Overview
- Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told the Upper House budget committee that the draft extra budget will include aid for local governments confronting bear incidents.
- The government aims to pass the supplementary budget within the current Diet session, which ends on Dec. 17.
- An LDP project team finalized an urgent plan to employ licensed “government hunters,” train former SDF and police personnel, and procure electric fences and traps.
- The proposal calls for central funding of costs such as capture and handling, hiring hunting association members, removing fruit trees, and creating buffer zones near residential areas.
- The plan includes steps to spread information about the emergency hunting system launched in September, with the LDP set to submit its package to Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara on Thursday.