Shinzo Abe has won a sweeping victory in elections to Japan’s upper house and there is now a parliamentary supermajority that supports revision of Japan’s pacifist constitution.
With all seats declared, Mr Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic party and its allies won 77 out of the 78 seats they needed for a two-thirds majority, but there are also four independents who support a constitutional revision.
That leaves Mr Abe in undisputed control of Japanese politics and gives him a once-in-a-lifetime chance at putting constitutional change to a national referendum.
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