Japan's longest-serving town assembly member resigns

An 89-year-old town assembly member in northeastern Japan has resigned after serving for nearly 58 years, the longest in Japan for a town or village assembly member, according to the council secretariat and a national body of local legislature heads.Hitoshi Tanaka, a male assembly member in Shikama town, Miyagi Prefecture, stepped down Monday due to "personal reasons" including concerns about his health, 26 months before his present four-year term expires, the assembly secretariat said.(Shikama Village website)Tanaka was first elected in 1959 as an assembly member of Shikama village and kep…READ FULL ARTICLE