The query sounded harmless enough, though in hindsight it was laced with political arsenic. What did I think of Yoshinori Kobayashi? It came after the first class I taught this semester on media and politics in Tokyo’s private Sophia University, and the questioner was a standout student: sharp, motivated, and with unusually well-formed opinions for a Japanese undergraduate. He wants to be a lawmaker with the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, whose views I find toxic.
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