As for the high price of the first bid for the "capacity market" of electricity, Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said at a Cabinet meeting on May 29 that "the burden on households that have contracts with retailers that mainly deal with renewable energy will be particularly high.

While the revisions seem dubious, the government assures that the substance remains the same.

Shinji Inoue, Minister of Science and Technology Policy, will meet with Takaaki Kajita, Chairman of the Science Council of Japan, on the morning of the 23rd over the ideal state of the Science Council of Japan.

It was found that the National Diet Library in Nagata-cho, Tokyo, has set up a smoking room exclusively for members of the Diet while saying that smoking is prohibited on the premises on its website.

A job offer ceremony for university students who are planning to join the company next spring was held for one day at companies around the country.

In response to Minister Taro Kono's request to ministries and agencies to abolish the hanko, Mutsu City, Aomori Prefecture, is also working on "Hankores."

On the 23rd, the government held a ministerial meeting on the Kan administration's signboard policy and digital reform at the Prime Minister's Office.

It was found that representatives of the offices of Natsue Mori, a member of the House of Representatives (proportional Kinki) of the Japan Restoration Association, paid a total of 198,000 yen in party expenses for a total of 99 local party members to the party headquarters in fiscal 2018 and 19. Mr. Mori responded to the interview in writing.

On the 21st, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga returned to Japan after completing his first foreign visit to Vietnam and Indonesia after taking office.

Toru Ishizaki, a member of the House of Representatives of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) who was briefly charged with assault for beating his former secretary, filed a party report at the party headquarters in the morning of May 22.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said at a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia on the 21st, "Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are calling for the realization of the basic principles of the rule of law and openness in the Indo-Pacific."

A company that manufactures and sells plastic products collects plastic waste (plastic waste) on its own.