Hot on the heels of election victory, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes clear reform is top of his agenda.
He told this news conference on Monday his government needs to speed up the pace of reform, or risk losing public support.
Voters want ''economic recovery that they can actually feel," he said.
His coalition's strong showing in Sunday's Upper House vote validates the PM's drive to revive the stagnant economy.
Analysts say Abe needs the strong mandate on economic growth to achieve his long-term goal of constitutional reform.
But revising the pacifist post-war constitution risks angering regional heavyweight China.
Tokyo is already engaged in tense territorial rows with Beijing, and if Japan is to benefit from growth in emerging Asia, diplomatic caution is vital.
