Japan's Abe keeps upper house majority

By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Elaine Lies
Updated July 21 2019 - 10:18pm, first published 10:13pm
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's ruling party has kept its majority in the upper house, an exit poll shows.
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's ruling party has kept its majority in the upper house, an exit poll shows.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc is set to keep a solid majority in Japan's upper house election and with allies could seal the two-thirds majority needed to keep alive his dream of revising the pacifist constitution, an NHK exit poll shows.

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