Japan's LDP gets mandate for radical policy change Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has surged back to power just three years after a devastating defeat, giving former prime minister Shinzo Abe a chance to push his tough security agenda with China and radical economic recipe. A TV Asahi projection based on counted votes from yesterday's polls gave the LDP at least 291 seats in parliament's 480-member lower house, and together with its small ally, the New Komeito party, a two-thirds majority needed to override, on most matters, the upper house, where no party has majority. That would help break a policy deadlock that has plagued the world's third biggest economy since 2007. "We have promised to pull Japan out of deflation and correct a strong yen," Mr Abe said on live television. We need to do this. The same goes for national security and diplomacy. An LDP win will now usher in a government committed to a tough stance in a territorial row with China, a pro-nuclear energy policy despite last year's Fukushima disaster and a potentially risky prescription for hyper-easy monetary policy and big fiscal spending to beat deflation and tame a strong yen. The projection based on votes already counted from yesterday's polls gave the Liberal Democratic Party almost 300 states seats in parliament's 480-member lower house, and together with the New Komeito party, the size of majority needed to override, on most matters, the upper house. . Parliament is expected to vote Mr Abe in as prime minister on December 26.