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衆院選終盤情勢について　　　与野党が過半数の攻防を展開中　　自民が苦戦していて　選挙区での接戦が１３０超　立憲民主が大幅増になりそう　国民民主も躍進している

The Yomiuri Shimbun carried out an opinion poll in the period from the 22 to the 24 of the month in order to analyze the situation of the second half of the election for the House of Representatives, whose voting and ballot counting is to be held on the 27, finding out that intensified competition between the ruling and opposition parties are going on how to secure the majority of all the seats of 465. Close contests are going on in more than 130 constituencies across the country. When looking at them closely, the Liberal Democratic Party is having a hard time because of its funds-raising scandal, but the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is gaining momentum to increase its seats significantly, and Democratic Party For the People also seems to make good advance. But Japan Innovation Party remains stagnant in its strength.

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衆院選挙の候補者アンケートによれば、　　選挙戦の争点は「景気・雇用」が最多で「政治とカネ」も重視　
但し「外交・安保」低い

The Yomiuri Shimbun, or a newspaper company, has carried out a questionnaire survey with the candidates to the elections for the House of Representatives whose voting and ballot counting is to be held on October 27, asking them what the most important issues they want to pick up in the race are. According to the results, " economy and employment" is the most at 59 %, or with 59% of all respondents referring to it, followed by "politics and money" by 37 %. Among the candidates from opposition parties, there are many who pick up "politics and money" at the top, which shows they are fighting with the Liberal Democratic Party damaged by its funds raising scandal throughout the election campaign.
Regarding the issue of " diplomacy and security," it comes second among the candidates from LDP, but it has not so much referred to at 26 % in total including the candidates from the opposition parties.

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能登地方で　　大雨から１か月　　捜索活動が続いている　　２１日に犠牲者１４人を追悼した
A month has passed on Monday since record-making, heavy rains stormed the northern part of the Noto Peninsula on a few days of the late September. Fourteen people have been confirmed killed by the disaster so far, and search activities have been
going on because there is a person who has not been accounted for. From 9 o'clock on Monday at Wajima City Office, the mayor Shigeru Sakaguchi and other officials offered a silent prayer 30 minutes for the disaster victims, which was shared with the residents through the disaster-preventive radio by the city government.

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衆院選も後半戦にはいり　各党首が全国を奔走して　支援を訴えている　接戦区や大票田を中心に展開されている
The campaign for the elections for the House of Representatives, whose voting and ballot counting is to be held on October 27, has passed the middle point of the 12-day election campaign period. And each political party leader is running around across the country to get support for their parties, especially in the constituencies where close battles are going on or a large voting could be expected. As the race is now in the second half of it, both the ruling and opposition parties are seeking to penetrate their political strategies in the voters.

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インサイダー取引で　　最高裁判所事務総局から出向した裁判官は　出向直後から不正開始か　　毎月複数回の取引　
Concerning the suspected case that the judge sent from the secretary office of the supreme court to the Finance Service Agency committed insider deals of stocks, it is learned that the judge has carried out illegal buying or selling of stocks multiple times a month since this April when he was sent to the agency. He has done the deals based on the information on tale-over bid activities by the listed companies he got on his job, which will be illegal. The Securities and Exchange Council Commission sees that there is a possibility that he has gained a profit of several hundred thousand yen at least through the process.