There’s a rumor that the Zengakuren is going to set the building on fire, so all the honorable Diet members seem to have disappeared. I'll be running in Shinjuku next election, so I’m counting on your support.

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While laughing heartily, when a young Waseda student named Michio Ozaki visited him at the Diet Members' Building around 1960 and remarked how empty the place looked. Recounted by Ozaki himself (later a journalist) in his 2010 memoir essay.

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