Japan’s Abe claims victory in upper house election

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claimed victory Sunday for his ruling coalition in the upper house election, but appeared to fail to secure a

Japanese Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party president Shinzo Abe attaches paper flowers on the winning candidates of the Parliament’s upper house election at the party’s headquarters in Tokyo

“I want to meet their expectations soundly,” he said at the headquarters of his Liberal Democratic Party. “The results, which were within expectations, indicated that voters chose the status quo, not a change,” Shinichi Nishikawa, professor of political science at Meiji University in Tokyo, told AFP. Abe has pledged to “clearly stipulate the role of the Self-Defence Forces in the constitution,” which prohibits Japan from waging war and maintaining a military.

 

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