Compared with some past occupants of Japan’s prime ministerial residence, Yoshihiko Noda is a lucky man. One previous incumbent was shot dead there by ultranationalist officers in 1932. Another had to hide from attackers in a servant’s closet.
Nobody expects another rightist storming of the elegant art deco building, even though in a Financial Times interview there on Sunday, Mr Noda expressed concern at an emerging air of excessive nationalism amid a flaring territorial dispute with China.
But Mr Noda is certainly under political attack. Analysts are unanimous in predicting his ruling Democratic party will be ousted in an election set for December 16.
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