1.   Experts say the ruling party legislators are trying to prop up banking stocks by proposing solutions to the bad-loan problem.

2.   Yasuhisa Shiozaki, a ruling party legislator and a Koizumi ally, said that Koizumi had proved incapable of wielding national leadership from an office historically seen as weak.

3.   Opposition and ruling party legislators Thursday prepared to adopt a set of legal and electorate reforms, which could pave the way for a peaceful elections this year.

4.   Opposition and ruling party legislators agreed Thursday on a series of crucial legal and constitutional reforms that could ease tensions ahead of elections this year.

5.   Parliament on Monday accepted the resignation of a scandal-tainted ruling party legislator as leader of its upper house and replaced him with a former home affairs minister.

6.   A ruling party legislator accused the city of murder later Friday, saying many of the injured died waiting for rescue because of ineptitude by the rescue workers.

7.   A ruling party legislator accused of corruption battles a former war correspondent for the local parliamentary seat.

8.   A ruling party legislator, he is strongly pro-government.

9.   A son of the owner of a bankrupt steel firm and two ruling party legislators were summoned Monday for questioning in a ballooning bribes-for-loans scandal.

10.   Accompanying him were Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Mitsuhiro Uesugi and several ruling party legislators.