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TOKYO (THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Debate in the Diet between the ruling and opposition parties over issues related to the novel coronavirus pandemic did not go well. The government should present clear guidelines to the public about how to overcome this crisis. The budget committees of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors held intensive deliberations. When it came to measures against infection, the opposition parties focused on the government's Go To Travel tourism promotion campaign. Yukio Edano, leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, called for the campaign to be suspended, saying, "Infections spread...
