Polls were open on Sunday morning in Japan for parliamentary elections. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi dissolved parliament in January ahead of the snap elections, a gamble she hopes will provide her and her struggling party with a stronger mandate. While Takaichi is hugely popular, particularly with younger voters, her conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has ruled the country for most of the past seven decades, has been hit by scandals  and is facing a new opposition alliance