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Leaders of eight Japan's political parties pose before a debate at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, Japan on July 2.

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a tough test in an upper house election later this month as his minority government struggles after its major defeat in last year's snap election.