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The Liberal Democratic party , which Abe led for almost a decade, and its junior coalition party, increased their majority in the upper house on Sunday.
The election in the less powerful chamber in Japan’s parliament had no bearing on the makeup of the government, but was seen as a referendum on prime minister Fumio Kishida’s first 10 months in office amid growing regional security concerns and the cost of living crisis.At 52%, turnout was slightly up from three years earlier – a trend some analysts attributed to Abe’s death – but the coalition’s victory had been expected before he was killed.
Abe, he said, “did more than anyone to elevate the relationship between the United States and Japan to new heights”. While building public support for constitutional change will take time, Kishida is expected to use his party’s mandate to double defence spending in the coming years amid concerns over North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme and increased Chinese military activity in the East and South China seas.
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