The media reports that Tatsuo Hirano, Former Minister of Reconstruction and an independent member of the House of Councillors, will join the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). This will make LDP to  have a simple majority in both the upper and lower houses for the first time in 27 years and accelerate PM Abe to endorse his two political priorities - the economic revitalization and the constitutional amendment.  For more, please check a flash report by Kyodo News linked below.