The Japanese voted in the Senate elections for a ruling coalition that won a landslide victory in an election marred by the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe two days ago at a campaign rally in Nara, western Japan.
The ruling coalition, made up of the Liberal Democratic Party (right-wing nationalists), to which Abe belongs, and his ally Komeito, won more than 75 of the 125 seats that voted for renewal in elections organized every three years and comprising half of the 248 seats in Senate.
The governing coalition now has a majority ready to amend the pacifist constitution to boost Japan’s military role on the international stage, a goal long sought by Abe.
