Japanese politics is politer and more understated than most. It's perhaps the reason that Western audiences do not always pay a huge amount of attention. But something feels different this time, and that's largely down to the woman at the centre of this story; the drum-playing, Trump-hugging, China-provoking prime minister who has raised the stakes for both Japan and the region. In central Tokyo, just a few hours before polls open in the snap election she called, hundreds of people crowded into