Japan's opposition bands together for election

Japan's opposition bands together for election

Seiji Maehara, head of Japan's moribund main opposition Democratic Party, arrives at the venue for a speech in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, on Sept. 29, 2017. Maehara got his party to agree a day earlier to effectively disband, and let its members run with the new party led by popular Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike in the Oct. 22 lower house election to unify the vote against the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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