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.
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Yukio Edano, head of the Constitutional Democratic Party, asks Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a question in the lower house on Oct. 11. (Photo by Uichiro Kasai)
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.