Japan Innovation Party to end PM vote talks with other opposition parties

The Japan Innovation Party said Friday it will end talks with two other opposition parties on cooperating in next week's vote for a new prime minister, raising the likelihood for the leader to be elected from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.Fumitake Fujita, co-leader of the JIP, a major opposition party, told a press conference that collaboration with the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Democratic Party for the People is now "very difficult." The JIP is in coalition talks with the LDP.READ FULL ARTICLE