After a ninety-minute Friday meeting with LDP leader Sanae Takaichi, Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito announced that his party would not renew its coalition with the LDP. The centrist Buddhist party, backed by the religious organization Soka Gakkai, has been in coalition with the LDP since 1999, and stuck with the LDP even in opposition from […]The post Komeito quits Japan coalition, leaving LDP way short of majority appeared first on Asia Times.