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政治改革法案が　自民党と立憲民主党が合意して　今国会で成立へ　政治活動費は全廃することとなる　　自民党が考えた「工夫支出」は撤回するとのことである

The Liberal Democratic Party and the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan reached a basic agreement on December 16 on the bills related to the political reform including the revision of the political funds control law. The LDP decided on withdrawal of the political activity funds given by the political party and dubious expenditures called "Ku-hu-shi-shutsu" or expenditures to be allowed to keep undisclosed details for some purposes in the face of strong opposition from opposing parties. And then these related bills are expected to pass the House of Representatives on December 17.

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厚生労働省では　来年度　東南アジアで　外国人材採用費の補助をおこなう　先進国の間では　人材確保の競争激化している

It has been learned that the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare intends next year to intensify in the South Asian countries securing the manpower for nursing services, where the lack of manpower is severe in Japan. Specifically, it will subsidize Japanese companies trying in such countries to employ the people working in the nursing field in Japan or start establishing in Indonesia the educational program in nursery. They have reached a judgement that as aging has been advancing in Japan, a strategic tackling for receiving foreign workers is needed. Behind this movement is the situation that as aging is advancing in other countries, too, centering in advanced countries as well as in Japan, competitions of securing the employees for the welfare services have been intensifying in global scale.

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除染土処理　全閣僚会議　福島第一　４５年期限へ検討開始　官房長官トップ　年内初会合

The government has decided that they would start to discuss how to deal with decontaminated soils coming from the accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant. They are going to establish the all-cabinet-member meeting in which concrete methods are discussed and have its first meeting within the year. The soils contaminated with radioactivity at the accident were decontaminated and now there are stored at a facility in Fukushima. And it is decided that they should be dealt with outside Fukushima Prefecture by the end of 2045, but securing the place where the necessary procedures could be done outside the prefecture is a very difficult problem. Given such conditions, they have to accelerate its handling with all the ministries and agencies participated in this project. The all-cabinet-member meeting is chaired by the Chief Cabinet Secretary.

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シリア独裁政権崩壊　アサド大統領　露亡命　反体制派　首都制圧

The rebellion forces in Syria declared its victory against the Bashar al-Assad government on December 8 after it was able to make the country's capital Damascus under its control, saying " we could collapse the dictator Assad." TASS reported on the same day that Bashar al-Assad arrived at Moscow and Russia granted asylum to him from a humanitarian viewpoint. The dictatorial administration lasting more than 50 years, two generations from a parent to his son, was destroyed only 12 days after the rebellion forces started its fight against the government again.

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規正法再改正　支出監視へ第三者機関　自民修正案　政策活動費は廃止　「公開方法工夫支出」先送り
The Liberal Democratic Party decided on December 13 that it would modify some points of the bill already presented in the current session of the Diet for revising the political funds control law. And it revealed its draft to the opposition parties. According to its draft, the third-party body looking into the political funds broadly should be established in the Diet, with the ideas from the two parties of Komeito and the Democratic Party for the People adopted. And it includes the abolition of the political activity expenses. And the creation of the new item which is called" open-method-should-be-worked-out expenses" should be deferred until January of 2026 about its decision.