Japan’s Landslide Election Victory: Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Triumph and the Dawn of a Hard-Line Era
On February 8, 2026, Japan witnessed one of the most decisive electoral outcomes in its postwar history. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) stormed to victory in the snap House of Representatives election, securing 316 seats out of 465—far surpassing the 233 needed for a simple majority and even crossing the two-thirds supermajority…