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

Japan's lower house votes down a no-confidence motion submitted by the main opposition party against the scandal-hit house speaker Hiroyuki Hosoda, with the ruling coalition rejecting it in a major parliamentary face-off ahead of the upper house election expected next month.

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