This week on Tokyo on Fire:

We kick off this week with one of the hottest topics in current Japan: snap election of the House of Representatives. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will reshuffle his cabinet in this month. However, more and more election candidates try to get in Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike's party, The Party of Hope. Was it a genius move for Prime Minister Abe to call a snap election? Or will Party of Hope inflict pain to the LDP on a national level as well?

Our Inside Baseball series features the opposition parties's　bustling changes. The Democratic Party has imploded and a large　number of defectors have broken ranks. What is the outlook of　the party in the upcoming snap election? 

Join host Timothy Langley and Michael Cucek in this discussion!