岸田首相、ＧｏＴｏ再開「年末年始見極め」　参院代表質問

　参院は１０日午前の本会議で、岸田文雄首相の所信表明演説に対する３日目の各党代表質問を行った。首相は観光支援事業「Ｇｏ　Ｔｏ　トラベル」の再開時期について「年末年始の新型コロナウイルス感染状況などをしっかり見極めた上で検討していく」と述べた。公明党の山口那津男代表への答弁。（2021/12/10-12:08）

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday that the government will consider when to resume its Go To Travel tourism promotion campaign after carefully watching the novel coronavirus infection situation in the country during the year-end and New Year holiday period.
   Kishida, also president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, made the statement at a plenary meeting of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, in response to a question from Natsuo Yamaguchi, head of Komeito, the coalition partner of the LDP.
   Kishida reiterated his cautious stance toward the country's participation as an observer in a meeting of signatories to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in March next year.
   "None of the nuclear powers has joined the treaty," Kishida said. As the only country attacked with nuclear weapons, "Japan needs to make efforts to get the nuclear powers involved," he went on to say. The city of Hiroshima, western Japan, and the southwestern city of Nagasaki were flattened by the U.S. atomic bombings in August 1945, in the closing days of World War II.
   Regarding the government's program to hand out 100,000-yen benefits per person aged 18 or younger, Kishida said that 50,000 yen should be offered in cash and the other 50,000 yen in the form of shopping vouchers in principle as originally planned.