Shizuka Kamei, Akiko Kamei to leave PNP

Shizuka Kamei, Akiko Kamei to leave PNP

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei (R) announces his decision to leave the People's New Party, the junior coalition partner of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, along with his supporter Akiko Kamei (L), at a press conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on April 6, 2012. Shizuka Kamei was dismissed from the post of party chief and Akiko Kamei from the post of the party's policy chief the previous day due to their opposition to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's key policy goal of a sales tax hike.

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