The Musashino municipal assembly in western Tokyo on Dec. 21 rejected the city’s proposal to allow foreign nationals, including short-term residents, to vote in local referendums. Fourteen ...

As his final summer vacation in Tokyo draws to a close, he is drawn to an inscription on a high voltage tower reading "Musashino Line Tower 75". With his friend, he resolves to find Tower 1.

Musashino’s proposal is based on the basic ... organization seeking to revise the postwar Constitution, moved in line with the LDP. “After that, the tide turned,” said Hidetsugu Yagi ...