LDP lawmaker to quit after arrest for alleged molestation

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe is about to leave a press conference room March 10 after speaking on the arrest earlier in the day of LDP House of Representatives member Kazuyoshi Nakanishi on suspicion of molesting a woman. Takebe said Nakanishi expressed his intention to give up his lower house seat.

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