Early voting for Japan's lower house election begins

Early voting for next month's House of Representatives election began Wednesday at Japanese diplomatic missions across the world and designated locations in Japan.Polling stations have been set up at 233 locations abroad, including embassies and consulates, for around 103,000 registered overseas voters, according to the Japanese government.At the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, 28-year-old graduate student Naoya Maeda, who arrived just as voting began at 9:30 a.m., expressed hopes that politicians would listen to the average person, saying "Every time I make a trip back to Japan, I am hit by how…READ FULL ARTICLE