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Japanese voters are not accustomed to nail-biter elections. But as the country holds parliamentary elections on Sunday, the party that has governed Japan for all but four years since 1955 is facing the possibility that it could lose its majority in the body’s lower chamber, the House of Representatives. Just …

A man was arrested in Tokyo on Saturday and accused of throwing several incendiary devices at the headquarters of the governing Liberal Democratic Party and slamming his car into a security fence outside the nearby office of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, the police in Tokyo said. A masked suspect was …