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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 12 > Parliament censures Japan’s prime minister

Parliament censures Japan’s prime minister


June 12, 2008

TOKYO — The opposition-controlled upper house of Parliament passed a nonbinding censure motion against Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Wednesday, the first against a prime minister in postwar Japan.

But the motion was largely symbolic because Fukuda’s governing Liberal....

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