The Guardian view on Shinzo Abe's re-election: it paid off, but it was no ringing endorsement

Japanese voters gave the Liberal Democrats a big majority but with little enthusiasm The results of the Japanese general election are, in one word, strange. The coalition led by the incumbent prime minister, Shinzo Abe, won a commanding two-thirds of the seats, and secured its hold on government for the next four years. But it did so on a dismally low turnout, the worst since the end of the second world war, and in spite of a widespread loss of confidence in Mr Abe's flagship economic programme ...