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Because of the LDP's stranglehold on power and the difficulty in communicating Japanese politics, the English-language media often tends to play down interest in Japanese leadership elections. And sometimes they are in fact boring. 
The election will be held somewhere between Sept. 20 and 29 - the exact date will be decided Tuesday, but is likely to be towards the start of that range.
I wrote earlier in the summer of parallels between Kishida and Biden.
The Nankai Trough extends along the ocean floor for around 900 km, from Shizuoka to the south of Shikoku.
Toyoda, the grandson of the automaker's founder, is perhaps best known in the west for his testimony in congress over the "unintended acceleration" recalls in the late 2000s. 
Media coverage of Japan tended to focus on two events: the Diamond Princess early in the pandemic, and the over-exaggerated threat of the Olympics. Media coverage focused on the fact that Japan didn’t follow the “correct” strategy, ie whatever the west was doing at the time
Kishida begins by thanks citizens and healthcare workers for helping to keep the damage from the pandemic lower in Japan than in other nations. 