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In a country governed almost uninterrupted by a single political party for more than half a century, a historic change looms as a pivotal Lower House general election approaches later this month.
Voters will be given the opportunity to choose between continuing the almost unbroken rule of the Liberal Democratic Party or take a chance on the Democratic Party of Japan, the main opposition party, which has never been in power.
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