Kimi Onoda, a 33-year-old member of House of Councilors, has reported on her official Twitter that a special screening of the anime film adaptation of Fumiyo Kouno’s award-winning manga Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni/In This Corner of the World for the Japanese government was held at the Diet Members Office Building yesterday.
I can’t say much to avoid spoilers, but it was a wonderful film.”
Onoda is an American-Japanese who was born from her Japanese mother in Chicago, Illinois, in 1982, and was elected as a member of the House of Councilors of the Diet with the official endorsement from Liberal Democratic Party, Japan’s current ruling party, in July 2016.