Election campaign begins for general election

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Arai, leader of the New Renaissance Party, starts the general election campaign on Dec. 2, 2014, in Tokyo. The ruling coalition aims at another victory on Dec. 14, while the opposition camp will try to stop one-party dominance by the LDP, which held nearly 300 of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives before it was dissolved two weeks ago.

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