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POLL SHOWDOWN

Japan Times
JAPAN / POLL SHOWDOWN
Aug 30, 2005
Okada hopes to shift election focus
Democratic Party of Japan leader Katsuya Okada is calling for voters' support in the Sept. 11 general election to bring about regime change and rebuild Japan in the face of ballooning government deficits and a rapidly aging population.
Japan Times
JAPAN / POLL SHOWDOWN
Aug 29, 2005
Tanaka says New Party Nippon focusing on decentralization
Yasuo Tanaka, head of the brand-new New Party Nippon, is aiming his party at building public hope for a brighter future by working at the local and prefectural level to wrest power from central administrative and political authorities.
Japan Times
JAPAN / POLL SHOWDOWN
Aug 26, 2005
SDP stays course, hopes for election luck
The Social Democratic Party's campaign for the Sept. 11 general election will be a continuation of its same platform: Japan must maintain its peace stance, SDP leader Mizuho Fukushima said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / POLL SHOWDOWN
Aug 25, 2005
JCP hits Koizumi reforms as good for big business, bad for the people
Japanese Communist Party Chairman Kazuo Shii hopes his party will make a vigorous case against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's reform drive, prospective tax hikes and moves to amend the pacifist Constitution as it braces for the Sept. 11 Lower House election.
Japan Times
JAPAN / POLL SHOWDOWN
Aug 24, 2005
New parties to team up against LDP: Watanuki
Kokumin Shinto (People's New Party) will cooperate with another new party in the Sept. 11 general election and oppose Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization drive, leader Tamisuke Watanuki said.
JAPAN / POLL SHOWDOWN
Aug 23, 2005
Rebels who don't quit LDP face penalties
All of the Liberal Democratic Party members who voted against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization bills in the House of Representatives should leave the party when running in the Sept. 11 general election, LDP Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe said Monday.

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