TOKYO, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) — Japan’s parliament on Friday accepted a invoice to lift the annual salaries of senior authorities officers, together with the prime minister and his cupboard members.
The House of Councillors, the parliament’s higher chamber, gave the greenlight to the invoice following passage on the House of Representatives, the decrease chamber, on Tuesday.
Under the revised regulation, the annual salaries of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Cabinet ministers will improve by 460,000 yen (3,074 U.S. {dollars}) and 320,000 yen to 40.61 million yen and 29.61 million yen, respectively.
The revision has triggered criticism from opposition events amid inflation affecting most people.
In response to the resistance, the Japanese authorities mentioned final week that Kishida, his ministers and another senior officers have agreed to voluntarily return the elevated quantity to the state coffers. (1 U.S. dollar equals 149.7 yen)