Campaigning gets under way for upper house election

Campaigning gets under way for upper house election

OSAKA, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who also serves as president of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, stumps in Osaka on June 24, 2010, as official campaigning begins for the July 11 House of Councillors election. It will be the first full-fledged contest since the DPJ ousted the Liberal Democratic Party in a House of Representatives election last August, and also the first since Kan took office earlier this month.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001148113
  • Registered date
  • 2010/6/24 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2010 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1303 × 1812 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 362.91(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Upper house election in Japan

    Upper house election in Japan

    SAGAE, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who leads the Liberal Democratic Party, raises his fist during a stump speech in Sagae, Yamagata Prefecture, on July 20, 2013, the final day of campaigning before the upper house election the following day.
      Upper house election in Japan

      Upper house election in Japan

      SAGAE, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who leads the Liberal Democratic Party, "high fives" a member of the audience at a stump speech in Sagae, Yamagata Prefecture, on July 20, 2013, the final day of campaigning before the upper house election the following day.
        Upper house election in Japan

        Upper house election in Japan

        TOKYO, Japan - Photo series shows leaders of Japanese political parties campaigning on July 20, 2013, the day before the upper house election. They are (top row, from L) Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the New Komeito party; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who leads the Liberal Democratic Party; Banri Kaieda, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan; (middle row, from L) Japanese Communist Party leader Kazuo Shii; Ichiro Ozawa, leader of the People's Life Party; Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe; (bottom row, from L) Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who doubles as co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party; Kuniko Tanioka, leader of the Green Wind party; and Mizuho Fukushima, leader of the Social Democratic Party.
          Noda announces election pledges

          Noda announces election pledges

          TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announces his Democratic Party of Japan's pledges at the DPJ headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district on Nov. 27, 2012. In the pledges released ahead of the Dec. 16 House of Representatives election, the ruling party promised to phase out nuclear energy in the 2030s and fight deflation by cooperating with the Bank of Japan.
            Noda announces election pledges

            Noda announces election pledges

            TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announces his Democratic Party of Japan's pledges at the DPJ headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district on Nov. 27, 2012. In the pledges released ahead of the Dec. 16 House of Representatives election, the ruling party promised to phase out nuclear energy in the 2030s and fight deflation by cooperating with the Bank of Japan.
              Noda announces election pledges

              Noda announces election pledges

              TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announces his Democratic Party of Japan's pledges at the DPJ headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district on Nov. 27, 2012. In the pledges released ahead of the Dec. 16 House of Representatives election, the ruling party promised to phase out nuclear energy in the 2030s and fight deflation by cooperating with the Bank of Japan.
                Noda announces election pledges

                Noda announces election pledges

                TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announces his Democratic Party of Japan's pledges at the DPJ headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district on Nov. 27, 2012. In the pledges released ahead of the Dec. 16 House of Representatives election, the ruling party promised to phase out nuclear energy in the 2030s and fight deflation by cooperating with the Bank of Japan.
                  Minister Yosano at press conference

                  Minister Yosano at press conference

                  TOKYO, Japan - Japanese economic and fiscal policy minister Kaoru Yosano speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on June 30, 2011, following an agreement between the government and Prime Minister Naoto Kan's Democratic Party of Japan on social security and tax reform plans the same day.
                    1st meeting of panel to check TEPCO's assets

                    1st meeting of panel to check TEPCO's assets

                    TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Shimokobe (L), a lawyer heading a panel of experts to check the financial status of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaks at the first meeting of the panel at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 16, 2011. Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) told the panel to compile a report by September. The panel was launched to streamline TEPCO's operations to lessen the burden on taxpayers from the utility's enormous compensation payments over the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
                      Kan at Diet session

                      Kan at Diet session

                      TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks at the House of Councillors Budget Committee in Tokyo on May 13, 2011. Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu (R) also attended the session.