Opposition Parties Score Win with Minister’s Sacking, but Hurdles Remain to Bringing Down Cabinet
The Yomiuri Shimbun
16:56 JST, May 22, 2025
With opposition parties holding a majority in the lower house, they managed to band together on Wednesday and push the ruling bloc into a corner, forcing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to sack the agriculture minister.
After Taku Eto was dismissed as agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister, Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, called the move “inevitable.”
“[Eto] was not the right person for minister,” Noda told reporters. “I believe [his dismissal] was........
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