The Democratic Party of Japan-led coalition passed the fiscal 2010 budget in the Lower House on Tuesday evening, having survived relentless grilling from the opposition over a series of political funding scandals.

Although the opposition, led by the Liberal Democratic Party, voted against the plan in the Lower House Budget Committee, it was supported by the DPJ and its two junior partners, the Social Democratic Party and Kokumin Shinto (People's New Party).

The ¥92.3 trillion budget and related bills cleared the plenary session vote with the ruling coalition's comfortable majority.