With the four years political process, the United States has concluded its election this time around, a vote in November and inauguration in January, Barack Obama was seated as our newly re-elected Democratic President. He will lead the country for the next four years. When I arrived, Japan was in the middle of their election cycle.
Shinzo Abe is now seated as the current Prime Minister and took office on December 26, 2012. He is from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). However, this party is like our Republican Party. He will lead at least until July when there will be another election, the Japanese House of Councillors election.
In this Country, there is a lot of street coverage. Speeches, large posters everywhere, trucks and cars with loudspeakers travel throughout neighborhoods expounding on the goodness of each individual party and person, etc. At most shopping centers, grandstands with committee members and groups of people gathered around sharing the virtues of voting for a particular party.
There approximately eight or nine parties in the running so it can get pretty busy, loud, annoying. But, all within a short period of time not like in the States where it stretches out to more than a year of the introduction of a person or party or ideal. Either way, it is very nice to have that over with for now and to move forward of which both Nations are doing.
I’m all ready confused about the next election! By the way, you photograph very nicely!