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With month to go, LDP in worse shape than 2004

Voter disgust at the public pension record-keeping fiasco is looming as a major factor in the July 29 Upper House election. Public opinion polls conducted by The Asahi Shimbun show that, for now at least, the Liberal Democratic Party is facing an even graver situation than the last Upper House election in 2004, when pensions were also a hot issue.

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