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TOKYO (AP) - There's Peru's former dictator, Albert Fujimori; and Yuko Tojo, whose grandfather ordered Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor; and the inventor who calls himself Dr. Nakamats and claims he knows how to turn North Korean missiles around in midair.
Japan's national elections, which began Sunday morning, feature some unlikely candidates.
It's not that the ballot is in any way a frivolous affair. Battered by funding scandals and a huge pensions blunder, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government will be fighting to hold onto its slim majority in parliament's upper house. Defeat could prompt calls for Abe to resign.
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