Japan voters go to polls two days after Abe assassination

Shocked nation should know results of upper house race Sunday night

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A child helps cast a ballot during the upper house election at a polling station in Tokyo on July 10. © Reuters

KENTARO IWAMOTO, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Japanese voters are casting their ballots in the country's upper house election, two days after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead in the street during a speech to support a ruling party candidate.

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