Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will dissolve the House of Representatives for an election at the outset of an extraordinary Diet session to be convened on Sept. 28 without delivering a policy speech, ruling party sources said Thursday.The plan to skip the speech and Diet deliberations on it triggered opposition party protests, with Seiji Maehara, leader of the Democratic Party, saying it was an "act that ridicules the highest organ of state power."With the main opposition party scrambling to develop its campaign pledges ahead of what would be the first general election in nearly three years, Mae…READ FULL ARTICLE
