Nakayama calls schoolteachers' union 'cancer'

Nakayama calls schoolteachers' union 'cancer'

TOKYO, Japan - New Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Nariaki Nakayama speaks to reporters at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 27 after returning from Miyazaki. Nakayama said he will ''decide on his own whether to resign.'' Nakayama is embroiled in fallout from a series of comments seen as verbal gaffes he has made since his appointment on Sept. 24.

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