Election campaign begins for general election

Election campaign begins for general election

IWAKI, Japan - Banri Kaieda, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, shakes hands with voters in the disaster-hit northeastern Japan city of Iwaki on Dec. 2, 2014, when the official campaign for the Dec. 14 general election kicked off. The opposition camp will try to stop one-party dominance by the Liberal Democratic Party, which held nearly 300 of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives before it was dissolved two weeks ago.

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