TOKYO - JAPAN'S Democratic Party won two by-elections for parliament's upper house on Sunday, media projections showed, a nod of voter approval in the first national polls since the party took power last month.
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) ousted the long-dominant conservative Liberal Democratic Party to usher in a government that promised to focus spending on consumers rather than companies and steer a diplomatic course less subservient to security ally Washington.
