The LDP consolidates its place in Japanese politics following last weekend's Upper House election, gaining enough of a majority within parliament to aim for constitutional reform. And later this month filmmaker Toshiaki Toyoda unveils his latest short film "Ikiteiru" (Alive) starring Kiyohiko Shibukawa. It's the latest part of his Ōkami series dedicated, in this age of Corona, to the Japanese wolf, an animal extinct since 1905 and worshipped during Cholera and Typhoid outbreaks in the late 19th century, and a film Toyoda hopes "questions the meaning of life in this day and age, a film overflowing with power."

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