Abe wins snap poll but Japan's problems remain
Only half of the eligible voters turned out in poll many didn't want.
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Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe has gained an extra four-year term in a snap election in which only half of the eligible voters cast a ballot.
The result, a landslide win to the Liberal Democratic Party, was not a surprise. It now has nearly 300 seats in the parliament’s 475-seat lower house
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Nevil Gibson
Mon, 15 Dec 2014
Mon, 15 Dec 2014
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Abe wins snap poll but Japan's problems remain
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