Our strategy was right, but we'd like to consider modifying our tactics.

Democratic Party (DP) Secretary-General Yukio Edano, after a candidate backed by the DP, Japanese Communist Party (JCP), Social Democratic Party (SDP) and People's Life Party (PLP), lost to a candidate who ran on the ticket of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the House of Representatives by-election in the Hokkaido last week. (Mainichi Shimbun)

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