Ishiba receives 2nd medical checkup in 5 days

Don’t many of them sleep all the time.

Yeh. Falling asleep in your own election is a new low, though.

Really need some younger healthier vibrant politicians in Japan....pigs will fly first though I imagine.

Look what's happening in the US now. Japan needs the same type of reform. These politicians are old and out of touch. It no longer matters who the Prime minister is. They are all the same.

67-year-old lawmaker

Which means he's younger than many of the globe's other leaders. It's the waning years of the fossil era, so the end of the alphabet generations need to up their game if they want any say in who and how how their respective nations and planet are run.

IMHO, he is entitled to privacy, but the LDP on the other hand has lost the plot, re-electing sleepy Shige.

Already given up, looking at retiring and passing the buck to another old man.

well

I know its hard to admit that he may be unfit for his job...but hey...

Hayashi said, "I've heard it was a routine health check that had been scheduled before."

Oh good, rumors. Not facts.

> Hayashi said Monday that a dose of cold medicine was to blame for causing Ishiba to apparently fall asleep

No Japanese cold medicine is that strong.

has been unwell, saying there is "no health issue."

so, a contradiction?

Matter of time before Ishiba begins telling people he passed cognitive tests?