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Japan PM laments ‘harsh’ election result as upper house control slips
Japan’s shaky ruling coalition is likely to lose its majority in the upper house, exit polls showed after Sunday’s election, ...
Japan’s upper house election result foreshadows political upheavals
The ruling LDP has only been able to remain in office as a minority government as a result of the deep divisions among the ...
Japan’s Election Shows Voters Have Finally Had Enough
The question always has been how long they’d tolerate malaise. Sunday’s answer: Not any longer.
Japan’s Long-Dominant Party Suffers Election Defeat as Voters Swing Right
The loss on Sunday left the Liberal Democrats a minority party in both houses of Parliament, while two new nationalist ...
Analysis-How Japan's election outcome muddles the BOJ's policy path
Japan's election outcome may put the central bank in a double bind as prospects of big spending could keep inflation elevated ...
How a far-right 'Japanese First' party made big election gains
A fringe far-right populist party in Japan was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election ...
Ishiba's coalition loses majority in Japan's upper house election
Ishiba said the coalition's poor showing was because his government’s measures to combat price increases had yet to reach ...
'Japanese First' party emerges as election force with tough immigration talk
The fringe far-right Sanseito party emerged as one of the biggest winners in Japan's upper house election, gaining support ...
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Japan sees big wins for far-right, anti-immigration party that denounced ‘Jewish capital’
Kamiya won Sanseito’s first upper house seat in 2022. During the campaign, he published a pamphlet that claimed Jewish ...