Japan Lower House Election Campaign Kicks Off

OSAKA, JAPAN - DECEMBER 02: Japan Restoration Party leader Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto waves to his suppoters from campaign car during his official election party campaign for the upcoming lower house election at Nanba on December 2, 2014 in Osaka, Japan. The focal points of the election on December 14 are economic programs, postponement of consumption tax hike, re-interpretation of Constitution on collective self-defense, and future of the nuclear energy. This is the first lower house election after the lift of ban on using internet for election campaign. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)