Election officials count votes after Japan's lower house election at a counting centre in Tokyo, Japan, October 22, 2017. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, gestures at an election campaign rally in Tokyo, Japan Oct 21, 2017. The Party of Hope absorbed a big chunk of the failed main opposition Democratic Party. "It's an extremely tough election result," Koike said on NHK public TV. A girl casts her father's ballot for a national election at a polling station in Tokyo, Japan Oct 22, 2017.

Source: bd News24 October 22, 2017 12:45 UTC