Around 70 percent of single-seat constituencies in the approaching House of Representatives election are seeing a three-way battle between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition, its new conservative rival led by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and a party opposing change in Japan's war-renouncing Constitution, according to a Kyodo News tally.The No. 2 district in central Tokyo straddles four wards including Chuo and Minato and is just one of the areas likely to see a close race between the three parties in the Oct. 22 poll.A few days into official campaigning, Koike, wholaunched her Party of…READ FULL ARTICLE
