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Japan’s ruling party rebuked
Japan’s ruling party, mauled in yesterday’s upper house election, faces an uphill struggle to win new allies to back its policies to cut back huge public debt and probably bitter infighting over whether the premier should quit.
Voters dealt Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s Democratic Party of Japan a stinging rebuke in the election, depriving the DPJ and its tiny ally of a majority less than a year after the Democrats swept to power with promises of change.
Kan’s Democratic Party of Japan won 44 seats and its partner, the People’s New Party, none.