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Takahisa Sato was caught playing “Disney Tsum Tsum” on his smartphone under his desk during a preliminary assembly session in Ogawara, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 10. Local six-graders had been watching the session as part of their social studies class. Some of them wrote about Sato’s behavior in their essays following the visit.

While inappropriate, I wish this was the baseline of government corruption in Japan. Keeping LDP ministers occupied with Tsum Tsum is much more cost effective than countless funding scandals.