Japan’s politics has been likened to the ‘old boys club’. But a few young politicians are shaking things up. The country got its youngest mayor – 26-year-old Ryosuke Takashima, and 34-year-old Arfiya Eri is the first woman of Uyghur descent to be elected to any parliament in the world
One question that followed Arfiya Eri around during the campaign for the Lower House by-election in Chiba Prefecture was: Why are you running for the Liberal Democratic Party?
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