SDP to leave ruling coalition

SDP to leave ruling coalition

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Fukushima, chief of the Social Democratic Party, attends a meeting with secretaries general of her party's local chapters at a hotel in Tokyo on May 30, 2010. The party decided the same day to leave the tripartite ruling coalition due to differences over the policy on hosting the U.S. military.

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