Seisyu Makino, a MP from the Democratic Party of Japan (the biggest opposition party), has made his endorsement of BIG public through his blog posts: On his post on 5th February 2015 entitled ‘towards rebirth of the world economy which was collapsed’, he argued in favor of an unconditional basic income. Having had comments from readers, he went further on his posts on 12th and 20th March both entitled ‘towards “the statement for abolishing poverty”’, he introduces several plans how to finance BI, and gave a quick overview what is going on for it in the world. All his posts are in Japanese:

https://www.seishu.org/20150205.html

https://www.seishu.org/20150312.html

https://www.seishu.org/20150320.html