Campaigning for Dec. 14 general election begins

TOKYO, Japan - Voters listen to a speech by a candidate running in the Dec. 14, 2014, lower house election in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Dec. 2, the first day of official campaigning for the election. The opposition camp is aiming to break the dominance of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, which held nearly 300 of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives before it was dissolved.

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