Japan's ruling coalition pledged on Monday that it would push on with rebuilding the economy and turning the corner on two lost decades after securing a handsome majority in weekend upper house polls.

Party leaders said the victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner New Komeito was vindication of his economic policy blitz mixing big stimulus and aggressive monetary easing.

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