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 ...

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, ...

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

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

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

It has been just 16 months since the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its former junior partner Komeito suffered a crushing ...

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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 ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party secured a two-thirds supermajority of the parliament's lower house for the first time since World War II. CBS News foreign ...

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

Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party now has a higher proportion of representatives in Japan’s lower house “than any other party in postwar Japan,” after winning 316 of the 465 seats, said The Japan ...

Japan’s ruling LDP has secured an outright majority in the lower house of parliament, enabling the party to implement its agenda.