YouTuber GaaSyy loses seat for missing Diet sessions

Hidehisa Otsuji, president of Japan's House of Councillors, announces the expulsion of Yoshikazu Higashitani, who goes by the name GaaSyy, from the upper house, in Tokyo on March 15, 2023, after it voted to remove the YouTuber for not attending any parliamentary sessions since being elected in 2022. He is the first member of the Diet to be removed since 1951 and the first to be reprimanded for being absent.

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