Japan Holds Lower House Election

Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), places a red paper rose on a LDP candidate's name to indicate a lower house election victory, at the party's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. Abe's ruling coalition won Japan's general election, according to an NHK exit poll, which also indicates the bloc may maintain its two-thirds majority in the lower house. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images