Japanese Voters Return Conservatives To Power

NPR | Dec. 17, 2012 12:49 p.m.

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Frank Langfitt

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Japanese conservatives returned to power in a landslide election victory over the weekend. The Liberal Democratic Party, the LDP, ruled Japan for most of the post-World War II era until it was dumped in 2009. Shinzo Abe will become Japan's prime minister for the second time, and he's pledged to take a harder line on China.