Japanese voters going to the polls next month will get to choose between the current conservative government, a conservative party led by a popular female politician, and the communists. The Japanese Communist Party (JCP), founded as an underground organization in 1922, is the only communist party in the G7 group of countries that has political representation at the national level apart from Franc
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