Japanese government decided Friday to compile by the end of this year a package of measures to strengthen its counter terrorism efforts.

"The issue of international terrorism is getting grave. We will have to examine our measures while fully keeping guard as terrorism, hostage-takings, the bombing of aircraft and the like are occurring almost everyday," Hosoda said in a press conference.

The measures include giving police more power to arrest suspected terrorists as in Britain under its antiterrorism law and revising the immigration law to tighten border scrutiny, Hosoda said.

"I told senior vice ministers and parliamentary secretaries of ministries concerned to come up with the new package with a deadline for each step after studying other countries' steps," he said.

The government will submit bills for necessary legislative steps as early as in the next ordinary parliament session to convene in January next year.

Source: Xinhua