By Yuri Kageyama, AP Business Writer TOKYO — Japan’s ruling coalition was a clear winner in Sunday’s parliamentary election, Japanese media exit polls indicated, paving the way for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to push ahead with his economic revival policies, but also possibly changing the nation’s postwar pacifist constitution. Several major TV news shows and the Kyodo News agency cited their exit polls and reported almost as soon as voting ended that the ruling coalition, headed by Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party, had kept its majority and increased its number of seats. The opposition lost many of its seats, they said. A voter looks up at the list of candidates before filling their ballots in Japan’s upper house parliamentary elections at a polling station in Tokyo, Sunday, July 10, 2016. Japanese are voting in a nationwide election for the upper house that may cement Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s grip on power, as he [...]
