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Police stand guard at the entrance to the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Sept 21, 2022. - (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP)

The Court of Appeal held that it was up to Parliament, and not the courts. - Bernama Photo

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Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's LDP and its coalition partner Komeito won over 75 seats, retaining a majority in the 248-member upper chamber of parliament - AFP pic

Japan votes at Parliament’s Upper House election. - AFP pic

The car believed to carry the body of Japan's late former prime minister Shinzo Abe passes by policemen and media outside the Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara, Nara Prefecture early on July 9, 2022. - (Photo by PHILIP FONG / AFP)

People pay their respects in front of a makeshift memorial outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station, where former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot earlier in the day, in Nara on July 8, 2022. - (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP)

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reacts as he holds a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 8, 2022, after news of the attack on former prime minister Shinzo Abe. - (Photo by AFP)

This image taken from video provided by witness Toshiharu Otani and released via Jiji Press shows former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe (C) attending an election campaign before giving a speech at Kintetsu Yamato-Saidaiji station square in Nara, while a man (2nd R-behind) suspected of shooting Abe shortly after stands in the background on July 8, 2022. (Photo by Toshiharu Otani / JIJI PRESS / AFP)

Abe has been pronounced dead after he was shot at a campaign event earlier today. (KAZUHIRO NOGI /AFP FILE PIX)