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Japan vote decision a bit of a tough one
If the woman who works in my dentist’s office is anything to go by, some Japanese voters are having a devil of a time deciding how to vote in an election just over a week away.
Pollsters are predicting that the opposition Democrats will win by a landslide, ousting the conservative party that has ruled for nearly all of the past half-century.
Surveys show, though, that at least one in five voters is undecided, while another chunk might change their minds at the last minute.
“I’m really perplexed,” the dental assistant told me as I finished a less-harrowing-than-feared session in the chair this week.
