Defense Minister Kihara “continues to hold out his duties” and “rewards the Self-Defense Forces” assertion | NHK

Minister of Defense Kihara has been criticized by opposition events for his remarks in help of the House of Representatives by-election that supporting the Liberal Democratic Party candidate can be rewarding the Self-Defense Forces, and a few are calling for his resignation. At a press convention on the seventeenth, he expressed his intention to proceed in his duties.

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