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Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

The charismatic pastors of megachurches often preach that faith will bring material rewards,

so handing money over to the church is, in essence, an investment. But in Nigeria, it's hard

to know what belongs to the church and what belongs to the pastor. And the long, slow rise

in popularity of good old-fashioned vinyl records became a spike more recently.

But factories to press them, and now even the actual vinyl itself, are in woefully short supply.

And that is hitting smaller bands particularly hard.

First up, though, Kishida Fumyo-Kun-Kin-O-Kin-Kest to

Today, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, held its leadership runoff election. The last round was between two former foreign ministers, Kishida Fumio and Konotaro. Mr. Kishida came out on top. The LDP has dominated Japanese politics since its founding in the 1950s. So the party's new president will be the country's new prime minister when

Suga Yoshihide steps down. In his victory speech, Mr. Kishida said that, from today,

I will, with all of my energy, get straight to work. How and where he will channel that energy, though, is still something of an open question,

as is how much the electorate will support him.

This year's election for the presidency was more unpredictable than most.

Heading into the vote today, there was some genuine uncertainty about who would emerge the victor.

Noah Snyder is the economist's Tokyo Bureau Chief.

But this kind of free-for-all, uncertain circus-like, for the LDP at least, election campaign,

I think really masked or distracted from a deeper and more worrying trend in Japanese politics,

namely growing voter apathy and disillusionment from the political

process.

And given that apathy, how do you think it is that Mr. Kishida came out on top?

The dynamics of this election were a bit complicated, but let's unpack them.

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