A political group backed by the Happy Science religious corporation, the Happiness Realization Party, said Sunday its head will run in the Aug. 30 general election, reversing an announcement the previous day.

Ryuho Okawa will run in the Kinki block of the proportional representation section in the forthcoming House of Representatives election, the group said.

The group also said it will field Zuishou Motochikawa for the Tokyo block under the proportional representation system, in which parliamentary seats are allocated according to the share of the vote secured by a political party.

Okawa had been planning to run in the Tokyo block but the group said Saturday he had withdrawn his bid to run in the general election.