Upcoming Japan upper house election may bring surprises
Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and coalition partner the New Komeito Party may not win convincingly as polls suggest
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THE outcome of Japan's upper house parliamentary election due on July 10 may not amount to the country's equivalent of the UK's "Brexit" vote - at least not in terms of the scope of its impact - but it could nevertheless bring some surprises in a contest whose result (rather like that of Brexit) is largely being taken for granted.
As the polls tell it (although the image of pollsters is more than a little tarnished nowadays) Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its chief coalition partner the New Komeito Party are all set to cruise to a convincing victory in the July 10 election.
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