Japan's Diet increases pressure on lawmaker to quit over Russia war remarks

The lower house of Japan's parliament passed a rare resolution Thursday urging a lawmaker to consider resigning following controversial remarks that alluded to Tokyo waging war with Moscow to regain control of a group of disputed islands.The resolution by eight ruling and opposition parties against Hodaka Maruyama, unanimously adopted in a plenary session of the House of Representatives, states that he is "not qualified to be a Diet member" and presses him to consider stepping down.Maruyama did not attend the plenary session and was unfazed by the motion. "I will serve my term and move on,"…READ FULL ARTICLE