Nothing spooky in Japan PM’s first nights in haunted official residence | Inquirer News
SITE OF 1936 ATTEMPTED COUP

Nothing spooky in Japan PM’s first nights in haunted official residence

/ 05:30 AM December 15, 2021

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is also the President of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, waves to voters from atop the campaigning bus on the last day of campaigning for the October 31 lower house election, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Tokyo, Japan October 30, 2021. REUTERS/Issei Kato

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. REUTERS

TOKYO — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday he’s sleeping soundly after becoming the first premier in nine years to inhabit the official residence, which is reputedly haunted by ghosts.

The prime piece of real estate in central Tokyo stood empty during the terms of Kishida’s most recent predecessors, Yoshihide Suga and Shinzo Abe.

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The residence was the site of a 1936 attempted coup, in which several senior officials, including a finance minister were assassinated by young military officers.

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For years, the ghosts of some of those who were involved in the incident were reported to have haunted its hallways, but Kishida said on Monday he was feeling fresh after the first nights in his new digs.

“I slept soundly yesterday,” he told reporters, who asked whether he had spotted any of the residence’s famed spooks.

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“I haven’t seen any, yet.”

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