Japan PM called on to resign

Japan’s prime minister faced growing calls to resign today, a day after his coalition suffered a humiliating election defeat that claimed the job of his ruling party’s secretary general and may trigger a Cabinet overhaul.

Voter outrage over millions of missing pension records and a series of political scandals stripped Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party of its majority in parliament’s 242-seat upper house, while handing the opposition huge gains.