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• Japan's Construction Sector Set to Boom After Election Tuesday, 11 Dec 2012 | 4:29 PM ET

  

  Polls show the election is likely to return to power the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, which has promised to boost public works and talks of spending 200 trillion yen on projects over the next decade.

• ANALYSIS-Japan election points to return of "construction state" Tuesday, 11 Dec 2012 | 4:00 PM ET

  NAGANOHARA, Japan, Dec 12- A big winner from Japan's Dec. 16 national elections may be the country's construction industry and towns such as Naganohara, where a sprawling dam development sits unfinished after more than four decades.