Watanabe forms new group with independent lawmaker, experts

Watanabe forms new group with independent lawmaker, experts

TOKYO, Japan - Former Cabinet minister Yoshimi Watanabe (2nd from L) joins hands with members of a new political group he has formed just three days after leaving the ruling Liberal Democratic Party at a news conference at the No. 2 House of Representatives lawmakers' building in Tokyo on Jan. 16. The group consists of Watanabe, independent lawmaker Kenji Eda (L), Taro Yayama (2nd from R), a renowned political analyst, and Katsuhiko Eguchi (R), president of the PHP research institute, who heads a government panel on reorganizing Japan's prefectural system.

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