March 15, 2021
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Every couple of years, there are reports on why Japan’s prime minister refuses to live in the official residence. Last week saw the issue being discussed again in Japanese media, and every time it comes up, so does the same answer: rumours of ghosts.
Completed in April 2002, the prime minister’s residence – known as the Sori Kotei – is a spacious six-floor structure adjacent to the National Diet Building. But since being elected in a parliamentary vote in September last year, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has remained in the cramped quarters at the Diet members’ dormitory to which he has been entitled for the past 25 years.