Upper house election campaign effectively begins

Upper house election campaign effectively begins

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) talks with Yukio Edano, secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, at a meeting of the DPJ's House of Councillors lawmakers at the Diet building in Tokyo on June 16, 2010. The campaign for the upper house election slated for July 11 effectively began the same day with the end of a 150-day parliamentary session.

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