Japan 's PM Shinzo Abe calls snap election for December 14 . He 's framing the election as a referendum on his much-vaunted 'Abenomics ' economic policies . The economy is expected to grow by at least 3 % this year, and unemployment will fall below 10 percent in 2016. Local city assemblymen voted in October to fire up two reactors at the Sendai power plant in Kagoshima in Japan 's south . Other issues are important to Japanese voters , but may not get much play in this election .
Japan 's PM Shinzo Abe calls snap election for December 14 . He 's framing the election as a referendum on his much-vaunted 'Abenomics ' economic policies . The economy is expected to grow by at least 3 % this year, and unemployment will fall below 10 percent in 2016. Other issues are important to Japanese voters , but may not get much play in this election .