TOKYO -- When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called a snap election late last month, he faced a fractured opposition posing little threat. But charismatic Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike bursting onto the scene has changed things dramatically in the run up to the Oct. 22 poll.

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