Japan’s conservative prime minister Sanae Takaichi has won a landslide victory after she gambled on a high-stakes snap election, exit polls suggest.

By Rocky Swift and Tom Westbrook TOKYO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The biggest landslide win in postwar history has given Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi a huge mandate to revitalise the economy, but investors say she has little room to run up deficits or pressure will be quickly back on bonds and the yen.

T AKAICHI SANAE gambled her position as Japan’s prime minister by calling a snap election. Her bet has paid off. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) triumphed on February

Japan’s consumer price index was up 3.2 per cent in 2025. That gives the Bank of Japan a more credible path towards higher rates. Shares of the largest local banks are up more than 50 per cent in the past year,

Japanese politics is certainly not immune from today’s world of disinformation and misinformation. As Sanae Takaichi, the Japanese prime minister, won a landslide majority in Sunday’s snap election,

TOKYO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Japan's massive foreign currency reserves, a priority war-chest for future yen interventions, have come under renewed scrutiny as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi scours for funding to bankroll a controversial plan to suspend a consumption tax after her landslide election win.

Combined with a parliamentary election result that opens the door to more fiscal easing, the data sets the Bank of Japan up for another rate increase in the next few months. We continue to expect the BoJ to raise interest rates two more times in 2026, taking the benchmark rate to 1.25 per cent by the end of the year.

Japan's Sanae Takaichi and her ruling Liberal Democratic Party overwhelmingly found the support of voters in a Sunday election, sweeping a supermajority.