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Hatoyama's DPJ wins two seats in Japan's upper house

TOKYO: Candidates from new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's party won two by-elections for Japan's upper house on Sunday, in the first test for the centre-left government, officials results showed. ...full story at Channel NewsAsia

from Channel NewsAsia on Sun, Oct 25 2009

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