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  Japanese PM launches general election campaign   (Reuters)  Updated: 2005-08-30 10:16  
 
 
 
   Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi 
 speaks to voters at Kichijoji railway station in Tokyo to officially 
 launch a dramatic campaign for a general election August 30, 2005. 
 [Reuters] |  
 
   Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) raises 
 a hand of Masatada Tsuchiya, a candidate of his ruling Liberal Democratic 
 Party, at Kichijoji railway station in Tokyo at an official launch of a 
 dramatic campaign for a general election August 30, 2005. Koizumi has said 
 the September 11 election is a referendum on 
 reform.[Reuters] |   
 
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