Editor
Polls closed across Japan on Sunday afternoon for an election in the parliament’s upper house, shortly after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead during an election campaign event.
The vote Sunday is expected to expand Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), along with its coalition partners.
“It’s significant we were able to pull this election together at a time violence was shaking the foundations of the election,” said Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, an Abe protege.
