TOKYO: The Japanese ruling party's secretary general Hiroshi Moriyama, a close aide to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, said on Tuesday (Sep 2) he intends to resign from his post, potentially affecting the fate of Ishiba who has resisted calls to quit over an election loss . Speaking to reporters after the Liberal Democratic Party's plenary meeting, Moriyama said he would resign from his post to take responsibility for the party's defeat in the Jul 20 upper house election, where the ruling