Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ruling coalition won a landslide victory in elections for Japan’s upper house, presenting the government with a historic opportunity to revise the country’s pacifist constitution after the assassination of Shinzo Abe boosted voter turnout.
The vote took place two days after the country’s longest-serving prime minister was killed by a lone gunman while giving a campaign speech in the western city of Nara.
Analysts had initially expected voter turnout to be at a historic low. But media projections suggested that more people voted than in the 2019 election after political parties united in condemning Abe’s shooting as “a challenge to democracy”.
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