TOKYO -- The landslide election victory by the Liberal Democratic Party on Sunday hands Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the seats needed to start the parliamentary procedures toward revising the country's pacifist constitution, a prospect that brings mixed feelings to the rest of Asia.
The election results virtually guarantees that Abe will get a third three-year term as leader of the party next year when a leadership contest is expected to be held. LDP and its junior coalition partner Komeito won two-thirds of the seats in Japan's lower house.
