[HIGHLIGHTS] Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Moriyama: ``We are cutting ties now.'' Ritsumeikan demands an explanation and his resignation.

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Moriyama: ``We are cutting ties now.'' Ritsumeikan demands an explanation and his resignation. He was reported to have received election support from a group affiliated with the former Unification Church.

In response, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan will continue to ask for an explanation in the Diet on the 7th. The opposition party also plans to intensify its investigation into the issue surrounding the political funding party of a faction of the Liberal Democratic Party.