Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s big election win paves the way for her ruling party to dominate the crucial lower house of parliament

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

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has vowed to use her dominance of parliament after her huge election win to attempt to amend the country’s constitution for the first time in almost 80 years. The latest: Speaking last night at her first press conference since her victory,

Japan PM Sanae Takaichi set to secure big majority in snap election - Takaichi’s party looks to have secured a big majority according to the exit polls

Japan's first female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, brought the ruling Liberal Democratic Party its biggest-ever electoral victory, fueling her ambitions to pursue to a political agenda which she says could "split public opinion.

Takaichi led the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to a supermajority in the Lower House, securing 316 seats in Japan's largest election win since World War Two.

Stocks climbed on Monday as investors cheered a result seen as a mandate for the prime minister’s high-spending economic agenda.