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## Key Facts

- Image source, GAASYY/YOUTUBE Image caption, Yoshikazu Higashitani became Japan's first lawmaker to be kicked out of parliament without ever entering it Police in Japan have arrested a YouTuber and former MP over threats he allegedly made to celebrities.
- Local media said he returned to Japan from the UAE, two months after Tokyo police issued his arrest warrant.
- Japan's foreign minister ordered him to return his passport after Tokyo police obtained his arrest warrant in March, but Mr Higashitani said he'd lost it.
- Mr Higashitani was one of two members elected from the Seijika-joshi-48 party - a single-issue party calling for reforms to Japan's public broadcaster.

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