1.
TILT SHOT..from banner to party slogan
4 ft

2.
PAN..Crowd listen to Suehiro Nishio
7 1/2 ft

3.
MLV Suehiro Nishio, Democratic Socialist
9 ft

4.
CU Suehiro Nishio
11 ft

5.
PAN of crowd
14 ft

6.
MLV Mrs. Kikukawa, Democratic Socialist
16 1/2 ft

7.
CU Mrs Kikukawa
18 1/2 ft

8.
LV DITTO
20 1/2 ft

9.
PAN..crowd listening.. Mrs Asanuma
23 1/2 ft

10.
MLV Mrs Asanuma of Socialist Party
25 1/2 ft

11.
MV Women and men listening
27 ft

12.
CU Mrs Asanuma
29 ft

13.
LV Mrs Asanuma on truck
32 ft

14.
ML Crowd listen to Mr Okazaki, Liberal Democrats
33 1/2 ft

15.
MV Okazaki
35 1/2 ft

16.
LV DITTO
36 1/2 ft

17.
MLV People listen
38 ft

18.
PAN..Okazaki truck moving
42 ft

19.
PAN..Crowd at Yamanashi Prefecture
46 ft

20.
LV Ikeda on platform
49 1/2 ft

21.
CU Women lists
51 1/2 ft

22.
MV Ikeda
53 1/2 ft

23.
LV Crowd
56 1/2 ft

24.
CU Ikeda "Banzai"
60 1/2 ft

25.
LV Crowd clap
63 1/2 ft

26.
MV Ikeda moves off
72 ft



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Background: As the Japanese Election Campaign - scheduled for Nov 20 - entered the final stretch Nov 16, attention was focused on the candidates and leaders of the contesting political parties.

Heading the democratic socialists is Suehiro Nishio; whose party held 48 seats in the dissolved House of Representatives. Mr. Nishio's party will field 104 candidates in the election.

One of a total of twenty women candidates is mrs. Kikuwa, who, which five other women, is a candidates for the Democratic Socialists.

Another woman candidates, contesting a Tokyo Constituency, is Mrs. Kyoko Asanuma, widow of the former Socialists Party chairman Incjiro Asanuma, who was recently assassinated. The Socialists will field 186 candidates for the House of Representatives in which they had 122 seats before the House was dissolved.

Prominent among the candidates for the ruling Liberal Democrats is mr. Okazaki, who speaks to his audience from a truck.

Leader and resident of the Liberal Democrats is Mr. Hayato Ikeda, the Japanese Prime Minister. The Liberal Democrats, with Mr. Ikeda at their head, are widely tipped in Japan to win the election. Mr. Ikeda gets down to solid campaigning himself in Yamanahi Prefecture, one of hundreds miles west of Tokyo. After his speech, he cries "Banzai" for his party, and moves off for more speeches in more towns.