TPP committee vote halted amid opposition calls for minister's head

TPP committee vote halted amid opposition calls for minister's head

Wataru Takeshita (R), chair of the Liberal Democratic Party's Diet affairs committee, and his Democratic Party counterpart Kazunori Yamanoi meet at the parliament building in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2016. A vote in a lower house committee on the Trans-Pacific Partnership was canceled the same day after opposition parties decided to sit out the vote after calling for the resignation of farm minister Yuji Yamamoto over a gaffe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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