The Japanese Prime Minister had dissolved the lower house and called for snap polls earlier this year in a bid to extend his premiership for another three years till 2021.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan won a commanding majority for his party in parliamentary elections.
Abe's ruling coalition has won a clear majority with more than two-thirds of Parliament's 465 seats with the Liberal Democratic Party holding a majority even without its coalition partner the Komeito party.
The win puts him on course to be post-war Japan's longest-ever serving prime minister, and Abe is expected to use his new mandate to push for reformsin Japans’s defense strategy and change in long-stndingpacifist stance.
