Ruling coalition gives up trying to pass TPP-ratifying bill after minister’s gaffe
[TOMOHIRO OSAKI | November 02, 2016 |Japan Times] After a new round of calls for the resignation of Japan’s gaffe-prone agricultural minister, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition on Wednesday gave up trying to pass a bill to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement through a special Lower House committee. The failure by the Liberal Democratic…