Japan's Foreign Minister criticizes main opposition party's tactics

Japan's Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone on Tuesday slammed the Democratic Party of Japan's foreign policies for "being irresponsible" and "lacking specifics."

On the day the Lower House was dissolved for a snap election Aug. 30, Nakasone criticized the main opposition party's tactics, including effectively killing a bill to allow inspections of vessels sailing to or from North Korea.

"It is regrettable that the bill did not clear the Diet," Nakasone told reporters, adding that Japan has a responsibility to conduct checks of ships in line with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874.

Japan during this now defunct diet made also a regrettable step away from its pacifistic constitution by sending warships to join an international naval frenzy allegedly addressing piracy around the Horn of Africa.

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