After a nearly three-month recess, an extraordinary Diet session will open Tuesday, giving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe another chance to execute his growth strategies and bolster national security.
The 53-day session, slated to end Dec. 6, will be the first in which Abe's ruling coalition has a majority in both chambers of the legislature, thanks to July's sweeping victory in the House of Councilors election.
The coalition's power will spare Abe the political wrangling that marred the end of the 150-day regular session earlier this year, when the opposition camp blocked talks and led a censure motion against him.
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