People from the parties that had just tried to vote him out of that office were demanding he stay in that office.

While small, the demonstration was significant, for several reasons. First was the fact that while many in Japan are angry after recent exposes of corruption in the Liberal Democratic Party that Ishiba now heads, the anger does not extend to himself.

He is seen as an honest moderate. While his popularity ratings are low (in the 20% range) some fear if he were forced by his party to take responsibility for his party’s defeats in recent upper and lower house elections, he could be........

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