国会閉幕、与野党参院選へ　２２日公示・来月１０日投開票

　第２０８通常国会は１５日、衆参両院で会期末処理の手続きを終え、閉幕した。政府は午後の臨時閣議で参院選日程を「２２日公示―７月１０日投開票」と決定する予定。与野党は事実上の選挙戦に突入する。岸田文雄首相は１５日夕、首相官邸で記者会見し、参院選への決意を表明する。（2022/06/15-13:37）

The Diet, Japan's parliament, wrapped up this year's 150-day regular session without an extension on Wednesday, with both the country's ruling and opposition parties set to effectively kick off their campaigns for next month's House of Councillors election.
   At an extraordinary cabinet meeting in the afternoon, the government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to set the Upper House poll for July 10 and the start of the official campaign period for June 22. Kishida is set to hold a press conference Wednesday evening, in which he is seen expressing his resolve for the triennial Upper House election.
   Ahead of the election, the Kishida government limited the number of bills for the regular session, which began Jan. 17, to 61, including one for promoting economic security. All of them were enacted.
   In the early stage of the session, the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan refrained from criticizing the government as it placed more of its focus on actively making policy proposals.
   To clarify its confrontational stance toward the government in the late stage, the CDP submitted a no-confidence motion against Kishida's cabinet to the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, on June 8. But it was voted down the following day, with opposition from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its Komeito ally and some other parties.