Voting under way for upper house election

Voting under way for upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who is also president of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, and his wife Nobuko, cast their ballots for the upper house election on July 11, 2010, in Tokyo's suburban city of Musashino, which is Kan's constituency. Voters began casting their ballots the same day in Japan's first national election since the DPJ took power the previous year.

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