| Summary/Abstract |
This article analyzes extraordinary elections to Japan's House of Representatives held on October 22, 2017. The author notes that the voters showed little interest in the elections, but the sense of a foreign threat associated with the actions of North Korea, along with the lack of a real alternative to the Liberal Democratic party, and the chaos in the ranks of the opposition, allowed the parties of the rightist coalition to win a resounding victory and keep their qualified majority in the lower house of parliament.
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