Japan campaign opens with focus on economy, nukes

By Malcolm Foster

Published December 4, 2012 9:49am ET

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Japan campaign opens with focus on economy, nukes — People walk by candidates' poster boards for parliamentary elections in Tokyo Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. Leaders for Japan's biggest political parties kicked off Tuesday the campaign for parliamentary elections to be held in less than two weeks with visits to nuclear crisis-hit Fukushima prefecture. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) | Koji Sasahara

TOKYO (AP) — Leaders of Japan’s major political parties kicked off campaigning Tuesday for this month’s parliamentary elections in nuclear crisis-hit Fukushima prefecture, where more than 100,000 people remain displaced from their homes.

Nuclear energy and reviving the stagnant economy are key issues in the Dec. 16 election, which Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s unpopular Democratic Party of Japan is expected to lose after three years in power.

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