Official campaigning starts for elections to pick mayors and assembly members in a number of cities across Japan as part of the second round of a series of quadrennial local contests.
Official campaigning for four lower house by-elections starts across Japan, after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's ruling Liberal Democratic Party won a number of key gubernatorial races over the weekend.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his party must focus on delivering for voters to guarantee victory in the upcoming national and local elections, a day after the ruling camp won key gubernatorial races.
Official campaigning for an upper house by-election in the southwestern prefecture of Oita begins, one of several electoral tests facing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida later this month as he tries to address the unpopularity of his government.