Japan ruling bloc assured of victory in lower house election

Japan ruling bloc assured of victory in lower house election

TOKYO, Japan - Banri Kaieda, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, is interviewed for TV broadcasts on the results of the lower house election at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district on the night of Dec. 14, 2014. Japan's ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito party is on course to exceed a simple majority in the election, with more than 300 of the 475 lower house seats secured, Kyodo News exit polls and projections showed.

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