When former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato died in 1975, ruling party politicians pushed to hold a state funeral for the Nobel Peace Prize winner and then Japan’s longest-serving postwar prime minister.
Even if constitutional revision proponents secure a two-thirds majority in the Upper House, differences in opinion over what should be changed could thwart any effort on what would be an unprecedented undertaking.
The opposition Social Democratic Party is going to great lengths to gain supporters, but it still might cease to exist as a political party after this summer’s Upper House election.
Opposition lawmakers are criticizing a proposal made by a member of a Cabinet Office study group that the nation should become versed in a controversial courtship practice known as “kabedon.”
Ozawa plays traveling martial artist sage // The official website for the television anime of Hirotsugu Ryusen s She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man.