Leadership race of new opposition party in Japan

Leadership race of new opposition party in Japan

Combined photo shows Yukio Edano (L), head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and Kenta Izumi, policy chief of the Democratic Party for the People -- the two candidates in the leadership election on Sept. 10, 2020, for a new party to be created through the merger of the two opposition forces.

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