from today's Nikkei

自民惨敗、３０議席台　民主躍進、第一党に　与党、過半数大幅れ　「年金」厳しい審判　参院選　首相、続投の意向　来月にも内閣改造　政権運営、衆院解散含み
The Liberal Democratic Party was defeated devastatingly in the House of Councillors election with the seats the party got in the 30 and so level. On the other hand, the Democratic Party of Japan made a great advance and is sure to get the majority in the chamber.This result made ruling coalition block fail to get the majority in the chamber in a big margin. We can say that due to the so-called public pension fiasco and other lunders in the Cabinet members, the punlic gave a severe punishment to the Abe administration. However, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intended to continue his grip of the government. He is expected to reshuffle its cabinet early in next month. In these circumstances, the political scene from now on is sure to have a various kind of aspects ,and will have a possibility for the House of Reperesentatives to be dissolved sometime of not a far future.

from Sunday's Nikkei

広告メール無断送信禁止　ネット通販　消費者保護へ規制　
産経省が法改正へ　後払いも選択可能
The Economy,Trade and Industry Ministry will launch on a new regulation in order to prevent disputes over the mail orders through the Internet from taking place.Under the new regulation, a would-be seller is prohibited to send an advertising mail for the products or services it is providing to people without their prior permission.Another regulation is that the mail order businesses should establish a payment method that their customers can make a payment after they receive the products they have ordered.This is apparently aimed at preventing illegal tarnsactions, like ones that products are not delivered to people even though they have already paid money, from happening.