JAPAN-ELECTION/(01 of23)
Open Image ModalJapan\'s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L), who is also leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), smiles with LDP policy chief Tomomi Inada as they put a rosette on the name of a candidate who is expected to win the upper house election, at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (credit:Toru Hanai / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/(02 of23)
Open Image ModalJapan\'s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L), who is also leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), shakes hands with Eriko Imai, singer and a candidate for the LDP, at a news conference after Japan\'s upper house election vote, at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (credit:Toru Hanai / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/(03 of23)
Open Image ModalJapan\'s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), smiles as he puts a rosette on the name of a candidate who is expected to win the upper house election, at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (credit:Toru Hanai / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/(04 of23)
Open Image ModalJapan\'s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), smiles as he puts a rosette on the name of a candidate who is expected to win the upper house election, at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (credit:Toru Hanai / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/(05 of23)
Open Image ModalAn election officer counts votes at a ballot counting centre for Japan\'s upper house election in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Issei Kato (credit:Issei Kato / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/(06 of23)
Open Image ModalElection officers count votes at a ballot counting centre for Japan\'s upper house election in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Issei Kato (credit:Issei Kato / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/(07 of23)
Open Image ModalElection officers count votes at a ballot counting centre for Japan\'s upper house election in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Issei Kato (credit:Issei Kato / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/(08 of23)
Open Image ModalElection officers count votes at a ballot counting centre for Japan\'s upper house election in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Issei Kato (credit:Issei Kato / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/INADA(09 of23)
Open Image ModalJapan\'s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) policy chief Tomomi Inada attends an upper house election night event at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (credit:Toru Hanai / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/(10 of23)
Open Image ModalElection officers count votes at a ballot counting centre for Japan\'s upper house election in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Issei Kato (credit:Issei Kato / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/(11 of23)
Open Image ModalAn election official runs as he places an unopened ballot box for Japan\'s upper house election on a table at a counting centre in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Issei Kato (credit:Issei Kato / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/(12 of23)
Open Image ModalA man walks past Japan\'s ruling Liberal Democratic Party\'s (LDP) poster (C) for the July 10 upper house election with the image of Shinzo Abe, Japan\'s Prime Minister and leader of the LDP, and other candidates\' posters at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (credit:Toru Hanai / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/(13 of23)
Open Image ModalA voter fills out his ballot for Japan\'s upper house election at a polling station in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Issei Kato (credit:Issei Kato / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/(14 of23)
Open Image ModalA boy waits as his mother fills out her ballot for Japan\'s upper house election at a polling station in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Issei Kato (credit:Issei Kato / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/(15 of23)
Open Image ModalA voter casts his ballot for Japan\'s upper house election at a polling station in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Issei Kato (credit:Issei Kato / Reuters)
JAPAN-ELECTION/(16 of23)
Open Image ModalA voter walks past in front of election campaign posters for Japan\'s upper house election, on a street in front of a polling station in Tokyo, Japan July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Issei Kato (credit:Issei Kato / Reuters)
Japan Election(17 of23)
Open Image ModalJapan\'s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, answers a question from reporter during a TV interview on the ballot counting of the parliamentary upper house election at their party headquarters in Tokyo, Sunday, July 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Upper House Election Campaign(18 of23)
Open Image ModalJapanese Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president Shinzo Abe gives his last stump speech in official campaigning for the House of Councillors election in Tokyo, Saturday, July 9, 2016. Japanese will go to polls for the upper house of parliament elections on Sunday. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Election(19 of23)
Open Image ModalJapan\'s main opposition Democratic Party leader Katsuya Okada, second right, talks to the passersby during the last day of the election campaigning at Tsukiji in Tokyo, Saturday, July 9, 2016. Japan holds an election Sunday for the upper house of parliament. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Election(20 of23)
Open Image ModalJapan\'s main opposition Democratic Party leader Katsuya Okada, center, greets during the last day of the election campaigning at Tsukiji in Tokyo, Saturday, July 9, 2016. Japan holds an election Sunday for the upper house of parliament. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japanese Upper House Election 2016(21 of23)
Open Image ModalTOKYO, JAPAN - JULY 10 : Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of the Liberal Democratic Party (LPD) surrounded by journalists leaves the headquater of the party after placing roses above names of elected candidate of the party at the head quarter of LPD, during the 2016 Upper House Election on July 10, 2016, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by David Mareuil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Japanese Upper House Election 2016(22 of23)
Open Image ModalTOKYO, JAPAN - JULY 10 : Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) of the Liberal Democratic Party (LPD) congratulates an elected candidate Imai Eriko (R) as he places roses above names of elected candidate of the party at the head quarter of LPD, during the 2016 Upper House Election on July 10, 2016, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by David Mareuil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Japanese Upper House Election 2016(23 of23)
Open Image ModalTOKYO, JAPAN - JULY 10 : Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) close to Vice President of LDP, Komura Mashiko (2nd R) and Chief Secretariat of LDP, Tanagaki Sadakazu (not seen) hold a joint press conference after placing roses above names of elected candidate of the party at the head quarter of LPD, during the 2016 Upper House Election on July 10, 2016, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by David Mareuil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)