JAPAN: JAPANESE ELECTION CAMPAIGN ENTERS LAST DAYS.

Record ID: 347357

  • Title: JAPAN: JAPANESE ELECTION CAMPAIGN ENTERS LAST DAYS.
  • Date: 20th November 1960
  • Summary: 1. TILT SHOT..from banner to party slogan 4 ft 2. PAN..Crowd listen to Suehiro Nishio 7 1/2 ft 3. MLV Suehiro Nishio, Democratic Socialist 9 ft 4. CU Suehiro Nishio 11 ft 5. PAN of crowd 14 ft 6. MLV Mrs. Kikukawa, Democratic Socialist 16 1/2 ft 7. CU Mrs Kikukawa 18 1/2 ft 8. LV DITTO 20 1/2 ft 9. PAN..crowd l
  • Embargoed: 5th December 1960 12:00
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  • Location: TOKYO & YAMANASHI PREFECTURE, TOKYO
  • Country: Japan
  • Reuters ID: LVARV7IPVCSJQ136B08L94B7MH7
  • Story Text: As the Japanese Election Campaign - scheduled for Nov 20 - entered the final stretch Nov 16, attention was focused on the candidates and leaders of the contesting political parties.

    Heading the democratic socialists is Suehiro Nishio; whose party held 48 seats in the dissolved House of Representatives. Mr. Nishio's party will field 104 candidates in the election.

    One of a total of twenty women candidates is mrs. Kikuwa, who, which five other women, is a candidates for the Democratic Socialists.

    Another woman candidates, contesting a Tokyo Constituency, is Mrs. Kyoko Asanuma, widow of the former Socialists Party chairman Incjiro Asanuma, who was recently assassinated. The Socialists will field 186 candidates for the House of Representatives in which they had 122 seats before the House was dissolved.

    Prominent among the candidates for the ruling Liberal Democrats is mr. Okazaki, who speaks to his audience from a truck.

    Leader and resident of the Liberal Democrats is Mr. Hayato Ikeda, the Japanese Prime Minister. The Liberal Democrats, with Mr. Ikeda at their head, are widely tipped in Japan to win the election. Mr. Ikeda gets down to solid campaigning himself in Yamanahi Prefecture, one of hundreds miles west of Tokyo. After his speech, he cries "Banzai" for his party, and moves off for more speeches in more towns.
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