Voters in Japan went to the polls for parliamentary elections on Sunday, two days after a gunman assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while he was campaigning for a candidate.
Tokyo, July 11 (RHC)-- Voters in Japan went to the polls for parliamentary elections on Sunday, two days after a gunman assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while he was campaigning for a candidate.
In Sunday’s election, Abe’s right-wing Liberal Democratic Party won in a landslide, gaining enough seats with its coalition partners to form a supermajority in the upper house.
By picking up more seats, the LDP appears poised to rewrite the country’s pacifist constitution, which bars Japan from using — or threatening to use — military force. The rewriting of the constitution was a longtime goal of Shinzo Abe.
