Japan's lower house votes down no-confidence motion against Cabinet

Japan's lower house on Thursday voted down no-confidence motions submitted by the main opposition party against the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and the scandal-hit house speaker Hiroyuki Hosoda, with the ruling coalition rejecting them in a major parliamentary face-off ahead of the upper house election expected next month.The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan has accused the Cabinet of doing "nothing" in response to rising prices in Japan and called Hosoda unfit to lead the House of Representatives, the powerful legislative branch controlled by the ruling bloc of the Libe…READ FULL ARTICLE