A big victory in sight for Abe, and Abenomics

SHINZO Abe could be heading for a landslide election win. A big victory for the Japanese prime minister would revive investor confidence in Japan's economic reforms and help shore up his anti-deflation campaign.

According to most recent projections by Japanese media, Mr Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could garner 300 or more of the 475 seats in Parliament's lower house in the Dec 14 poll. Including the smaller Komeito party would almost certainly take the ruling alliance above th…