Shintaro Ishihara, the rightwing Tokyo governor and an outspoken critic of China, has resigned to form a new political party and return to national politics.
His decision to run for national office is likely to raise tensions with China and neighbouring countries wary of the possibility that Japan could return to its past militarism.
Mr Ishihara, who advocates rewriting Japan’s pacifist constitution, was the cause of the Japanese government’s recent decision to purchase three of a chain of disputed islands in the East China Sea.
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