Japan election: Nationalist fervour on the rise

Voting in Japan's general election is under way. Polls predict the conservative Liberal Democratic Party will be returned to power. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and his Democratic Party of Japan have faced widespread discontent over their handling of the economy and last year's tsunami and nuclear disaster. A territorial dispute with Beijing over islands in the South China Sea has also fuelled nationalist fervour. And as Al Jazeera's Rob McBride reports, that has played into the hands of the opposition.

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