LDP's Yamashita wins upper house by-election in Shiga Pref.
OTSU, Japan - Hidetoshi Yamashita (C) lifts two bouquets into the air Oct. 22 after winning a House of Councillors by-election in Shiga Prefecture by running on the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ticket. At right is his wife Mieko. Yamashita, a 47-year-old former banker and the son of late Defense Agency chief Ganri Yamashita, beat Shunyu Norikumo, a former professor at Ryukoku University in Kyoto who ran on the Democratic Party of Japan ticket. He also vanquished Takashi Kawauchi, a member of the Japanese Communist Party. Yamashita will fill a seat vacated by Tenzo Okumura, who resigned before an unsuccessful attempt to win a lower house seat as an independent in the June 25 general elections.
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