Prime minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition has won a clear majority in elections to Japan’s upper house in a sign of his enduring popularity after almost seven years in office.
But according to early projections from television networks, it was too close to call whether parties in favour of revising Japan’s pacifist constitution will secure the two-thirds majority they need.
Mr Abe said the public wanted constitutional reform. “We’ve won a majority in this election. At the minimum, that’s an instruction to ‘get on and debate it’, so I hope the debate in the Diet [on constitutional reform] will make progress,” he said.
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