Yamaguchi secures 6th term as Komeito chief

The incumbent chief of Komeito, the coalition partner of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, secured his sixth consecutive term as party chief on Wednesday as no other candidates threw their hat into the ring.Natsuo Yamaguchi, 66, was re-elected unopposed as in the past leadership elections.Yamaguchi assumed the leadership of the party supported by major lay-Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai in September 2009, when his predecessor Akihiro Ota resigned to take responsibility for the party's defeat in the House of Representatives election that year.The Komeito chief's term is two years. In t…READ FULL ARTICLE