TOKYO -- Even with Japan's lower house parliamentary election now over and the results known, it is not entirely clear what the candidates were fighting over.
Control of the government hinged on this vote, yet in many respects little daylight separated the platforms of new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's ruling coalition and the opposition.
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