Take your pick: Voters looking at an election poster bulletin board for House of Representatives election candidates at an entrance of a polling station in Tokyo. — AFP
TOKYO: Japanese voters hit the polls with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hoping to win over a pandemic-fatigued public as his long-ruling conservatives battle to preserve their commanding majority in parliament.
Kishida became leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) a month ago after Yoshihide Suga resigned just a year into the job, partly due to public discontent over his response to the Covid-19 crisis.
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