DPJ lawmaker tries to leave party

DPJ lawmaker tries to leave party

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Yuko Sato is surrounded by reporters in a Diet building in Tokyo on March 3, 2011, after filing her decision with the party leadership to join a regional political group launched by Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura. DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada did not accept the first-term lower house member's resignation and asked her to stay in the party.

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