Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech during his Liberal Democratic Party's campaign rally for parliament's upper house elections in Tokyo Saturday, July 20, 2013. Candidates for the upper house of Japan's parliament made final campaign pushes Saturday, a day before elections that Abe's ruling coalition is expected to easily win as the economy picks up steam. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech during his Liberal Democratic Party's campaign rally for parliament's upper house elections in Tokyo Saturday, July 20, 2013. Candidates for the upper house of Japan's parliament made final campaign pushes Saturday, a day before elections that Abe's ruling coalition is expected to easily win as the economy picks up steam. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Supporters for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) react as Japan's Prime Minister and the ruling party leader Shinzo Abe delivers a speech at a campaign rally for Parliament's upper house elections in Tokyo, Saturday, July 20, 2013. Candidates for the upper house of Japan's parliament made final campaign pushes Saturday, a day before elections that Abe's ruling coalition is expected to easily win as the economy picks up steam. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Japanese Prime Minister and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leader Shinzo Abe, left, greets audience during the last day of parliamentary upper house election campaign in Tokyo, Saturday, July 20, 2013. Candidates made final campaign pushes ahead of Sunday's upper house elections that Abe's ruling coalition is expected to easily win as the economy picks up steam. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
Voters listen to a speech by Japanese Prime Minister and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leader Shinzo Abe during the last day of parliamentary upper house election campaign in Tokyo, Saturday, July 20, 2013. Candidates made final campaign pushes ahead of Sunday's upper house elections that Abe's ruling coalition is expected to easily win as the economy picks up steam. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
A man waves a folding fan during the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's campaign rally for Parliament's upper house elections in Tokyo, Saturday, July 20, 2013. Candidates for the upper house of Japan's parliament made final campaign pushes Saturday, a day before elections that Abe's ruling coalition is expected to easily win as the economy picks up steam. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
TOKYO (AP) ? Japanese voters are chosing lawmakers for the upper house of parliament in an election expected to give Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition a strong mandate.
A victory Sunday would give Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and partner New Komeito control of both chambers of parliament ? an elusive goal for the government in recent years.
That would make it easier for Abe to deliver on reforms needed to cope with a rapidly graying population and bulging national debt. It also might give him the power to push through his party's nationalist agenda.
Abe says his first priority is sustaining a nascent economic recovery. Since taking office after the Liberal Democrats won a lower house election in December, the ailing economy has improved under aggressive monetary and fiscal stimulus.
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