Ruling coalition gives up trying to pass TPP-ratifying bill after minister’s gaffe | The Japan Times

by Tomohiro Osaki

Staff Writer

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 Party-Komeito coalition to adopt the bill at the committee tasked with TPP deliberations — a key step toward its passage through the Lower House plenary session — compromised Abe’s effort to win domestic approval of the multinational deal before the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday.

Source: Ruling coalition gives up trying to pass TPP-ratifying bill after minister’s gaffe | The Japan Times