Akira Nagatsuma

...on the 20-member council. But things have changed drastically under the new government. Health and welfare minister Akira Nagatsuma has decided to remove the three JMA-linked council members. They will be replaced by a member...

In this article: Democratic Party of Japan, Liberal Democratic Party, and Yamagata University

is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He came to prominence when he reported missing records of public pension plans. A native of Nerima, Tokyo and...

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Welfare minister Akira Nagatsuma will request YEN200 billion in the fiscal 2010 budget to fix the pension record disaster, up sevenfold from the YEN28.4 billion earmarked in the initial budget for fiscal 2009, sources said Wednesday.

In this article: Democratic Party of Japan and Yukio Hatoyama

...bureaucrats may take the place of active officials in arranging jobs for their juniors. During a recent Diet session, DPJ lawmaker Akira Nagatsuma asked Aso to investigate job hopping by ex-bureaucrats and ban all watari arrangements,...

In this article: Taro Aso, DPJ, Diet, and House of Representatives

...to lawmakers Isamu Ueda from the New Komeito party, the coalition partner of Fukuda's governing Liberal Democratic Party, and Akira Nagatsuma from the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan. Fukuda later told reporters that he would...

In this article: Yasuo Fukuda, Nobutaka Machimura, Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, Juice, Candy, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transport, and Ministry of Tourism

...Kasumigaseki district. The ministry conducted the interviews earlier this week at the request of House of Representatives member Akira Nagatsuma of the Democratic Party of Japan. The ministry claimed the gifts from the cabbies do not...

In this article: Democratic Party of Japan, University of Tokyo, Toyota, The Japan Times Online, House of Representatives, and Tokyo

...266 at the Financial Services Agency and 139 at the farm ministry. Machimura was responding to lawmakers Isamu Ueda from New Komeito and Akira Nagatsuma from the Democratic Party of Japan. Speaking at the same Diet committee session, Prime...

In this article: Yasuo Fukuda, Nobutaka Machimura, Diet, Democratic Party of Japan, New Komeito, University of Tokyo, Toyota, and The Japan Times Online

...headquarters in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki area. The ministry conducted the interviews earlier this week following a request from Akira Nagatsuma, a House of Representatives member of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan. The ministry...

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◆PROFILE: New welfare minister Nagatsuma known as 'Mr. Pension' TOKYO, Sept. 16 KYODO Akira Nagatsuma, picked as minister of health, labor and welfare, is known as ''Mr. Pension'' for using his expertise on social insurance to grill...

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◆Nagatsuma calls for review of guideline for welfare benefits TOKYO, Sept. 19 KYODO Welfare minister Akira Nagatsuma called Saturday for a review of the guideline for providing welfare benefits to make it available to more people in need...

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