On July 29th, we had an election of the House of Councilors, and as a result the Democratic Party of Japan has become the biggest political party. But they don't get political power yet, and so the leader of the DPJ should think a next operation.
PM Abe will have an extraordinary session of the Diet at the end of August. There will be a very important issue in this session. Now the Japanese Self-Defense Forces have helped the US army near Afghanistan, that is to say, they supply oil to the US army.
This action is valuable for the USA and Japan. But this action needs a special law, and this law will be ended at the top of this November. If this law is rejected, the Self-Defence Forces have to return to Japan. They can't stay at the Indian Ocean.
This evacuation has a big problem, because it has bad effect for the alliance between Japan and the USA. Of course it will make the USA angry, and Japan has a difficult problem of the North Korea. At that time PM Abe may choose dissolution of the House of Representatives, and after that the DPJ will be able to get the new political power or not.