Attempts at legislation in the Japanese Diet

Various Efforts regarding the Comfort Women issue >Attempts at legislation in the Japanese Diet

In the Japanese Diets their members have introduced several times Bills in order to solve anew the comfort women issue after 1999. But every attempt has failed without any discussion, except the case in 2002.

Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill

House	Session	Number of Bill	Name of Bill	PDF	Introducers	Date
H.O.C	136	5	Bill of the Establishment of Special Organization for Investigation of Wartime Sexual Coercion	PDF
H.O.C	147	9	Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill	PDF	Shoji Motooka and others	10 Apr. 2000
H.O.C	149	7	Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill	PDF	Haruko Yoshikawa and others	28 Jul. 2000
H.O.C	150	9	Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill	PDF	Shoji Motooka and others	30 Oct. 2000
H.O.C	150	10	Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill	PDF	Haruko Yoshikawa and others	30 Oct. 2000
H.O.C	150	11	Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill	PDF	Sumiko Shimizu and others	30 Oct. 2000
H.O.C	151	12	Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill	English Japaness	Shoji Motooka and others	21 Mar. 2001
H.O.C	153	4	Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill	English Japaness	Yoriko Madoka and others	14 Nov. 2001
H.O.C	156	6	Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill	PDF	Tomiko Okazaki and others	31 Jan. 2003
H.O.C	159	23	Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill	PDF	Tomiko Okazaki and others	09 .Jun. 2004
H.O.C	161	2	Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill	PDF	Tomiko Okazaki and others	01 Dec. 2004
H.O.C	162	1	Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill	PDF	Tomiko Okazaki and others	28 Feb. 2005
H.O.C	164	7	Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill	PDF	Tomiko Okazaki and others	29 Mar. 2006

Bill of the Partial Amendment of the Act of the National Parliament Library(Bill of the Establishment of Investigation Section for Permanent Peace) From the website of Legistration Section, House of Representatives

House

Session

Number
of Bill
Name of Bill
PDF

Introducers

Date

H.O.R

145

38

Bill of the Partial Amendment of the Act of the National Parliament Library (Bill of the Establishment of Investigation Section for Permanent Peace)

discussion during adjourment

Yukio Hatoyama and others

10 Nov. 1999

H.O.R

150

18

Bill of the Partial Amendment of the Act of the National Parliament Library (Bill of the Establishment of Investigation Section for Permanent Peace)

discussion during adjourment

Yukio Hatoyama and others

20 Nov. 2000

H.O.R

159

51

Bill of the Partial Amendment of the Act of the National Parliament Library (Bill of the Establishment of Investigation Section for Permanent Peace)

discussion during adjourment

Yukio Hatoyama and others

09 Jun. 2004

H.O.R

164

27

Bill of the Partial Amendment of the Act of the National Parliament Library (Bill of the Establishment of Investigation Section for Permanent Peace)

discussion during adjourment

Yukio Hatoyama and others

23 may. 2006

On 23 July 2002 the Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill was put on agenda of the Cabinet Committee of the House of Councilors. Questions were put to the introducers and answered by them. (Protocol of the day

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On 12 December 2002 discussion about the Promotion of Resolution for Issues concerning Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion Bill continued. Professor Yozo Yokote (Member of the Advisory Committee of the AWF) and Associate Professor Etsuro Totsuka (Graduate School of Kobe University) read depositions as specialists and answered to questions.(Protocol of the day

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