Opposition leaders urge Abe to sack defense minister

Opposition leaders urge Abe to sack defense minister

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Communist Party Secretary General Tadayoshi Ichida, Democratic Party of Japan Acting President Hayato Kan and Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima (L to R) attend a rally at the No. 2 House of Representatives Members Hall in Tokyo and demand that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sack Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma over remarks he made over the weekend that appear to justify the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in World War II.

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