Staying out of AIIB talks a blunder by US, Japan: chief of opposition DPJ

Tokyo

THE leader of the main political opposition party in Japan has charged that the United States and Japan have committed a major "diplomatic blunder" by sitting out the chance to become founder members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

Tetsuya Okada of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) said on Monday that the confusion over how to respond to …