Cabinet ministers Ichikawa, Yamaoka

Cabinet ministers Ichikawa, Yamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Combined photo shows Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (L) and Kenji Yamaoka, who concurrently serves as minister of state for consumer affairs and food safety, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue. They were at a Cabinet meeting in the Diet building in Tokyo on the morning of Dec. 9, 2011. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its ally the New Komeito party submitted censure motions against them to the opposition-controlled upper house the same day.

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