TOKYO - Japan's main opposition Democratic Party and three smaller parties demanded Wednesday that Defense Minister Tomomi Inada be dismissed over a remark they say amounts to making political use of the Self-Defense Forces to attract support for a candidate in the upcoming Tokyo metropolitan assembly election.
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