Robust victory likely for Japan PM Abe's party in Oct. 22 election: poll

Sunday's House of Representatives election in Japan is likely to deliver a robust victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party while ending in disappointment for Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike's Party of Hope, a Kyodo News survey showed Tuesday.The LDP and its coalition partner the Komeito party are together projected to win about 310 seats, a two-thirds majority in the 465-seat lower house.The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, formed in recent weeks to take on the liberal wing of the moribund Democratic Party, now has a chance of coming out on top among the opposition …READ FULL ARTICLE