US EditionJapan's Takaichi Wins Landslide in Snap Election, Exit Polls Show
Sanae Takaichi’s coalition won over two-thirds of the lower house, enabling plans for tax cuts and expanded military spending, boosting markets and signaling a rightward policy shift.
- In the snap lower‑house vote on Sunday, Sanae Takaichi secured a two‑thirds majority for the Liberal Democratic Party, marking the first post‑war single‑party supermajority.
- Benefitting from a compressed campaign, the snap vote unfolded during the shortest post‑war campaign and massive snowstorms, while Komeito left and the LDP joined with the Japan Innovation Party.
- Her security blueprint includes revising defence strategy, boosting military capability to 2% of GDP, establishing a national intelligence agency, suspending the 8% food consumption tax, and passing an anti‑espionage law, Takaichi said.
- Markets reacted with a sharp lift as the Japanese sharemarket jumped to a record high, bond yields rose, and the yen moved amid expectations of stimulus and tax cuts by investors and analysts.
- The supermajority allows the LDP to initiate constitutional amendments and plan a Washington visit on March 19, despite Japan's government debt exceeding 200% of GDP and bond-market constraints.
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