Shigeru Ishiba, Prime Minister of Japan, emphasised the significance of the bill’s inclusion of measures to expand the scope of eligibility for the employee’s pension for part-time workers.

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This decision seeks to expand the number of workers covered by the employer's pension programme by eliminating the annual income threshold at which workers are required to join the employees’ pension programme (¥1.6 million).