As of late Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has had to cope with an unflattering nickname: "zōzei-megane," or “the four-eyed tax-hiker.”
But why?
Kishida hasn’t actually raised taxes for the public at large since he took office over two years ago — at least, not yet.
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