Leaders make final pitches before Japan's lower house election

The leaders of Japan's major political parties made their final addresses to voters Saturday on the eve of the House of Representatives election, ending a campaign that has been dominated as much by the dramatic split of the main opposition Democratic Party as by debate on policy.In pouring rain in Tokyo's Akihabara district, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on voters to show that "the public cannot be fooled" into forgetting the failures of the Democratic Party's turn at power from 2009 to 2012, even under a different name.He said his Liberal Democratic Party will "protect the public's liv…READ FULL ARTICLE