Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party surged back to power in yesterday's election, just three years after a devastating defeat, giving ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a chance to push his hawkish security agenda and radical economic recipe.
Exit polls showed the Liberal Democrats (LDP) winning nearly 300 seats in parliament's 480-member lower house. Its ally, the New Komeito party, looked set to win 30 seats.
That would give the two parties the two-thirds majority needed to overrule parliament's upper house and break a deadlock that has plagued the world's third biggest economy since 2007.
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