Staff writer
It is neither his work as a political scientist nor his popularity as a TV commentator that pushed Yoichi Masuzoe to throw himself into the crowded Tokyo gubernatorial race as an independent.
What drove him, he says, was his personal experience; the impatience and anger he developed toward the current bureaucratic elderly-care system while he cares for his mother, who suffers severe senile dementia.
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