Japan town to cast votes for most popular seafood on same day as election

As Japan gears up for an election that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hopes will give her a public mandate, a town on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido is set to decide the slippery issue of its most popular seafood.The online "kaisan" election in Toyoura, a play on the words for "dissolution" and "seafood" in Japanese that are pronounced the same but written with different Chinese characters, will take place on Feb. 8, the same day as the snap election for the lower house called by Takaichi last week.It will be the fourth seafood popularity contest in the town famous for scallops and…READ FULL ARTICLE