Japan Re-Elects PM Shinzo Abe

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was re-elected with an overwhelming majority on Wednesday, following his party’s victory in snap elections this month. The conservative leader won the lower house with 328 votes to 73 votes. The Dec. 14 election, in which Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling coalition swept more than two-thirds of the seats in the parliament’s lower house, was seen as a referendum on Abe’s pro-business economic policy known as Abenomics. After the upper house confirms his appointment, the 60-year-old is slated to announce his cabinet later Wednesday, which is largely expected to remain the same.