TOKYO: The number of women in Japan's powerful lower house has fallen after snap elections, results showed Tuesday (Feb 10), ...

It was a risky gamble to call a snap election. But now Japan’s Sanae Takaichi is basking in the strongest majority for a Japanese government since World War II.

The result is the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) best ever, giving Sanae Takaichi a mandate to shape the nation of 123 million over the next four years.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won 315 seats in weekend snap elections, giving it a ...

Amid the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) landslide victory in the Japanese House of Representatives election, a ...

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Takaichi has made reducing Japan's dependence on China in critical sectors like rare minerals and pharmaceuticals a priority. She has also been actively courting Trump, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a decisive victory in the February 8, 2026, lower house election after her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won 316 seats, surpassing the two-thirds ...

Even as Japan was rallying to its courageous prime minister, China was inflicting humiliation on America’s closest ally.

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), speaks during a press conference at the LDP ...

The LDP’s landslide win gives it over a two-thirds majority in Japan’s lower house, paving the way for a constitutional amendment to Japan’s postwar constitution. Takaichi has announced that she is ...

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wins historic supermajority in snap election, earning Trump's praise for her "landslide ...

Japan's first female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, brought the ruling Liberal Democratic Party its biggest-ever electoral ...