LDP leadership race

LDP leadership race

TOKYO, Japan - (from L) Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba, former Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura, Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Nobuteru Ishihara and Yoshimasa Hayashi, a former economic and fiscal policy minister, attend an event to make speeches at the headquarters of the main opposition party in Tokyo on Sept. 14, 2012. The five men filed their candidacies in the Sept. 26, 2012, LDP presidential election.

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