On November 11 local time, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Japanese Parliament will hold the prime minister's nomination election. Since the ruling coalition formed by the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito Party did not win more than half of the seats in the previous House of Representatives election, this brings variables to the prime minister's nomination election. According to the rules and procedures, the prime minister's nomination election is held in the order of the House of Representatives and then the Senate. The person who gets more than half of the valid votes in the first round of voting wins. Many Japanese media predict that in the first round of voting in the House of Representatives, the winner may not be directly decided. The run-off round of voting is expected to be held between Shigeru Ishiba, the president of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Yoshihiko Noda, the leader of the largest opposition Constitutional Democratic Party. In the run-off round of voting, the person with the highest number of votes wins. This will be the fifth time in Japanese history that