PM Abe's coalition headed for landslide win in Japan election
Tokyo
JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition appeared headed for a landslide victory in Sunday's upper house election, exit polls showed after voting closed on a critical event that could swing the balance of military power in Northeast Asia as Japan moves towards revising its postwar pacifist constitution.
Media exit polls and projections showed that Mr Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), along with its main coalition partner the Komeito party and supporting parliamentary elements, had won the two-thirds "super majority" needed to set in motion changes to the constitution.
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