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Japan: Strong Quake Halts Trains In Greater Tokyo Area 2

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck the Kanto region on Friday evening, August 9. Shaking was also felt in Tokyo. The quake brought trains to a halt across the region.

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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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Japan voters in general election campaigning

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A kimono-clad woman in the crowd listens to a speech by a candidate near Sagami Railway Co.'s Futamatagawa Station in Yokohama on Aug. 18, the start of the official campaign for Japan's Aug. 30 House of Representatives election.

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Japan voters in general election campaigning

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A kimono-clad woman in the crowd listens to a speech by a candidate near Sagami Railway Co.'s Futamatagawa Station in Yokohama on Aug. 18, the start of the official campaign for Japan's Aug. 30 House of Representatives election. (Kyodo)