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Japan's main opposition Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama appears with a smile in a TV news program as a salesclerk waits for customers at a discount store in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. Japan's newly empowered leader Hatoyama rushed Monday to select Cabinet ministers after his party trounced the ruling conservatives in Sunday's elections, sending them out of power for only the second time in 54 years. (AP) |