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

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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s big election win paves the way for her ruling party to dominate the crucial lower house of parliament.

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Sunday won a lower-house parliamentary supermajority at snap elections that she had called three weeks ago. The Liberal Democratic Party now controls 316 of 465 seats in parliament, giving the prime minister the ability to pass legislation unimpeded.

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Combined with a parliamentary election result that opens the door to more fiscal easing, the data sets the Bank of Japan up for another rate increase in the next few months. We continue to expect the BoJ to raise interest rates two more times in 2026, taking the benchmark rate to 1.25 per cent by the end of the year.