Japan Election 2014: Voters Head To Polls, Expected To Return Shinzo Abe To Power, Despite Recession

Japan's snap election Sunday is seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic reform policies, but the outcome could be more a rejection of the opposition than a vote of confidence in his policies. Abe called the snap election last month, just two years into his four-year term, in a bid to reaffirm his mandate ahead of some hard political decisions, including how to tackle Japan's faltering economy, which slipped into its third recession in four years during the summer.