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Japan ruling bloc assured of victory in lower house election

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is interviewed for TV broadcasts on the results of the lower house election at his Liberal Democratic Party's headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district on the night of Dec. 14, 2014. Japan's ruling coalition of the LDP 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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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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Voting under way in Japan's lower house election

OSHU, Japan - Voters walk to a polling station to cast their ballots in the general election amid snow in the city of Oshu in the northern Japan prefecture of Iwate on Dec. 14, 2014. A total of 1,191 candidates are vying for the 475 seats in the House of Representatives -- 295 for single-seat districts and 180 for proportional representation districts.