Operation Combat: How Japan PM Sanae Takaichi dealt with cockroach chaos

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi enters her prime minister's office in Tokyo. (Photo: AP)Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she has not encountered any ghosts at the official residence, but recently found herself unable to kill a cockroach that appeared there. She linked her hesitation to ideas about reincarnation that have stayed with her since childhood.She recounted the episode on X while answering a question she said she often receives about whether she has encountered ghosts at the residence. “I’ve never encountered a ghost, but until recently, I was the one screaming when I came across cockroaches,” she wrote.‘Firebird’ shaped her responseTakaichi said she has read Osamu Tezuka’s Firebird repeatedly since childhood and that its depiction of reincarnation made a deep imp