The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) and the Democratic Party for the People (DPP), two opposition parties supported by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, should merge, according to former Rengo chief Nobuaki Koga.
Koga, 72, who was selected by the Japanese government Sunday to receive the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, headed the umbrella organization of labor unions in the country when the two parties' predecessor, the Democratic Party of Japan, held the reins of government.
"The fact that they are separated is nonsensical," Koga said in a recent interview. "They should become one."
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