TOKYO -- Which of Japan's political parties has the longest history? The answer may come as a surprise.
It is not the Liberal Democratic Party, for all its decades in power, but the Japanese Communist Party.
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Japanese Communist Party leader Kazuo Shii criticized China in a speech at the party congress in Atami, Shizuoka in January. © Kyodo
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