Reiwa investigation calls for stronger penalties for false statements on income and expenditure reports, urgent recommendations. In such cases, the ruling and opposition parties should reach an agreement at the current Diet session to strengthen penalties.
Professor Masanori Taniguchi of the University of Tokyo, who compiled the recommendations, said, ``I want to ask the world about the recommendations with a sense of crisis'' Unless we establish the governance of political parties, Japan's democratic politics will no longer be viable, he said.