Having a two-thirds majority allows Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government to override decisions by the upper house, where her coalition is in a minority.

TOKYO - The number of women in Japan’s powerful Lower House has fallen after snap elections, results showed on Feb 10, dealing a blow to already underrepresented women in male-dominated Japanese ...

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.