Japan's second largest political party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), has announced that Kanako Otsuji, the first openly lesbian politician in Japan, will be one of the party's official candidates for this summer's National Diet (parliament) election. If she wins, she'll be the first openly LGBT national politician ever in Japan. Otsuji, 32, was elected as an Osaka Assembly Member in April 2003. She left the closet in August 2005 in her book Coming Out and marched in the Tokyo Pride Parade (formerly known as Tokyo Lesbian Ref: Pinknews.co.uk (m)