position to revise the country s post-war constitution so as to tackle the north korean crisis voter turnout may have been hampered as a typhoon washes japan official election results are expected later this evening. well joining me now from tokyo is journalist michael and michael what is the latest from the vote when will we know whether ave has got his supermajority. most likely will find out about the super majority a little bit after midnight local time which is a little over two hours from now. at that time the proportional bloc voting results will be coming in as of about fifteen minutes ago we have confirmed through the district races and what we do already know that he s won a simple majority combining both his ruling party plus his ruling coalition partner so there s no doubt that it s going to be a landslide election in favor of the ruling party in the ruling coalition we just