October 23, 2017

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition secured a comfortable victory in Sunday's general election and retained a two-thirds majority as an embryonic and divided opposition camp had little hope of causing an upset, with a powerful typhoon ensuring that voter turnout was low. 

The win for Abe and the LDP-bloc came as little surprise to experts on the matter here who predicted that the opposition vote would be divided between the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ) and the Party of Hope (PoH), two parties cobbled together just weeks before the election from the ashes of liberal and conservative wings of the moribund Democratic Party (DP). 

Yu Uchiyama, Professor of Politics at the University of Tokyo, said that for the electorate the opposition camp simply wasn't viewed as a viable alternative to the LDP. 

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