In Pictures: Japan election campaign kicks off

Campaigning began on Tuesday (Oct 10) in an election that pits Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party against the Party of Hope led by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and other smaller parties. Japanese voters will hit the polls on Oct 22.

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Oct 10, 2017, 02:37 PM

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe exchanging high-five with voters after kicking off his election campaign event in Fukushima, about 280km north-east of Tokyo, Japan, on Oct 10, 2017. The Lower House election campaign officially started on Oct 10 for the vote on Oct 22. Mr Abe faces a challenge from new opposition Party of Hope led by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

Mr Abe eating rice presented by local supporters during the campaign rally in Fukushima on Oct 10, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS

Ms Koike leaving a campaign rally in Tokyo on Oct 10, 2017. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG

A crowd gathering in front of a shopping street to listen to Ms Koike stump for Party of Hope candidate Kaoru Matsuzawa, a lawyer, at the upmarket district of Azabujuban on Oct 10, 2017. ST PHOTO: WALTER SIM

Political princeling Shinjiro Koizumi (right) of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party stumps for party candidate Hayato Suzuki, an incumbent one-term Lower House lawmaker, at a busy traffic intersection in the north-western hub of Ikebukuro on Oct 10, 2017. ST PHOTO: WALTER SIM

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