LDP wins 1st by-elections under Abe

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Hidenao Nakagawa (L) and Mikio Aoki (R), leader of the LDP caucus in the House of Councillors, put red roses to the photos of Kenji Harada and Zentaro Kamei, who won House of Representatives seats in two by-elections on Oct. 22, the first electoral tests for the less-than-one-month-old administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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