THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 4, 2020 at 14:10 JST
Hiroshi Moriyama, right, the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Diet Affairs Committee, meets on March 3 with Jun Azumi, his counterpart in the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. (Takeshi Iwashita)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was set to meet with opposition party leaders on March 4 to press for a legal revision that would give him more power to deal directly with the coronavirus outbreak. [Read More]
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