Japanese lawmakers earned an average of 24.16 million yen ($218,600) in income last year, down 110,000 yen from 2019, parliamentary data showed Wednesday, with the salary of Diet members cut by 20 percent since May 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic.The average income among lawmakers marked a decline in 2020 for the second straight year. But it stayed almost flat compared with the 2019 level despite the salary cut in view of people's lives and state finances impacted by the pandemic, buoyed by sharp gains in income of the top earner through stock sales.Taichiro Motoe, a ruling Liberal Democ…READ FULL ARTICLE
