Translator Reviews ( English → Japanese )
Rating: 61 / 0 Reviews / 17 Jul 2013 at 16:08
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Tuesday evening in Tokyo with top Osaka-based Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) officials Toru Hashimoto and Ichiro Matsui to discuss cooperation on amending the Constitution.
Hashimoto, who, along with Lower House member Shintaro Ishihara, serves as coleader of Nippon Ishin and as mayor of Osaka, and Matsui, the party’s secretary general and Osaka governor, had originally said they were only meeting Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga to discuss Osaka-related issues.
Hashimoto did not provide details of the meeting, saying only that the two sides had discussed various issues.
安倍晋三首相は火曜の夜、東京にて大阪で最大規模を誇る日本維新の会(Japan Restoration Party)党員の橋下徹および松井一郎らと共に、憲法改正に対す連携について話し合った。
衆議院の石原慎太郎らと共に日本維新の会の共同代表、および大阪市長を務める橋下氏は、同党の会幹事長および大阪知事を務める松井氏と共に、当初、内閣官房長官の菅義偉らと大阪に関する問題について話し合っただけであると述べた。橋本氏は会合の詳細については明かさず、双方で様々な問題について話し合たということのみを述べた。