Japan snap election: Who’s standing and what’s at stake?

Japanese are voting on issues ranging from cost of living to constitutional reform.

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Japanese voters head to the polls this weekend for a snap election called by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who became the country’s first female prime minister in October last year.

While she has only been in power for a few months, Takaichi is enormously popular in Japan and hopes to translate that goodwill into more seats for the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the lower house of parliament.

Japan snap election: Who’s standing and what’s at stake?

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