Final campaign push a day before Japanese vote
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In this Dec. 9, 2012 photo, Japan Restoration Party leaders, Shintaro Ishihara, center, and Toru Hashimoto, left, wave at their party supporters during their parliamentary elections campaign in Tokyo. The buzz over Japan?s parliamentary elections this Sunday, Dec. 16, has been all about ?the third force? - a clear sign of the prevailing disenchantment over both the party that ruled for decades after World War II and the rival party that took over in 2009. The new party with the most momentum, and one that could be part of the coalition government, is the Japan Restoration Party, led by former Tokyo Gov. Ishihara and Osaka Mayor Hashimoto, pushing for a more assertive Japan and capable of flexing its military muscle in territorial disputes with China. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA
In this Dec. 9, 2012 photo, Japan Restoration Party leaders, Shintaro Ishihara, center, and Toru Hashimoto, left, wave at their party supporters during their parliamentary elections campaign in Tokyo. The buzz over Japan?s parliamentary elections this Sunday, Dec. 16, has been all about ?the third force? - a clear sign of the prevailing disenchantment over both the party that ruled for decades after World War II and the rival party that took over in 2009. The new party with the most momentum, and one that could be part of the coalition government, is the Japan Restoration Party, led by former Tokyo Gov. Ishihara and Osaka Mayor Hashimoto, pushing for a more assertive Japan and capable of flexing its military muscle in territorial disputes with China. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA
In this Dec. 4, 2012 photo, Japan Restoration Party acting leader Toru Hashimoto waves at his party supporters during his parliamentary elections campaign in Osaka, western Japan. The buzz over Japan?s parliamentary elections this Sunday, Dec. 16, has been all about ?the third force? - a clear sign of the prevailing disenchantment over both the party that ruled for decades after World War II and the rival party that took over in 2009. The new party with the most momentum, and one that could be part of the coalition government, is the Japan Restoration Party, led by Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara and Osaka Mayor Hashimoto, pushing for a more assertive Japan and capable of flexing its military muscle in territorial disputes with China. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA
In this Dec. 12, 2012 photo, Yukiko Kada, the leader of the Tomorrow Pary, speaks during her parliamentary elections campaign in Osaka, western Japan. The buzz over Japan?s parliamentary elections this Sunday, Dec. 16, has been all about ?the third force? - a clear sign of the prevailing disenchantment over both the party that ruled for decades after World War II and the rival party that took over in 2009. The Tomorrow Party, formed just two weeks ago, wants to phase out nuclear power within 10 years. Leader Kada, the governor of Shiga prefecture and an environmental expert, has a clean image. But that was tainted when she linked with Ichiro Ozawa, a veteran politician with a reputation as a power broker who bolted from the ruling DPJ earlier this year. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA
In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 photo, Japan's main opposition Liberal Democratic Party President Shinzo Abe, second from right in white, shakes hands with supporters during a campaign rally for the Dec. 16 parliamentary elections in Machida, on the outskirts of Tokyo. The buzz over Japan?s parliamentary elections this Sunday, Dec. 16, has been all about ?the third force? - a clear sign of the prevailing disenchantment over both the party that ruled for decades after World War II and the rival party that took over in 2009. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
In this Dec. 7, 2012 photo, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan waves during his parliamentary elections campaign in Tokyo. The buzz over Japan?s parliamentary elections this Sunday, Dec. 16, has been all about ?the third force? - a clear sign of the prevailing disenchantment over both the party that ruled for decades after World War II and the rival party that took over in 2009. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
TOKYO (AP) ? Candidates are making final impassioned appeals to voters before parliamentary elections Sunday that are likely to hand power back to a conservative party that ruled Japan for most of the post-war era.
Polls suggest that voters will dump the ruling Democratic Party of Japan three years after it swept to power and give the most seats in the 480-member lower chamber to the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for decades.
That would give the hawkish Shinzo Abe, who was prime minister from 2006-2007, the top job again ? raising concerns about ties with rival China amid a territorial dispute.
But the emergence of several new parties has confused some voters, and polls show that about 40 percent of people are yet undecided.
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