Opposition members walk out of Diet, citing Koizumi's responses

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TOKYO — Opposition lawmakers walked out of a Diet interpellation session Monday afternoon due to their dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's answers to questions posed by opposition leader Katsuya Okada over his postal privatization drive.

"I have clearly answered all the questions," Koizumi said in a House of Representatives plenary session after listing the nine issues that Okada, head of the Democratic Party of Japan, raised. Most DPJ members and other opposition members walked out after Koizumi, taking the rostrum again, said, "I understand you are dissatisfied with my answers, but I have answered all the questions (DPJ) President Okada raised." (Kyodo News)