Early Campaigning Gets Underway Ahead Of Japan's General Election

OSAKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 19: Japan Innovation Party member and Governor of Osaka Prefecture Hirofumi Yoshimura waves to voters from an election campaign car during the official election party campaign kickoff rally for the upcoming lower house election on October 19, 2021 in Osaka, Japan. Campaigning has begun ahead of the October 31st general election that was called following Fumio Kishida’s win in the Liberal Democratic Party leadership election last month. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)