Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato apologized for finding a mistake in the text of the amendment to the Local Civil Service Law by attending the board of directors of the House of Representatives Steering Committee, and based on the mistakes in the series of texts, during June He expressed his desire to put together measures to prevent recurrence.
While mistakes were found one after another in the bill submitted by the government to the Diet, there were two mistakes in the amendment bill of the Local Civil Service Law to raise the retirement age of local public employees, such as the deviation of the article number, and reference materials. Found 45 mistakes.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato attended the board of directors of the House of Representatives Steering Committee and apologized, "I am very sorry for making such a mistake again. I sincerely apologize."
After that, based on a series of mistakes in the text, a team across ministries and agencies investigated the cause and expressed his intention to formulate recurrence prevention measures by the end of June.
Opposition parties have pointed out that the check instructions were not thorough, and criticized that "it is very regrettable. Is this really the last?", But the ruling and opposition parties discussed it. As a result, we did not ask for the bill to be reissued, but agreed to add an errata.