July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Mike Firn reports on this weekend's upper-house election in Japan.
Many voters are undecided about who to support in the July 11 contest for half the 242 seats. The electorate is divided over Prime Minister Naoto Kan's suggestion to raise the national sales tax, and his Democratic Party of Japan's first 10 months in office were marred by the departure of his predecessor after campaign finance scandals and a dispute with the U.S. Bloomberg's Rishaad Salamat also speaks. (Source: Bloomberg)
