Japan opposition leader Edano to resign after poor election results

The leader of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Yukio Edano, said Tuesday he will resign from the post after his party failed to win over voters in last weekend's general election despite public dissatisfaction with the government's COVID-19 response.Edano decided to end his four-year stint since founding the CDPJ in October 2017, after the party's seats shrank from 110 to 96 in the election on Sunday as it was shunned by voters in the proportional representation section of the election."My inadequacy is the reason this happened," he said at a party meeting. "I a…READ FULL ARTICLE