Upper house president quits over Diet turmoil

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors President Juro Saito (C) is surrounded by reporters in the Diet on Oct. 18 while walking toward upper house Vice President Hisamitsu Sugano to offer a letter of resignation. Saito resigned after failing to mediate a drawn-out row between the ruling and opposition parties over a plan to revise the upper house's electoral system.

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