 2009

• Japan Post Holdings president delivers business improvement report over inn deal
  Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa submitted a business improvement report to the government Wednesday, listing punishments over the company's controversial attempt to sell its Kampo no Yado inns. continued ...


• Finance minister received more shady donations
  Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano received a total of some 85.3 million yen in donations from a political organization between 1981 and 2005, it emerged on Wednesday. continued ...


• Aso requests efforts to pass bills ahead of Lower House election
  Prime Minister Taro Aso asked Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Secretary-General Hiroyuki Hosoda and Komeito Secretary-General Kazuo Kitagawa on Wednesday to pour efforts into passing bills during the current Diet session, while the prospect of a general election in late August or afterward grows stronger. continued ...