Reuters Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has won at the polls again.Japanese equities led regional gains on Monday, as a landslide election victory for the country’s ruling party set the benchmark index there on course for a record 15th session of consecutive gains. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s coalition government won a national election Sunday, retaining a two-thirds majority. Should Abe hold on to his position through November 2019, he would become the country’s longest-serving prime minister. While polls had largely been in Abe’s favor, his win raises investor hopes of continued market-friendly monetary policies and economic reforms. “Abe’s victory confirms his loose policy-mix style and may entice foreign investors back to the market,” said Frank Benzimra, head of Asia equity strategy at Société Générale, reiterating his advice for investors to pick companies with high capital-expenditure plans.via