Ex-farm minister Wakabayashi offers to quit as lawmaker

TOKYO, Japan - Former Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi speaks to reporters at the Diet building in Tokyo on April 2, 2010, after submitting to House of Councillors President Satsuki Eda a letter of resignation as a lawmaker. Wakabayashi, of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, has been under fire for pressing the voting button for fellow lawmaker Mikio Aoki, who was absent from a house plenary vote to approve the budget for public broadcaster NHK. (Kyodo)

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