ＮＴＴ社長、１５日に参院予算委招致　接待問題で集中審議

　参院予算委員会は８日の理事会で、総務省幹部への接待問題などに関する集中審議を１５日に開き、ＮＴＴの澤田純社長を参考人として招致することを決めた。菅義偉首相らも出席する。これに合わせ、総務省から内部調査の中間報告を受けることも確認した。
　予算委の与党筆頭理事の青木一彦氏（自民）は澤田氏の招致について、記者団に「ＮＴＴは国が株を持っている特殊法人だ。一民間会社とは区別すべきだ」と述べ、応じる考えを示した。一方、与党は、首相の長男正剛氏ら放送関連会社「東北新社」関係者の招致は拒否する方針だ。（2021/03/08-19:37）

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. President Jun Sawada will be summoned to the Diet, Japan's parliament, as an unsworn witness over a high-profile hospitality scandal during intensive debates on March 15, it was decided Monday.
   The decision was made at a meeting of senior members of the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will also attend the intensive debates.
   Senior communications ministry officials were found to have been treated to expensive dinners by NTT executives, including Sawada, in suspected breach of the ethics code for national public servants.
   The Budge Committee members also confirmed that the ministry will submit an interim report on its investigation on the scandal in line with the intensive deliberations.
   Kazuhiko Aoki, a senior Budget Committee member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, sounded positive about summoning Sawada. "NTT is partly owned by the government and therefore should be distinguished from other private companies," Aoki told reporters.