Why Japan's election is a bigger deal than it looks

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is also the President of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, raises his fist with the party's candidates atop the campaigning bus on the last day of campaigning for the October 31 lower house election, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Tokyo, Japan October 30, 2021. Reuters/Issei Kato/File Phot

TOKYO, Oct 31 - Japan's new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, is running in a tightrope general election this Sunday that could see his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lose its majority in the powerful lower house.