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Japan's newly-named Prime Minister Shinzo Abe smiles as he waves at the media upon his arrival at the prime minister's official residence following his election at Parliament in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Abe, whose nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan's neighbors, is the country's seventh prime minister in just over six years. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Shinzo Abe returns as Japan’s prime minister

By Eric Talmadge - Associated Press

Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe is all but certain to become Japan’s next prime minister after his party’s victory in Sunday’s parliamentary election. Mr. Abe resigned as prime minister for health reasons after just a year in the job in 2007. One of his goals is to recover Japan’s economic vitality of the 1980s and ‘90s. His nationalist policies could rile China, hurting the auto industry and others with huge investments in the fast-growing Chinese market. (Associated Press)

Nationalist Abe likely next prime minister of Japan

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Shinzo Abe, leader of the main Japanese opposition Liberal Democratic Party, answers a reporter's question at party headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday night, Dec. 16, 2012. The conservative LDP stormed back into power in parliamentary elections Sunday after three years in opposition, exit polls showed, signaling a rightward shift in the government that could further heighten tensions with rival China. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

After landslide victory, Abe says Japan has difficult road

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will get a second chance to lead the nation after a stint in 2006 and 2007. (Associated Press)

Abe’s conservative party likely to win in landslide in Japan

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

A boy slips his grandmother's vote into a ballot box at a polling station in Tokyo on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Conservative LDP party wins in landslide in Japan

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda stands still as Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura, second left, and Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba, right, raise hands and shout banzai, or long live, after he dissolved the lower house of parliament in Tokyo Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Japan P.M. dissolves parliament; vote set for Dec 16

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

** FILE ** Japanese Prime Minister Shinzou Abe. (Associated Press)

Japanese nationalism may rise in next government

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

Japanese debate whether to restart nuclear reactors

By Christopher Johnson - Special to The Washington Times

Japan to reshuffle cabinet

Japan to reshuffle cabinet