By Akihisa Ota and Kota Ifuku / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers

21:00 JST, December 12, 2025

The government and ruling parties secured enough support to pass a supplementary budget bill for fiscal 2025 in the House of Representatives by actively incorporating proposals from Komeito and the Democratic Party for the People.

Lacking a majority in the House of Councillors, the ruling bloc of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party sought to divide opposition parties and effectively ensured passage of this top-priority supplementary budget bill during the current Diet session.

After the bill was passed in the lower house plenary session Thursday, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met DPFP leader Yuichiro Tamaki with a smile in the Diet building. “Thank you so much,”........

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