Opposition parties consider no-confidence motion against Abe Cabinet

The leaders of four Japanese opposition parties -- Katsuya Okada (4th from L) of the Democratic Party, Ichiro Ozawa (3rd from L) of the People's Life Party, Kazuo Shii (3rd from R) of the Japanese Communist Party, and Tadatomo Yoshida (2nd from R) of the Social Democratic Party -- hold talks at the Diet building in Tokyo on May 19, 2016. The parties decided to consider jointly submitting a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet by June 1, the end of the current Diet session, due mainly to the failure of the government's economic policies, dubbed "Abenomics." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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