Staff writer
Starting today, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi will have to put his affable nature on hold, now that he has been called upon to become a hard-boiled debater.
An experimental debate between Obuchi and opposition party chiefs starts at the Diet today, obliging the nation's leaders to engage in heated debate without the help of prepared texts.
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