Pressure increases on scandal-tainted Suzuki to quit Diet

Pressure increases on scandal-tainted Suzuki to quit Diet

TOKYO, Japan - The secretaries general of the three coalition parties -- the Liberal Democratic Party's Taku Yamasaki (L), the New Komeito Party's Tetsuzo Fuyushia (C), and the New Conservative Party's Toshihiro Nikai -- discuss an opposition demand May 7 in the Diet that House of Representative member Muneo Suzuki again be summoned to the Diet as a sworn witness in connection with a scandal involving his former aide.

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