Committee members of Japan's Lower House have agreed on a vote of a revised draft of a bill aimed at helping people who have suffered damage from the actions of the former Unification Church.
The vote is scheduled for Thursday. Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is to attend the session ahead of the voting.
Sources say the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee may have been involved in alleged bid-rigging over the Games' test events.
They say the committee is suspected of having created in advance a list of advertising agencies and other firms that had previously carried out similar duties for each sports event.
Japanese lawmakers have asked the government why the prime minister refused to appoint six nominees recommended by a leading academic organization as new members.
The Science Council of Japan is made up of 210 members whose terms last six years. Half of them are replaced with new members every three years. The council is an independent body, but its members are special national government employees.
An organization representing scientists in Japan wants the government to establish a permanent committee on measures against infectious diseases.
The Science Council of Japan put forward the idea after considering the government's response to the coronavirus.
Japan's Upper House budget committee approved a second supplementary budget for the current fiscal year on Friday to respond to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. The budget is expected to be enacted in the afternoon at a plenary session.
The economic package is worth 31.9 trillion yen, or more than 298 billion dollars, a record for a supplementary budget.
A Lower House committee in Japan's Diet has passed a bill that would allow the prime minister to declare a state of emergency to combat the coronavirus outbreak.
The bill was approved on Wednesday with a majority vote from the governing Liberal Democratic Party, its coalition partner Komeito, as well as the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party, Democratic Party for the People, Nippon Ishin and others.