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Nationalist rhetoric high as japanese head to polls 

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NPR’s “All Things Considered” 

As Japanese head to the polls Sunday, Shinzo Abe is expected to become Japan's prime minister for the second time. The election takes place as nationalistic rhetoric is on the rise. "The nationalist reaction is mostly related to the elite here," says Jeff Kingston, a faculty member at Temple University's Japan Campus. "I think at the grass-roots level, there hasn't been much of a reaction."