Japan election: Abe set to win key upper house vote
Polls have opened in Japan for upper house elections expected to deliver a win for PM Shinzo Abe.
Half of the 242 seats in the chamber are up for grabs.
Polls show Mr Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its allies could secure a majority, meaning a ruling party would control both houses of parliament for the first time in six years.
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Tokyo.
21 Jul 2013
- From the section Asia