With less than 100 days to go before launching campaigns for the House of Councilors election this summer, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida feels uneasy about an excessively optimistic mood spreading among members of his Liberal Democratic Party.
In his speech at an LDP convention held at a Tokyo hotel on Sunday, Kishida said, “Let’s get united to win the Upper House election, without letting our guard down.”
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