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Half of the seats of the less powerful upper house, or 121 seats, were up for grabs in Sunday's vote. There had been no possibility for a change of power because the ruling coalition, headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, already controls the more powerful lower house, but the balloting was a key gauge of how much support Abe's coalition has among the public.
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That number may grow if independent candidates join the coalition, common in Japanese elections, and if there are defections from the soundly defeated opposition, less common but what analysts are predicting might happen.
Abe appeared before TV cameras at party headquarters late Sunday to pin red flowers, indicating confirmed wins, next to his candidates' names written on a big board.
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With their pro-business policies, the Liberal Democrats have ruled Japan almost continuously since World War II, and until recently enjoyed solid support from rural areas. The few years the opposition held power coincided with the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters that devastated northeastern Japan. The opposition fell out of favor after being heavily criticized for its feeble reconstruction efforts.
Robert Dujarric, professor and director of the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies at Temple University Japan in Tokyo, said the win reflected voters' disenchantment with the opposition, rather than their excitement about Abe's policies.
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Combined with other conservative politicians, the coalition has a two-thirds majority in the upper house, which is needed to propose any referendum to change the constitution, written by the U.S. after Japan's defeat in World War II. The constitution has a clause that limits Japan's well-equipped army, navy and air force to self-defense.
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Tetsuro Kato, professor of politics at Waseda University, said Abe won't rush to change the constitution, saying he needs better timing because the recent strengthening of the yen — a minus for exports — and concerns about global economic growth.
Japan\'s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party [url=http://www.cheapjerseyscowboys.com/...-vander-esch-jersey/]Leighton Vander Esch Womens Jersey[/url] , smiles as he places a red rosette on the name of his Liberal Democratic Party\'s winning candidate during ballot counting for the parliamentary upper house elections at the party headquarters in Tokyo, Sunday, July 10, 2016. (AP PhotoShizuo Kambayashi)
Yukio Edano, the legislator who ran the campaign for the main opposition Democratic Party, acknowledged that while the public agreed with his party's message that Abenomics wasn't working for regular people, he told NHK that the "... people felt we did not offer enough of an alternative."
Abe during the campaign that his "Abenomics" program [url=http://www.cheapjerseyscowboys.com/xavier-woods-jersey/]Xavier Woods Womens Jersey[/url] , centered on easy lending and a cheap yen to encourage exports, was still ongoing and that patience was needed for results. He downplayed the constitutional question during the campaign, saying only that discussion was needed.
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