TOKYO -- Candidates running to lead Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party are promising to improve the lives of the middle-class working-age population -- both in the short and medium term -- hoping to win back a section of the public that largely shunned it in July's upper house election.
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Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is appealing to people of working age in a bid to shore up waning electoral support. (Photo by Yuji Murakami)
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