Japan lawmaker critical of opposition alliance to launch new party

Opposition lawmaker Kazuhiro Haraguchi said Saturday he will launch a new party ahead of the general election next month, after he opted not to join the new Centrist Reform Alliance.Haraguchi was among members of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan who either expressed opposition to or had mixed feelings about the new centrist party, a merger of the CDPJ and the Komeito party, a former ruling coalition partner of the Liberal Democratic Party."We want to be at the center of the storm," Haraguchi said at a press conference he held with former Nagoya mayor Takashi Kawamura, who will j…READ FULL ARTICLE