TOKYO, July 21 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister ShinzoAbe's ruling bloc will keep a solid majority in parliament'supper house in Sunday's election and has a shot, together withallies, at keeping the two-thirds majority needed to keep hisdream of revising the pacifist constitution alive, an NHK exitpoll showed.
The NHK exit poll said Abe's Liberal Democratic Party andits junior partner, the Komeito party, would take between 67-77of the 124 seats contested in election for the 245-seat upperhouse, which together with uncontested seats, assures them amajority.
To maintain the two-thirds majority needed to revise theconstitution, the coalition and like-minded allies need to win85 seats in Sunday's poll.(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka and Linda SiegEditing by Chang-Ran Kim)