New Party President Shigeru Ishiba Chooses His ‘Two Winning Bento Boxes’ Over Koizumi Camp’s Jojoen

Shigeru Ishiba, 67, former secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, won the 15-day LDP presidential election with a record number of nine candidates. Despite being ridiculed as “bossy” and “stingy,” he finally won the election on his fifth attempt.

Unity and boxed lunches.”

In the past, it was customary for the various factions of the Liberal Democratic Party to meet every Thursday for lunch together. Eating the same food while discussing it together was considered a sign of unity and a symbol of factional culture.

Although the factions were dissolved in this presidential election, the custom remained, and for 15 days, each Diet member and his or her secretary gathered at noon at the respective election headquarters to have lunch together. For example, in the camp of Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (71), the lunchboxes were usually priced at about 1,000 yen, but in between, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Takeaki Matsumoto (65), who served as a nominee, offered eel lunchboxes, and Minister of Education Masahito Moriyama (70) offered chirashi-zushi to the members, providing a refreshing break during the grueling election period.

The Ishiba camp’s choice of the “first winning meal

In the midst of all this, the Ishiba campaign had lunch in Room 1118 of the Second House of Representatives, which served as their campaign office, and during the final stages of the election campaign, there were cries of “Ringer Hut again!

It’s Ringer Hut again.

The first was Ringer Hut’s “Sara Udon” (850 yen), a healthful dish that included seven kinds of Japanese vegetables in one dish. However, after being served this dish four times during the 15 days of lunches, the staffer said that he had grown weary of it. A campaign staffer said with a half smile, “I know Mr. Ishiba doesn’t have money.

I know that Mr. Ishiba doesn’t have any money, and I have no right to complain because he receives the food for free, but when I heard that the Koizumi camp serves high-class yakiniku bento from Lyokuen and KINTAN and bento from New Otani, I wondered what the difference was, even though I had been calling all morning to see them. I kept my motivation up, thinking, “I can’t lose to the camp that is eating expensive food.