TOKYO - Japan's House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill to outlaw desecration of the national flag, but all opposition parties were absent in protest at what they see as the high-handed way Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party pushed through the measure, a key plank of its conservative policy agenda.
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