Day 1,242: minnow

His party, once known as the “Party to Protect the People from the nhk” (now simply the “nhk Party”), is one of several minnows with peculiar agendas to have entered national politics in recent years. Mr Tachibana, who founded the party in 2013, was elected to Japan’s upper house in 2019.

Japan’s oddball populists

Artwork of the day 
The Minnow Catchers
William Collins
Style: Romanticism
Genre: genre painting

Word of the day 
minnow: a very small fish found in lakes and rivers

Quote of the day
“I'm solitary as a pulled tooth,
Lonely as an unwelcome truth,
Lost as a minnow out of school,
A genius in a crop of fools.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Fairest