Further, the victory comes at a time when the Hashimoto government is enjoying an approval rating of 53% -- rare good news for a Japanese PM approaching the end of his second year in office.
Of course, the popular Johnson could still be in office in 2020, since he was re-elected to a second four-year term in 2012 and a proposal to limit London mayors to two terms was defeated in Parliament.
Office rents are expected to rise 4.5% this year, the second-biggest gain after Houston, though that will diminish next year as newly constructed space damps landlords' leverage.
And intellectual property consulting firm TechIPM analyzed LTE-related patents registered to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by the second quarter of this year and reported that LG held the largest overall number of patents as well.