A 61-year-old man with Lou Gehrig's disease won a seat in Sunday's upper house election, the first time in the country a person with the progressive neurological disease has been elected as a Diet member.Yasuhiko Funago, who has had the disease also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for almost 20 years, ran on the ticket of new political group Reiwa Shinsengumi for a six-year term in the House of Councillors.At a press conference in a Tokyo hotel, he said in a message read by his caregiver, "I am overwhelmed with emotion to know that the time has come" to become a Diet member."I may lo…READ FULL ARTICLE
