Japan's conservative coalition government was projected to increase its majority in the upper house of parliament in an election, two days after the assassination of dominant politician and power broker Shinzo Abe.
* Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, who sought to lift the economy out of chronic deflation with his bold "Abenomics" policies, beef up the military and counter China's growing clout, died after being gunned down during a campaign speech two days before the election.
