Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), center, raises his arm with a party candidate during an election campaign rally in Tokyo. (Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg)

Japan Is a One-Party State Again And Voters Are Fine With That

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(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party is heading into Sunday’s upper house election burdened with an unpopular sales tax hike plan, a divisive bid to change the pacifist const...