Comedian Hikari Ota is doing what he does best on his weekly 'news' show: taking aim at Japan's aging lawmakers.</PARAGRAPH>
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<TD><FONT SIZE='1'><B>Comedian Hikari Ota –
listens to ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Yasuhide Nakayama during a
taping of Ota's weekly "news" show at NTV in Tokyo in May.
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"It's easy to spot them nodding off during Diet sessions," he tells the studio audience while a large screen on stage shows a napping lawmaker. "Sometimes they're even dead!"
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