The ruling and opposition parties are waging a psychological war over the date to vote on a draft law to secure financial resources for increased defense spending.
The ruling parties are negotiating with the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and others to vote on the bill at the House of Councillors' Financial Affairs Committee on Thursday, hoping to have it passed at the upper house's plenary session Friday. There is speculation, however, that the CDPJ will submit a no-confidence motion Friday to the House of Representatives against the Cabinet.
On Tuesday at the committee's board meeting, the ruling parties proposed a vote for that same day, which was rejected by opposition parties. Later, Kotaro Nogami, chairperson of the Liberal Democratic Party's Diet Affairs Committee in the upper house, met with his CDPJ counterpart Yoshitaka Saito to inform him that voting would not take place that day.
