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World Service,23 Oct 2017,23 mins
Shinzo Abe Secures Resounding Victory in Japanese Election
World Business ReportAvailable for over a year
Shinzo Abe is on course to become Japan's longest serving prime minister. While taxes, spending, reforms and money printing were high on the agenda, we examine why this election was about more than Abenomics. We also hear why Tesla is pushing ahead with plans to start manufacturing its luxury sports cars in China. In Indonesia, trade in wild birds is threatening to drive many species to extinction. We head to the forests of Java, where there are efforts to prevent dozens of species of songbirds from being lost. (Picture: Japan's Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe smiles as he puts rosettes by successful general election candidates' names. Credit: Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
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