Daily Yomiuri Online :: Tuesday, July 28, 2009

• Zushi to OK U.S. military housing plan (Jul.28)
  The Yomiuri Shimbun
  YOKOHAMA--Zushi Mayor Ryuichi Hirai officially announced Monday that the city will start negotiations with the central government over a national plan to build 700 additional housing units for the U.S. military in the Ikego area straddling Zushi and Yokohama, on the premise that the plan will be accepted. continued ...


• LDP to pledge 1 million yen rise in incomes by 2020 (Jul.28)
  The Yomiuri Shimbun
  The Liberal Democratic Party is likely to make the main policy of its manifesto a pledge to increase average disposable household incomes by more than 1 million yen by 2020, LDP Secretary General Hiroyuki Hosoda said at a press conference Monday. continued ...


• ELECTION 2009--BATTLE FOR POWER / Bureaucrats wary over possible power change (Jul.28) ★
  Hirohide Hayashi, Yasuhiro Takizawa and Takeshi Kobayashi / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers
  Senior central government bureaucrats are in a quandary--how should they deal with a party that has said they should play a lesser role in drafting policies? continued ...


• DPJ's newfound realism fails to convince (Jul.28)
  The Yomiuri Shimbun
  The Democratic Party of Japan on Monday announced its manifesto for the Aug. 30 House of Representatives election. Though it is commendable that the DPJ has adopted a pragmatic stance in its domestic and foreign policies--obviously with an eye to taking over the reins of government--the policy platform it has unveiled is flawed. continued ...