Japan PM Abe Faces Heat

(01:34) Report

May 29 - Japanese media criticized Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, warning the suicide of a scandal-tainted Cabinet minister and pension furor could cause national election defeat.

The suicide of farm minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka, hours before he was to face a grilling in parliament over a series of funding scandals, was the latest setback for the Abe Cabinet, already reeling from diving support levels.

Dan Sloan reports.

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