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LDP, Komei, and DPJ oppose JCP resolution admonishing Tokyo governor

In the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly's steering committee meeting on October 5, the Liberal Democratic, Komei, and Democratic parties rejected a Japanese Communist Party draft resolution requesting that Governor Ishihara Shintaro seriously reconsider his remarks denying the United Nations Charter.

Thus, the JCP draft resolution was barred from being discussed at the plenary session on October 6.

The JCP draft resolution stated that the governor's remarks denying the U.N. Charter and insulting the U.N. must not be condoned, for he is the representative of the Japanese capital of Tokyo where many lives were lost during WW II.

At the committee meeting, an LDP representative dismissed JCP representative Yoshida Nobuo's explanation by stating "We have a different idea." A Komei representative said, "Anyone injured can express protest." The DPJ which had maintained that the governor should be careful about his remarks changed its position and opposed the JCP draft resolution, saying it won't demand that the governor retract the remarks.

At a news conference later in the day, Yoshida Nobuo who proposed the resolution on behalf of the JCP, said, "The metropolitan assembly's raison d'etre must be called into question if it overlooks the governor's absurd remarks." -- Akahata, October 6, 2005