Japan Resoundingly Votes Conservatives Back Into Power -- L.A. Times
The landslide win for Japan's conservative Liberal Democrats is more a rejection of incumbents than a mandate for incoming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, analysts say.
TOKYO — The conservative party that dominated postwar Japan was returned to power, after a three-year absence, in a landslide election victory Sunday that will result in hawkish Shinzo Abe returning as prime minister.
Abe, 58, who served in the post once before, is likely to pursue a tougher stance toward China and prevent his nation from abandoning nuclear energy.
The Liberal Democratic Party was projected by national broadcaster NHK to win 294 out of 480 seats in Japan's lower house, while an ally, the New Komeito Party, had a projected 31. That would give them the two-thirds majority needed to overrule the upper house, perhaps breaking deadlocks that have long stymied Japanese governments.
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