After weeks of wild speculation that 2017 may get off to a tumultuous start with a snap election in late January, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the nation on NHK on Dec. 16 that this won’t happen.
As he put it: “At the moment, I have not the slightest intention of dissolving the Lower House.”
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