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Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with the leader of a Unification Church affiliate in Tokyo in 2019 when he was policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, sources said.
The Kishida administration has dismissed calls for constitutional debate on its decision to give Japan the capability to strike enemy bases, both proponents and opponents of the major policy shift said.
Even as the prime minister offered an apology for discriminatory remarks against sexual minorities by a key aide he was forced to sack, Fumio Kishida was unable to quell a growing uproar in the LGBTQ community.
After dismissing a close aide for making discriminatory remarks about sexual minorities, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he felt the weight of “responsibility” for having appointed the person in the first place. But issues have arisen over another close aide who also holds an important post: his eldest son Shotaro, whose title is executive secretary in charge of political affairs to the prime minister.