Japan is officially on the hunt for a second capital. Establishing a second capital has long been a signature policy of the Osaka-based Japan Innovation Party, which is more commonly known as Ishin. The party’s founder, former Osaka Governor Toru Hashimoto, first proposed that Osaka should be Japan’s second capital around 2010. | Some of the prefectures interested in their cities backing up TokyoWhat does passage of the secondary capital bill mean for Takaichi? But the second capital plan only cleared the opposition-controlled Upper House by two votes.