ML-Implode News - Japan election: Abe on track for big win, polls show

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ruling coalition are on course for a landslide win in Sunday's parliamentary elections, exit polls show. Abe had called the snap vote to seek a boost to his parliamentary majority and is likely to use any new powers to attempt to overhaul the country's defense strategy and pacifist stance.
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In the face of an increasingly hostile North Korea, Abe earlier this year set a deadline of 2020 to revise Japan's constitution, which contains language that bans Japan from maintaining armed forces. It is a controversial proposal that strikes at the heart of the country's post-war identity...Abe had sought to win a two-thirds "super majority" in Parliament, which would help him achieve his goal of amending the constitution.

Also, nothing like a war to mask the implosion of a decades-long malaise and culminating government debt bubble...

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Japan election: Abe on track for big win, polls show