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The Yomiuri Shimbun Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, center, sits with his head bowed in the lower house on Monday afternoon.
The Yomiuri Shimbun
20:27 JST, November 11, 2024
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba appeared to have fallen asleep during the first round of voting to decide the prime minister at a plenary session of the House of Representatives on Monday.
Ishiba remained still with his face down and eyes closed for several minutes. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, who was sitting next to Ishiba, and others were looking at him with concern.
“This is an election to decide the head of one of the three branches of the government. It is inappropriate for him to sleep,” Japan Innovation Party leader Nobuyuki Baba told reporters.
