TOKYO - Despite Japan's governing coalition retaining a comfortable majority in the powerful lower house in Sunday's election, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's leadership will be tested ahead of an upper house election next year with his party's No. 2 leader suffering an embarrassing defeat in a constituency race.
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