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TOKYO — Japanese voters are on the brink of doing something they have not been willing to do in more than half a century: throw the bums out.
The opposition Democratic Party is surging toward what polls predict will be a landslide victory Sunday. It would end 54 years of near-continuous rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which led Japan to stupendous postwar wealth but in recent years has become stagnant, sclerotic and poisonously unpopular.
