Man recalls training as WWII suicide glider pilot at age 13

Man recalls training as WWII suicide glider pilot at age 13

Takayuki Yamanoi recounts his experience of receiving training as a suicide glider pilot at age 13 in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, toward the end of World War II, as pictured on March 20, 2015. ==Kyodo

Diet committee to meet for discussion of N. Korea nuclear test

Diet committee to meet for discussion of N. Korea nuclear test

Diet affairs chiefs Hiroshi Moriyama (3rd from R) of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Kazunori Yamanoi (4th from L) of the main opposition Democratic Party meet at the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2017. They agreed to hold a special lower house committee session the following day in order to discuss North Korea's sixth nuclear test. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

LDP rejects Diet session with Abe to address favoritism claims

LDP rejects Diet session with Abe to address favoritism claims

Wataru Takeshita (L), chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's parliamentary affairs committee, and his Democratic Party counterpart Kazunori Yamanoi hold talks in the Diet in Tokyo on July 13, 2017. The LDP turned down a Democratic Party request for a parliamentary committee session to be held with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe so that allegations of favoritism can be addressed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Lawmakers agree to reopen parliament, Abe favoritism claims on agenda

Lawmakers agree to reopen parliament, Abe favoritism claims on agenda

Wataru Takeshita (R), Diet affairs chief of the Liberal Democratic Party, and his Democratic Party counterpart Kazunori Yamanoi meet in Tokyo on July 4, 2017. Japan's ruling and opposition parties agreed to briefly reopen parliament the following week for one-off committee deliberations, with plans to quiz a former top bureaucrat at the education ministry who has come forward alleging favoritism by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

TPP committee vote halted amid opposition calls for minister's head

TPP committee vote halted amid opposition calls for minister's head

Wataru Takeshita (R), chair of the Liberal Democratic Party's Diet affairs committee, and his Democratic Party counterpart Kazunori Yamanoi meet at the parliament building in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2016. A vote in a lower house committee on the Trans-Pacific Partnership was canceled the same day after opposition parties decided to sit out the vote after calling for the resignation of farm minister Yuji Yamamoto over a gaffe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan lower house to vote on TPP ratification bill on Nov. 4

Japan lower house to vote on TPP ratification bill on Nov. 4

Wataru Takeshita, chair of the Liberal Democratic Party's Diet affairs committee, and his Democratic Party counterpart Kazunori Yamanoi hold talks in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2016. The main ruling and opposition parties agreed that the House of Representatives will vote on a bill to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact on Nov. 4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo