The ruling and opposition parties officially agreed Thursday to vote on an opposition-sponsored motion demanding the resignation of arrested lawmaker Muneo Suzuki.
The vote was to take place at a Lower House plenary session Friday.
Suzuki, a House of Representatives member from Hokkaido, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of accepting a bribe of 5 million yen from a logging firm in Hokkaido in 1998 in return for pressuring the Forestry Agency to treat it favorably.