Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Debates With Other Party Leaders

Natsuo Yamaguchi, president of the New Komeito party, from left, Banri Kaieda, president of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Toru Hashimoto, co-president of the Japan Restoration Party, and Yoshimi Watanabe, president of Your Party, pose for a group photograph ahead of a debate at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, July 3, 2013. Abe called for laws, not force-based order, in the Asia region during a televised debate with leaders of other political parties in Tokyo today ahead of the July 21 upper house election. Photographer: Haruyoshi Yamaguchi/Bloomberg via Getty Images