(27 Oct 2024)
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Tokyo, Japan – 27 October 2024
1. Sign in front of polling station, reading (Japanese) "Lower House Election (left) National Review for Supreme Court Judges"
2, Sign, reading (Japanese) "Polling station, this way"
3. Man entering polling station in Tokyo
4. Interior of polling station, people filling in forms, casting their ballots
5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) No name given, 77 years old, local resident:
"I cannot accept the way they handled it (referring to Liberal Democratic Party’s financial scandals) so I made sure not to vote for LDP this time."
6. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) No name given, local resident in her 60s:
"Firstly, the economy is unstable and there have been many violent incidents recently so I hope for a society in which we can live with peace of mind."
7. A couple looking at board with candidates’ posters
8. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) No name given, local resident in her 60s:
"It is not whether things will improve due to the political transition. It is common that when things don’t change in an organization, corruption occurs as a practice of winking at each other’s improprieties. It is crucial for us, voters, to indicate our intention that things might change."
9. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) No name given, 77 years old, local resident:
"It’s all about prices for us commoners, and nothing else. And what one thinks about the LDP, which does bad things."
10. Interior of polling station, people filling in forms, casting their ballots
11. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) No name given, 77 years old, local resident:
"I came early because there is a MLB game this morning from 8:50. That’s the only thing I look forward to."
12. Male voter leaving polling station
STORYLINE:
Voters in Tokyo began casting their ballots early Sunday for an election that might weaken Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s grip on power in Japan.
Voting began Sunday morning across Japan, where 1,344 candidates, including a record 314 women, are running for office. Polls close at 8 p.m., with early results expected within hours.
Ishiba’s conservative ruling party is bracing for a blow to its comfortable majority in the lower house of parliament amid public rage over the party’s financial scandals and discontent over a stagnant economy.
AP Video by Mayuko Ono
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