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               Exit Polls Project Big Win for Japan Ruling Party

   by VOA News

   Japanese media exit polls project a landslide victory for Prime
   Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition in Japan's lower house snap
   elections.

   Japanese media released projections based on the surveys just moments
   after polls closed Sunday evening

   The projections show the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior
   partner, Komeito, winning a two-thirds majority in the powerful lower
   house.

   Abe called the election two years early in order to obtain a fresh
   mandate for his "Abenomics" strategy of fiscal stimulus and structural
   reforms.

   The new voter mandate grants Abe four more years to implement difficult
   reforms, including a reduction in the country's massive debt and
   restructuring of its agriculture sector.

   Abe won a rare second term as prime minister in 2012 with promises to
   reboot Japan's stagnant economy, which has been plagued by low birth
   rates and a shrinking and aging population.

   Since then, corporate profits have boomed as the Japanese yen weakened
   in value. The economy, however, slipped back into recession in April,
   following a sales tax increase.
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