One of the victorious candidates in Japan's general election on Sunday appeared in front of cheering supporters holding a large fish. Why? The politician was Shinjiro Koizumi, son of the retired former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who was re-elected to represent his father's former constituency for the conservative Liberal Democratic Party.
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