Naoto Kan, secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, said his party will postpone plans to push for a coalition government with two other opposition parties — the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party.
“I don’t think the talks on cooperation (in next summer’s Upper House) election will develop into a coalition government plan in a single leap,” Kan told a news conference Wednesday.
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