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Japan's ruling bloc set for Upper House majority

Japan's Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leader Shinzo Abe raises his fist as he speaks to voters on the last election campaign day ahead of Sunday's upper house election at Akihabara district in Tokyo, Japan July 20, 2019. [Reuters]

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc is set to keep a solid majority in Japan's Upper House following elections yesterday. With allies, the party could seal the two-thirds majority needed to keep alive Abe's dream of revising the pacifist constitution, an NHK exit poll showed.

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