TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's unpopular prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, faced an unprecedented censure in parliament's upper house on Wednesday but the embarrassing opposition move was not expected to force him either to resign or call a snap poll soon.
The opposition Democratic Party and smaller allies submitted and were expected to approve the non-binding censure motion, the first against a prime minister under the 1947 constitution, in an effort to build momentum for an early lower house election.
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