TOKYO: Fresh off a decisive election victory, Japan's chief pledged Monday to take on what he called Japan's two national crises: the military risk from North Korea and an getting older and shrinking population.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at a news conference that he's committed to offer protection to the Japanese other people's prosperity and peace from any contingency. He also referred to Japanese people who had been abducted years in the past and are believed to still be held by means of North Korea.
"I will be able to pursue decisive and robust diplomacy to take on North Korea's missile, nuclear and abduction issues and put further pressure to get it to change its coverage,'' he said.
His ruling coalition were given citizens' endorsement to stay in energy in elections for Japan's more tough lower space Sunday.
Abe said Japan's reducing population and getting older is ``the most important challenge'' for his Abenomics coverage aimed at Japan's economic restoration from deflation. "The problem is progressing by means of the minute, and we can not have the funds for waiting round.''
He promised a comprehensive package by means of the top of the yr to deal with Japan's demographic challenges, including investments in training, productivity improvements and pension system reform.
Abe's ultra-conservative Liberal Democratic Party and a small coalition spouse together secured 313 seats within the 465-member lower space, passing the 310-barrier for a two-thirds majority.
Abe said the outcome confirmed ``sturdy toughen'' from the people and thanked them for backing steadiness and his executive's policies.
The victory boosts Abe's probabilities of winning every other three-year time period next September as chief of the Liberal Democratic Party. That may prolong his premiership to 2021, giving him more time to try to win a reluctant public over to his longtime objective of revising Japan's pacifist charter.
In the fast time period, the win most likely method a continuation of the policies Abe has pursued since he took place of business in December 2012 _ a difficult line on North Korea, close ties with Washington, including more acquire of American missile interceptors, as well as a super-loose financial coverage and push for nuclear energy. Stocks rose in Tokyo on Monday morning.
Abe said he's going to have "deep dialogue'' on North Korean policies with President Donald Trump during his deliberate Nov. 5-7 seek advice from in Japan.
Abe's ruling coalition already has a two-thirds majority within the less tough upper space. Having a so-called supermajority in each properties provides them nearly a free hand to push even divisive policies and regulation.
That would also building up Abe's possibilities for reaching a constitutional revision, a objective his celebration and its nationalist supporters have advocated for years. They view the 1947 charter because the legacy of Japan's defeat in World War II and an imposition of the victor's global order and values. The charter renounces the usage of drive in world conflicts and boundaries Japan's troops to self-defense, even if Japan has a well-equipped fashionable military that works carefully with the U.S.
Any trade to Japan's charter, which has never been amended, requires approval first by means of two-thirds of parliament, after which in a public referendum. Polls indicate that the Japanese public stays adverse to amendment.
The win indicates Abe has bounced back from the summer time, when toughen rankings for his Cabinet plunged to 30 % after accusations of presidency favoritism to other people connected to him. For the primary time since he took place of business just about 5 years in the past, he appeared prone as each celebration chief and top minister.
The ruling coalition's victory displays as much the loss of viable choices as toughen for Abe. Turnout was once simply 54 %, as storm rains lashed much of the country.
Abe dissolved the lower space not up to a month in the past, forcing the snap election. Analysts saw it as an try to solidify his political status at a time when the opposition was once in disarray and his toughen rankings had advanced moderately.
His plan was once briefly upstaged by means of the release of a new conservative opposition celebration by means of populist Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike. But initial pleasure faded, and the Party of Hope took most effective 49 seats. Another new celebration, the liberal-leaning Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, gained 55 seats and looks to be the most important opposition grouping.
Koike said Monday that she confronted during an ``iron ceiling'' during the election marketing campaign, one tougher than the ``glass ceiling'' she broke when she became Tokyo's first feminine governor and lead her regional celebration to win large within the town assembly election.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at a news conference that he's committed to offer protection to the Japanese other people's prosperity and peace from any contingency. He also referred to Japanese people who had been abducted years in the past and are believed to still be held by means of North Korea.
"I will be able to pursue decisive and robust diplomacy to take on North Korea's missile, nuclear and abduction issues and put further pressure to get it to change its coverage,'' he said.
His ruling coalition were given citizens' endorsement to stay in energy in elections for Japan's more tough lower space Sunday.
Abe said Japan's reducing population and getting older is ``the most important challenge'' for his Abenomics coverage aimed at Japan's economic restoration from deflation. "The problem is progressing by means of the minute, and we can not have the funds for waiting round.''
He promised a comprehensive package by means of the top of the yr to deal with Japan's demographic challenges, including investments in training, productivity improvements and pension system reform.
Abe's ultra-conservative Liberal Democratic Party and a small coalition spouse together secured 313 seats within the 465-member lower space, passing the 310-barrier for a two-thirds majority.
Abe said the outcome confirmed ``sturdy toughen'' from the people and thanked them for backing steadiness and his executive's policies.
The victory boosts Abe's probabilities of winning every other three-year time period next September as chief of the Liberal Democratic Party. That may prolong his premiership to 2021, giving him more time to try to win a reluctant public over to his longtime objective of revising Japan's pacifist charter.
In the fast time period, the win most likely method a continuation of the policies Abe has pursued since he took place of business in December 2012 _ a difficult line on North Korea, close ties with Washington, including more acquire of American missile interceptors, as well as a super-loose financial coverage and push for nuclear energy. Stocks rose in Tokyo on Monday morning.
Abe said he's going to have "deep dialogue'' on North Korean policies with President Donald Trump during his deliberate Nov. 5-7 seek advice from in Japan.
Abe's ruling coalition already has a two-thirds majority within the less tough upper space. Having a so-called supermajority in each properties provides them nearly a free hand to push even divisive policies and regulation.
That would also building up Abe's possibilities for reaching a constitutional revision, a objective his celebration and its nationalist supporters have advocated for years. They view the 1947 charter because the legacy of Japan's defeat in World War II and an imposition of the victor's global order and values. The charter renounces the usage of drive in world conflicts and boundaries Japan's troops to self-defense, even if Japan has a well-equipped fashionable military that works carefully with the U.S.
Any trade to Japan's charter, which has never been amended, requires approval first by means of two-thirds of parliament, after which in a public referendum. Polls indicate that the Japanese public stays adverse to amendment.
The win indicates Abe has bounced back from the summer time, when toughen rankings for his Cabinet plunged to 30 % after accusations of presidency favoritism to other people connected to him. For the primary time since he took place of business just about 5 years in the past, he appeared prone as each celebration chief and top minister.
The ruling coalition's victory displays as much the loss of viable choices as toughen for Abe. Turnout was once simply 54 %, as storm rains lashed much of the country.
Abe dissolved the lower space not up to a month in the past, forcing the snap election. Analysts saw it as an try to solidify his political status at a time when the opposition was once in disarray and his toughen rankings had advanced moderately.
His plan was once briefly upstaged by means of the release of a new conservative opposition celebration by means of populist Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike. But initial pleasure faded, and the Party of Hope took most effective 49 seats. Another new celebration, the liberal-leaning Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, gained 55 seats and looks to be the most important opposition grouping.
Koike said Monday that she confronted during an ``iron ceiling'' during the election marketing campaign, one tougher than the ``glass ceiling'' she broke when she became Tokyo's first feminine governor and lead her regional celebration to win large within the town assembly election.
After election win, Abe prioritizes North Korea, aging Japan
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