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The Chief Cbinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga, criticized a local political party, Tokyo Metropolis Residents First Association, at the campaign speech for the Liberal Democratic Party on Jun 25. He said to the new party without naming its name, “An inexperienced political party cannot control the Metropolitan Government. He also mentioned, “The party receives the quick attention from the citizens without the reputation. It completely lacks the experience as a political party. I saw these people created the political chaos many times.” He added, “Our LDP can control the Metropolitan Government properly.” He said about a plan to create a veterinary school in Okayama, “The real problem is a school has been rejected to establish for 52 years.” In addition, about Democratic Party’s rejection of the institutionalization of the national strategy special zone, he also said, “we must pursue the political reformation. 産経新聞：菅義偉官房長官が応援演説、都民ファーストを批判

Sankei news reported on June 21 that the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is considering at the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Japan and EU to set up the safeguard action on and raise the custom duty on imported beef. The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Yuji Yamamoto, planned to discuss about solving the pending issue on beef and cheese with Hogan European Commissioner on June 27. Although 20 out of 27 fields were concluded at EPA discussion, there are huge gaps between the particular agricultural fields that EU asks Japan to lead to the free market. In the agreement, beef is expected to decrease the contemporary custom duty at 38.5%. However the process goes slow. While EU insists to reduce the tariff to 9% which Japan accepted at the agreement in 16th year, Japan resist EU’s insistence by having an alternative plan to decrease to the standard at 19.5% which is concluded in EPA between Japan and Australia in 2015. Japan and Europe dis...

Although Ramadan is a religiously important ritual for the Islamic, the terrorists are taking advantages of this holy ritual for their attack globally. Following the terrorism attack in London, a guy who claim himself to be the member of either IS or al-Qaeda committed a crime in Australia. IS encourages their members to cause the terrorism attack in the name of jihad, the police and government are concerned about their next terrorist attack. A man abducted a woman and barricaded themselves in a house in Melbourne, Australia on June 5. He fired the bullet at the police and he was dead after the gunfight with them. Another man was confirmed as dead. The police rescued the victim after the gunfight. According to the local media, the local broadcast company had a call from a man saying, “It’s for the sake of IS and al-Quaida,” while the barricaded suspect hid in the house. The police department start identifying the suspect and investigate on the case of the terrorist attack. ...

After Aichi and Fukuoka Prefectural Police Departments arrested 10 people for robbing the golden bars equivalent to 750 million yen at a location close to JR Hakata station in Fukuoka city in last July, the Police Departments found a police officer of Aichi prefecture called a suspect before on June 2. This happened because Fukuoka Police Department monitored cell phones. Although it searched the person’s house who was related to the suspects who chased the golden bars in March this year, Fukuoka Police Department told Aichi Police Department that the information appeared to be leaked to the criminal groups before searching for the house. 
 Inspection Office of Aichi Prefecture started an investigation on the same day. 
 According to one of the officers, Fukuoka Department Office monitored some suspects' cell phones identified from the records of surveillance cameras set around the crime scene. 
 Fukuoka Police Department figured out 3 groups consist 6 transporter...