A warrant for the arrest of expelled upper house lawmaker Yoshikazu Higashitani, who goes by the moniker GaaSyy, was being sought Thursday by the Metropolitan Police Department.
The police suspect that Higashitani violated the Law on Punishment of Physical Violence and Others for repeatedly making threatening and defamatory remarks against celebrities and other people in his YouTube videos posted from February through August last year.
A day earlier, he was expelled from the House of Councillors for failing to attend any Diet sessions since he was elected for the first time in July.
