So Mr Obuchi may actually win some credit for putting the budget through the Diet.
If this much sun exposure is not possible, extra care must be taken to get enough vitamin D through the diet.
Important legislation was rammed through the Diet thanks only to the two-third's majority enjoyed by the ruling coalition in the lower house.
Though tiny in the context of the economic slide, Mr Koizumi was keen to push some form of anti-recession plan through the Diet.
This summer it is also pushing legislation through the Diet (parliament) that will radically change what its army, known as the Self-Defence Forces, is allowed to do.
But on December 6th the government rammed through the Diet an unpopular law that greatly increases the penalties for leaking (widely defined) state secrets.
The statement was prompted by an effort by fellow LDP conservatives to force a bill through the Diet (parliament) overturning the government's 1993 statement (which the Diet never ratified).
Gustav used the treason of the Anjala League to provoke an outburst of genuine patriotism in Sweden, hoping to channel popular opinion through the Diet, which he convened in 1789.
After months of haggling with Mr Kan and his colleagues over how to tackle Japan's banking mess, the LDP split the opposition and bulldozed a rescue plan through the Diet (parliament) on October 12th (see article).
For a start, instead of pushing the second stimulus through the Diet (parliament) at once, Mr Aso put it off until the session that began in January, so as not to divert energies from the annual budgeting ritual.
Officials hope to get a bill through the Diet (the country's parliament) that would modify the national health insurance scheme, so the elderly could hire such aids for little more than the cost of renting a wheel chair.
