A famous maxim associated with former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill, and which is arguably universal, was “all politics is local.”
Like in the United States, national security issues have rarely been at the top on Japan’s electoral agenda since the 1970s.
The Upper House election scheduled for July 10 seems to be an exception to the rule.
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