Tsujimoto quits ministerial post as SDP leaves coalition

Tsujimoto quits ministerial post as SDP leaves coalition

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyomi Tsujimoto (L), a Social Democratic Party lawmaker, hugs land minister Seiji Maehara after handing in her letter of resignation from the post of vice land minister at the ministry in Tokyo on May 31, 2010. The SDP decided the previous day to leave the coalition government, opposing an agreement between Japan and the United States on the relocation of a key U.S. military base within Okinawa Prefecture.

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