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Voters cast their ballots for the lower house election at a polling station in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to expand his coalitions two-thirds parliamentary majority in a general election today, enabling him to push on with an economic program aimed at ridding the country of deflation. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Voters cast their ballots for the lower house election at a polling station in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to expand his coalitions two-thirds parliamentary majority in a general election today, enabling him to push on with an economic program aimed at ridding the country of deflation. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images