Japan's opposition leader Edano looks to lessons from Sanders to win youth support

The leader of Japan's main opposition party Yukio Edano said Thursday he hopes to run a Bernie Sanders-like grassroots political campaign in the upcoming election after meeting the U.S. senator in Washington.Speaking to reporters after a sitdown with Sanders, Edano, head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, indicated he believes some of the left-leaning senator's policies, such as free university education, could gain support among young Japanese people ahead of next year's House of Councillors election."Japan shares challenges with the United States about student loans for tuit…READ FULL ARTICLE