Japanese → English transcript

That means we have no right to talk about reforms we only watch from the sidelines.

Does that mean the investigation will end with today’s results?

Or does it mean it will continue?

So today, I would like to present a model example.

Because it is the members of Ishin no Kai who have been taking the lead in raising National Health Insurance premiums across the country.

And people like that were dodging the national health insurance, that is just unacceptable, right?

And on top of that, what do you mean, ending the investigation?

Out of the eight hundred or so legislators, three hundred sixty-four

Because forty-five percent are not on national health insurance

They will not even cut the drink charges in the club rooms like Makurauchi

A party like that has no right to talk about reforms that involve sacrificing itself.

If you keep saying “sacrifice yourselves, sacrifice yourselves,”

why don’t you follow the example of the Japanese Communist Party and stop taking party subsidies?

So you receive about three billion yen a year, right?

You are not allowed to leave any of it unused.

They’re supposed to return it to the national treasury, but they’re hoarding it in a fund instead.

Whether it is a consumption tax cut or an expansion of social security

A political party that is completely free from dirty money.

Only if the Japanese Communist Party grows