Harumi Yoshida traces her journey from vegetable seller's daughter to Tokyo MP in ST's series on women from Asia and the challenges they face and overcome.
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Sunday’s election saw a number of well-known lawmakers lose in their districts, with a handful regaining seats in the lower chamber via the proportional representation system.
In the gloom of a Lower House election post-mortem, the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan was forced to ponder whether joining forces with the Japanese Communist Party was the right thing to do.