TOKYO -- A regional party that has led the turnaround of Japan's second-largest metropolis, Osaka, with a promise of carrying out "painful reforms" agreed with the Liberal Democratic Party on Monday to form a coalition government. The group's name is the Japan Innovation Party.
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Hirofumi Yoshimura, left, Osaka's governor and leader of the Japan Innovation Party, on Monday agreed with Sanae Takaichi, president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, to form a coalition. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Konosuke Urata, Shintaro Ino and Ken Suzuki)
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