Some LDP lower house members directly urge Abe to resign

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a meeting of Liberal Democratic Party members of both houses of the Diet held in the Diet building on Aug. 7. Some LDP members of the House of Representatives, who met separately later in the day, directly urged Abe to resign from his post to take the blame for the LDP's historic defeat in the House of Councillors election on July 29.

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