Abe, Fresh Off Election Victory, Now Gets to Host Trump
A resounding win at the polls doesn’t mean a green light for the Japanese PM./ Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s snap election gamble paid off, giving his Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner more than two-thirds of the seats in parliament and a political fillip ahead of his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Tokyo next month. The trouncing of what turned out to be a disjointed opposition — compared to 2014, when the opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, was in a sorry state but at least held ...
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