Ruling party takes rare loss in Japan vote
Opposition Democratic chief hails 'victory for the people'
Posted: August 31, 2009 at 2:47 a.m.
Yukio Hatoyama, president of the Democratic Party of Japan, places a red paper rose next to a Democratic candidate's name to indicate a victory at the party's election center Sunday in Tokyo.
Japan's opposition swept to a historic victory in elections Sunday, crushing the ruling conservative party that has run the country for most of the postwar era and assuming the daunting task of pulling the economy out of its worst slump since World War II.
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