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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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Election campaign begins with focus on "Abenomics"

OSAKA, Japan - Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of the opposition Japan Innovation Party, kicks off his party's campaign for the Dec. 14 general election in Osaka on Dec. 2, 2014. The opposition camp will try to end the 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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Election campaign begins with focus on "Abenomics"

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Kenji Eda, co-leader of the opposition Japan Innovation Party, kicks off his party's campaign for the Dec. 14 general in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Dec. 2, 2014. The opposition camp will try to end the 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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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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Campaigning for Dec. 14 Japanese general election begins

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 2, 2014, shows people clapping their hands as they listen to a speech by a candidate running for the Dec. 14 general election in Yokohama, near Tokyo, at the start of the official campaigning. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party aims at another victory, 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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Campaigning for Dec. 14 Japanese general election begins

IWAKI, Japan - People listen to a stump speech by a candidate running for the Dec. 14 general election in the disaster-hit northeastern Japan city of Iwaki on Dec. 2, 2014, at the start of official campaigning. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party aims at another victory, 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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Campaigning for Dec. 14 general election begins

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 2, 2014, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows voters listening to a speech by a candidate running for the Dec. 14 general election in front of Futamatagawa Station in Yokohama, near Tokyo, at the start of the official campaign. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party aims at another victory, 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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Election campaign begins with focus on "Abenomics"

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of the Liberal Democratic Party, starts the general election campaign on Dec. 2, 2014, in Yokohama, near 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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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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Election campaign begins for general election

IWAKI, Japan - Banri Kaieda, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, launches the campaign for the Dec. 14 general election by giving a speech in the disaster-hit northeastern Japan city of Iwaki on Dec. 2, 2014. 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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Moving inside Diet building

TOKYO, Japan - Moving company workers on Dec. 21, 2012 carry a board bearing the Democratic Party of Japan's logo and slogan, which has been used by the party as a backdrop when its officials held press conferences, inside the Diet building in Tokyo, where political parties began relocating lounges for their lawmakers following the Dec. 16 general election. Customarily, each party gets space for a lounge whose size is in proportion to the number of its parliamentary seats. The DPJ, which saw its number of seats plunge to 57 from 230 in the 480-seat House of Representatives, is giving up a wide space on the front side of the second floor of the building to the Liberal Democratic Party, which increased its seats to 294 from 119.

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Ousted Thai premier Thaksin hopes to return home by April

HONG KONG, Hong Kong - Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra speaks at a news conference in Hong Kong on Dec. 25, two days after the first post-coup general election in Thailand. In the election, the People Power Party comprising mostly of his supporters won almost half of the 480 seats in parliament.

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Coalition leaders meet after election

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese coalition leaders meet June 26 at the Diet following Sunday's House of Representatives general election. From left to right are Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Secretary General Hiromu Nonaka, New Conservative Party leader Chikage Ogi, Prime Minister and LDP President Yoshiro Mori, and New Komeito party leader Takenori Kanzaki. In the election, the three-way ruling coalition won an overall majority, taking 271 of the 480 seats. However, the figure was far below their pre-election strength of 336 seats.

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Mori fields questions at news confab following election

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori fields questions June 26 at a news conference at the headquarters of his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) following Sunday's House of Representatives general election. He attended the conference in his capacity as LDP president. Mori's three-way ruling coalition won an overall majority of 271 of the 480 seats -- far below their pre-election strength of 336 seats.

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Ousted Thai premier Thaksin hopes to return home by April

HONG KONG, Hong Kong - Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra speaks at a news conference in Hong Kong on Dec. 25, two days after the first post-coup general election in Thailand. In the election, the People Power Party comprising mostly of his supporters won almost half of the 480 seats in parliament. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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Campaigning for Dec. 14 Japanese general election begins

IWAKI, Japan - People listen to a stump speech by a candidate running for the Dec. 14 general election in the disaster-hit northeastern Japan city of Iwaki on Dec. 2, 2014, at the start of official campaigning. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party aims at another victory, 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. (Kyodo)

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Campaigning for Dec. 14 Japanese general election begins

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 2, 2014, shows people clapping their hands as they listen to a speech by a candidate running for the Dec. 14 general election in Yokohama, near Tokyo, at the start of the official campaigning. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party aims at another victory, 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. (Kyodo)

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Mori fields questions at news confab following election

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori fields questions June 26 at a news conference at the headquarters of his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) following Sunday's House of Representatives general election. He attended the conference in his capacity as LDP president. Mori's three-way ruling coalition won an overall majority of 271 of the 480 seats -- far below their pre-election strength of 336 seats.

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Coalition leaders meet after election

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese coalition leaders meet June 26 at the Diet following Sunday's House of Representatives general election. From left to right are Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Secretary General Hiromu Nonaka, New Conservative Party leader Chikage Ogi, Prime Minister and LDP President Yoshiro Mori, and New Komeito party leader Takenori Kanzaki. In the election, the three-way ruling coalition won an overall majority, taking 271 of the 480 seats. However, the figure was far below their pre-election strength of 336 seats.