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Zoom in to Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, walking in to news briefing 2. Cutaway of cameramen3. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister:\"We received severe results for LDP (Liberal Democratic Party...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eTokyo, Japan\u003cbr/\u003e1. Zoom in to Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, walking in to news briefing \u003cbr/\u003e2. Cutaway of cameramen\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We received severe results for LDP (Liberal Democratic Party of Japan) at this election. All the responsibility for the election ultimately lies with me. We need to reflect what we need to. Having done that, I think it is my mission to stabilise the rebounding economy, now that the economy is finally on a way to recovery. I reckon that it is my responsibility to fulfil this mission.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Pan of cameramen\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the voice of the people of Japan is asking for a clean-up of the Cabinet. First, we need to open an extraordinary diet session. Then, after that, I plan to reshuffle the Cabinet and top party posts at an appropriate time.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of news conference   \u003cbr/\u003eTokyo, Japan\u003cbr/\u003e7. Naoto Kan, Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) executive, putting rosettes on results board\u003cbr/\u003e8. Cutaway of photographers\u003cbr/\u003e9. Kan smiling, holding rosette to board\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Naoto Kan, Democratic Party of Japan:\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is what the nation wanted.  We respectfully need to respond to the people's needs.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various of Tokyo Stock Exchange\u003cbr/\u003e12. Set-up, Tsuneo Watanabe, fellow of Centre for Strategic and International Studies:\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tsuneo Watanabe, Centre for Strategic and International Studies:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In short, I think the Japanese politics system is now evolving to a two-party system.  Not exactly a two-party system, but basically two major powers who would have frequent change. That's the big departure from our old Japanese politics since 1955.\"\u003cbr/\u003eManila, Philippines\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of Jong Song Il, North Korean foreign ministry\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (Korean)  Jong Song Il, member North korean Foreign Ministry delegation to ASEAN talks, Philippines:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The defeat of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party is a national outcome. The election defeat of the LDP is the judgment of Japanese people\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Cameramen\u003cbr/\u003eJapan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rejected calls to resign on Monday but said he would revamp his Cabinet after a humiliating election defeat that signalled a broad voter revolt against his feeble government.\u003cbr/\u003eAbe spoke at an afternoon news conference focusing on damage control following Sunday's devastating defeat in upper house polls.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it is my mission to stabilise the rebounding economy, now that the economy is finally on a way to recovery,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eAbe also shot down suggestions that he should call snap elections in parliament's lower house to re-establish his political mandate. \u003cbr/\u003eInstead, he announced plans to shuffle his Cabinet and the party leadership, possibly as early as September.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the voice of the people of Japan is asking for a clean-up of the Cabinet,\" Abe said. \"I plan to reshuffle the Cabinet and top party posts at an appropriate time.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePublic outrage over millions of missing pension records and a series of political scandals stripped Abe's Liberal Democratic Party of its majority in\u003cbr/\u003eparliament's 242-seat upper house on Sunday, while handing the opposition huge gains.\u003cbr/\u003eThe LDP remains in control of the lower house and thus still controls the government, but the defeat on Sunday was a clear sign of Abe's tumbling fortunes and a dramatic reversal of the support he enjoyed when he took office less than a year ago.\u003cbr/\u003eBy Monday morning, newspaper editorials were urging Abe to resign.\u003cbr/\u003eOfficial election results released early on Monday showed the LDP and its junior coalition partner, the New Komeito, with a total of 103 seats - a\u003cbr/\u003e30-seat loss that left it far short of the 122 needed to control the house.\u003cbr/\u003eThe main opposition Democratic Party grabbed 112 seats, up from 81.\u003cbr/\u003eNaoto Kan from the  Democratic Party of Japan said it was time to react to Sunday's results. \u003cbr/\u003e\"This is what the nation wanted.  We respectfully need to respond to the people's needs,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eOnly 121, or half, of the upper chamber's 242 seats were up for grabs in Sunday's polls.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile Abe has refused to step down, the LDP's No. 2 official, Secretary-General Hidenao Nakagawa, resigned in the face of mounting losses.\u003cbr/\u003eThe LDP still controls the more powerful lower chamber, which chooses the prime minister. But calls for Abe's resignation could start sounding from within the Liberal Democratic Party.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile there is no clear front-runner to succeed Abe as premier, Foreign Minister Taro Aso is often cited as a possible contender.\u003cbr/\u003eAbe himself resigned as secretary-general of the party in 2004, when the Liberal Democrats won 49 seats, two short of their goal.\u003cbr/\u003eSunday's defeat will make it more difficult for the LDP to pass bills that are contested, with the upper house expected to have a president from\u003cbr/\u003ethe Democratic Party of Japan whose members would also dominate key posts in house committees.\u003cbr/\u003eAbe, 52, promised to build a \"beautiful Japan\" when he became Japan's youngest-ever prime minister in September 2006, and he won points for mending strained diplomatic ties with South Korea and China.\u003cbr/\u003eBut his honeymoon period was short-lived.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the first in a series of scandals, Administrative Reform Minister Genichiro Sata stepped down in December over charges of misusing of political\u003cbr/\u003efunds. \u003cbr/\u003eIn May, Abe's agriculture minister killed himself amid allegations he also misused public money. \u003cbr/\u003eThe new agriculture minister became embroiled in another funds scandal.\u003cbr/\u003eIn a final straw for voters, Abe brushed off warnings by the opposition late last year that pension records had been lost. \u003cbr/\u003eThat inaction came back to haunt him in the spring, when the full scope of the records losses emerged. \u003cbr/\u003eSome 50 million (m) claims had been wiped out.\u003cbr/\u003eCommentator Tsuneo Watanabe told AP Television that the result of Sunday's vote indicate a major shift in Japanese politics.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the Japanese politics system is now evolving to a two-party system.  Not exactly a two-party system, but basically two major powers who would have frequent change.\" \u003cbr/\u003eThe election, which coincided with the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) conference in Manila, was keenly watched throughout the region. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The election defeat of the LDP is the judgment of Japanese people,\" Jong Song Il, of the Foreign Ministry in North Korea, Japan's long-standing antagonist, said in Manila.\u003cbr/\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='action-container flex justify-between'\u003e\n\u003cbutton aria-expanded='false' aria-label='Read more description' class='rp-full-description' type='button'\u003e\n\u003ci class='fai fa-solid fa-align-left'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cspan id='read_more'\u003eRead More\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/button\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-report'\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-labelledby='resource-details-heading' class='rp-info-section'\u003e\n\u003ch2 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