Extending his track record of election victories for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has secured the political stability he needs to become the longest-serving leader in November. But it came with a bitter taste.The ruling bloc of the LDP and its partner Komeito, together with like-minded independent lawmakers, lost its two-thirds majority in the upper house in Sunday's election, likely thwarting his ambitions to revise the pacifist Constitution and go down in history as the first leader to do so.As he pursues the policies that he hopes will define his adminis…READ FULL ARTICLE
