Inada attends upper house budget committee

Inada attends upper house budget committee

Defense Minister Tomomi Inada (L) attends an upper house budget committee in Tokyo on March 15, 2017, a day after she retracted her earlier remarks that she has not served as legal counsel for an Osaka school operator at the center of a controversy over its cut-price purchase of public land. The opposition Democratic Party has called for her to resign for allegedly lying about her links to the operator. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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