Abe wins majority, not enough for reform

By Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka
Updated July 22 2019 - 10:23am, first published 10:19am
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has failed to get enough seats to push through changes to the constitution.
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has failed to get enough seats to push through changes to the constitution.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc has won a solid majority in Japan's upper house election, but his coalition and its other allies fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to push ahead with revising the pacifist constitution, a projection by public broadcaster NHK shows.

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