JCP policy chief quits for calling defense outlay "budget to kill"

JCP policy chief quits for calling defense outlay "budget to kill"

Japanese Communist Party policy commission chairman Yasufumi Fujino (front) announces at a press conference in Tokyo on June 28, 2016, that he will resign from the post for calling Japan's defense spending a "budget to kill people." His remarks have drawn criticism. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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