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TOKYO – The Latest on Japan’s parliamentary election (all times local):
8:40 p.m.
Media projections indicate a disappointing showing for a new Japanese opposition party that briefly excited voters.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK projected after polls closed Sunday that the Party of Hope would win 38 to 59 seats in the 465-seat lower house of parliament.
Party head Yuriko Koike called the results “very severe” in a televised interview from France. She is in Paris to attend a mayor’s conference as the governor of Tokyo.
Koike launched the Party of Hope the same week that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved parliament to force a snap election.
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