Party Leaders Debate Ahead Of Election At Japan National Press Club

Leaders of Japan's political parties pose for a group photograph before their debate ahead of the Dec. 14 election at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. Ichiro Ozawa, president of of the People's Life First party, from left, Takeo Hiranuma, chairperson of the Party for Future Generations, Kenji Eda, co-leader of the Japan Innovation Party, Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Banri Kaieda, president of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), Natsuo Yamaguchi, president of the New Komeito party, Kazuo Shii, chairman of the Japanese Communist Party, and Tadatomo Yoshidoa, leader of the Social Democratic Party. The economy will matter more to Japanese voters than security and nuclear policies when they cast their votes in the Dec. 14 election, media polls showed. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images