That's interesting, Canuck. I wonder why Canada and Japan are different in this aspect.

In Japan, I suspect that the way district elections are being done has a lot to do with the reason why we have so many hereditary politicians. Each politician has a "Koenkai" or a support group and its territory, which acts as a powerful political machine for elections. And when a politician decides to retire, one of his/her children usually succeeds the Koenkai. Koizumi, Fukuda, and Abe all inheritated their fathers' Koenkai.

The case with Yama-san, the main character of my movie CAMPAIGN! THE KAWASAKI CANDIDATE was quite different from this formula. He was suddenly chosen by the party as its official candidate, and he had no Koenkai to succeed. That is one of the big reasons why he was placed in the lowest in the pecking order in his own campaign team.