Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended a press conference in Hiroshima for the first time in 49 days, which he visited to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony on the 6th.
Shikoku Electric Power wants to resume regular inspections when it is ready. In order to take responsibility for a series of troubles, Shikoku Electric Power Co. announced that it will voluntarily repay a portion of this month's executive remuneration for a total of five executives including Chairman Hayato Saeki and President Nagai.
Last month new vehicle sales were down 13% compared to the same month last year. Of these, sales of ordinary cars, small cars, and trucks were 239,355 units, a decrease of 20.4%, and mini vehicles were 156,991 units, a decrease of 1%.
Fukuo Kishida, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, said in an interview with the Jiji Press that there is an opinion that the consumption tax rate should be lowered as a countermeasure against the new coronavirus, saying that it should not be lowered.
Since last month, retail stores across the country have been obliged to pay for shopping bags, but the percentage of customers who declined shopping bags at three major convenience stores, and the rate of withdrawal exceeded 70% at each company, before the payment was made.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, who has been called "one of the leading candidates (for the next prime minister)" by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a monthly magazine released in July, is astray.
Opposition parties called for an extraordinary Diet session based on the provisions of the constitution, saying that the Diet should discuss the response to the new coronavirus, while the government and the ruling party had a negative opinion on the early session.
Miyagi Prefectural Municipal Mayors' Meeting was held at a hotel in Sendai city on the 3rd, and opinions were exchanged centering on measures against new coronavirus infectious diseases.
To promote the Asakusa Shinnakamise shopping district in Taito Ward, where the new coronavirus is not returning enough, Executive Director Akihiro Hashimoto (45) of the promotion association appointed a local character who is currently inactive for social distance (social distance).
Regarding the spread of the new coronavirus infection, Prime Minister Abe said at the ruling party meeting of the government that it was going on and off, and strengthened the inspection system in cooperation with prefectures to prevent the spread of infection to elderly people etc.
The Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises (Kemenkop UKM) cooperates with Facebook to encourage micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to market their products onlin
In the use of IT technology against the new coronavirus, we have created a mechanism to collaborate with the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to list the operating status of hospitals nationwide in real time.
