Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc suffers huge defeat in upper house elections as prediocted by local TV exit poll predictions. But Abe says he will stay on. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling conservative camp suffered a devastating defeat in upper house elections on Sunday (July 29), a result that could well force him from office and paralyse policy-making. Voters hammered Abe's coalition after a string of government scandals and gaffes and the bungling of pension records but he had decided to stay in his post, Japanese media reported. Abe's coalition had lost its majority in the upper house, NHK said, in its first nationwide electoral test since he took office 10 months ago pledging to boost Japan's security profile and rewrite its pacifist constitution. NHK said its exit polls showed that the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its partner, New Komeito, winning between 39 and 55 seats -- far short of the 64 needed to keep their majority in the upper house,...