For most of Japan, especially its major cities, the issues of how effective Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ruling coalition¡¯s economic policies have been and whether to restart the nation¡¯s idled nuclear reactors are generally treated by politicians and the media as separate debates.
In Fukui, home to 13 of Japan¡¯s 48 operational reactors, the largest concentration in the nation, the two issues are intimately connected in a prefecture that is one of the most conservative in the country, and one where Abe¡¯s ruling Liberal Democratic Party dominates.
Under a redistricting change, this election marks the first time that the prefecture will have only two single-seat districts, down from three. Six candidates are running for a seat in the two districts.
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