Japan's main opposition Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leader and former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers a live television interview at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo December 16, 2012. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's hawkish ex-premier Shinzo Abe will get a second chance to run the country after his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) surged to power in Sunday's election, but must swiftly move to bolster the sagging economy while managing strained ties with China.
Abe, whose party won by a landslide just three years after a crushing defeat, was expected on Monday to meet Natsuo Yamaguchi, the leader of the small New Komeito party, to cement their alliance and confirm economic steps to boost an economy now in its fourth recession since 2000.
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