By cutting off her own means of escape, PM Takaichi seemed to be demonstrating that securing a public mandate for her administration to remain in control is the purpose of this dissolution.

Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of Japan On January 19, Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae declared in a press conference that she would dissolve the House of Representatives (Japan’s lower house) ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who also is the president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, emphasized that she means to ...