Abe’s LDP Wins In Parliamentary Election To Make Him Japanese Prime Minister

Japan’s main opposition leader Shinzo Abe of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) marks on the name of one of those elected in parliamentary elections at the party headquarters in Tokyo Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has resigned as chief of the Democratic Party of Japan to take responsibility for the party’s loss in the elections. Abe’s LDP won between 275 and 300 seats in the 480-seat lower house of parliament in Sunday’s election, NHK exit polls projected. <AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa>

In this undated file photo released by Shinzo Abe Office, Shinzo Abe, front row third from right, sits on the lap of his grandfather and then Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi while his father, Shintaro Abe, front row right, and his mother, Yoko, back row right, and his elder brother, Nobuhiro, front row left, pose for a family photo at unknown place. This photo was taken when Shinzo was attending a kindergaten. The Liberal Democratic Party’s victory in Japan’s parliamentary election Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012 virtually ensures that the LDP leader Shinzo Abe, who resigned as prime minister for health reasons in 2007 after just a year in office, will get a second chance to try to lead Japan out of its economic slump. <AP Photo/Shinzo Abe Office, File>