Doi offers apology over party scandal

Doi offers apology over party scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Social Democratic Party leader Takako Doi bows at a meeting of prefectural deputies March 28 in a gesture of apology over a scandal that forced party policy chief Kiyomi Tsujimoto to resign as a member of the House of Representatives.

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