TOKYO: Japan holds an election Sunday for the upper house of parliament that could affect the country’s direction. While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling party is seeking a mandate for his leadership by emphasizing his economic revitalization policies, several opposition parties are coordinating a negative campaign, cautioning voters that a landslide for Abe would give him an upper hand to revise the pacifist post-World War II constitution.
Here are five main points about the election:
1-A TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY
2- ABENOMICS VS. CONSTITUTION
3- ABE’S AMBITIONS
4- OPPOSITION ALLIANCE
5- TEENAGE VOTERS
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